28 thoughts on “FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW KILLER "THE SKULL MERCHANT" Dead by Daylight”
New map design looks very nice, aesthetically. This killer looks very weak, even considering Tru3 didn't seem to be using the abilities to their full ability.
Other than map repeat prevention, there are zero redeeming factors here. New killer tries to do too much, succeeds at none of it, looks dogshit doing it. Tried to redesign Red Forest, managed to make it worse. Bunch of ugly crap in Shelter Woods now too. But hey you can customize bots now.
You can tell they wanted to rip off the Predator but instead they named it after a Magic The Gathering card, make it just some woman, and then made her power total dogshit.
What in the world was BHVR smoking? Woulda been better off as a stealth killer if it didnt make a GIANT GLOWING RING. Survivors should have to listen for the giant FLOATING DRONE in the middle of the screen, it isnt hard to spot without the ring. I do like the survivor interaction causing the killer to swap from stealth to Tracking, which means survivors can choose who wants to "take aggro" from the killer. Too bad this is totally negated by another survivor healing you IMMEDIATELY AFTER. Also, the expose effect is kinda stupid, because a survivor isnt just gonna sit in it and wait to be exposed, that part imo can go entirely in exchange for giving you killer instinct or an aura read when a survivor deactivates the drone for like 3 seconds so you can go chase him and use your tracker.
Also the mori is horribly slow and lazy. Woulda been cooler animating a shoulder cannon that shoots you or the drone doing something for you, or even idk, taking a survivors scalp or skull as a trophy. instead its Freddys mori. In a world where you get impaled on a hook over and over again, being stabbed feels lackluster.
To anyone wondering why this killer looks like a shitty offbrand version of the predator here's why.
From what I've heard behavior had the license for predator and was halfway finished with him but at some point lost the license due to leaks and since they didn't want to throwaway their work decided at the last second to rework the power into this abomination and then decided to make them a female killer with a stripper walk so they could recoup their losses with sales from future cosmetics that they will release for her that all the horny simps will buy immediately.
Imagine releasing wesker one of the most widely and positively received killers on both sides that is both fun to play as and against that is strong but not op, with overall good add-ons only to immediately follow it up with knight a c tier killer with ai almost as bad as nemesis zombies as your entire power who's only good at holding a 3gens which is unfun and boring for both sides, and now this killer the female shitty offbrand version of the predator. Just as usual behavior, one step forward two steps back.
They're treating killers in a way as if dbd is this spooky game where survs are scared, hiding, dropping pallets while panicking etc soooo scared, stop balancing killers like that man your game is a far cry from that no one is intimidated to be scared of this bland af killer damn man, idk why they don't look at why mid to high level play is exhaustingly repetitive and tasteless, dredge is an effective killer with fair anti loop tf is this chick gonna do sas walk me to the exit gates wtf
Thought: Slug + Knock Out + Drone to monitor people who come for save while Undetectable.
Another thought: 2 people working on gen, hit one, pop down drone, chase the injured person while monitoring the radar to see if the other doubles back.
Last thought: Bodyblocking around a single loop + pop drone + wait for exposed, hit, then hit injured person. 2 for 1
Actual contender for the worst killer in the game honestly, she has absolutely nothing going for her to the point where even trapper might be better than her.
Make her cloaked when she pulls out the radar and is tracking someone. Since they can see they’re being watched, at least give her the ability to sneak up on them when tracking. This was clearly a Predator type of killer so just give her cloaking. It wouldn’t be unfair either because they could just make her have to uncloak when putting the device away to then attack. There also needs to be a better reason to deactivate her drone. You can kinda just ignore it to an extent.
This game might actually be scary if they were to add PENNYWISE and Apex Predator into the game, I have his perks and attacks all implemented in my brain. Just imagine if the devs were to go through with it. 😭
New map design looks very nice, aesthetically.
This killer looks very weak, even considering Tru3 didn't seem to be using the abilities to their full ability.
This killer was supposed to be predator I'm guessing, retractable blades, hi tech traps, and goes undetectable
Other than map repeat prevention, there are zero redeeming factors here. New killer tries to do too much, succeeds at none of it, looks dogshit doing it. Tried to redesign Red Forest, managed to make it worse. Bunch of ugly crap in Shelter Woods now too. But hey you can customize bots now.
is tru trying to mind game bots? LOL the mechanics dont react to your fake plays mate…
great value predator smh lmao
Reminds me of Predator but way less cool
This killer is just a fortnite skin if fortnite was a p*rn game. Idk, first hooked on you and now this. There are some weird minds working at bhvr
We have the Predator at home.
another melee shit
Wont even buy this dlc, horrible killer. The devs definitely threw somthing together for this chapter . Hopefully the anniversary will be better
They really thought some booty how save 'em from multi-millionary failure
honestly pretty disappointed with this killer :/
My guess is they gave this killer her radar and drone ability so they can nerf no where to hide and justify it with this lol
You can tell they wanted to rip off the Predator but instead they named it after a Magic The Gathering card, make it just some woman, and then made her power total dogshit.
What in the world was BHVR smoking? Woulda been better off as a stealth killer if it didnt make a GIANT GLOWING RING. Survivors should have to listen for the giant FLOATING DRONE in the middle of the screen, it isnt hard to spot without the ring. I do like the survivor interaction causing the killer to swap from stealth to Tracking, which means survivors can choose who wants to "take aggro" from the killer. Too bad this is totally negated by another survivor healing you IMMEDIATELY AFTER. Also, the expose effect is kinda stupid, because a survivor isnt just gonna sit in it and wait to be exposed, that part imo can go entirely in exchange for giving you killer instinct or an aura read when a survivor deactivates the drone for like 3 seconds so you can go chase him and use your tracker.
Also the mori is horribly slow and lazy. Woulda been cooler animating a shoulder cannon that shoots you or the drone doing something for you, or even idk, taking a survivors scalp or skull as a trophy. instead its Freddys mori. In a world where you get impaled on a hook over and over again, being stabbed feels lackluster.
To anyone wondering why this killer looks like a shitty offbrand version of the predator here's why.
From what I've heard behavior had the license for predator and was halfway finished with him but at some point lost the license due to leaks and since they didn't want to throwaway their work decided at the last second to rework the power into this abomination and then decided to make them a female killer with a stripper walk so they could recoup their losses with sales from future cosmetics that they will release for her that all the horny simps will buy immediately.
Imagine releasing wesker one of the most widely and positively received killers on both sides that is both fun to play as and against that is strong but not op, with overall good add-ons only to immediately follow it up with knight a c tier killer with ai almost as bad as nemesis zombies as your entire power who's only good at holding a 3gens which is unfun and boring for both sides, and now this killer the female shitty offbrand version of the predator. Just as usual behavior, one step forward two steps back.
The game is to survived sided I gave up ages ago when they able to 4gen and u get maybe 2hooks games gone trash
They're treating killers in a way as if dbd is this spooky game where survs are scared, hiding, dropping pallets while panicking etc soooo scared, stop balancing killers like that man your game is a far cry from that no one is intimidated to be scared of this bland af killer damn man, idk why they don't look at why mid to high level play is exhaustingly repetitive and tasteless, dredge is an effective killer with fair anti loop tf is this chick gonna do sas walk me to the exit gates wtf
When you order Predator from Wish
Thought: Slug + Knock Out + Drone to monitor people who come for save while Undetectable.
Another thought: 2 people working on gen, hit one, pop down drone, chase the injured person while monitoring the radar to see if the other doubles back.
Last thought: Bodyblocking around a single loop + pop drone + wait for exposed, hit, then hit injured person. 2 for 1
Ah… Bhvr buy a predator on Wish.
This is something straight out of Fortnite, total trash.
Actual contender for the worst killer in the game honestly, she has absolutely nothing going for her to the point where even trapper might be better than her.
Does anyone know if the killer stays at 115% when pulling out tracker?
Make her cloaked when she pulls out the radar and is tracking someone. Since they can see they’re being watched, at least give her the ability to sneak up on them when tracking. This was clearly a Predator type of killer so just give her cloaking. It wouldn’t be unfair either because they could just make her have to uncloak when putting the device away to then attack.
There also needs to be a better reason to deactivate her drone. You can kinda just ignore it to an extent.
This game might actually be scary if they were to add PENNYWISE and Apex Predator into the game, I have his perks and attacks all implemented in my brain. Just imagine if the devs were to go through with it. 😭
So we couldn't get the predator "Skull Hunter"
What happens if you place the drone by a hook before putting them on