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The Houndmaster is a really beginner-friendly killer.
Not for killers tho, only survivors.
The fact is that she is meant to be countered by survivors that don't know how to loop, and those who do are gonna have the easiest game ever. The point is, behavior is trying to add more killers that aren't oppressive at all to new survivors, and never EVER feel annoying to play against. While as killer, it's ok to be countered, I just want a blood points buff for killers.
I think personally snug needs his hitbox increased just a little bit cause map collisions are weird, maybe being able to cancel the search command would nice as there were times I needed snug but had to wait for him to come back then go off cooldown, AI and bug fixes naturally and a longer redirect window would be nice, I think she's fine atm but there isn't to much they can do without reworking her imo
Even with all the buffs she got she still feels so bad to play.Especially on controller. She just feels incredibly counterable and she feels like you just can’t make any mistakes. “Glorified m1 killer” is definitely a good description you gave her.
They should increase the hitbox a little for Snug to bite a survivor.
Tbh I think she’s still stronger than killer like Freddy ghost face and d tier killer but I think the biggest problem is how buggy the killer is and how useless she is in round loop but really it’s ridiculous how bugged is the killer
I’m not getting this killer, I saw twins ptb and still bought them, not this one though
It’s been two days already
Same here she's not that good or my cup of tea
Why give the dog a bigger hitbox, so you can make her brainless to play? Refrigerator hit boxes shouldnt exist, that’s why people hate huntress.
I mean she's coming off the back of arguably one of bhvrs best original chapters as well in terms of everything soooo her being not as good as known is to be expected
This chapter releasing borderline unplayable with two expensive skins shows where BHVR's priorities lie. I swear they try to use as little of their budget as possible actually developing the gameplay portion.
4:52 uumm, yeah, snubs can
if you time him like a huntress hatch at windows
I think people will buy her just b/c she has a dog, but I doubt i'll end up going against her much, if at all, which is sad since she had potential if you could play as the dog, like Dracula and Victor.
Idk if it’s just me but the whole “she’s a pirate” thing feels very tacked on
Like they started with the dog concept and after designing the power and stuff we realized the killer needs to be interesting compared to the rest of the killer cast. So they just made her a pirate because pirates are cool.
I think I would have liked the idea that she was also apart of the cult and now goats it over the survivor that couldn’t commit to being a killer treating that specific survivor a dog.
i wish when snug finishes a search more than 32m away from you he just teleports back. its so stupid how your power cooldown only begins once he physically gets back to you (jank and AI pathing makes this very difficult) there were times id chase a survivor and go to send snug but i was on cooldown because he only just got back to me, or he he got back to me several seconds ago but the game didnt consider him "with" me just yet.
My first match playing her I was on Lery's going for adept andnit was miserable. Only 1 hook. It didn't even feel like she had a power on that map. Thankfully, I got her adept the next game on Gideon's (which was a very close game) because I don't want to play her again
She has been by far the most powerful killer for me. Consistent 4ks and a lot of them before 2 gens are done.
I’ve been saying since PTB, the dog needs a bigger hit box. Missing by a cm is ridiculous for a dog while huntress can hit you 1/4 inch away from your body. She has a big hit box but a dog doesn’t? I don’t foresee bhvr ever changing this because they don’t care. They get their sales and move on to the next killer.
You’re still my go to for new content analysis, thanks for making these 🙂
She strikes me as feeling like on-release Knight
I can already tell that I won’t be playing her. I don’t enjoy her design, I don’t enjoy her power. I’ll just get her for the perks and for the sake of having all characters.
I play her on console and I think she is super fun
One thing i will say is that this has been the most stealth release i can rember since twin's as eveyone made there vidoes day one then nothing and now the chapter is just kinda dumped out
Good news at least twins now have a new Friend and a pet can't wait to see some wholesome comics of them being a family of forgotten characters
The dog is soooooo buggy that even when you play well it feels worthless.
Can we just get another straight forward m1 killer with powerful passives? I'm getting tired of having to toggle clunky powers on and off….
She's just oof. I was so excited to play her but man it hurts on console
Like the song playing in the background
The "TelegraphMaster"
Her power is such a high risk low reward power. It genuinely feels like a hindrance to use it. At least they made her search feel better when the dog doesn’t get stuck on every object in the map. They need to remove the slowdown from cancelling after starting the power. Idk what else they need to do to her to not make her feel horrible to play. Like I genuinely want to play her because I like everything else about her but she is just so unfun. Not to mention how brainless the counterplay is. It’s like so genuinely easy to avoid her power. If you want to play a killer that functions like her but is way better literally just play Deathslinger. I find his shots easier to hit.
The main thing that bothers me (and this was the biggest thing I had hoped they would have improved after the ptb) is how snug can get stuck on geometry. There's a lot of times where I want him to curve around an obstacle, but the aim is just enough to the side that they end up running into a tree or something and that's IF you can even curve around said obstacle. Then there's times where the orange path preview just straight up lies to you and Snug gets stuck even when it says he'll curve around it.
Another thing which rarely happens but does sometimes happen is Snug will just be too far away to send out without getting stuck on something that's behind you or something like that which really makes me wish he'd just insta-teleport to you when you use him so you don't have to worry about ai randomness.
In summery: jagged geometry + AI pathfinding = not great
She's already been buffed, I don't think she needs another. She's just poorly designed so buffs are not the answer and if they keep buffing her, it will just cause more problems.
Hmmm
The main thing I kept thinking whenever I tried to play houndmaster was: “Why not just play Wesker?”
Your points really summed most of the problems up, HM desperately needs some changes.
You can damage a survivor with snug when theyre vaulting a pallet or window. Its pretty tiny but its doable.
She has everything I love about the other Killers I play, but in practice, her kit has so many problems that I couldn't look past it and hated using her power.
The bugs remind me of Twins shortly after release, and Knight (currently), while the kit itself feels extremely clunky, unreliable, and frustrating to use. I think she has a lot of potential, though, and can definitely be polished into being a fun and strong Killer.
I actually disagree she is "bad" I'd say she's B tier. Her dog does need some homing ability and a fix to its chase mechanic, but she had solid map mobility, Her search reveals survivors in lockers, her chase allows you to use good M1 killer perks while still using a power.
She does need fixes and is clunky but I don't think she's bad or any worse than Pinhead or Pyramind Head due to her map mobility.
Build i use is Lethal, Friends Til The End, Discordance and Surge.
Snugs grab is woefully misunderstood. People compare it so slinger but theres the major difference that you can still move around. You have the time to kick a gen or even pick up a survivor and still hit the guy who got grabbed. Survivors stay hindered after being released from snug giving you even more opportunities to dick around before landing the hit. Theres so much room for creativity with her if she just worked properly 😂
I love the killer design and even the gameplay. Even with all the problems I can look past it. So as someone who doesn't despise her I still DO NOT recommend people to get it. I would only recommend this killer to ppl with many hours, who are willing to look past bugs, and who do not get frustrated with killer powers