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Hey everyone. Today we’re discussing the never ending hatred for the character, The Skull Merchant. Why did it start? Is it fair? Why is it still happening? All things we’ll discuss today!
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Intro 0:00
Expectation vs. Reality 0:53
Disappointing visual design 3:46
The 3-Gen Menace 8:23
Anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering 13:24
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Thorgi's arcade said she looks like a GIJoe reject, and honestly, I see it.
Her idea is kind of cool, but they just dind't stick the landing.
Skull merchant just isn't dbd. Like she's just a cosplay girl with a tinfoil hat 😂
I was actually fine with knight. Gave me vibes of going back to historical characters. The AIs were better then Nemesis's zombies. And the 3 gen wasn't the worst thing ever. Compared to skull merchant where fr all you had to do was place all her drones around the 3 gens
Yeah the community doesnt lile anything that is playing different from what they want. All they want is to run around pressing w all day and holding the mouse slightly to the side
I personally hate her walk animation, she has this slow catwalk model walk that moves too slow with her movement speed.
She looks like she's sliding around the map like some sort of cheap reskin mod.
Also why does she wear high heels? Just silly character design overall.
I HATE THE TWINS!!!!! Delete them!!!!
Nowadays I kinda like skull merchant. I like playing her and I'm more neutral on playing against her. When knight came out I thought he was ok. Kinda badly designed power but interesting lore at least. When skull merchant came out I was firstly disappointed. I've wanted a cyborg or robot for so long. And what I got was just so confusing. But I thought "whatever. I hope I can make due with her power and I hope her lore is somewhat interesting". Nope. None of that. Her base design is boring af (live the tome outfit she got tho. Fits her way better), her lore is just so uninteresting, her power was a nightmare and she and the (for some reason two) survivors had the most meh perks I've seen in a while. It was just a big piece of nothing. Now that she got her rework I'm more positive against her. But still her base outfit and lore is still shit. Same goes for the lyra twins
Heck i'm an non-DBD player (who somehow likes the game) and i think Skullmerchant is the most whatever killer in the game, like just with her render, she looks like a Fortnite character.
But this is your community…. No one else's she isn't the most hated it's her perks that's it people want her reworked like spooky and odtz and aryun all spoke on the matter about her and they like her but she needs a full rework that's it your thumbnail title is just actual Clickbait yes call me out for expressing my opinion but she is by far nowhere near the most hated character just her perks/power that's it……
I'm just not having it whenever i see Skull Merchant, i rather avoid the misery, i don't care if they don't 3 gen, this killer is just completely hopeless no matter how much they rework her, even if they chase, the fact she has a million drones to spam, nah nah.
I just dc or let go on hook, and even when i do that, my teammates nod, the hatred for Skull Merchant is where the community comes together at least.
Look, after a point, everything that bhvr has done, or even can do, is just gilding a turd. Her lore and base visual design will always be terrible. They will also have nothing to do with her given name so their will always be this kind of design whiplash.
But further, and I do think this is the biggest thing, even with her design change she absolutely wrecks solo q. There just isn't many reasonable ways to counter her without being on comms or at least playing with a team that you know has some better amount of game sense than a rando.
Also doesn't help that the toxic perception of her has created a kind of feedback loop where most skerchants I encounter also play super scummy. Maybe they would do so anyway (which isn't much of a stretch considering the amount of the player base that do their best to bm whenever possible on both sides) but the negative perception from the survivors definitely lead to resentment to those playing as her.
All of which combines into some of the most unfun (but also usually very drawn out) games possible. Like, against a cracked blight or nurse at least the game is over within 5 minutes but skerchant can still make forever games.
Whenever going against a skull merchant I will always DC. No exception
Let me be the majority of the communitys voice: "At this point BHVR just DELETE her"!
To be fair, why would people waste their time playing against her if they know they're gonna hate the experience? Games are meant to be fun. Let them skip her
Skulk Merchant sucks, but a killer I despise with my whole chest is Pinhead. That thing needs to yeet itself to hell and stay there
I agree that part of the probum was and posobly still is playstile. I usualy compare her and knight 3 genning to basement/insidius buba, verry toxic or disliked playstiles that they just happened to exell in.
She is hated because is a viable killer who can shut down loops instantly and can put survivors on instadown situation and you don’t even need to be close
If you play Rebecca I will die for you
Nah Skull Merchant isn't bad. If I had to remove ONE killer permanently from the game. . . .It's. . . . .Wesker! I hate his power inconsistency, chase music and aesthetic. Shit killer, get out! 😅
yo i need to know on the thumbnail the pink haired one on the left, which character is that i cannot tell
Behavior is so damn dumb when it comes to reworks. She can be easily reworked by making her drones get destroyed when the survivors solve the puzzle. Make it to where she has to go directly up to the drone and have a 5 second animation to reset the destroyed drone.
For me, my issue is that she’s a bit of everything. She excels at everything and that every other killer has a downside to using their power. There’s no payoff to using her power and there’s no reason to interact with the drones – it does little to bother her. And I think that is an issue with the past 3 oc killers is that their powers don’t really feel intractable. The fact she gets so much in her kit for very little effort rubs people the wrong way. Is she stealth? Map control? Gen defence? Chase? She’s all of it. I prefer killers being good at one thing but maybe not so good at other things.
For example, ghostface is great at stealth. But chase can be rough. Trapper is great for map control and denying loops but he is an m1 killer so traversing the map is an issue.
Skull Merchant? She can guard gens, get free info, haste, damage you without being near you, stealth, anti loop with the right set up. It’s just a bit too much in one kit.
If they added a risk reward to the drones, I think it’d be better. Make SM plan her drones more and reward players for actually getting rid of it. Give an action speed boost when you get rid of the drone but if skull merchant catches you with the boost and hurts you, you suffer an action speed penalty. Just something to make survivors actually want to deal with them and for the killer to have to be more mindful and aware of their drones.
Remove subhuman killers Doctor and Blight
She's supposed to be some impressive weapons merchant but the dumbass keeps a spinning blade less than an inch from her exposed fingers at all times. It's way more aggravating to me than it should be.
Just shouldn't be in the game. Shit power shit design shit lore. Adds nothing to the game. Can't even be bothered to finish the vid because I just don't think there's anything else to say on the subject.
The only thing I dont mind about skull merchant, is the view I
see when I get picked up 😅
I played chase Skull Merchant and people were salty still.
I feel bad for Pixel Bush, he seems to be one of the few people who actually likes Skull Merchant.
Sidenote: My comment made it to the thumbnail 😀
Thanks for watching… aaaaand…. goooooooodbye
heres my thing with the discussion of "oversexualization" of Skull Merchant. i think a lot of it comes from a misunderstanding of what oversexualizing a character means. oversexualization happens when a character wouldn't act like the way they do. let's be clear, she IS sexualized. but it makes sense for her. we see with her little mannerisms that her personality is a bit flirtatious – the way she touches the survivors during her mori, her walks, even the clothes she has on her bed in the hunting camp – and so it isn't odd for her to dress the way she does, because she's a sexy person who seems to be aware of it and enjoy it. y'know who IS oversexualized, tho? Vittorio. it makes no sense for Vittorio, a man from the 15th century whos likely Catholic, to be shirtless the way he is. he's shirtless entirely for the viewing of others, whereas Skull Merchant at least seems to enjoy being attractive. Vittorio is oversexualized, Skull Merchant is not
Pixel bush being mad as f right now😂
She's literally easier, but weaker knight. I don't mind playing as or against her, but knight omg, I hate playing as and against I prefere to dc and get penalty than play against this bullshit.
I would like more to have Curupira, Mapinguari or Boitatá as a killer, but I like her, at least not being from Rio or Amazonas is a good thing, we don't have many characters in the foreign media being from the north-east, But I also would like Comadre florzinha more, She's an spirit of a little native girls that uses her hair as a whip to hit people in the wilds, also make people get lost in it, and hunters used to use '
"Papa"(the food) and tobaco to make her calm and not be attacked by her, wich would be a cool mechanic(using it to not fall in ilusions in the map, her power could be something like mix the map randomly in a surv screen or something alike)
DBD Fans: Can we have predator
Behaviour: We have Predator at home
Predator at home:
I believe you can dislike whoever/whatever you want to dislike. But don't be that guy and attack other people for liking something you don't. Its immature, uncalled for, and stupid behavior. This applies to Skull Merchant and every other killer/survivor/character in this game for that matter. Its a shame that people in this community can't see that this kind of mindset is unhealthy.
For someone named skull merchant id expect her to have some amazing totem perks
i think knight is cool :c
A major issue going along with your comment of people don't know what she does anymore is she can be visually intimidating from a power side. Trapper, Hag, Pyramid Head, etc whether its a trap or just a feature of the power takes time. Using RPD for an example, to heavily set up the main room of RPD for any other killer would be a decent time investment. SM just walks along, not really slowing down much as she yeets her drones into the air and with three of them can essentially get full coverage of the main room. Is that as useful as trapper trapping it to hell or Pyramid Head throwing his trail down all over? I honestly couldn't tell you, but while mechanically it might not be useful, that usual flood of info when you're running from her or just trying to find a gen to do and you see a clustfuck of drones in the main room will overwhelm most players. They don't know what to do in that situation, they go full deer in the headlights for minimal effort on her part. Bhvr made a mess of a power and changed it so much players don't care to learn it anymore.
9:50 this 100%. I fucking LOVED the idea of a tracking info killer like how she has her little iPhone. it was soooooo freaking cool to me and I wanted that side to be encouraged, but then once she came out and was the 3 gen queen I backed off from her.
In my case something that really added to the hatred equation were the people maining her. Everyone that mains SM is for some reason equally egocentric, and I believe they have some pathologic stuff on their head, if you main her and play the 3-gening way or chess merchant, aknowledging you are a meme and knowing eveyrone on the community hates you then there must something going on in your head.
Skull merchant isn't that bad imo
That Yui with the sword is me 😂
i problem i have is she released more health then the twins did but she got reworked a few times and twins got ignored and are still ignored
Definitely the worst designed killer in the game. We get only 4 killers every year and only 2 are original. So to have a killer like Skull merchant after The Knight (also a disappointing killer) is terrible.
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This killer needs to be deleted
I still do not care for her and my squad and I still just DC against her. We dont care if she was changed or not. She ungodly boring
In many ways, Skull Merchant was a bit of a wake up call as well. I'll admit, I was in many of the camps leading up to her release. I loved the chapters before, was incredibly lukewarm about the Knight, and thought the skull Merchant was going to be a type of cyborg killer. She released, and I found her play boring. But it also made me realize something else. I had been playing Dead by Daylight regularly since June/July of 2017, and by that I mean a few hours daily. The boring, exhausted feeling wasn't just tied to her, it was a realization that I was starting to find the game boring as well. End result was me stepping away from the game.
I do go back to it from time to time, play a couple of rounds, and have fun. I even have fun going up against Skull Merchants. I think for many long time DbD players, it wasn't just everything you discussed, because I'd agree with it all. But I also thing game fatigue was starting to set in for a lot of us, exacerbated by just how toxic the community was at the time. I'm happy to play rounds and actually get 'GG's" across the board in matches, I'm happy to not be getting overly stressed out in matches, and I feel like some of the toxicity has left the community. I hope some of that toxicity leaves the Skull Merchant some day as well.
Honestly I really love the skull merchant and she is one of my favorite killers. That is definitely due to the fact that I started playing dbd right as she came out so I wasn’t let down that she wasn’t what everyone thought she was going to be. If the took away all the status effects and just make her a tracking killer then I’d be happy with that.
I like her. I bought her about a week or 2 ago and she's pretty damn fun. I play her much like I do Trapper. Her drones feel like an easier, but non-lethal trap.
Bear traps are hard to snag survivors with- BUT If a survivor steps into a bear trap, they're Mega Fucked.
As for the skull drones, they're easier to catch survivors with (infact survivors practically walk into the fuckin' things wingingly) but they arent as lethal.
Trappers traps are higher risk, as its harder to catch mutha fuckas. But higher rewards cuz they're basically dead already if they step in one.
Meanwhile Skull merchants drones are lower risk, lower reward. Easier to spot survivors, but you still have to do the chasing yourself.
Of course there are plenty if other differences, but my mindset when playing Skull-Mommy aint too different from when I play Beartrap-Daddy.
i deleted the game finally. the game finally got too boring for me. ill be back when the game adds new modes