Hello everyone, Mor1fied here as usual, i'm here today in my first blog post to talk about a topic that i've dived into a while ago with the publishment of my current newest video: "First thoughts on The Houndmaster". It was an overall rating/critique about the Doomed Course chapter in general, but my thoughts were the following:
As design, behaviour did their best once again, and i have nothing bad about the visual appearance of both the new killer and survivor. Their perks are also fine, a little bit hard to use for survivor side but still useful. What bothered me with this chapter was how clumsy and buggy the new killer felt to play with. Her power didn't work as intended. That's pretty much all i could say back then
Fast forward to today, the houndmaster had a huge list of Balance changes and bug fixes. We also finally got the final piece of this chapter - the new Ormond Lake Mine map from the Ormond realm. Overall, behaviour did a great job with fixing that old lady. She is way better to play with now than at her initial release. I still think she has bugs all over her tho, for example the biggest one right now being the fact that you still can't detect gens with your Search command right away, which causes you to flick around like a dumbass for 5 minutes or until you reach the gen yourself. Other than that there's 100% more bugs but i believe they're not as impactful as this one. As a conclusion, there's more work into this revolutionary concept to put in. Developers shared that their initial thought for the houndmaster came in after the first release of 2v8 back in August. Their intention was an AI based killer power, which i really like as an idea, but if it wasn't that buggy. At the end of the day, we should be grateful the devs reacted asap and fixed a few bugs, like wrong Search routes or other power related bugs(i feel like more of them were Search command related tbh). With that being said, i can't wait for the next blog title to be "Houndmaster finally fixed" because i truly believe behaviour are trying, i have faith in this company and game, and i hope you do too!
With that being said, ggs wp, see you in the next one!