Interview a Skull Merchant main Dead by Daylight killer main podcast episode #7 Feat..  

Was looking forward to this! Super interesting to hear a different perspective on SM. He already made me enjoy her a lot more after the rework, so it was really nice to hear more on the topic.

used to know this dude personally a long while back, he's super chill, and he's always had a fascination with the lesser popular killers

It is interesting to hear Pixel's view on the Haste and Hinder manipulation on her, as I have different feelings towards the system. I personally love the Haste manipulation, as the value that can be fetched from it is placed into your hands. You can use the haste to chase down the target, make extra distance to the next survivor, etc. The Hinder though is what I hate the most, as it completely removes the skill expression on both sides. Survivors now are slower and can't make tiles that they planned out, while they have to see the killer running Mach 10 after you. I would like to see Hinder get obliterated from the game, and to reduce the Haste to make it less obnoxious, but still there for when you get multiple stacks.

To prepare for your video I played Skull Merchant for the first time today and I surprisingly did not hate playing her. I actually think I am going to play her from time to time now. The only thing I really disliked is that in around half of the games the survivors just gave up as soon as they saw what I was playing. And before I forget it, I really liked the video.

I am super excited that pixel is doing a skull merchant guide. His twins guide remains the greatest I've ever seen for its depth and comprehensiveness. So many of them are unimaginative and just not very helpful. I think a great skull merchant guide would help alleviate much of the misinformation we still hear about skully.

i love both of you guys :D what better than to see such a great collab, 3 hours of nice content from two great creators

Two of my favorite dbd creators for 3 hours? Awesome

I think PixelBush is fighting a losing battle here. The hatred for Skull Merchant was intense from the moment we got our first look at her, which was actually leaked a few hours early, so people hated a blurry screenshot. Her visual design, animations, backstory, all of them got scathing hatred and derision. It's only made worse because people were expecting a cyborg and instead we got a Scandal Savage ripoff (google her if you don't know what I mean, there's too many similarities for that not to be the case). And all of this before we ever even got our first chance to play her. Her power would need to be incredible game design to overcome that. And let's be honest, it's not. I actually do think it's the worst designed power in the game, mostly in the sense that something has to be the worst. I was never on the Skull Merchant hate bandwagon and I actually do understand how her power works, I still would rather play against anybody else. It sucks, man. She's over-hated but people aren't ever gonna give her a chance. Edit: 1:46:25 oh hey I think you're talking about me! I was just playing devil's advocate there for the idea of Trapper with a teleport and how I didn't think it was totally unfitting for him, I wasn't saying he should definitely get a teleport lol

The totem build is indeed great on sadako haha I run a very similar build occasionally P100 onryo here ❤️

Honestly this is a great interview, great job lads.

I agree with PixelBush on a LOT of things.....but new Skull Merchant isn't one of them. I honestly think she got Freddied in the rework. Now I will say it was more excusable than Freddy's rework because Freddy only needed number changes imo whereas OG Skull Merchant needed more creativity to fix her issues, but what they did, in my opinion, almost completely nuked her. I don't have a problem with low skill floor or ceiling or whatever it is. That's silly. Sometimes you wanna relax with a Bubba or Legion gameplay, and that's just as valid as wanting to farm clips with like Wesker or Singularity. My problem is that she was marketed as a quintessential tracking killer and got reworked into what I unaffectionately call Discount Freddy. You put down a slowdown thingy, and the counterplay is to leave the loop. The only way to get something more out of her is to exploit niche elevation setups so your drones don't project that gigantic circle on the ground so they can actually function as TRAPS. There's both none of the unique selling points of the original concept and not really a lot of unique selling points of the new concept. I have been wrong before, I was extremely pessimistic about Unknown but his hit and run potential and vertical presence differentiate him significantly from the other ranged killers, but even after watching Pixel's full synopsis on the killer I fail to see how she's significantly different from someone like Freddy or Clown. Yeah there's extremely niche setups that you can do on certain maps, and Pixel's a genius for squeezing evey last drop out of the kit, but I'm not buying a killer whose only differentiating factors from another killer come from standing on a table at Dead Dawg Saloon or a staircase at Ormond. And because of this I find it BAFFLING how people are still complaining about her. As Pixel said, she's mediocre at best, yet from what you hear you'd imagine Skull Merchant is the next Nurse! I honestly don't think the 3 genning problem required a 'from the ground up' rework to remove. I really don't. Remove the Exposed! There! Half the problem's solved already! It's not like tracking will get you the down, especially with a primarily M1 killer. Come up with some other status effect for Drones to inflict. Make Geographic Readout basekit and do an addon pass to go crazy with mechanics. Just don't remove the unique selling points you baked into the kit! It sucks because everything OUTSIDE of her current gameplay is criminally underrated imo. She's the first female killer that isn't a victim of tragedy, she's pure a evil girl boss! Switch the bedazzled gas mask for the red gas mask in the very rare cosmetic, and you have a unified look which is VERY cool! Her weapons are substantially varied from each other and all of them have nice sound effects! I love the character of Adriana Imai and the aesthetic she brings. Sadly, I just can't get into playing her.

As a P7 Skull Merchant main I will watch this video and give my review later

This was a very fun listen! Consider me looking forward to the next interviews! I have some thoughts of my own to share. . I think that the voice chat discussion misses the point. Dead by Daylight has no in-game communication alternative. The two survivor emotes presented are both not enough. League of Legends doesn’t need voice chat because Riot Games has spent a decade working on and off on their Ping system which feels very intuitive to use & if that isn’t sufficient, there is always text chat. For the type of game Dead by Daylight is, text chat wouldn’t be efficient. The mobile version has a type of Ping system allegedly but I can’t report how it is to use on account of not having played it. Though with a game with such limited button inputs especially for console, I can’t imagine that a sufficiently useful Ping system could be implemented. Like text chat and Ping systems, voice chat is a communication tool. You can’t say you’ve played League of Legends if you haven’t experienced hundreds of matches where text chat and pings are misused severely. In spite of this, I would never want these systems removed. Likewise, I would never want voice chat to never be added for the same reasons. Since there’s already no in-game communication alternative, there would be no loss if this was implemented and some people chose to opt out of using it/listening to it. If you opted out of voice chat or needed to mute rude teammates, you would just go back to the normal Dead by Daylight experience instead of your match being worse for it because you’re “in the dark”. Having voice chat won’t automatically make my solo queue teammates better. Game sense is still a skill a lot of survivors lack dearly, and even with voice chat, it is no replacement for game sense. Voice chat will however give me the chance that at least one survivor is willing to communicate, and even if everyone uses voice chat, the onus is still on me to process that information and act upon it. Anyone opposing voice chat has good reasons to opt of it. You shouldn’t be forced to use a system that may bring you harm. I absolutely understand dealing with disgusting people, especially if they go as far as purposely losing the match upon hearing your voice or stalking you post-game. But I wouldn’t be advocating for voice chat if my positive experiences didn’t outweigh the negatives. One of my close online friends I made was back when in-game voice chat (not Curse ew) was first implemented in SMITE of all places lol. I can be very cynical myself but I think there’s more good in a game’s playerbase than there is bad. I think that games that embolden anonymity with text chat or pings, end up exacerbating the perception of toxicity since we lose that human connection when we speak to one another and willingly choose to make ourselves vulnerable. . Also massive respect to Pixel for standing up for 5 SM mains of the world (I’m one of them!). My frustration with the SM hate is that the level of ignorance displayed by the playerbase is overwhelming large. Especially when content creators proudly brag about how they refuse to read what new Skull Merchant does. Some of them going as far as to say that killer powers should never be complex & should instead be able to be understood in one match (?!?). This level of ignorance I’ve only seen paralleled in funnily enough League of Legends if a newly released champion is polarizing and has ability descriptions that don’t have the nuance and depth of the 1969 literature masterpiece “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. I have my own killers that make me sigh when I hear their terror radius but never do I have same animosity towards them as SM haters do and they’re way more popular relative to Skull Merchant. Clown and Trickster feel insanely oppressive in a 1-on-1 encounter, have addons that can make their powers more disgustingly powerful in those situations or enable certain play-styles. They’re so effective at focusing one survivor & have methods of ignoring altruism attempts too. They both even have a hidden layer of complexity or skill that only their respective mains have unearthed and actively apply. I’ve never felt like my dissatisfaction justifies any ignorance towards my opponent. I don’t expect everyone to enjoy playing vs SM like I do, but at the very least every SM hater would be less miserable if they actually understood what to do in those matches. My personal conspiracy theory is that a lot of SM haters are burnt out of the game because if they’re willing to DC vs this killer every time, they probably do the same for a few or more killers. But this is a different conversation about burn out. . Overall, I really enjoyed listening to yalls conversations! Gonna listen to your past interviews now🫡

2:54:00 Damn, i guessed it right! :D

bruh I just realised why you're using Blood Favour on Merchant... that's genius...

Hats off to the absolute champion that fat shamed you at 18:27

I like pixelbush. His opinions seem based.

Ooo hot damm fish

Pixel calling counting to three on drones “macro gameplay” really points out the insanely low skill ceiling of this killer. I’ve played many a p100 sm and I can never tell before the game ends that they have thousands of hours or just hundreds. The reason for that is the killer has so many things happening but the problem with that is they are all tied to press m2. What do you do when you need stealth? Press m2. In a loop? Press m2. Defending an area? Press m2. Someone disarm your drone? Recall and press m2. It’s so easy it’s astounding. Now I pressed m2, you get slow and injured and broken and deep wound, I get fast and undetectable and win the lottery and a brand new car. The mental strain you feel explaining why sm isn’t a terrible killer design pixel is because your reaching to defend a killer that is trash bro. Might also be something to be said that a 4 slug twins player likes sm, but who knows if those are related or not.

Do you have a link to the SM mains twitch/YT?

I want an interview. Can I be interviewed. I've done nothing of note but I want it.

is this a series where you purely interview content creators

Correct me if I'm wrong but are you the twitter person?