How to balance Taxidermist's shotgun

[rain falcon]

As we all know, taxidermist is a very OP class due to his shotgun ability. Even tho it has been nerfed by now, it's still incerdibly hard to win against taxidermist, especially a very grindy one. So, for the solution of the problem, I took a look at how the shotgun works in HN2. In HN2, the shotgun STUNS the player. So, my solution for the problem is to remove Otto's ability to damage explorers with a shotgun, instead, the shotgun will only STUN explorers for 3 seconds (or more) (basically like The guest's scaring croak). This would make overcoming a grindy taxidermist easier for explorers, and will make taxidermist less OP. It will also encourage taxidermists to play stealthy, and use the gun as an auxiliary or a get-away weapon, rather than the main tactic. With that update, we could also bring the amount of shots back to 6.

If you have other ideas or additions to my suggetsion, feel free to comment them

[rain falcon]

Revive

[deft nebula]

You cant say revive its not allowed by the mods

[rain falcon]

I apologize. Didnt know that

My bad

[light plinth]

Yup, as said above saying revive is not allowed. It needs to have some descriptive and helpful information about the post itself.

[upper orchid]

Remove the stun and keep the damage. Kids cannot fight back with their special skill because of the his high stun dps gun.

[abstract dust]

Please do not revive a post by simply saying revive. Comments are meant to add onto or discuss the feedback.

oh wait i wasn't scrolled down far enough i only saw everything above button's message, i'm sorry about the ping.

[rain falcon]

[rain falcon]

Damage isnt a very good solution, because he can still down everyone.

[hollow kraken]

THIS GUY IS A GENIUS

[steady raptor]

maybe the neighbor loses stamina when using it, or he gets stunned as well from the shock wave. He can even have a durability of shorts where his shotgun breaks after like 10 or 15 uses and he must repair it which can only be done if the neighbor is also an inventor otherwise it is broken forever.

[rain falcon]

Nah. I doubt they will make ammo an rare item, so this wont change much, grindy taxidermists wont have trouble with finding that

[rain falcon]

Losing stamina isnt very logical. He getting stunned too? Maybe, but definetly shorter stun time than the children. The last one... just no. This is basically forcing a character just to have infinite gun.

[abstract dust]

I do have to agree though, the stun kinda makes sense with the recoil of the gun already forcing you to go back a bit but the idea of needing to play as inventor to fix the broke rifle or you cant use it again is a bad idea.

[grave vapor]

Just nerf the damage 👍

[rain falcon]

They already did that. This didnt change much tho

[grave vapor]

They didn't change the damage I'm afraid

[rain falcon]

They did. It now depends on how far you are from the gun. THe closer you are to the shot, the more damage you get. That still doesnt really change anything tho. He is still OP

[grave vapor]

Ye so decrease his damage further

[rain falcon]

Decreasing the damage will = my suggestion with a -10 damage per shot ig

[short elk]

Isn’t it supposed to be a really real toy rifle?Why would it fire real ammo?

At most it should just simply stun and as for reloading well they already Nerfed that so maybe either have it so it will only do stun and the more your hit the less the stun becomes eventually, it doesn’t stunt at all

And to say like three or five hits is the limit no more like 30 or 60

Then, after that, the taxidermist gun will only stun for 0.1 seconds pretty much making him less of a threat and more of a annoyance or they could just make it that his toy rifle does less damage the more hits

[inner plinth]

I love that we're tryna be innovative but I think simply removing the taxidermist will solve 100% of these issues 😐

[grave vapor]

Removing Character is the dumbest thing ever no offense

They should nerf his damage a little he isn't that op

[short elk]

Well, so many people are considering the Halloween update was nothing but an advertisement for patch 9 and people are pretty much saying they want them to get rid of that but yeah taxidermist definitely needs more balancing

[inner plinth]

nah he's not even a neighbor, get him out

[short elk]

So is guest

Is considered a neighbor, despite the fact, not even being Peterson

[grave vapor]

I personally don't think so but taxidermist isn't that op rn but I agree they should nerf his damage

[short elk]

We can all agree the Halloween update was nothing but a cheap advertisement for patch 9 it’s basic information and it’s going to be staying like this

Like you tell me if you have a choice to remove either guest or taxidermist from the game and replace them with a character from one of the earlier games who would it be?

Besides talking about taxidermist and why he needs balancing of course

[grave vapor]

I think if they wanted To promote Patch 9 they would add something like Forest map or Guest Hn2 skin
Imo they Wanted To make Sn hn2 style too add more content later

Like they Did this to open the door to new neighbors and explorers

[short elk]

Well, it’s been eight months and they haven’t done anything they released the winter update which yeah they always do every year

[inner plinth]

I'd say remove the taxidermist and that's it. there's too many neighbor clones

[short elk]

To many Neighbors? who else in the game has a toy shotgun

[inner plinth]

lowkey the guest was pushing it

the neighbor doesn't need a toy shotgun

[short elk]

Map five was added alongside the guest wasn’t it

[grave vapor]

Maybe they saw How bad people reacted to the Halloween update and they just left the game

[inner plinth]

and on that note, the shotgun was supposed to be a one-time use find inside the house but apparently now the inventor can craft a million and one so

[short elk]

It’s a simple answer. Nobody wants to play a cheap advertisement they want to play the game Secret Neighbor and the way it was intended

[grave vapor]

Nah new neighbors that aren't Peterson are cool and refreshing

[inner plinth]

thats what I'm saying like all these addons dont make sense

[inner plinth]

then it defeats the point of the game

[short elk]

Like we have four Petersons being one crow, Birdman, and one man who is a taxidermist

[grave vapor]

if we would get only Peterson Reskins for all of the game lifespan that would've got boring

[grave vapor]

Fr

[inner plinth]

then keep it at one neighbor. problem solved.

[short elk]

They already released four neighbors more content means more gameplay but it also just makes me question why they put a grown man on the kid squad

[grave vapor]

We should do #FixSn

[grave vapor]

I think they wanted something new in the game and Quentin was the Safest option

[inner plinth]

ill second that

[short elk]

Nah it’s not gonna do much besides nobody likes spam

Let’s just keep going with the topic of this feedback

But you do you

[grave vapor]

I mean like Tf2 community is doing rn

Some petition or smth

Ye let's go #secret-neighbor

[inner plinth]

I think the issue with that is that real hello neighbor fans who honestly care about how secret neighbor is turning out would agree to that, but the others who dont care are a big number

that's why I feel like these feedback channels are kind of useless cuz 1. eveyone disagrees, and 2. tinybuild won't listen to feedback

[grave vapor]

Agree to what ?

[short elk]

I think we’re done with this feedback because we pretty much have given it

[grave vapor]

We love this game so much that we make feedback after 8 months of silence

Damn we really got Team Fortressed...

[thick bison]

yeah tf2 did a #FixTF2 and a #SaveTF2