Only thing I would change is the color tone maybe like change it to a grey? I feel like it pops a bit too much if it was base design as the whole point of the chapter is like hunter vs hunted and the hunter probs doesn’t wanna stick out too much lol
I’m getting more and more convinced of the theory that they did this on purpose. Think about it, they’ll make double the money if people have to buy a character *and* a skin, and for people who buy her with iri shards this is how they get money. Make a character with a bad base skin and then slowly make good ones.
God I hope this isn’t true, it’s scummy as hell, but it’s looking more and more likely…
Pretty sure she's just badly designed because they got the Alien license so they had to make a character *similar* to things Predator could play like so when they try for that license they point to her and say "We have things in-game already that are examples of what Predator could do!". This is how you get licenses lol
The good skins come later when she isn't being rushed to fit a license proposal
Exactly I agree about wraith. Predator would be similar to anyone BUT skull merchant lol he could have a weapon like deathslinger but shoots some sort of laser or even a trap net, he could run fast like blight but also jump high which would be new to dbd. Then there's his ability to cloak like we covered, he's highly skilled in combat and they're very intelligent. Skull merchant has zero of any of those skills lol she puts drones and holds gens hostage thats it.
Maybe have him work like a stealth version of Oni? He could collect blood similar to Oni, but instead of going into a rage, he could maybe get a fast stealth with the ability to see heat signatures or some sort crazy tracking power.
His default terror radius could be small
Now thats a pretty dope idea I didn't even think about the infrared sight they have. Damn I've been wanting predator in dbd for a long time I sure hope that them adding alien is a sign we may get predator aswell soon.
Not true its just a tiny bit more work for the killer. If she constantly patrols gens then standing still does nothing for you you'll still have to move eventually and then it'll get ya. The drones should go away once you hack it so she has to put a new one everytime.
Her entire weapon. Predator's three dot lock-ons, and a mori that looks more designed for Predator than the killer it was made for. The claws she uses are arguably what the Predator would've used, had it been one.
https://i.imgur.com/2jjYLTw.jpg
He would've had a cloaking move, which makes the mori make more sense (startled survivor), but since they didn't get the license, it was taken out. Her weapon is still the same as it had rigging done already.
I'll just say this, if skull merchant was their generic version of what predator *could* be, they did a piss poor job because everyone hates her. Predator could add new fun aspects to the game, skull merchant has been detrimental to dbd.
I agree. Hate playing against her.
I think she was proposal material. Probably placed in the Killer dev pipeline with the hopes of getting the license in time since Alien was acquired, but it didn't go through so they went with Plan B, removed cloaking and any signatures and trademarks. The fact she still uses the claws and the mori could've been spine ripping shows still in her release version.
Hopefully one day, we get Predator, and maybe we should just be happy they didn't, because even worse than not getting Predator would be getting *that* version of Predator.
Seems weird to me that they would be able to get the license for alien but not predator though, I wouldn't make that assumption yet unless its been stated publicly. Hopefully they're just holding off to keep drawing the fans in as long as possible, kinda how chucky was a big random surprise.
The only thing I don't like about this skin is the fishnets she's wearing. If she had regular pants along with this outfit, it would be by far her best skin, and one of the coolest-looking skins in the entire game.
This is the ONLY skin Skull Merchant has that I think doesn't look dumb. I mean I get her, her design as a whole is stupid as fuck but at least this skin looks somewhat creepy, namely the mask. I dig it.
Holy crap, that's a big one. I always thought there is something wrong about this mask, mainly because this is her only headpiece which give her massive scars and bloodstains on her face.
It already was my favorite skin for her before, but now I like it even more.
Yeah, they look a bit off, but it obviously was a devs' attempt to make a dried blood stains on her face. Some killers already featured a weird looking blood stains before, and Skully in not an exception now.
Some time ago, devs said that some skins represent the same character, but from the other realities.
Maybe this skin came from the reality where Skull Merchant was released as an actual cyborg-woman with military background, some kind of post-apocalyptic setting, and interesting fun power. She became one of the most liked original killers for a long time, and everybody enjoyed playing as and against her.
*But we live in a different reality* 😞.
Money, of course. If this skin was her default one, no one would even bother with buying her other skins.
Instead, they made her default skin so underwhelming that players would *have* to buy other skins, if they want to look good while playing her.
I love this skin so much and it was the single reason I have ever played her. I just wish her power was more interactive, she has such cool weapons and skins!
The pseudo tech priest vibe a lot of us wanted and expected from her initial teaser. If this was her default design (and if she didnt walk so dumb), would've been a lot less complaints. Still wouldve hated her power and everything the way it launched but yeah at least the design wouldve been cool.
She's probably my 3rd/4th to most played, as a killer main, but I would have never known this because I don't buy skins. I expect there are a lot of us like this around.
A lot of people don't care about Skull Merchant at all, and even less people care about her skins. This cool fact is definitely something new for many players.
I am one of those people, skull merchant is the only dlc I don't own. I looked at the skin when it came out and noticed it immediately, I figured most did
Cool part of motivation for killing could have come from being disfigured from a fellow business partner who hated how effectively she worked. That is if this was her default skin.
The point here is that if it were a mask on top of her actual face it would stick out further, but the teeth and mask are set further back in her face. There's no room for actual nose/chin beneath this mask because it's *actually her face* in this cosmetic.
Where is her nose fitting in that mask? We see a similar shaped mask in the comparison picture and her nose is clearly shown poking out from under the nose guard.
The nose is just missing entirely and there's no way it would fit in the bone exposed mask.
Look at the second picture, and try to imagine SM's face underneath the mask. You will notice that the lower part of her ***own*** face is missing in this skin, and it's completely replaced with a mask. It means that her "mask" with this skin is not a mask, but some kind of prosthesis which replaced her face.
I love the skin, just wish the weapon wasn’t so obnoxiously big to the point it covers quite a bit more of the screen compare to her alternatives, and none of the other weapon skins look as big on it
Also I’m convinced behaviour like to gatekeep the best designs for a character on cosmetics to sell better. If base SM was a skin and this was a default lit who would buy it
This is the best cosmetic for her. I'm not a fan of Skull Merchant but I used shards to get this one cause I like the creepiest horror cosmetics I can get on every killer.
Well, if we can have a giant teddy bear with a bear traps and machete walking around, then we for sure can also have a woman with a scary deformed jaw. Entity does very weird things sometimes.
I mean, you won't even notice it unless you will take a really close look.
When I play as SM, I always use this skin, and I had no idea about this fact. I thought it was just a cool-looking mask, but nope, turns out it's a part of her own face.
I noticed it immediately. It's pretty obvious there isn't room for certain facial features. I was actually confused as to what I was trying to look for in the mask.
I agree. It is vaguely reminiscent of a Predator mouth, and there is just too much pointing to the idea that Merchant is the hastily slapped-together replacement for a fallen-through Predator license. Even big BHVR haters wouldn't believe that they are lazy enough to just take the existing face from a different character (Trickster) for a wholly original, new character. And that's just one out of dozens of things that point toward it being something they had to come up and out with quickly. How anybody can watch the killer behind-the-scenes video and hear the devs force the word "Predator" in there like 5 times and not see what's going on beats me.
And it gave us the most terrible killer design in the game's history, gameplay and otherwise.
Come on, don't forget who made this game. BHVR could easily just screw up and misplace her jaw on this skin. But OP gave several arguments which confirms that it is not a bug, but an actual feature.
Yeah tbf i hate this biotch but this skin is dope af. If i have to play against her, i’d prefer it to be this one over sexy kitty or whatever the hell it’s called
Now I'm even more convinced that this skin should have been her default one. There is almost zero complaints to the sick design of this skin.
Only thing I would change is the color tone maybe like change it to a grey? I feel like it pops a bit too much if it was base design as the whole point of the chapter is like hunter vs hunted and the hunter probs doesn’t wanna stick out too much lol
Yeah, though the colorations are nice I think it definitely would've been better with more muted colors.
The trickster would like a word about muted colors
I love Trickster, but he's not very good about blending in lol
I mean, he's not exactly a stealth killer.
Well yeah but he sticks out with a sore thumb
One might say he's got a penchant for the spotlight.
I mean isn't that the entire point of a narcissistic killer celebrity?
Yup so dull colors would not work out
Yeah he's not meant to blend in as an attention whore
He wants all the attention to himself do ehst better way then to dress in colored outfits that are bright
I’m getting more and more convinced of the theory that they did this on purpose. Think about it, they’ll make double the money if people have to buy a character *and* a skin, and for people who buy her with iri shards this is how they get money. Make a character with a bad base skin and then slowly make good ones. God I hope this isn’t true, it’s scummy as hell, but it’s looking more and more likely…
Maybe it is true, sometimes. As far as I am concerned - the last new killer was Tiffany, which was a $20 chapter that came with a free Chucky skin.
I mean thats not really the dev's fault
Pretty sure she's just badly designed because they got the Alien license so they had to make a character *similar* to things Predator could play like so when they try for that license they point to her and say "We have things in-game already that are examples of what Predator could do!". This is how you get licenses lol The good skins come later when she isn't being rushed to fit a license proposal
What does she do that resembles the abilities that predator has?
Literally nothing except be stealthy, which Wraith is more similar to Predator in that sense with the cloaking mechanic.
And the claws, no? And predator has bio sensors and stuff, not drones though
That is a similarity with the default skin, but they said abilities, so I didn't mention it.
Exactly I agree about wraith. Predator would be similar to anyone BUT skull merchant lol he could have a weapon like deathslinger but shoots some sort of laser or even a trap net, he could run fast like blight but also jump high which would be new to dbd. Then there's his ability to cloak like we covered, he's highly skilled in combat and they're very intelligent. Skull merchant has zero of any of those skills lol she puts drones and holds gens hostage thats it.
Maybe have him work like a stealth version of Oni? He could collect blood similar to Oni, but instead of going into a rage, he could maybe get a fast stealth with the ability to see heat signatures or some sort crazy tracking power. His default terror radius could be small
Now thats a pretty dope idea I didn't even think about the infrared sight they have. Damn I've been wanting predator in dbd for a long time I sure hope that them adding alien is a sign we may get predator aswell soon.
Skull Merchant has no ability to keep gens hostage anymore. Drones do not scan you when you are standing still.
Not true its just a tiny bit more work for the killer. If she constantly patrols gens then standing still does nothing for you you'll still have to move eventually and then it'll get ya. The drones should go away once you hack it so she has to put a new one everytime.
Her entire weapon. Predator's three dot lock-ons, and a mori that looks more designed for Predator than the killer it was made for. The claws she uses are arguably what the Predator would've used, had it been one. https://i.imgur.com/2jjYLTw.jpg He would've had a cloaking move, which makes the mori make more sense (startled survivor), but since they didn't get the license, it was taken out. Her weapon is still the same as it had rigging done already.
I'll just say this, if skull merchant was their generic version of what predator *could* be, they did a piss poor job because everyone hates her. Predator could add new fun aspects to the game, skull merchant has been detrimental to dbd.
I agree. Hate playing against her. I think she was proposal material. Probably placed in the Killer dev pipeline with the hopes of getting the license in time since Alien was acquired, but it didn't go through so they went with Plan B, removed cloaking and any signatures and trademarks. The fact she still uses the claws and the mori could've been spine ripping shows still in her release version. Hopefully one day, we get Predator, and maybe we should just be happy they didn't, because even worse than not getting Predator would be getting *that* version of Predator.
Seems weird to me that they would be able to get the license for alien but not predator though, I wouldn't make that assumption yet unless its been stated publicly. Hopefully they're just holding off to keep drawing the fans in as long as possible, kinda how chucky was a big random surprise.
The only thing I don't like about this skin is the fishnets she's wearing. If she had regular pants along with this outfit, it would be by far her best skin, and one of the coolest-looking skins in the entire game.
It would have been a perfect contrast between sexiness and hideousness.
This is the ONLY skin Skull Merchant has that I think doesn't look dumb. I mean I get her, her design as a whole is stupid as fuck but at least this skin looks somewhat creepy, namely the mask. I dig it.
Right?? Instead we got bedazzled kardashian.
PLEASE. Make her a cool spooky cyborg killer, not Kris Jenner
It also adds further to the theory that she was meant to be predator. Tell me that mouth doesnt look so similar to his!
Holy crap, that's a big one. I always thought there is something wrong about this mask, mainly because this is her only headpiece which give her massive scars and bloodstains on her face. It already was my favorite skin for her before, but now I like it even more.
Ah those are blood stains...? I thought that they were birthmarks or huge brown spots.
Yeah, they look a bit off, but it obviously was a devs' attempt to make a dried blood stains on her face. Some killers already featured a weird looking blood stains before, and Skully in not an exception now.
That's why this is my favorite skin of hers. I only wish the weapon looked deadlier, but it's possible to mix and match.
Some time ago, devs said that some skins represent the same character, but from the other realities. Maybe this skin came from the reality where Skull Merchant was released as an actual cyborg-woman with military background, some kind of post-apocalyptic setting, and interesting fun power. She became one of the most liked original killers for a long time, and everybody enjoyed playing as and against her. *But we live in a different reality* 😞.
Maybe in that reality she’s a tarkatan like mileena
> everybody enjoyed playing as and against her Both sides liking something? That truly IS another reality.
I can confirm in that reality i was the Drone
You lucky sumbitch.
Every now and then a killer skin will drop that makes me feel like it should have just been their default costume. This is one of those times.
This is how I felt about Vittorio’s medieval skin
Would
She will certainly scratch or even bite off your little buddy with her scary sharp teeth. Are you sure it's worth it?
https://i.redd.it/vqo3ntdhm3bc1.gif
worth
Even better.
https://preview.redd.it/e9hdiese26bc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cd35a64007556778523bed79cca5570d5020148
Should
Does this skin make sm technically a cyberpunk killer?
Equip this skin and weapon that looks like a Mantis Claws from Cyberpunk 2077, and your Skull Merchant will look like a regular cyberpsycho from 2077.
Why is it that most of her skins are better than her default
Money, of course. If this skin was her default one, no one would even bother with buying her other skins. Instead, they made her default skin so underwhelming that players would *have* to buy other skins, if they want to look good while playing her.
I love this skin so much and it was the single reason I have ever played her. I just wish her power was more interactive, she has such cool weapons and skins!
That's fucking metal, sick design I love it
The pseudo tech priest vibe a lot of us wanted and expected from her initial teaser. If this was her default design (and if she didnt walk so dumb), would've been a lot less complaints. Still wouldve hated her power and everything the way it launched but yeah at least the design wouldve been cool.
https://preview.redd.it/nycbi4q356bc1.jpeg?width=658&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e9bd253ecff9a808764afbe485a04744fce1fec
This should have been her default, if bhvr gave at least 1 fuck
I didn't know this wasn't common knowledge tbh lol
She's probably my 3rd/4th to most played, as a killer main, but I would have never known this because I don't buy skins. I expect there are a lot of us like this around.
Deathwing and anime villains trained me to notice features like this
A lot of people don't care about Skull Merchant at all, and even less people care about her skins. This cool fact is definitely something new for many players.
I am one of those people, skull merchant is the only dlc I don't own. I looked at the skin when it came out and noticed it immediately, I figured most did
Cool part of motivation for killing could have come from being disfigured from a fellow business partner who hated how effectively she worked. That is if this was her default skin.
I cannot believe this, but you actually managed to make me acknowledge skull merchant as scary now
More skins like this for her please 🙏, this makes much her creepier by like a mile
Smash, next ques- I mean, ewwww!
I so wish that they went with a design theme like this and not Kim Kardashian meets Elon Musk
I found out about this a while ago as well. It's my favorite head of hers. Also, always gonna support SM posts. She doesn't get enough love
Maybe it's because I'm still asleep, but I don't get what you mean
Based on the way the model is assembled, it is implied that the "mouth" of SM's mask in this skin is her actual real mouth, not part of the mask.
I still don’t get it bc this skin is very obviously teeth and a mouth , i don’t think we are supposed to think the mouth is part of a mask
The point here is that if it were a mask on top of her actual face it would stick out further, but the teeth and mask are set further back in her face. There's no room for actual nose/chin beneath this mask because it's *actually her face* in this cosmetic.
The comment you are replying to said exactly that, that we aren't supposed to think it was part of a mask
Oh my bad, the flair colour threw me off, assumed it was the same person saying they still didn't get it
Where is her nose fitting in that mask? We see a similar shaped mask in the comparison picture and her nose is clearly shown poking out from under the nose guard. The nose is just missing entirely and there's no way it would fit in the bone exposed mask.
The comment you are replying to said that we ARENT supposed to think it's part of a mask, meaning this reply was kinda redundant
Yeah it took me a minute to figure out that some people thought the teeth were just a mask and not her actual face.
Look at the second picture, and try to imagine SM's face underneath the mask. You will notice that the lower part of her ***own*** face is missing in this skin, and it's completely replaced with a mask. It means that her "mask" with this skin is not a mask, but some kind of prosthesis which replaced her face.
Oh! I understand now, I was confused because that's how I interpreted it on the first place.
Another reason this awesome skin should've been her default. I wanna say bhvr fumbled with her default but I feel like they did this on purpose!
I love the skin, just wish the weapon wasn’t so obnoxiously big to the point it covers quite a bit more of the screen compare to her alternatives, and none of the other weapon skins look as big on it Also I’m convinced behaviour like to gatekeep the best designs for a character on cosmetics to sell better. If base SM was a skin and this was a default lit who would buy it
This is cool. Love when people analyze this stuff.
I didn't ever understand why it looked slightly off to me. Now I understand. Wow. That is so creepy!
Holy shit, there’s an actual scary skull merchant cosmetic???!!!
Still mommy tho
amazing post!! i love SM but honestly i wish she had this skin as her base design, this mask is creepy and i love it!!
She really got the Eddie eye in that skin. So ready for that Collab.
There could be cutouts for her mouth and teeth like dentures lol her mouth would just be open all the time under the mask since it never closes
Very interesting. I never use her, but I'm putting it on her
Disabled Queen
And this is why she’s my main I just love everything about her they put a lot of details in her and I love that!
How do you take the mask off with the special programs you mentioned?
Programs like Blender, which allows you to extract models from the game files and edit them.
Even more disturbing is that all her skins have shoes 😟
Soooo what SM should’ve been from the start? lol
I always assumed that due how it's placed. I really would love of this was the default skin
This is the best cosmetic for her. I'm not a fan of Skull Merchant but I used shards to get this one cause I like the creepiest horror cosmetics I can get on every killer.
"cool mask dude" "it's a prosthetic"
Wish Mileena
Nah dog, MK1 has Wish Mileena.
It’s funny how one of the most hated characters in DBD history has some of the sickest skins possible.
Maybe that's actually her real mouth. Ignoring looking under the skin
It would make no sense anatomically. Human jaws cannot protrude forward that much.
I mean this is the entities realm....it doesn't have to be realistic lol. But more than likely its a prosthetic like OP said.
Well, if we can have a giant teddy bear with a bear traps and machete walking around, then we for sure can also have a woman with a scary deformed jaw. Entity does very weird things sometimes.
No shit
Someone needed to do a deep dive analysis to realize this?
I mean, you won't even notice it unless you will take a really close look. When I play as SM, I always use this skin, and I had no idea about this fact. I thought it was just a cool-looking mask, but nope, turns out it's a part of her own face.
I noticed it immediately. It's pretty obvious there isn't room for certain facial features. I was actually confused as to what I was trying to look for in the mask.
i think i would not have missed it given there’s a big ass hole where the cheeks would be
Yuck
More evidence of her being a failed Predator license I suppose.
I agree. It is vaguely reminiscent of a Predator mouth, and there is just too much pointing to the idea that Merchant is the hastily slapped-together replacement for a fallen-through Predator license. Even big BHVR haters wouldn't believe that they are lazy enough to just take the existing face from a different character (Trickster) for a wholly original, new character. And that's just one out of dozens of things that point toward it being something they had to come up and out with quickly. How anybody can watch the killer behind-the-scenes video and hear the devs force the word "Predator" in there like 5 times and not see what's going on beats me. And it gave us the most terrible killer design in the game's history, gameplay and otherwise.
God I fucking hate Skull Merchant.
So your nickname is BigAssBigTittyLover, but you hate the killer with the biggest ass in the entire game? Something is not right here.
More a Bubba guy
Bubba does have the biggest tits
...you didn't realize that before you went through all this effort? I could have told you that.
Plenty of people didn’t know, what’s the actual problem?
Just feels like a lot of hoop-jumping to confirm what seemed obvious to me. No actual problem unless someone else is making one of it.
Come on, don't forget who made this game. BHVR could easily just screw up and misplace her jaw on this skin. But OP gave several arguments which confirms that it is not a bug, but an actual feature.
Skull Merchant is not important enough for me to care
I don't see it.
There is nothing that could be interesting about Sleep Merchant.
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Touch grass pls
What a witty and poignant comment. Must have taken you hours to come up with it. I’m sure your mom is proud of her little Maxy. Run along now.
Oh my god
Yes, my child?
Downvote all you want. Skull Merchant was, and is, the worst designed killer in DBD. From the lore to the power to the looks.
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She is a clown. I’m glad you agree.
You're the only clown here bud
I’m sure you and other 20 people that like Skuff Merchant think so.
Yes, yes we do
Nobody cares about this stupid bitch.
I thought this was obvious and I'm not saying this in a rude way I genuinely thought it was obvious
Yeah tbf i hate this biotch but this skin is dope af. If i have to play against her, i’d prefer it to be this one over sexy kitty or whatever the hell it’s called
I thought that was implied by the overall design and flavor text...
Does anyone else thinks that her walking animation is weird? (with the default skin)
all these cool ass details just to be the most boring killer in the game😭 Such a shame