Skull Merchant Unable to Deploy Bugs Near Hooks Across Elevations (THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE)

Bug: Skull Merchant Unable to Deploy Bugs Near Hooks Across Elevations (THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE)

This issue is a duplicate of #218 Skull Merchant's Drone Deployment Bug Post-Hook.

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Skull Merchant Unable to Deploy Bugs Near Hooks Across Elevations (THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE)

Status:	Duplicate
Added by:	Anonymous on May 19, '26
Reported for:	9.6.2
Actual Result:	The Skull Merchant is able to place Drones too close to Hooks on elevation differences like the Basement, except it doesn't actually do anything other than put the Killer in an animation lockout and put their power on Cooldown.
Expected Result:	The Skull Merchant should not be able to place Drones within a certain radius of the Hook. If they are able to, then Deploying the Drone should actually Deploy Drones and not go through an animation and Power Lockout with nothing actually happening
Severity:	Major
Reproducibility:	Always
Platform:	Steam
Additional Notes & Comments:	I'm sharing my video as a YouTube link in case it doesn't work after uploaded here: https://youtu.be/qAwTy2JrZec

Steps to Reproduce

Play as Skull Merchant
Hook a Survivor on a major elevation difference such as Basement
Attempt to place a Drone as close as possible to the Hooked Survivor
Observe the Animation play out, power go on cooldown, but no Drone is actually deployed.

Explanation

While playing as The Skull Merchant, after hooking a Survivor in the Basement or some other multi-floored area, the Killer will be given the option to Deploy a Drone immediately within a small area of the hook. Pressing the Deploy button within this usual anti-camp range where she normally shouldn't be able to deploy Drones will have the Killer go through the Deploy animation and put the power on cooldown, but nothing will actually happen and no Drones will be deployed.