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DS change idea I had in my head for a while...
so as we all know the current DS works a little something like this:
Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds.
While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check
to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun them for 5 seconds.
Succeeding or failing the Skill Check will disable .
Successfully stunning the Killer will result in you becoming the Obsession.
Increases your chances of being the Obsession.
The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
now as we all know, DS is used as an anti tunnel perk, however it sometime feels like the perk is more used as an invulerability card since the killer can't really do anything for the whole duration of DS if he doesn't want to suffer a long stun time of 1+4 seconds.
As for survivor, being slugged for a period between 1-60 seconds isn't that fun, your uptime is lowered and you just wasted your time in the trial by being on the ground.
So I went ahead and tried my best to modify it to make it fair for both sides will still keeping the original objective of making an anti tunnel perk.
The new DS changes should be as follows:
Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 20/25/30 seconds.
getting downed while the timer is active will pause it until the killer grabs you or until the survivors pick you up from the downed state.
When one of the two actions happen the DS timer will drop to 0 no matter how long you had left on it (if picked up by a survivor, the perk is still usable for the next time you get hooked and downed)
If grabbed by the killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp which will stun both the survivor and killer for 1 second, it is then followed by a 4 seconds stun only for the killer (this stun can be reduced with enduring).
Succeeding or failing the Skill Check will disable Decisive Strike.
Successfully stunning the Killer will result in you becoming the Obsession.
Increases your chances of being the Obsession.
The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
the reduced timer prevents it from dragging too long and preventing those occassions where the killer might down you with 5 seconds left and pick you up (a 30 second window is what I call tunneling)
pausing the timer while downed will prevent the game from turning into a waiting game for the timer to run out (so now the killer must pick you up instead of slugging you)
that is all.