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Fixing Worthless Perks day 7

Throwaway123
Throwaway123 Member Posts: 183
in General Discussions

Every day I will propose changes to 1 survivor perk and 1 killer perk to make them not unusable garbage like most perks are.

Survivor Perk: Deja Vu - Paranoia paired with horror of failure helps prepare you from repeating the same mistake. Unlocks Aura-reading ability. The Aura of 3 generators in closest proximity to each other are revealed to you for 60 seconds at the start of the trial and each time a generator is completed. Each time you visually see a Pallet, that pallet is added to your aura-reading. So long as that pallet is unbroken you can see it (possibly by holding a button, rather than always to avoid clutter). Tracked gens appear on map.

Killer Perk: Predator - Your acute hunting ability allows you to ruthlessly track survivors. Walking survivors now also leave scratch marks that are "considerably" closer together, walking scratch marks last 3 seconds shorter. Scratch marks from running survivors last 3 seconds longer. Scratch marks are at full brightness immediately.

Justifications: Deja Vu as is now just shows you where some generators are. This kind of helps on some maps, but high rank survivors have good map knowledge and can find gens easily. So now this also reveals the aura of pallets the survivor has gone past. This allows the survivor to have more info on where safe loops are and can be used as tracking for where the killer is if the killer breaks a pallet the survivor has seen before.

Predator as it exists right now is more helpful to survivors than killer in most cases. By making tracks spawn in a narrow radius it prevents them from spawning high on trees or against walls and making the survivor trackable from a distance. This change makes it so survivors have to crouch to not leave scratch marks at all, the walking scratch marks are harder to track, and it makes scratch marks start at full brightness rather than taking 1 second to reach it.

I have proposed 14 perk changes so far. BHVR has made 0 perk changes since I started.

Comments

  • Pior_Morte
    Pior_Morte Member Posts: 526

    Déjà Vu: I think you could buff it more, because it whould only be a worst version of Windows of Opportunity. Also you forgot to put the two accents.

    Predator: It would make the perk a viable choice, also this could be countered by Fixated making them have a cool interaction.

    I really hope that BHVR read all of your ideas and make some changes to this perks

  • Golden_spider
    Golden_spider Member Posts: 587
    edited July 2020

    Deja Vu becomes this Worse/Better Windows Of Opportunity I guess. (worse at the beginning but if you're tracking a majority of pallets then you literally have Windows Of Opportunity without a cooldown for throwing one down)

  • Zeus
    Zeus Member Posts: 2,112
    edited July 2020

    Scratch marks while walking seems like a good perk idea.

  • Aneurysm
    Aneurysm Member Posts: 5,270

    Personally I'd make predator an obsession perk, with the obsession leaving scratch marks while moving in any way.