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Perks as default mechanics/balance discussion

Afius
Afius Member Posts: 563
in General Discussions

I think they should be balancing with swf in mind. I know that this game didn't start as not being able to communicate in mind(from what I've heard) but clearly it's being used as such so it's ridiculous to try and balance around or want to revert it to a way that punishes you by playing with your friends.

I think they need to follow at least in some cases how some of the perks work currently where it increases the power of something that you are already capable of for example slippery meat or botany knowledge both increase effectiveness of something you are already able to do just makes it better .

I also think they should make some things default mechanics.

Main issues I see people talk about are tunneling/camping/slugging/gen rushing/swf (feel free to add others.)

These perks would stay in game I am using their powers as examples

First thing Kindred perk could be altered by simply reducing the current radius of what it is already. Say 4-6m of hook killer aura and a 32m of other survivors from hook.

Decisive strike this perk gets a lot of heat I rarely play killer but I still think 60seconds is excessive but to help against tunnelling it's a solid perk, I would say (once decisive strike is nerfed) give a default one time use of escape between 15-25 seconds from getting hooked timer pauses during chase.

Slugging is kind of an odd one maybe a 10% conversion of recovery to wiggle or after a certain amount of time you can recover from the dying state say 2-3 minutes just an idea or could be changed into a percentage of your remaining bleed out time. This would also only be able to be used once per match maybe something along those lines.


For gen rushing I have a few suggestions besides (git gud) ;)

I think gen regression is poor atm I'm not familiar with the numbers but I could see an increase in regression speed when kicked and/or an instant regression to gen completion when kicked.

Heck I'd be okay with at the start of the match 1-2 generators are blocked for say 60 seconds and is shown to the killer.

There's probably a few more things I would like to hear your guys' opinions