Lightborn change idea
Lightborn is without a doubt the best perk that counters flashlight abusers, but because of his situational construction never be a meta perk. So here's my proposition, what if lightborn would additionally blind survivors that were trying to flashlight the killer. It would have strengthened the perk without making it op.
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This would make the perk even more hilarious when it works so I say yes to this buff.
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Never gonna happen. It would make the game “unfun” for survivors.
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Part of the strength of the perk is that survivors don't realize immediately you have it and they get stubborn trying. I feel like the suggested change would effectively work as a nerf in practice.
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It would be too strong. Survivors have to take a huge risk of getting close to the killer, getting blinded in return for trying to rescue a teammate will just get them killed. The perk is fine as it is.
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There are better perks that make the game even less fun for survivors so I think they would bear it somehow :>
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It's true in some cases even after many tries they don't realize that the killer has lightborn but still especially in high mmr games they know it almost immediately, so the blind would confuse them.
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Yes, let’s make an already busted perk even more powerful.
This perk needs a nerf. 🙄
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I’ve always wanted that tbh. It’s still a niche perk but way more funny
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Starstruck also punishes the survivors that are near the killer, so i think it would fit to the game construction. After all, you described it as taking a huge risk.
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...This is bait, right?
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So you tape a mirror to your face.
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Now equip Star Struck with a Lightborn that blinds survivors and it would be even more powerful, which would just increase the current meta of rushing gens even faster rather than wasting time to save teammates.
I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t want faster games.
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Well, all it does is make the survivor's flashlights useless. If that is busted then franklin demise is a god-tier perk, and don't get me wrong franking demise is hella strong but items are always just a supporting measure for survivors nothing more...well maybe not keys.
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Well, actually flashlight saves make the game faster since the killer lose momentum. I doubt that this perk would make survivors speedrun the game.
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Tell me you only play survivor without telling me you only play survivor.
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I don’t, but go on.
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Then explain how Lightborn is OP and needs a nerf when it is as niche as a niche perk can get.
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wat
how is it
All it needs in regards to the survivor side is an indicator, like Coulrophopobia or Unnerving Presence give. Other than that, it's completely fine. Nowhere near busted. It's practically a waste of a perk slot.
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This at the very minimum. It provides no feedback to a survivor trying to use an item for its intended purpose, while also rendering the item and its add-ons 100% useless (which could cost a survivor up to 18,000 BP to run). On top of that, it punishes them for doing so. I would be hard pressed to find any other interaction between perks and items in the game. Even as powerful as Franklin’s is, it has counterplay. This is just ‘Hee hee flashlight bad, my perk hard stops it all match’.
TLDR: It’s a perk with no feedback or counterplay.
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Killers can look at objects that block flashlights from hitting them, not even hard to do.
With lightborn it just lets you have more freedom with picking up or not being blinded at pallets.
So really it's not busted at all.
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Not if the killer is competent and knows to look out for the flashlight rescuer. It’s better to have two people off of gens than three on gens. You slug one, chase the other and hopefully the third comes to pick up the slug.
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the cost is not the problem of flashlights (the entire levelup system is shitfest), the perk is fine tho, it's very niche but does its job well
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While I think feedback is necessary, I don't think the perk is 'overpowered' in any sense. Any good killer will just stare at a wall or bait the flashlight out. And if you're using it to blind at pallets, well, why? You lose distance, and good killers will still track you with footsteps.
It's a bit of a training wheels perk, but I don't think that's bad. Not every perk really has counterplay. Iron Will has no counterplay, other than visuals. Which you could say is exactly the same for Lightborn. If you can't blind the killer, they have Lightborn. Stop trying to blind them. Boom, counterplay.
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