Did they lie about Low Profile changes?
In the Developer Update posted on August 23rd they said this under "Post PTB changes" for Low Profile:
Low Profile: Low Profile hides your scratch marks and pools of blood when you become the last Survivor for 70/80/90 seconds. Unfortunately, this meant the perk would only activate once per match, and only if you happened to be the last Survivor standing. For the release, we have changed this to include any time you are the only Survivor who is not dying, hooked, or dead as well, allowing it to activate throughout the match. Additionally, Low Profile will also mask your grunt of pain in addition to its existing effects.
I agreed. Without this change it would be another unhelpful to the team, selfish planning for failure perk like Left Behind. But the spotlight trailer implies it works as it did before, as well as the description of the perk in the patch notes on steam, which I'll list here:
New Perk: Low Profile
- When you become the last Survivor standing, this perk activates. Hide your scratch marks, pools of blood, and grunts of pain for 70/80/90 seconds.
Is the word "standing" the key thing here? That is not clear. I don't yet own the DLC so I haven't used it yet. If it works the way they said they'd change it to work cool but the perk description needs to be as clear as the description of the change via the wording "any time you are the only Survivor who is not dying, hooked, or dead" instead of "last standing" which to me sounds like the other 3 survivors are dead, completely out of the game. "Last standing" as a saying isn't usually used that literally.
If anyone has used the current live game version of the perk and can confirm either way, please let me know in the replies.
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No they didn't so if you have 2 people down and one on hook it will activate and if you pick someone up and after the timer they go down it will activate again.
The only thing I don't know is if it stays active after you pick someone up
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It’s just one of those super situational perks that even when active still isn’t super effective
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Alright cool. Well personally I think the phrasing should be changed to better reflect that but that's good to hear.
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"last survivor standing" to me is the last survivor alive. This perk needs more clarity in its description.
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Agreed. "Last man standing" is never used literally, especially in video games. Imagine if you were playing Halo infection but the "LAST MAN STANDING" Audio clip didn't play when you were the only human left because a ragdoll of another player was angled on a wall such that it was "still standing".
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