Last Standing is the real issue
Reading through the announcement it comes across like they had to implement a base-kit UB due to the mori changes. Combatting slugging as a tactic is just a secondary effect.
What I don’t understand though is why the whole “last standing” element is so unnecessarily complicated. Literally just activate it when all other survivors are dead or have escaped and only one remains. The fact it activates when someone is hooked and struggling and then deactivates if they’re rescued is just weird. The fact it activates when survivors are slugged is also weird and has now led to all this nonsense and all the arguments about base-kit UB. This is bad game design, pure and simple. If survivors get in a situation where all four are slugged, a majority of the time I’m not blaming the killer. Somewhere along the way some seriously bad decisions have been made.
Literally all that had to be done was when one survivor remains alive in the trial, the last standing mode activates. The other three survivors either have to be sacrificed or have escaped. Hooked or slugged doesn’t contribute to this. Because whilst mass slugging is annoying to face, it is rare enough where it shouldn’t be considered that much of an issue to necessitate bringing in unlimited UB. Whereas with these mori changes the devs have actually created more problems they have to now solve with problematic solutions.
However to appease survivors, to keep it fair, base-kit UB can still be a thing, but it should be one time use. Maybe after 45 seconds or slightly longer. But that’s it. Seriously, why is this so hard? Just like the perk update some of these ideas are just ridiculously convoluted and cause more problems than benefits (in most cases zero benefits).
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I don't see your problem.
Basekit UB will ALWAYS work, regardless of last standing.
Meanwhile, last standing counts different situations, not just "everyone except one is slugged/hooked/dead". One survivor can be dead, the other can be slugged, other can be hooked and the fourth one is last standing and if he goes down, the match is forced to end.
Last standing is just a fancy way of describing "when there's no survivor left standing, the match is forced to end".
And because of how it works, basekit unlimited UB is justified, as killer's win condition now is not to hook all 4 survivors, but to just get them on the ground. And once that happens there's literally nothing that would come in clutch. Plus, in a way this buffed slugging killers who rely on slugging a lot of survivors quickly like Nurse, Oni or Plague, because now there's no way survivors can self-pickup earlier than 45 seconds. So killers now have a 45 seconds window to get everyone on the ground to instantly win the match. It is more than achievable for killers like Oni or starstruck Nurse, especially if they do it in mid/late game after getting one guy out of the match.
I still think this update is rather dumb, because it essentially took moris from killers, because "dumb BHVR reasoning", while survivors got a very major gameplay change.
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It is easy to imagine that the developers were inspired by Ada's Low Profile and would have come up with this idea in a conference room.
It's infuriating to contemplate.
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I mean, that is my problem. Last standing activates in too many scenarios. And how they have designed it has led to a need to implement an unlimited base-kit UB. That is literally my issue and my opinion is this is poor design.
We can have a separate discussion on whether that’s a good thing due to slugging as a tactic in general, but having to implement it due to a new feature is bad game design IMO. The fact they are currently happy for it to stack with UB in its current form is also ludicrous.
Last standing should not activate whilst survivors are technically still alive in the trial is my point. Hooked survivors are not dead. Neither are slugged survivors. One or multiple of those survivors could have brought the current version of UB. Another survivor could have deliverance, the hooked survivor could use it or 4%. The slugged survivors could be away from hooks, someone could wiggle off etc etc. There are too many variables and scenarios in the game which mean the activation of last standing should be limited. At which point the need for an unlimited free unbreakable is also gone.
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Last Standing should be the condition that activates basekit Unbreakable, not the other way around:
The Mori changes mean that killers are now incentivised to down every survivor, which will only lead to more "slugging for 4K", as it's the only way to secure your bonus for playing a Mori offering.
But if survivors could get themselves up only when every survivor is down, then it would prevent obnoxious slugging rather than encouraging it.
Once again, BHVR's anti-X measures are having the opposite effect.
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What? Low profile was most likely made with this change in mind...
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