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Blindness Status Effect Buff
The idea would be to add that blindness affects the survivor HUD when applied. As it stands blindness is a mediocre effect and I think that applying it to the HUD would bring it up on par with the rest of the status effects in terms of usefulness.
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Blindness does need some changes but this is not a good idea. Allowing it to hide the survivor HUD goes against the entire point of the HUD as it was meant to help bring solo and SWF closer together in strength and this would just separate them again. The current version of Blindness already has that problem to a certain extent and adding this would just make it even worse.
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My own thought is more actual blindness. Like a reduction in FOV or a black border effect like when you're hit by Knock Out.
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You're missing the point of the survivor HUD. Discord SWF has the same info baseline. By removing it with blindness you only hit solo queue. This shouldnt be affected by anything. As far as the game balance is concerned,that info is always there.
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Am with the others on that one; this would defeat the entire point of the HUD.
Though I'm also with you: blindness probably needs some changes. Ever since the status effects are more than gimmicks (with the exception of exposed which has always been a serious one) blindness is the only gimmick-y one left.
I like the direction of the idea @Zeidoktor put forward. The knockout effect would also be rather easy to implement, I imagine.
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Yeah something alongside Knock Out/Dredge's darkness could work.
But going from the HUD idea, maybe it could also hide the progress bars for yourself? Although, again, that would mostly affect soloq :/
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It's a mediocre effect until you realize it affects survivor auras
It can be very powerful if you're slugging only because the survivors don't know where each other are, even in SWF it can cause confusion and frustration on comms
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I kinda miss the deafness effect knock out gave tho tbh, idk why they removed it or at least kept it as an option to have :(
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I believe when used in moderation or as a side-effect to what your doing, then yes it's pretty mediocre. However, if you actually make a genuine build and playstyle around it, then it can devastating to most survivors.
Remember that it blocks not just survivors from seeing their own auras, but also the killers as well if they have the perks for which they often do. Combine it perks or add-ons that make survivors oblivious, and they will have absolutely no idea what's happening.
Even a sfw will still have no idea where the killer is
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