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Making Repressed Alliance a much better perk.

Spirit_IsTheBest
Spirit_IsTheBest Member Posts: 1,115
in General Discussions

I love running repressed alliance because gen-kicking perks are quite common and it does help out a good amount. I do believe that it is a very underrated perk and no one seems to run it often, they pretty much rather run Blast Mine instead to prevent regression but all it does is stall time rather then fully prevent any regression.

I really wanted a change like this for a long time, give blast mine a "Unblock Generator" action when its active. Which allows you to unblock the gen with a press of the button when its active on the gen, so you have two options to get good use.

What the uses you may think, here they are below:

  • Keep it active for the 30 seconds, so the killer can't regress generators with Pop goes the weasel, overcharge, call of brine.
  • Or, when a killer is about to use a perk like Pain Res when hooking someone, you can block it, unblock it yourself right after without waiting the 30 seconds, and continue with no regression to the generator added.

Activation requirement currently 45 seconds, with this new effect I think a slight change to maybe 50-55 seconds would balance it out since the new effect can counter regression a lot.

Comments

  • Skitten56
    Skitten56 Member Posts: 560

    A Repressed Alliance buff would be very nice for survivors given the Pain Res Pop meta we seem to be in atm. These are of course healthy regression perks that reward hooking but they can be very brutal and it would be nice for survivors to have a decent counter to it if they want to bring it.

  • ChaosWam
    ChaosWam Member Posts: 2,087

    Second option is way too broken in my opinion. Sure you can dodge Pain Res, but you can also dodge every other regression and then undo it and pick it right back up. A full SWF would be able to call out downs so their friends can block/unblock gens for jolt/eruption.

    Personally I like the perk the way it is right now. I use it as a distraction since the killer can see when the gen is blocked and most of the time they come and investigate. Paired with wiretap it becomes a great looping tool at shack or other good tiles with a gen.

  • crogers271
    crogers271 Member Posts: 3,262

    Dodging pain res would be too strong and incredibly frustrating for the killer. I could see an option for the user to turn it off, but don't think it would make a huge difference.