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[PTB Changes | Perks | Save the Best for Last]

This is gonna be a short post since i'll just be focusing on one of the perks in this update, but I believe half of the STBFL change is good, while the other half isn't.

First off, the nerf to it's stack cooldown reduction is perfect. STBFL was already good pre-universal m1 cooldown reduction, and the buff put it a little over the edge. Glad to see that talking about STBFL's cooldown numbers in comparison to pre-patch may have done something.

However, the new stack loss condition is too much. Trapper traps will take it away, perks like Plot Twist or For the People will take it away, too much takes away stacks while also being out of your control. In order for it to be useful on anyone except a killer like wraith, which in my eyes defeats the purpose of using this perk, it would need a new effect. This change would also not solve the issue with tunneling, since if you hook a non-obsession, and then the obsession comes to unhook, you're incentivized to hit the survivor off of hook and tunnel them for more stacks, instead of the unhooker in this case.

I think the simplest solution to solve STBFL's issue with tunneling off hook, which is the only major issue i remember, is to add something along these lines while reverting the stack loss change:

"When you hook a survivor that is not the obsession, they become the obsession."

Now the perk ceases to function if you tunnel, and encourages more healthy gameplay in return. it also transforms perks such as PWYF into anti-tunneling perks as well, since you could chase off an obsession that was just unhooked, and then have a speedboost for chasing someone you havent hooked yet.