DS Changes Are Great.
This change to DS is absolutely needed for the overall health of the game. Before DS ever existed, Survivors had no trouble surviving and winning matches despite Nurse being in the game AND having 3 blinks at the time.
At the point we are at now, Survivors have so many options, but the stats show the proof. Most people still used DS and relied too heavily on it. On top of being essentially uncounterable by the Killer (no, perks that make the skill check harder are NOT counters) it was extremely annoying to deal with.
Now, the survivors have a stipulation before hand and a consequence for using DS, something players seem to be uncomfortable with. They essentially wanted a FREE escape. That's what this boggles down to, several low skill players are losing their free escape and it is just too much for them.
DS can also be directly countered by camping now, which is easily countered by a genrush. The new Obssession changes are also interesting. These changes now forced survivors once more to actually use their brains to play the game.
Fun fact: when the game originally came out, I almost became a Killer player. I became a 10% Killer player after DS was implemented. I had never felt cheated or that the game was unfair until DS was added to the game as a Killer. There is 0 reason, 0 REASON AT ALL, for a player to EARN something through gameplay (in this case a down) only to have the RIPPED away by a bullshit perk that takes 0 skill to use and provides all the benefit in the world.
To all the players that will uninstall this game because of this, honestly? If you stoop that low, good riddance.
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Actually...Now I assumed that the new DS will be amazing with unbreakable.
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DS definitely needed change, but I dont know whether the current suggestion is the right approach.
Enduring will become necessary, it will be included in any killer build just like ruin and BBQ i guess.
Also 60 seconds is an absurdly long time, that has nothing to do with "anti tunnel" anymore. Also dont underestimate the fact that a killer doesnt know whether the survivor has DS and that you cant dribble to hook anymore / no non-obsession DS anymore.
if you ask me, slugging will increase by a lot (always hated by survivors), camping downed survivors and all that stuff.
I really dont know whether this is the right approach, I wish the devs would ahve completely reworked the perk and came up with something totally new
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Its killing the toxic fanbase0
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What is the consequence for using DS you mention?
Becoming the obsession isn't a consequence unless the killer is running Rancor.
Dying light too but thats been nerfed into the ground in this update.
Hell you could argue its better to become the obsession if the killer is using remember me.
Same for STBFL and PWYF, it's better to be the obsession than not.
Not trying to disagree with the rest of your points, I just don't see a consequence unless the killer is running their own obsession perk, and even then it's only really 1 of them.0
