Re: The Vile Purge in its current state

xiozen · May 2019

The story/lore created for this killer is AWESOME. Its an enjoyable read and great story--thank you!

Now to discuss the current state of the Vile Purge power.

As I have spent much of my time with this killer (who I love btw--kudos)... I would like to know if it would be possible to consider adding an additional side effect to vile purge.

I know it was previously discussed adding a hindered effect to the vile purge but, if I remember correctly, was discouraged for obvious reasons... as of now, what I generally have experienced is that survivors would rather gen-rush while fully under the effects of the vile purge (broken status).

If survivors refuse to cleanse the purge effect; doesn't it mean that the effect of the corrupt purge is completely taken out of play? Was that the intention? I believe that under the current state, if all pools are used for cleansing, it is only under those conditions that the corrupt purge becomes automatically applied to the killer.

I guess the question is: Does survivors experience any "fear" of the vile purge or is it simply a moment of "oh well, I've been infected so what, I'll continue to gen-rush as broken... while still being able to loop the killer."

I suggest adding one additional detrimental effect to the vile purge to make it "undesirable" because the "broken status" isn't sufficient. Perhaps, broken and blindness. Survivors can still loop at their normal speed; but will have the blindness status effect applied which provides some form of limitation and undesirability along with being broken.

Please consider this as an option to the base power without the need to rely on add-ons.

Shad03 · May 2019

Unfortunately, it's not gonna happen kiddo.

Sorry, but I doubt they either don't have the time/don't want to buff killers like the Plague. Maybe two or three years from now, but they do have Freddy to look at. And with what happened with Legion, I'm sorta afraid what they have planned for our Sleep Boi.