Take advantage of Sprint Burst's bug to rethink it

Chatkovski
Chatkovski Member Posts: 309
edited July 2019 in Feedback and Suggestions

I think it's useless to talk about the current bug of Sprint Burst, I propose to start with several observations about this perk.

  • Except bug, Lithe and Balanced Landing seem more popular than Sprint Burst
  • This preference can be explained by the weak activation conditions of Lithe and Balanced Landing, which are advantages compared to Sprint Burst activation condition (except bug, obviously).
  • The bug originates from the activation condition of Sprint Burst.
  • We have every reason to rethink Sprint Burst.


Lithe and Balanced Landing are thought to be useful perks when the survivor already has the killer chasing him. I propose an early escape (or not) version for Sprint Burst :


When you are standing within the Killer's Terror Radius and standing within a range of X meters of a generator, when starting to run (or not, maybe ?), break into a sprint at 150 % your normal running speed for a maximum of 3 seconds.

Causes the Exhausted Status Effect for 60/50/40 seconds.

Sprint Burst cannot be used while Exhausted.

You do not recover from Exhaustion while running.


Advantages :

  • Sprint Burst no longer has a punitive activation condition forcing the survivor to walk to keep Sprint Burst, or running to block the recovery of Exhaustion.
  • Allow a potential synergy if associated with the Poised perk (Jane), but under the additional condition of having completed the generator.


Disadvantages:

  • Sprint Burst only allows a bonus near the killer (AND a generator but he does not want to kill you).
  • I think that the necessary proximity to the generator is the balancing point: it must be small enough to be constraining, but big enough to allow a prior attempt to hide and seek around without losing the possibility of activation.

Comments

  • Milo
    Milo Member Posts: 7,383

    Wouldn't you sometimes just randomly become exhausted tho?