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The "must have" perk for survivors
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Prove Thyself/Leader
Woah wait, am I the only one using Prove Thyself ? Coupled with Bond this perk is perfect if you want to gen rush
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Other (comment yours)
or if you want ez 8K points :D
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Self Care/Inner Strenght
Selfcare and Iron Will
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DS
I need DS regardless of what build I’m runningDS is the perk that never leaves my build, the tunneling and camping is insane on PS4
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Other (comment yours)
No Mither, what else?
For real, I think Leader is one of the best surivor perks.
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DS
Decisive Strike.
Why?
Pretty simple. It doesnt matter if it got its use every game. Sometimes you dont know if the killer didnt tunneled you because he thought you have it. What it does is making sure that after you got unhooked you have a realistic chance to escape/chase the killer or waste enough time to punish such gameplay. Being dead on hook or already dead is a big deal and DS is making sure once that the killer just skip a whole chase like with a mori by just going for a tunnel to skip a chase. The cheap way to buy map pressure in exchange for your fun in this game. It's the "oldest problem" as survivor, gettin camped and tunneled and back in the days there was no way to help you out or punish the killer for doing so.
My perk build is: DS, Unbreakable, Inner Strenght
every perk works together but also for its alone. But Iam sure that when I get carried to the basement that the killer dont have to believe he can easy tunnel the blood out of my body. He still has to earn it or give up about 60 seconds.
So yea in my opinion it's THE survivor perk and everytime I see someone getting tunneled, not using ds im like "Yea if you had run DS you wouldnt feel screwed right now"
And it's also a breath for the team. If I see someone using DS i am like "thank god we're not dying like flies" and sometimes it feels so relieving seeing the entity spikes switching. Like when the killer is escalating and the whole team is about dying by camping, tunneling and slugging as smart as possible^^
In short: It's DS.
Borrowed Time is also very good, but yea for many complicated reasons (solo queue) im not running it that often anymore. Even it's technically better than DS.
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Other (comment yours)
It changed a lot for me over my time of playing.
When I first got into the game, it was Urban evasion, then it became Self Care for a while followed by Spine chill and then lastly dead hard and decisive.
As of now I don't really have any must have perks as I'm making different builds with survivors so I can just play what I feel like in the moment. I have a head-on build with dwight, an immersive build with claudete and the meta build with david. I plan to do a healing build with someone, a bl build with meg and a sabo build with jake. Not sure on other builds yet. Maybe a no mither build on someone would be interesting.
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Other (comment yours)
Adrenaline
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Other (comment yours)
None for me. I tend to use Dead Hard, Borrowed Time, and sometimes Self-Care, lately DS too because of those dang tunnelers.
However, none of them are a must have for me. I tend to flex between matches and change my strategy every now and then. It'd be boring for me to use the exact same loadout with every survivor in every game. So while there are some good ones that I really like to use (BT, DH), you'll usually find myself using other perks just as much, like Bond, Unbreakable, Small Game, Iron Will, Breakdown, etc.
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Other (comment yours)
Alert is my favourite Perk. The amount of information it gives me, as a solo player, is insane. Also Small Game...
But I know they are not for everyone. lol
@Michael_Myers Pharmacy is better than Self Care. Any healing perk is better than Self Care now, after the heal changes. Honestly I can't understand why anyone would even run Self Care these days.
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Other (comment yours)
Spine chill
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Self Care/Inner Strenght
My next pick would be urban cuz I like to crouch fast
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Sprint Burst/Balanced Lnding/Lithe
Do you know if fixated goes faster than urban?
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Borrowed Time
Pretty much a tie with DS though.
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Borrowed Time
I say BT. DS is probably a close second, but you need to be downed again fast to get use out of it, and that's not guaranteed. BT works similarly and with more success, IMO. If everyone ran it, it would be something of a mini-DS.
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Borrowed Time
I usually find myself unhooking a survivor with the killer nearby, so I usually always use Borrowed Time when I have it. Otherwise I'll use Lithe.
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Self Care/Inner Strenght
Yes, and I said crouch. Sometimes the object between you and the killer is too short to stand behind.
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Dead Hard
I mean it is just an over glorified meme perk, it’d only be useful if it could be used by itself without Q&Q. Also if it’s 3 second countdown started when you start entering into a locker instead of after the animation finishes. Also the fact that it leaves you exhausted makes it utterly worthless against exhaustion addons and makes it suck compared to every other exhaustion perk. The perk should be a 40 second cooldown perk, not exhaustion based.
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Other (comment yours)
While I usually play solo and do use prove thyself in a lot of my builds for easy objective points, I have actually found myself using Better Together a lot with it. Instead of me having to find people to work on gens with, they can see where I am instead. I also see where people are in relation to someone who has just gone down so I can gauge whether I need to run for the save or continue working on at the gen I’d already been on.
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empathy and bond. I like to be aware of what my fellow survivors are doing. It helps me to know if I should go for the save. It helps me find gens and it also shows me where I should not run if I'm being chased. I can avoid the other survivors, so they can be doing more useful things.
It has also shown me at times when another survivor is bringing the killer straight to me! Ha. :)
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Other (comment yours)
WGLF
Because cheesy BP grind
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Other (comment yours)
Spine Chill. It denies stealth killers and is one of the most reliable perks for stealthy survivors. It's an addictive perk though, since if you unequip it you'll be caught off guard a lot of the time.
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Other (comment yours)
Premonition. A head start in a foot race with someone that is faster than you. My Spirit counter.
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Other (comment yours)
Woa... how is Alert not up there?!?
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Other (comment yours)
Iron Will ftw
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Self Care/Inner Strenght
If I down you, because one of your teammates did a very stupid unsafe unhook, and I then face a ds on you, that is pretty much the point where I will tunnel you out of the match for it. ^^
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DS
You would do that anyway :)
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