Let's discuss about Bubba's "Knock Out"
It would be a somewhat decent perk, killers now pretty often are forced to slug to apply pressure and prevent gen repair. Also it allows you down potential DS player and not worry about quick healing. Buuut there are so many conditions:
- Survivors shouldn't have Aura-reading perks hardly countering that perk
- Survivors can just stand up with Unbreakable which is now a very popular perk for reason
- Other Survivors can be just very close to you or they can see you from a far distance on open maps
And this perk hurts only and ONLY SOLO PLAYERS. If it is SWF team - the worth of Knock Out is completely trivialized. They just say each other: "I am here, in the killer shack".
Knock Out is a perk becoming useless by comms. Like, why do there exist mechanics (the blindness SE also) being ruined by speaking? How would you buff/rework it?
Comments
-
Leave Knockout as it is. It is kinda solid to slug people, when they are Solo and does not need a Buff. If they are on SWF - unlucky, but exactly nothing can be done then.
Buffing Knockout in any way would only hurt Solo Survivors. Sure, you can think about something like increased Recovery Time (to be a Counter to the faster Recovery by Unbreakable), but this would be bad game design, since it is "Pressing M1, even longer" again, which is the most unfun thing a Survivor can do.
1 -
Most survivors play as a 2 or more swf. I've said what I've said.
1 -
An assumption will not change my statement at all.
1 -
I think for one that knock out should have the same function as Buckle Up, allowing the killer to see how far recovered a survivor is by their aura
2 -
It should, you cant just say that 50% of the playerbase does not exist.
And killer doesnt even know if he is playing against SWF
0 -
Needs a little extra something imo.
Turns out the definition of Knock Out in dbd is just that you don't turn bright red.
As a 'knocked out' survivor you can still crawl around....they should change that. But I know I know it wouldn't be fun for survivors..
0 -
I agree that Killer perks should not be trumped by Survivor perks because of the asymmetrical nature of the game, Knock Out just like I'm All Ears and others.
I would not buff it any other way to be honest, it's a decent perk for slugging and buffing anything that punishes solos will only make the gap between solos and SWF harder to close.
0 -
Give it something like Wake Up or Snap Out of It mechanic before you can recover. XD
0
