Why doesn’t infectious fright have a cool down?

Lul.

But ruin is good

Because to make it activate you would have to down a survivor.

A vast majority of The Killers cannot just down survivor after survivor efficiently enough to make good use of it.

Let me list after Killers that can

Nurse: provided they are a really good nurse and have a slug build.

T3 Myers: ignoring the fact then he'll have a time limit or be the second of survivors notice what's going on there make a massive attempt not to hang around.

Oni- time limit not only that but he get a penalty reduction in his blood Fury every time he downs a survivor.

Billy: literally the only killer that could do this reasonably well without having to be overly skilled. But you would still have to rely on the survivors being potatoes.

Every other killers' downing potential is just too slow for them to make an effective use of it

Same with thrilling tremors and surge. If the survivor are going down that much, then they should suffer the consequences.

Originally Infectious Fright had another stipulation/condition for activating it:

"Put a survivor into the dying state with a Basic Attack."

On paper this sounded like a decent limitation, but in practice, especially when considering the other Conditions of the perk (TR, Survivors nearby), this was an excessive condition that meant killers with damaging powers (e.g. Huntress, Hillbilly, Oni, Plague, Demogorgon, etc.) would hardly ever see it activate for them, which made the perk far less universally useful to killers. On Stealth killers, or killers with a low TR, it's still not as useful as other perks, but on all other killers it's a godsend of information so they can either Chain downing survivors, or know when another survivor is going to flashlight blind them, or nearby waiting to Sabo a hook. When the perk was originally tested in the PTB it reavealed the aura's of all survivors within the TR when a survivor went down to a basic attack, but this apparently made Shape broken as hell.

In its current iteration it's both more balanced, while being universally useful to most killers than its initial testing proved to be.

Now if only they could remove that stupid "Put a survivor in the dying state with a Basic Attack" requirement from Surge... It didn't work for Infectious Fright, and it Ain't working for Surge either.

Or maybe what's where the key is. They should add the cooldown when you put a survivor into a dying state from uninjured only

That would just restrict it even more to instant downs only: Shape, Billy, LF, Oni, Haunted Grounds, Devour Hope, Make Your Choice, Iri Hatchets, Readhead Pinky Fingers. Not all Killers have instant downs built in, and those who have add-ons for it are viewed with great ire amongst the survivor community for using them. As for Perks that allow it, they all have small windows in which it can be used save for Devour Hope, unless Survivors never find it. Making Surge, which already has a 32 meter range from the downed survivor restriction, and a 40 second cooldown between activation's, only activate on instant downs, would make it even less accessible/universally useful to all killers than it currently is. Plus, with the aforementioned restrictions already in place, and its small rewards, it hardly seems worth it.

Currently Surge has 3 conditions for activation: Down with Basic attack, Down with a gen within 32 meters distance from the downed survivor, and a 40 second cooldown. If just one of those things isn't done correctly, the perk doesn't activate or affect anything, and with so many conditions to use it for such a meager reward of 8% damage and it gets the gen(s) regressing at the normal rate without you having to kick the gen yourself, it could do with 1 less restriction to make it more viable in my book.

Then insta downs only coming from killer abilities + addons /but not perks/ so it can target only very very specific killers that are problematic

Looks like a SWF who was crushed by Oni...

There should be some cooldowns not for all perks but some need it

Surge imo needs a cooldown to that of small game level only 10 - 20 seconds but it doesn't need its basic attack requirement (Same with knockout but that's a diff perk)

What perks need is their worth

Lets take Mindbreaker and gearhead for example the conditions required don't meet their worth

2 basic attacks and a good skill check to see the gen their working on. And gens being under 50% for surrvivors to be exhausted for 5 seconds (I'm pretty sure the pause exhaustion part is avaliable whenever however.)

If it's gonna have a cooldown or condition it needs it's value

You make gearhead trigger on any 1 attack and any skillcheck.

And you gave Mindbreaker either something to do while over 50% like pause the exhaustion for 10 seconds after leaving and list that exhaustion is being paused anytime a surv touches a gen regardless of progression

Perks get value

All perks need a bang for their bloodpoints

Not everything needs a cooldown but perks even having 0 cooldown can still suck (looking at you overcharge your just a alt doc abilty and that's it)

I like infectious fright but a cooldown would make sense to balance the perk around Billy & Nurse, who can do a real massacre compared to other killers.

I don't mind if the perk dosent change at all tbh.

"Survivors choosing to stay in the terror radius of a Killer with Infectious Fright."

No disrespect meant but a lot of the time it can't be helped. Too many times I've been outside a Killer's Terror Radius only to have a teammate BARELY bring the Killer into range of me and there's nothing I can do about it.

Then there's at the start of the match when no one knows. The fact that one perk can end a match in under four minutes is a little bit busted. Sure it's Killer dependent, but on instant down Killers, as well as Killers capable of ignoring looping mechanics, there's really not much you can do.

If it could be no cooldown on basic attacks and like a 20-30 second cooldown on Killer powers then I feel like that would be acceptable.

To add to the above post, a similar perk, Surge, has a 30 second cooldown. It grants information within 32 meters of every generator currently being worked on on a basic attack down.

Considering the idea that the devs seem to be intent on streamlining and normalizing everything it would make sense that perks of similar stature follow suit with one another.

Add cooldown for corn and swamp maps.

Thank you for offering such wonderful insight...🙄