Why were item addons changed?

i mean, some very specific addons might change killers playstyle. just that is just the same with survivors. and even with these addons the essential goal of the game is the same, kill or survive.

and to fully max out a survivor compared to a killer your barely looking at 10 or so levels difference. so theres not really much of a change there.

essentially it just puts survivors in line with killers regarding addons and its a change for the better imo.

Well I mean you could ask the same questions for killers:

Should a killer be punished when they meet the kill/survive ratio the devs are aiming for? In other words should a killer be punished if they sacrificed 2 survivors? Or maybe end up 4k’ing, it’s open for discussion but you get the point.

Does the fact that a killers playstyle changes depending on the add ons really matter? Besides, you could also argue that depending on the item a survivor is carrying they would change their playstyle accordingly. If you got a toolbox, you would rather sit on gens. If you got a flashlight, you wouldn’t mind a chase etc.

As for the bigger variety of add ons and items compared to killers, you could argue that killers have a lot more different add ons than survivors have considering there’s an awful lot of different killers.

Personally I didn’t mind the change whenever I play survivor but honestly I didn’t care too much about the situation before the changes whenever I played killer either so yeah.

You were talking about bringing things in line. And I guess we should bring all those things in line. Like, a good Survivor game is a mediocre Killer game. When I play Killer, I rarely get below 25k BPs, this is a more than solid Survivor game. Now with BBQ this is 50k BPs. This is around a P3-50 Bloodweb.

And those are sooo much easier on Killers. Like, my latest Trapper Bloodweb: 3 Stitched Bag, one Trapper Bag, 1 Trapper Sack. The best Add Ons for Trapper, five of them. Also 2 Tar Bottles, 1 Honing Stone and an Ebony Mori. Pretty solid for one Bloodweb, I would say.

And now compare that to Low Amp Filaments or Self Adherent Wraps - I get like 1 of each every 3 Bloodwebs. So we should change that as well - you know, to bring things in line.

I am totally fine with Killers getting more BPs. Because they lose their Add Ons every game, and this was the common answer when someone asked why Survivors get less BPs. But this is gone now.

An escape is basically not worth anything. Hell, if you use a White Ward it is even better to die than to escape, because you will lose your Add Ons when escaping. I did not care about escaping anyway, but now it does not feel like anything special, because I might lose my Add-Ons which I maybe did not even use during the game.

This is an overall stupid change which was not thought about.

Also:

"you say the gains are no where near to BBQ, i dont understand this as they both increase the bp by 100% when fully maxed?"

Getting 4 Stacks for WGLF is more difficult than getting 4 Stacks for BBQ. For BBQ-Stacks you literally only have to play the game, for WGLF-Stacks you have to go out of your way and either get many Unhooks (something you compete with other Survivors with) or tank Protection Hits which are not necessary most of the time.

I dunno.

I don't really care about add-ons when I play Survivor though. I usually don't even take an item because he feels kind of mean.

Common sense..it is more fair..and before you say something about survivors having more items etc etc, One survivor maxed is all you need..compare that to all the killers and then..you see overall killers have a WAAAAYY bigger bp investment required to keep multiple killers with addons, plus killers sans addons lose most of their potential, meanwhile I only bring items for challanges as they can be farmed in game for free, arnt even necessary, and are reusable even if the addons arnt..

So by that logic at best it evens out

Walks into match as survivor.

Walks to chest.

Opens chest.

Finds purple medkit.

" BUT KULLURS DONT HAVR TO SPEND AS MUCH ON STUUUUFF"

Edit: Dangit sorry person i quoted the wrong guy and dont know how to fix it. Still might apply tho

Considering most survivors have 50+ of every addon at this point on their main, why is this a big deal? It gave Ace in the Hole a purpose beyond farming and even now you can just run a treasure hunting build for free addons if you escape, which in a worst case scenario is equivalent to 6000 to 9000 bps.

Survivors dont really need items to compete in the current meta, killers need their addons.

Additionally survivors might plunder chest to gain a free item of random rarity each trial. If theyre running a perk, it also has up to two addons attached, of different rarities. You may find something worth 12k bloodpoints or higher in a chest.

If you play both sides then you wouldn't sound like a survivor main. Killers do not get to keep their addons if they kill a survivor, but survivors got to keep their addons if they escaped. How is that fair?

Why do killers lose their add-ons despite 3k'ing or 4k'ing? So that they can't bring the strong stuff every match.

I guess the line of thought why survivors are now losing their add-ons is similar here. 🤷

And hey, if you want to keep the batteries on the purple flashlight, bring Ace in the Hole. It now allows you to keep add-ons after escaping.

It Is NOT hard to get stacks for WGLF. Just run BT or stop rushing unhooks.

Im sure it has already been pointed out to you, but you’re clearly incorrect.

BT and Synringe can change how a survivor plays. Or the hits they can take. Nothing changes the fact that killers need to kill. Or survivors need to escape.

I think It sucks you lose them but it aligns with the killers. And no addons change the main objective.

The first reply pretty much nailed it. Just a face-saving nerf in order to have a "take" for the "give" (even though the whole idea of items being consumed because you didn't simply stop at 99% use was really silly and this should have just been a QOL change...).