Current Meta Should Change

Why nerf good things instead of buffing bad things?

If you nerf all the good things, them everything is bad

I agree. The meta is stale, but we need to be buffing useless perks and add-ons instead of nerfing the decent stuff.

I think the survivor meta is more stale than killer. Different killers all have different priorities for chase perks, info perks, slowdown perks, ect. Usually power plays heavily into that. Survivors pretty much just run second chance perks into second chance perks into second chance perks. They are so good especially stacked you don't see much else.

Your whole list looks like it'd make the game boring and perk choices matter less if not completely killing perks. Not a fan of any of them except maybe bamboozle because it'd be a buff for a somewhat questionable perk. You clearly didn't even look through the perk list because just turning adrenaline to worse hope is dumb. Like adrenaline isn't even oppressive for killer, it only activites once, does nothing if they don't end in time. I don't think you really thought any of these through.

Bamboozle looking like a buff, Ds change makes no sense it should just be something like working on gens makes it drain faster because 60 seconds of immortal objective time is too much. Pop goes the weasel should be token based if the regression amount is 15%. Noed is fine but really strong as some perks can be but its also fully counter able. Bt having limited use is alright but its really only strong for the unhooked to body block in the first place while the killer is around the punish camping/patroling nearby. Sloppy shouldn't have mangled wear off because thats the entire perk and removing 80% of its use healing after unhooking is a big Nerf on a decent perk the blood spurt is from high graphics settings if you don't like it change it to low. Nurses callling is fine because it usually has to be paired with another perk or a small terror raidus to get effective use. Spirit fury is fine where it is maybe instead of leveling it could be increased pallet stun by 50%/25%/0% instead of 4/3/2 pallets. Adrenaline is fine its just strong with swf. Urban is fine the crouching effects might be a good idea though its a perk that helps you hide which is a means to an end because hiding means you aren't doing anything productive. I agree that there is always room for changes but the ones you think should be implemented are a bit short sighted with no real balance or end goal in view.

First, no slow down for killer would just kill the few killer that still play, game are to fast at NOTHING force survivor to slow down.

The problem lie at the core of the game and perk honestly, on survivor side. Im not saying survivor are op, it more like that the way they perk work simply remove their weakness.

it take 400 second repairing all 5 gens if we assumne survivor have no toolbox and never hit a single great check.

it take 480 second for all 4 survivor to die on hook, the only way to speed up that process depend on survivor themself going for a save or not, and only one need to do the save.

add to this that chase are overall sided for survivor. and im not saying that because of god loop or anything, but 2 reasons.

1. it up to survivor to make mistake, as killer all you can do is mindgame and bait those mistake, see it like if it was a FPS. Survivor would be sniper camper. and killer would have a normal gun. All the killer could do is bait the survivor for them to miss a shoot, but if the survivor never miss it to bad for you. of course far from all survivor are god of mindgame, but you get the idea
2. You can only chase a single survivor at a time, meaning up to three other can be working on gens.

Now, add the fact that killer need to chase survivor and mindgame them on loop, if we assume that a short average chase (1 hit per loops, 2 loops + running from first loop to second one) Take around 25 second if loop are ended as fast as possible by killer on an average loop. Meaning it take 300 second to chase all survivors 3 times.

Doing survivor objectif take around 400 second and killer take a total of 780, but I will be fair and consider the killer can consider a 3k a win since last survivor will escape by hatch or could not do gen by himself. So we could say it take a minimum of 585 second for killer to kill 3 survivor and never chase or hook the last one. We assume walking around also take time for both side too.

Not only survivor have less time time to spend on objectifs to win, they can spend it in a maximum of fourth differant spot on the map while the killer can only be present at a single spot no matter what. The dev balanced this by making survivor rely on each other.

You need another survivor to unhook you, you need another survivor to heal you, you need another survivor to body block, flashlight save or sabotage hook if you get tunneled. in other words, you relly on your team.

Except survivor don't need their team.

Perk for survivor were designed in a way for solo survivor to survive even if they got mentaly disabled teamate, Im not gonna go in deep detail since this post already long, So I will just take healing for example. Don't want to rely on a teamate to heal? bring a medkit,self care or look for a medkit in chest. Congrats you now have made it so there 1 more person on gens in average. you don't waste time finding a survivor and they don't waste time walking with you and healing you in a hided spot. Let say you got off a hook, you can heal yourself now and the saver can go back to gens. if we assume the killer is in a chase, whitout you having the ability to heal yourself there would be only 1 survivor on gen, now there 2 and maybe 3 if you don't care about healing yourself, grats, you doubled you team time spent on gens.

With current perks that survivor can pick, the only thing you virtualy need a teamate for is unhooking, Being in the dead state isin't even dangerous anymore, you can pick yourself up.

Some may say these are nessesary for solo survivor, but I disagree. Survivoir Should rely on their team, They can't just have the advantage of a team whitout having the downside of it. Yea it suck when a teamate is bad, but that the risk of playing on the side that should work as a team. Look at Evolve, it was another 1v4 assymetrical game. What do you think happend when someone on the ''team side'' decided to go off on his own? he get brutally murdered and his team is punished for that. That how a team work, Win together or die together.

As for second chance perk, I will keep it simple, As I said before, Killer need survivor to make mistake to do anything, the simple fact survivor can negate their mistake is stupid. Not only that, it rob killer of their time when they already start with less.

In the current state of the game, it relly feel like the only reason killer can do anything is because of potatoe killer existing, and their friend beign extremly stupid trying to save them from dangerous situation, but still having chance of doing so since the fact they have so many second chance perk still gave them some chance to achieve their goal. killer only chance is the endgame unless survivor do dumb mistake early. 80% of the time the minimal time for first hook give survivor time to do 1 gens while around 2 other are probably over half.

Tell survivors to stop running the same meta build every time and try something new, like killers had to with the loss of Ruin. Maybe then we'll see some changes.

Force? Coerce? Persuade? Whatever term needs to be applied. The issue is that DS, DH, Adren, BT, and Unbreakable are meta. You will find at least two or three of those perks on nearly every build. I do, when it comes to purple/red rank survivors. There's no real exploration of other builds in high ranks. Killers build around it with gen slowdown and aura reading, and we're stuck in the limbo we've been in for months.

Maybe builds will change with the new map adjustments? Personally, I'd love to go against more survivors with stealth builds. Or even usage of the almighty pebble? Always get a chuckle when that's used on me.

Other then the obvious Nerfs to both sides which will make the game more stale. NoeD will he fine if the speed boost was removed.