On break, thought about the game, realised that he past proves balancing bias towards survivors.

Now, this is just my opinion so feel free to chew me out because it differs from yours.

So i am on a break now the event has ended and i couldn't handle my frustration as either killer, survivor or swf player, mainly because i don't go meta builds and therefore get curb stomped most of the time.

While i was kinda reflecting on how i enjoyed the game for these four years i thought about a certain thing that made me wonder why nobody uses it as an example for the bias towards survivors. The solution to the slugging meta.

Let me explain, the reason the slugging meta came to be was because there was a saboteur meta on the survivors side, i'm sure most of us remember the old days were you'd down someone, pick them up and see... no hooks for almost three minutes. Then you remembered that the lobby was 4 Jakes with toolboxes [R.I.P if you were trapper btw] and so, you decided to just let them lay there and think about what they'd done, why give them a free struggle when they actively went out of their way to give themselves up to 3 minutes of hooking immunity?

And as history goes, survivors were quite vocal about this and like this forum proves, they ######### and moan about it and when a killer speaks their side you are 'entitled' this also goes vice versa but most of the time killers keep their mouth shut [in my opinion, rip and tear into me boys] but there were a good amount of them that explained why and how.

so Behaviour listened to both sides, went to work and made... Unbreakable, No Mither, flip-flop and a couple more ways to deal with those pesky sluggers while keeping their hands of the sabo meta. Killers said that they felt powerless because there were no hooks and these guys could just get up on their own or get their wiggle a good chunk by being slugged and that is without a person coming to pick them up or putting a [as back in the day] insta heal/enduring bottle [name slips by me] on them.

So behaviour took another look, saw the problem and made... knockout and a fuckton of blindness stuff. You know, the most useless effect unless everyone isn't paying attention to where sounds came from.

Now i'm not saying they weren't trying but the best solution to this sabo meta and what ultimatily forced it to evolve into a niche build that is fun [in my opinion again] was the recent changes [as in, death slinger recent] to sabotaging a hook. The 30-45 seconds make it a much more 'in the moment' thing and promote taking risks on other survivors ends.

Slugging is now rooted into the game and while it isn't a meta rn neither was the sabo meta as it had died down by this point but these slug builds and mentality were born from survivors quite literally sabotaging a killer's objective. I am personally amused when i see survivors complain about it or when i see killers defend it. Both are wrong, it is a necessity because it was made to be, the game became balanced around someone being slugged, someone being in chase, somoen being on hook and one going to help either of the three. Sadly balancing the game this way has allowed the 'gen rush' as some may call it as in most games, there will only be one chase while three are one gens.

But perhaps i am just being nostalgic to the days were you entered a round and went "######### off, it's a mori" or Pling Pling Pling Pling "######### Jakes" Or the times that hatch did feel clutch as you tricked the killer into hitting you so you got the jump without being grabbed or you faked the survivor out and got that grab as he tried to get it.