Whats your guys thoughts of "the grind"?

I’m a killer main and I basically just do one or two bloodwebs per match and play with whatever I have available, that’s good enough for me. 🙂 Honestly 90% of winning the match is just being really, really good at chases and having a good sense of where the survivors are and what they’re doing. Good perks can certainly help but you can win without using any perks if you play well and lose using your favorite build if you’re doing badly so perks aren’t the driving factor of whether or not you win.

Also by using what the web gives versus grinding for specific things it encourages me to think outside the box a bit and figure out what might work well with the tools I have at hand. That’s also why I like to prestige characters as soon as they hit 50, it’s a fun chance to reset and try them again with a completely different initial path of builds.

We're gonna live forever should have another way to get stacks tbh. The perk itself already doesn't do anything (unlike BBQ&C which is really useful) and you will usually have to fight your teammates for unhooks if you're not immediately sprinting for your hooked teammate.

I find the grind tolerable if you're only playing 1 side and ridiculous if you're trying to level both to answer your question though. Perks you need for whacky builds are just spread across too many characters for how long it takes to level (Ex: quick and quiet + head on or lithe + dance with me + quick and quiet). Makes me kind of wish that characters' perks had better synergy with the rest of their perks.

It's too much to think about

What I'm doing:

Wait till I get max BP

Spend half

Then repeat

If I feel confident I'll level killers or survivors I don't have level 50

I decided not to prestige (seems like a waste of "my" time)

I LOVE the grind after spending 10's of millions just to get 5 lerys offerings for scratched Myers, it feels SO rewarding

I don't mind it all that much, it adds to the game's replayability. If it were too easy to max out characters then I'd have stopped playing long ago.

I have 3 survivors maxed out at prestige 3 (though I think I only have 1 now, I probably didn't bother unlocking the latest perks on the other two since I usually main Kate anyway) and I think I'm at around 12 killers fully maxed out, and working on 3 other ones (one is at prestige 2-50, but still has a few cakes and puddings left, and the other two are prestige 1-50, also with a few streamers or puddings to use before I prestige them again)

Challenges and dailies give a nice bloodpoint boost to make it less grindy and less repetitive as well with the different objectives you get from them.

I’ll be raising a glass to a similar p3 all perk story!

touché sir!

Yeah and someone calculated it half a year ago and he is 1,5 billion bp strong.

That is the amount of bp it takes (if I remember correctly) to get all characters to P3, level 50 with all perks.

Speaking generally, not necessarily directly to OP, if the only reason you're playing this game is because you feel compelled to finish leveling your characters, that's not really a grind problem, that's just addiction. I think most of us would agree that this game is fun even if you're not running a build with all of your favorite perks and rare items. Just enjoy the journey, guys.

The way I see it, the game would be less fun once you have all the perks and nobody else to level. Prestiging pushes you to try out new perk combinations, and I honestly love trying to make builds with good synergy out of the perks I happen to have on a character I'm leveling. It would be harder to justify doing that if I had all perks unlocked but I have a lot of fun with it.

Yeah, I guess it's all a perspective thing. I like messing around with wacky builds too and I do have one survivor with all of the perks I have unlocked just in case I want to try something out outside of KYF, but I find that my most varied builds come when I'm using perks I usually wouldn't just because I have nothing else. I've completely changed my opinion about perks like WoO and Aftercare that I had previously thought weren't very good, for example.

If this game were more competitive it'd be a real pain to have to grind just to keep up with everyone else's build, but as is I feel like perks aren't nearly as important as general skill and it's usually just fine to run random builds of whatever perks you have lying around.

The most frustrating part of it is that having the right perks is more important for new players. Someone with enough hours to have all the perks unlocked could run a meme build and do fine and have fun, but when you’re a rank 20 with no idea of how anything works, the right perks can make the game much more enjoyable for you. I’m happy to play without an exhaustion perk or without Corrupt on my Trapper because I’ve been playing for 2 years, but when I was brand new, Sprint Burst and BBQ kept matches less frustrating for me.

They really need to do something if they want to attract and keep new players. Imagine buying the game because you want to play Pyramid Head and then seeing how many hours you need to sink into the game to unlock actually decent perks on him. Ugh.

I Have around 6 thousand hours on ps4 compared to just 600 on pc from before it was on console. To throw all that away would be such a punch in the gut for me even if my current pc can run the game ten times better than my old one.

From what I've heard the devs definitely want to do cross progression, it depends if Sony and Microsoft allow it for them and from I understand Sony can be really funny with this sort of thing

It's insane. I couldn't imagine starting the game now.

I do an odd thing where I level up one bloodweb if I either a) collect a number of emblem points I've elected to each colour of rank, b) do a daily, or c) complete a chapter quest.

So my bloodweb progress is deliberately slow, but it's taught me to hone my skills without perks, or make the most out of my existing ones (which I randomly generate too). For me, I genuinely couldn't care less about the grind, and am happy for it to stay as it is.

For those who think the bloodweb is a chore, maybe what they could do is allow players to pick 17 - 20 perks they like most and those are the only ones that appear.