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The threat of Decisive is enough
At Red Ranks, Killers will generally respect Decisive and go for someone else as long as there’s an Obsession in the match. Unless you’re a super easy down (i.e. farmed without BT or unhooked in a dead zone).
So usually the threat of Decisive gets more value than actually running the perk. With the exception of making specific plays with it like trying to be chased after an unhook and hopping in a locker. Or making a beeline for the exit gate at the end of the game after being unhooked for a guaranteed escape. If you just play normally, generally you don’t have to use Decisive. The threat of it is enough.
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Yeah and the realization that there is no obsession, and therefore no Decisive, is enough to make nearly every killer tunnel.
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Yeah well that's the design idea. Even when I hate beiing kind of forced to play around a perk survivors don't even have, I understand why it's made like that = to discourage tuneling. Unfortunately DS promotes dumb gameplay of forcing killer to eat the DS which is the exact opposite of DS's design philosophy and I would like to see that aspect changed. Meaning, make it more anti-tunneling perk and remove other aspect of it like working on a gen with DS, jumping in a locker with DS, unhooking other survivors while having active DS etc.
Just today I was playing a match where I used STBFL, 0 tunneling, around 10 hooks match vs really good survivors and in the end screen I saw they didn't even have DS. Not a single one of them, still I had to play around the possibility since I was in hot seat as gens were poping left and right and one of them even used the locker DS which I had to abandon due to gens.
I hope devs will adjust DS more in future updates.
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Every game should have the obsession even if noone is using obession perks
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I agree, make every game have an obsession, cut us that don't run DS a little break.
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I'm sorry but I don't really see this as a problem to be honest. The DS obsession mechanic is a good and nessacary deterrence in order to make a somewhat fairer game. Let me ask you this, what do you think would happen most of the time if there was no obsession at all in the game? Most likely the killer is going to tunnel a person out of the game in order to get a great advantage for themselves and potentially win the game. However the deterrent of an obsession can potentially make the killer question if they should tunnel and risk wasting time with DS or not. This could make for a more intense and fairer game for survivors.
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Except it doesn't. Killers who have tunnel vision do not respect DS or it's effect. Thus they will pick up , take the stun and continue to tunnel.
Which means that for those who don't have it, the 'threat' isn't so much of a threat.
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I can agree with that, but not until there’s a natural downside to being the obsession outside of perks. Being an obsession should be something that survivors fear
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So, you say that there should be an Obsession but only if there is a Downside to it? So, one Survivor, at random, will be someone with a Downside, even if no Perk is in the game which justifies that? So you just want to "nerf" one Survivor at random? Yeah, not gonna happen.
There should be a Obsession in every game without any downside. It is not a bad thing that Killers respect a potential DS, because we all know what happens when there is no Obsession or when they know that one Survivor does not have DS.
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this why I said there should be a Obsession in a match even if there no Obsession perks in play.
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If survivors play normally? Dont make me laugh. Basically no killer in redranks respects a potential DS, cause they know it doesnt do much harm. Killer play as scummy as possible and that's why DS will never get a change without changing the issue of tunneling and camping per se.
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Its probably the main thing about it that makes playing solo survivor alot better. While I definitely agree DS can have its issues and could do with a small tweak, it's for the most part fine and the game would be alot worse without it
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