The plague change needed
So atm i feel like plague is in a pretty good spot balance wise. She has quite a lethal power if used well and provides choices to both sides to make better plays. However i've noticed that gens go insanely fast against her due to the way cleansing works. Because survivors don't need to spend nearly as long healing etc and don't even need to spend the short time cleansing in quite alot of scenarios, survivors are often left to themselves to do gens and with not alot of other options or time consuming actions, thus the gens fly incredibly fast especially when the plague hardly uses her corrupt power.
Here are the changes which I think could help adress these issues:
1: Increase cleansing speed to 16 seconds (Normal healing time). This would bring her in line with every other killer of the game and also mean that survivors have to take more time if they want to heal. I was thinking about a 32 second cleanse speed like selfcare but that would be incredibly tedeous and probably too strong.
2: Make it so that healing perks on both sides affect cleansing speeds. I feel like a change like this would help get rid of the big reason why alot of people are not a huge fan of her. It would also allow her to use a much larger amount of perks allowing for more unique builds and playstyle ideas, another change which would bring her more in line with most other killers.
Even though these may not be the biggest changes, I feel like these would help greatly to make her more suitable for the current playstyle and greatly improve QoL of both sides, especially the huge issue plague has with being genrushed.
Let me know your thoughts.
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Maybe add a couple of skill checks in there too? Like for normal healing or a jigsaw box?
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Yea that would be a good idea as well, and likewise have skillcheck perks affect these.
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I would rather increase her lethality, maybe let her keep her corrupt just like Oni, and go through the channel to activate it whenever she wants.
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"oh darn I got water on my shirt, time to scream to alert Plague to my position!"
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Based on the forum consensus and the rough stats the devs showed last week it wouldn’t surprise me if Plague is coming up soon after Clown for a minor buff. (Followed maybe by Demogorgon.)
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Could alert the killer fair enough. Just like when you're healing you make a grunt in agony if a skill check is missed, could be the exact same.
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I find it crazy how clown and plague used to be considered some of the best in their day, now they are considered some of the worst. The power creep is definitely hitting hard.
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When was Clown ever considered "best of his day"? I like Clown well enough but I can't remember any consensus that he was "the best killer".
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Not the best but i remember watching tier lists of those days which put him huntress level and ppl said he was a better huntress.
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but Corrupt Plague sucks to play against now as a casual survivor. I really don't want to see it empowered in a way that affects casuals more than the crazy survivors.
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Yea and if they make it too much stronger you'll literalyl have a 115% huntress on steroids who doesn't take any aiming or precision.
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Also, it would be nice if plague was not 77 feet tall. If you don't have corrupt purge she is horrible in chases because is like the jolly green giant out there lumbering around.
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True but the fact that she doesn't make any loud noises or footsteps like demo or oni and can track people incredibly easy with an insta down makes up for it.
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