Let's talk about Plague. Is she fine as is, need QOL improvements, or a full on rework?

She's okay. She's just hard to do well with for the casual player, which is fine there are plenty of other killers to choose from. I can't think of any way to buff her to make her more viable without overpowering her. Maybe make her vomit last longer when she spits on things like generators? Steal Freddies pools of blood and give her pools of vomit that infect people who run over them?

Frankly, I just think if the devs could figure out how to slow the game down a little, most killers would be fine.

QoL + some buffs i would say.

I would add more projectiles to her puke so you don't have the stream passing through a survivor problem as much and there should be a slightly harsher penalty for not cleansing.

Maybe additional sickness levels beyond the first. Like you get broken when you get sick like now but the infection level increases more at a slower pase and more penalties get added when the infection level gets full again

She's actually quite strong killer, only difficult to play properly. Your average player will do terribly with her as you need to have mastered proper use of her corrupt purge and have enough game sence to use it effectively.

If you don't use all her strengths properly, you're going get looped as nearly powerless M1 killer but if you player her correctly, you can snowball 4 survivors in 1 fountain. Plague mains are terrifying to go against, unfortunatly, there's possibly even less of them then nurse mains.

I had a similar idea but deep wounds instead so that if they don't cleanse they go into the dying state.

Unless that's what you mean by die. I'm thinking straight-up DIE to death though like what reverse bear traps do since you said Pig main.

No, I mean actually die and get booted out of the match. That's why I brought up the Pig.

If survivors are infected for too long without cleansing, they go down. Forcing a cleanse.

The entire emblem system needs to get fixed

I actually think vomiting on a gen should cause it to regress faster for as long as it has bile on it (though it would not stack with anything else that increases the rate of regression like Ruin and...well, just Ruin since Ruin is the only thing in the game that does that currently, IIRC).

I've always been of the opinion that the (green) bile should do something besides get people sick, and I think the perfect thing for it to do is to speed up gen regression. Given how crap base gen regression currently is, I don't think that's an unreasonable ask at all.

I like the idea!

I also thought of a 2 or 4m TR reduction per survivor fully infected. Nothing "anti-fun" per say but a little extra danger in refusing to cleanse.

I probably like the gen slow down a little more though as Plague is more susceptible to gen rush than most killers in a meta where most killers are already very susceptible lol.

QoL improvements.

her puke hitbox is REALLY bad sometimes.

other than that i'd say she is mostly fine. Otz has proven again and again how strong of a killer she can be if played right and the concept behind her power is a really interesting one!

I like Plague but play her once per 4 months or something. When a killer is picked the least the devs need to find out why and try to do something about it. A small buff would be nice I don't think she needs a rework.

I'm prestiging her actually so I can't use half the perks, but still this looks like a good build. I've never tried Ruin Undying on her since I've unlocked Undying barely a week ago or so- I do use Infectious Fright on her, if you have you Corrupt Purge you can pull off some insane plays. Discordance is a good perk in general. I'll try this!

She's really strong as is, it just takes a lot of effort, skill, and a degree of luck to pull off her true potential in a given game.

I think her pools of Devotion need a rework though - it's dumb her power can be sitting in some empty Entityforsaken corner of the map far away from where she'll ever want to go - same as with Trapper's Traps.

I also think the feedback of charging and using Puke needs improvement. It's not fun hitting someone and seeing your Puke hit them, only for it not to do anything, and it's even less fun to try and charge a little bit, only for you to accidentally cancel it and slow yourself. A simple (unobtrusive!) VFX when actually applying Sickness and a marker on her charge meter would do WONDERS for the casual Plague player experience - which is honestly a little miserable.

I think she's in a good spot powerwise. Her weaknesses balance her insane strengths without making her unplayable.

She just needs some QOL to make playing her more enjoyable for the average person, I think.

As someone who plays Plague a lot, and is considering to main her. The biggest problem I have with her is how her most fun and powerful ability is the most awkward to use and sometimes, even not worth activating.

The fact that you need to go to a specific fountain on the map to activate corrupt purge, means you have to sometimes abandon a chase or not even begin one to collect the power. A lot of survivors who are experienced will deliberately use a fountain in a place on the map that has nothing going for it, generally a corner of the map so it's almost a waste of time to go collect the power, because once you do, everyone else will cleanse and hide, and you achieve nothing.

Even if you have it activated and are chasing a survivor, depending on the map, it can be quite easy to break LoS and deny the value it brings. A typical jungle gym loop is exceptionally bad for Plague, because she can't shoot over the walls and has to respect the pallet so hard, otherwise she loses the power and that's a big net loss for her.

It's also notable how the survivors are the ones who control WHEN you get to use this power. Sure, you can bring the apple add-ons to make it so you get two fountains at the start of the match, but the spawns are random and there's hardly ever an opportunity to collect the fountain and use it in a chase immediately.

So it's a power that's difficult to activate, pointless to activate against good survivors and is controlled by the survivors whether you can use it or not, which is bad design. If they were to give her Corrupt Purge alongside Vile Purge for the entire match, but limit how much you can use it and tie it to a reload mechanic at the fountains, then it could make her ALOT more fun and stronger.

Just a QOL change/Buff, something like slightly increasing infection rate when interacting with things and fully infected survivors get a negative penalty to repairing generators (only something small, like 10%/15%). Other than that, I think she is fine. Plague is personally my 2nd favorite killer after Pig, and I don't really want her reworked. I enjoy her current playstyle, and would be a bit sad if she is changed to much.

Aside from general QoL fixes with her vomit I've always wondered about her power having a 'devotion' system working, something kinda similar to the obsession. Once all the fountains in the map are cleansed, whoever cleansed the most fountains becomes the devoted. (e.g. if the jake cleansed 3 fountains he becomes the devoted) The devoted themselves gain special buffs or immunities to corrupt purge as a reward for helping the plague gain her power while she can go rank on everyone else. The devoted can either remain until the next round of cleansing are done or give them a hard limit of like 60 seconds until the next one is chosen. However, again people can just abstain from cleansing which is why I suggest reworking some of the addons into adding on more severe penalties and better buffs for fully sick survivors to encourage them to cleanse more. The whole idea behind this change is to make the fountains more of an objective, the extra heavy penalties entince survivors to move around more and cleanse giving Plague access to her corrupt more often. You can also team work around it by deciding who out of the team should be the devoted and how they can best utilize it during the match or it can be used as a way for survivors to compete against each other to claim that oh so sweet devotion status and indirectly help the Plague in turn.

She is not meant to be stealth killer. She's meant to be instant down OR ranged killer. I still think that if developer wanted to boost her power-level by a lot. The two things they should do is remove cooldown slowdown after vomiting so that M2->M1 combo is more fluid on vile purge and allow corrupt puke to hit two times in a single puke launch. I think she would be among the best killers and her play-rate would skyrocket.

I like Plague, so I think she only needs some QOL improvements. Maybe give her some buffs if x number of survivors are infected or maybe debuff the survivors if they stay infected for too long.