Steve Harrington - Easy?

Im not really sure how survivor difficulty ratings are implemented...but considering every survivor is just a skin, I assumed it largely had to do with their perks.

So I imagined every survivor being forced to play adept style.

The only current “hard” survivor is Bill and Laurie. So Laurie has Object of Obsession. Makes sense that if you were new to DbD or still learning to effectively loop, this perk could be just as detrimental as informative. Ok.

She also has a sweet life saving tool but with a skill check built in for success. If your not great at landing a skill check, specially an important one, then it can be difficult.

Bill is all about surviving when the odds are against you. It makes sense. Crawling away from a situation, to recover, is hard, being last man standing and trying to live, is hard...and mostly he has a perk that only activates in a Killer radius where he will have to be temporarily immobilized (unhooking) and put in a lot of danger...so hard, yeah.

Now, let’s talk Steve. Steve is suppose to be the guardian type. The ‘babysitter’ and his perks reflect his stance on taking the heat and helping others.

Something that I would consider difficult.

Babysitter perk helps give the unhooked survivor a fighting chance to escape (no scratch marks or blood) and also highlights himself to the Killer. A move that will most likely get him targeted, which for inexperienced or new survivors, would be difficult to manage.

Camaraderie requires you to be in struggle phase, so your already on the verge of death, and doesn’t trigger unless a teammate is within 16m of you. Assuming they chose to not rush and unhook, it probably means the Killer is camping or soft-camping the hook. So two difficult simultaneous situations had to overlap to be triggered, just to gain an extra 34 seconds of hang time.

Lastly, Second Wind. It requires you to heal a different survivor for the equivalent of one health state. This means that he can not even use this perk unless he is putting himself out there, making rescues or seeking out and helping others around him. Which is far more difficult the pounding out gens. You also can’t trigger it unless your unhooked or unhook yourself and that means you had to both help out your team heal up and also gained enough aggro to be hunted down and hooked. Assuming you didn’t just make a fatal mistake and basically offered yourself to the killer.

Anyway, getting off the hook and having to endure the broken status effect for 20+ seconds could also be considered hard, especially in certain ranks.

My point is, IMO, Steve should have probably been rated Hard.

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Feel free to suggest any other survivors you might feel could/should have made it to the legendary “hard” difficulty.

I just really wanted to get this opinion off my chest.