Thoughts on Starstruck?

Used correctly on a high mobility killer, it can be great for snow balling pressure. Otherwise, it’s a great anti-body blocking/sabo perk.

Way too strong , even if survivors were only exposed for the duration of the carry it would still be a strait upgrade to all other anti-bodyblock perks

But then it has the the effect of keeping the exposed status for 30's making saves impossible and with certain killers can start slugging within that time

It's potenitally strong, but it's situational. Survivors who know that they're exposed will often run and/or hide and wait out the timer -- 30 seconds isn't that long, and if you can get to a safe tile, a good survivor will be able to outlast it.

A really good nurse is the best killer to be able to take advantage of it, but killers will lesser mobility will need a combination of other factors to get consistent usage out of it. I've run it with Doctor and double Calm add-ons + Agitation for a monster TR, and I've gotten my best value from the perk wirh that (I almost never play Nurse). Even with the huge TR, I'll get a coupke of downs with it usually at most, since a lot of time, by the time I've gotten to a survivor who was exposed, the timer that they're at risk is mostly gone. That said, when it works and you get value from it, it's not just fun, but it can definitely tilt the game in your favor.

It's a perk with definite counters and limitations, but potentially very strong in the right hands. I think it's in a good spot.

It's hard to say whether or not Starstruck is overpowered on Nurse. The problem is Starstruck encourages a very annoying play style (namely proxy camping).

I've played against Nurses that combine Starstruck with Infectious Fright. Once the Nurse hooks someone, she just stays near the hook and waits for a survivor to attempt a rescue. If you're part of a solo queue team this tactic is a nightmare to play against without Kindred (even with Kindred it's still unfun).

But I agree with you. Terribly designed perk. I will never use it.

I hate body blocking, so, if all this does is make people not crouch in front of me while I'm carrying, I'm happy. I'm always kind of surprised if I manage to down someone with it, but it's a nice bonus.

Strength depends on the killer.

Hard for me at all to care if a Meyers, Trapper, Trickster, Plague Ghost Face, or even a Hag has it; but give it to Deathslinger or Nurse and you couldn't lure me back into terror radius range for any number of Scooby Snacks.

Also, is anyone else being driven crazy by the discussion title? I keep thinking it's asking about Starbucks coffee, and I can't shake that feeling no matter how hard I try.

I've only seen it once on trickster and the player never caught anyone with it. I chose to skip trickster so I'll have to wait until it's in the shrine.

I ran it's tier 1 on doctor last weekend. It was ok. I'd say I averaged 2 instadowns per match with it. I found it's value is mostly against people getting too cute around the hook. I'm interested to try it on hag.

Yes, Infectious Fright is also a really bad designed Perk. Useless on most Killers, but on Killers like Billy, Nurse or especially Oni way too oppressive.

Its Infectious fright is a snowball perk so it makes sense it would be good on snowball killers.

I mean its a plague perk for a reason.

Also due to how extremely different killers are its ok if a perk is useless on some and stronger on others.

Its a snowball perk:

Its all or nothing much like Devour hope and much like devour hope how you distance yourselves counters it.

As splitting up is one of the strongest things survivors can do to complete generators also counters infectious fight in the same way it counters legion.

I played survivor against Trickster several weeks ago and had an awful time.

The killer was new at the time I wasn't familiar with him. After the killer hooked the first survivor, all I knew was that the other survivors were trying to get the unhook (I could see with the bond perk). The exposed status was going off all the time, like some broken, OP Myers add-on. The survivors went down like a stack of dominoes. I knew at that point that the game was lost. I manged to revive one of them, but it was too little too late and the game was soon over.

I then saw that killer had one, one tier perk - Starstruck.

Perhaps the other survivors were playing wrecklessly, or they were just unfamiliar with the new perk as I was? But I remember feeling disgusted at the time. It's good that it combats body-blocking and B.M. gameplay, but it also discourages good, balanced altruism. I imagine this perk could be abused, for instance, if combined with a perk such as Infectious Fright. It's too early for me to judge and I haven't experienced it since. I suppose survivors just need to be aware of it and alter their gameplay accordingly.

I don't think the perk is by any means OP. It can be strong on the right hands, as almost every killer.

I think the perk is fine, it prevents those who goes for a flaslight save or saboteurs/body blockers to go undamaged.