So, Eruption is just a better surge now
Eruption has 10 second less cooldown, it incapacitates survivors currently on that gen potentially stopping game winning repairs from being done, it is applied to multiple generators (being kicked first of course), can be activated with any ability that can down a survivor (not just basic attacks) and has zero range limit. While Surge is only 2% more regression, has a 32m range, only applies to basic attacks and has a 40 second cooldown. Yeah if you put these two in front of me I know which one I'm gonna take. If only the kind of buffs they gave nemesis' perk cooldowns were just for every killer so we could actually have more usage and synergy with our loadouts.
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Surge is better on killer who don’t have time to kick gens like slinger who would prefer to just go for chases
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They will probably buff Surge soon I'd think. I hope they also reduce the cooldown to 30 seconds and remove the basic attack requirement then the Perk might be half decent.
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Surge's benefit is that you never have to waste any time on kicking gens which can sometimes waste important time you need elsewhere.
They're different perks with different situations where they shine, neither is superior but both are great regression perks. The only thing that surge can envy to eruption is that it triggers of all downs, not just basic attack ones.
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I wouldn’t call Eruption a better Surge, or a replacement for other gen perks. It just offers a pay off (and location info if survivors scream) for the work put in kicking gens, something you’d normally do anyway.
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Both have pros and cons but i have to say i LOVE eruption it is such a nice perk that i will be running with pop.
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I prefer surge for instadown/stealth killer (GF and meyers)
Also surge is much better when you are against good survs. sometimes its even better than pop cuz kicking gens are really time consuming especially when survivors are actually good and working on gen.
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Surge was never any good to begin with so it wouldn't be hard to top it.
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Well, no. Surge is a completely passive perk whose only downside is only working on killers that only m1 to down. Which is stupid, but otherwise it's fine. Eruption, however, requires you to go out of your way to set it up.
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If they make Surge being activated even with powers...that would be awesome.
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As a Nurse main I don't want to have to stop the smacking
Surge >>>>
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Idk which one's better, but i do know they serve different purposes.
Eruption allows for widespread regression if you take your time kicking Generators.
Surge allows for a bit of spread regression if you don't care about kicking Generators.
Really just depends on what you generally prefer to do in a Trial.
Or take both, idk.
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I'd just run both tbh, really strong for late game with 3 gens on certain killers. Imagine a Doctor with both perks on a 3 gen scenario while also throwing madness tier 3's out.
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I said from the start that Eruption was crazy good and I've been getting great use out of it. It's not hard to make it an extremely valuable gen slowdown perk.
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Why not just remove the cool down? If you're downing survivors like crazy, you deserve to be rewarded given the pressure you're putting on.
Remove the cool down devs🙃
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As much as I am not a fan of Surge, that's kinda what I was thinking. The reason why I chose Surge for my taxi build even though it was one of my least favorite gen defense perks is because it functioned without me having to stop to kick things and whatnot.
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Eruption is a time sink regression perk meanwhile surge is just additive/bonus regression.
Eruption is good but takes a lot of time to get the best results which you don't always have.
Meanwhile surge is good for stacking with other slowdown perks as its one of the few that can effect regressing generators let alone multiple but isn't good enough to stand alone as your sole regression perk.
Surge Imo still needs a buff and eruption might need one too for how much you have to invest into it.
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Eruption requires setup (kicking gens) and that alone might be impractical for killers that need to snowball fast. Both perks have a niche IMO.
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I love Eruption so much :) It’s so satisfying
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I'd say adjacent instead of just better personally I hate kicking gens and the time you save from it probably puts it on around the same level, eruption does work well with pop though where as surge works well with ruin. Up to you which you wanna use or neither.
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