The Only Survivor Perk That Should be Base IMO

I'd be fine with unhooked survivors being completely immune to damage and collisions, if they were ALSO unable to work on gens or heal themselves or others for, like, a minute. Other people could heal them, but no self-caring while you're invulnerable.

Like it or not, going after the same guy is the only non-perk way to stop gen progress with any reliability. The speed of 4 survivors on gens is completely untenable for mid to late game and there's no default way to break that up other than trying to drop the players down to 3.

"Survivors should get a free perk by default!"

Okay, how about "Killers should get BBQ by default." Or "Killers should get Corrupt Intervention by default." Or "Killers should get Sloppy Butcher by default." Or a zillion other suggestions.

And you SAY devs never listen to the community, but Moris got nerfed into uselessness by survivor whining. Hillbilly, Pyramid Head, Freddy, and others got huge nerfs for the sake of survivor whining. Survivors got a per-person hook counter for free for survivor whining. Survivors got an always-on Obsession marker to make the killer think somebody's got Decisive Strike for free, due to survivor whining. Survivor tracking perks trump killer stealth already and more keep getting added to that list with the Iron Will buff. I mean heck, Borrowed Time used to not work vs. stealth killers or unique terror radiuses like Freddy, and THAT got buffed to always function too.

So who knows what's next. Enough survivors whining and they'll end up with 8 perks each.

I'm sorry but BT being base kit is ludicrous. It would encourage bad play and toxic behavior from survivors.

The perk itself was already given a buff to counter stealth killers by no longer requiring the heartbeat to activate (this was reasonable and ok buff imho). It helped get rid of the tons of Freddy players who abused his lullaby not counting as a terror radius.

The problems with making it base kit.

Survivors would no longer try to make good unhook plays. They would just run in unhook and run out regardless of killers proximity. This will cause more face camping and extremely frustrate new killers.

Body blocking is already an issue with BT plays at red ranks. An unhooked survivor has 12 seconds to block a killer from chasing their teammate after an unhook. If killers swing to hit BT, the blood wipe + speed boost give ample opportunity to gain lots of distance.

It would effectively null out endgame for killer. If a survivor runs BT now, they use up a perk slot for the chance to make a clutch end game escape. If base kit the doors being opened means whoever is left in game immediately is guaranteed escape.

BT is designed to be risk/reward. Base kit BT removes all risk and triples the reward regardless of time alloted to endurance status.

Edit: It's not just toxic survivor either, you'd see a lot more slug build oriented killers 😑

"Not everything in the game balance-wise needs to be equal" I agree, Killer side need to be stronger.

• Ruin lv1 is fine since it will make the killer save time without punishing survivors too much for leaving gens by making base kit overpowered. Ruin lv2 as base kit will make survivors demand for nerfs day 1 guaranteed, and for good reasons.
• BBQ still an incentive to start new chases. Saying that some players use it but not take the chases doesn't automatically reflect on the purpose of BBQ. I can say the same thing about BT that a killer will tunnel even if the Survivor have BT. And no BBQ doesn't need rework by making it base kit, i think it's fine as is, and could help reducing campers. since most campers choose to camp due to them having no clue where survivor are. And yes i am aware of the ones that do it as a religion, and tbh no survivor perk gonna save you from them if they decided to play for the sole purpose of camping.
• Any perk with a good argument can be considered a strong candidate to be base kit, not just BT tbh. " it would mean survivor builds could be more unique and have an extra slot" it can also translate to killer to have extra slot and unique build to shake up the meta.
• Many games have text chat on PC while don't on Console, it's nothing out of the ordinary. I rather have text chat on PC than emotes or whatever form of icon since it won't be accurate since there will be limit on how many icons/emotes, so maybe Console users can have that but for PC users it is best to have text chat, and it won't take too much time since PC users are already used to texting while competing. The only one that won't be able to chat is the one being chased, but that can be resolved by commands like in Counter Strike.
• But Kindred do punish Killers like hag or trapper, and also hurt killer that use camping as a strategy when camping is needed.

Personally if it was a for sure 100% needed base kit extension to counter tunneling/camping I would fix 1 main issue and add a slight change to the coding.

The main issue that needs to be resolved would be server registration. I can swing at the unhooking survivor and still somehow register a hit on the BT target throwing the entire thing out of wack. This also needs to be addressed with grabs being interrupted mid-animation and window hits that happen extremely late but that is for an entirely different thread honestly.

The only workaround I see would be something like giving the unhooked player 1-3 seconds of invulnerability. Meaning no collision, no hit register, no heal register (stops self-care/for the people/purple medkit addons etc). This would need to be disabled when exit gates are opened/end game collapse has started. Leaves the 99% game play, since it still runs risks and would be a hard nerf on survivors otherwise.

If it was entirely base line kit then I would like to see the blood wipe stay the same but the speed boost for the hit on the unhooking survivor cut down to 80% it's normal speed or maybe cut it's time duration in half. Both don't unfairly punish the killer but also force survivors to actually make a decent unhook play. If you unhook you're putting yourself in a position to get downed quickly if you do it unsafely.

It could work with nuance fixes and some slight QOL changes but the current BT even with endurance cut in half would alienate all new killer players and stifle growth of survivors.