What’s your thoughts about “no same perks between survivors”

Are you sick of seeing DH, BT, DS, etc on every survivors?

Do you have the same feeling that 80 per cent of survivor perks are so rare to see, as if they never exist?

I think it’s time to make a new mechanism about “no same perks between survivors.”

§ Why We Need It?

 A.    To make trials various and fun to play

As the game becomes so popular and long lasting, there are almost 100 perks for survivors, and 90 perks for killers. But every player knows that only few perks are actually used by survivors: Self Care, Dead Hard, Borrowed Time, Spine Chill, Iron Will, Decisive Strike, and so on. In fact, in my personal statistics from 125 trials/500 survivors as killer (asia/jp server), there are only 11 survivor perks can be called “common.”

★Top 11 common survivor perks (from 500 survivors)

1.     Self Care 61%

2.     Borrowed Time 50.2%

3.     Dead Hard 49.4%

4.     Spine Chill 31%

5.     Iron Will 25.8%

6.     Decisive Strike 24.6%

7.     Kindred 17.8%

8.     Sprint Burst 17.4%

9.     Bond 13%

10. Windows of Opportunity 10.4%

11. Lithe 10.2%

 ----(below 10%)

12. Prove Thyself 6.8%

13. Sympathy 5.2%

…

Look at these numbers! What a waste for developers designing so many fun perks but no one really uses them.

What if survivors can not bring same perks?

There will be blossom of various perks. Not 4 DHs anymore, not 4 BTs anymore, not 4 self cares anymore.

I believe it could help players of both side enjoying this game much more.

B.     What about killer perks?

In the current environment, killers have to be aware of DH on every injured survivors, BT on every rescued survivors, and DS on every unhooked and downed survivors, even if they don’t have these perks actually. That’s why these perks are so powerful. And these perks, together, give a hard time for killers. Ironically, in order to win, killers have to use same slow-down perks in every trial, too: ruin, undying, pop, tinkerer, corrupt, etc.

In my view, it’s definitely not a healthy situation.

By introducing “no same perks between survivors,” players of both side could have multiple choices to play.

C.     To make trials more balanced for both sides

Is this a survivor nerf? Yes. And no.

The reason of some perks are OP is not the perks themselves being too powerful, but the multiplying effect. A single survivor brings old DS is not OP, but if there are 4 survivors? OP without a second thought. Same as DH, BT, and so on.

Every perk has its multiplying effect. The impact of multiple survivors using it is totally on the different level with only one survivor using it. And it makes the work of perk-balancing extremely difficult.

By introducing “no same perks between survivors,” the developers no longer have to consider the multiplying effect, they can make a perk powerful enough but don’t have to worry about 2 or 3 or 4 survivors use it at the same trial. It could also benefit the perk diversity.

§ How We Make It?

A.     SWF ONLY

In fact, I think “no same perks between survivors” is FOR SWF ONLY.

It is reasonable, both practically and mechanically.

First, solo queue players are already miserable, there is no reason to make changes on them. Second, there is no efficient way to prevent solo queue and swf not using same perks. (How to communicate between them? Who to decide what perk, and for whom to use?)

The available way to make this mechanism work is this:

While in the swf waiting room, the perk equipped by a survivor will be disabled for other players (it should be switched on/off instantly when players set on/off the perk.)

All swf players have to set all perks ready before matchmaking, and once get in, they can no longer change their setup. Last but not least, the swf should be highlighted to the killer.

B.     HYBRID MODE

Therefore, it would be a hybrid mode: swf can’t use same perks, but solo queue can.

Let’s say if there are 2 solo players and 2 survivor friends, the 2 solo players are not restricted from using any perks. On the other hand, the perk slots of the 2 friends are already fixed and not repeated before they get in the match.

In this situation, there could be 3 same perks in this trial, theoretically. And you may ask, what’s the differences?

I have 2 answers.

First, swf is OP because of their communication, “no same perks between swf” is a good way to counter. In fact, almost every unofficial DBD contest has its own rule about "no same perks."

Second, it is an indirect way to buff solo queue, considering some perks could be buffed in the future without multiplying effect.

§ SUM

To make the game better, I have the blueprint of “no same perks between swf.”

There are some points of it:

1.     So many unused perks, making the game lacks of diversity.

2.     No same perks means no multiplying effect, making perk-balance easier.

3.     An indirect way to nerf swf and buff solo queue.

What’s your thoughts about it?

What do I miss and can be improve?

Could this happen in the near future?