NERF BOON TOTEM

How about we make it so that killers need to hold M1 for 16 seconds to get rid of the boon, that also ends up destroying the dull totem? Plus decreade the already obviousl loud audio clue to make tham as hard to find as hexes are? That would be the minimal considering that survivors have to find and bless totems tht can easily take up to 1 minute.

when survivors complain about noed:

killers: "just do bones lol"

when killers complain about boons:

survivors: "just do bones lol"

If you are really willing to stand still for 16 seconds for a boon than I’ll bring one in every match lmao. These perks are useless gimicks. The only reason you killer mains go crazy because of them, is tied to the fact that they’re new, and you find a way to complain about even nonexistent issues if there is nothing else on hot topic at the moment.

MMR is broken and doesn’t exis/make sense.

And yes, finding one in a reasonable spot can easily take up to 44 seconds, while it takes 16 after that to bless it.

”4 survivors can cover the whole map in 30” — I see you’re not a mathematican but this is nonsense. If it would be true, than nobody would have used Ruin since release.

They use them because they’re new as well. Not because they’re any good. If you think you lose because if them, think about having actually meta perks on everyone instead.

i can't tell if this is sacrasm 100lvl or you're actually serious

i'm just making fun of both sides who suggest going out of your way to find totems

I'm calling it flatout: this is the future meta for as long as boon totems remain unchanged.

It's only downhill from here as players start catching on to the real power at their hands (and being able to grind it).

People trying to claim boons are even remotely balanced are either in extreme denial or outright lying to further their own agenda favoring something as stupidity OP and broken as boons obviously are.

There's zero value in "stepping away from the stale meta" if the only reason people leave behind their extremely powerful perks is because now they'd hardly ever use them when it's often easier to outright avoid getting downed by usually ducking into one of the hide & seek zones.

All the claims about boons actually "wasting time from gens" are as intellectually dishonest as any claim could be. One survivor wasting 12 seconds on a totem they stumbled across is nigh ALWAYS going to break even with the time it'd takes the killer to track down & snuff that totem. For a competent play, that's basically your worst case scenario. Even a single boon usage from there is a net gain as far as the time tradeoff goes, where the value generated wasting killer's time is so, so, so, so much more valuable than survivor time required. Advocating for boons outright ignores this game being 4 vs 1, not to mention the extreme impact of just 2/16 well placed perks can have on the 4 survivors. The average gains per boon applied are a whole lot more valuable with these being the "risks" to the reward potential.

To consider boons balanced basically requires imagining them in some vacuum so "time away from gens" can be treated as pure cost. In truth, it's blatantly an investment (and an incredibly secure and insanely lucrative one at that) generating returns by impeding killer gameplay that would otherwise (and indisputably) pull more survivors off generators for far longer. A game might go on longer with the boon impacts pushing the survivors back into their safety hubs rather than slamming gens, but unlike typical games the killer isn't gaining footing the longer those games go on. It's almost the opposite, where survivors are free to carve down gens while largely containing killers to failed chases and reverted health states in a stalemate. Boons are so much more powerful than people realize or want to admit.

Hell, lately I'm seeing the boon-boosters fall back on conjecture and anecdotal evidence of people being stupid with boons, as if stupidity is some unique, inherent challenge to setting boons. Sorry, but no---the mere possibility of any given person spending the whole match looking for a totem only to end up distracted by the shiny until the killer gets them isn't the same as a meaningful drawback. That's selectively deploying the same excuse applicable to anything, and every killer underpowered if the player is bad enough they can't hit anyone. You've got to assume reasonable competence when talking balance.

Some people are behind the curve now due to newness/ownership/grind/etc, but they won't be forever. Barring major changes, the OP's game is the new meta we'll see.

Lucky break was nerfed from the ptb before it hit live. I only ever saw I think one person playing it in the week after it hit live. If it hadn't been adjusted it would still see play.

Boons are meta defining. You can try and theorycraft your way out of it, but the fact of the matter is that if nothing else, they waste the killer's time. That alone makes them incredibly powerful.