"Perfectly balanced"

The perks are balanced. The only thing needed is make it so other healing perks and items don't stack with CoH. Done.

I don’t think they’re OP but I do think COH could use a self healing nerf.

Anyone who genuinely says boons are perfectly balanced has no idea what they're talking about. Boons should have a timer so that killers don't have to snuff them out. I'd say 60/70/80 seconds feels fair. Tack on a relighting limit of 2 per totem, for a total of 10 times per trial, to make using them more strategic.

Anyone who says these perks are balanced has not seen a boon squad with RPD offerings.

All it takes is basically two boon totems, in the center of each wing of the police station, and you will not have scratch marks throughout the entire match basically.

If you lose them through the winding hallways without scratch marks, they also have easy infinite super self heals anywhere on the map.

You also waste so much time trying to snuff out a boon totem they'll infinitely relight here that it's never worth doing.

It's kinda scary honestly.

I... the double negative is so confusing, man.

If you mean that literally, then okay, I'm glad every killer perk is balanced for a slugging nurse to you.

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If you meant one negative, to imply that you can't claim a perk is balanced by looking at one individual object to that perk (whether it be a map or a killer), especially when it's known to be strong or otherwise problematic, that's a bit off.

In your example of all perks being broken if used by the nurse, the nurse is a very peculiar killer whose base kit has a combination of strengths that make exploiting easier but also can't really be significantly shared or transferred to other killers due to a strict requirement to keep them unique.

Maps on the other hand have a combination of strengths that can be re-used by the innate fact that they're maps and not tightly bound to an air of uniqueness that killers are.

For example, what could be accomplished on RPD could be accomplished on Lery's, The Game, Haddonfield, Hawkin's, Midwich, and any other future indoor map relatively easily. All that is required is that the map has tall walls, winding corridors, and a relatively small map size.

Even then, the original post referred to how they can be oppressive in wider maps, like the junk yard, which is vastly different from RPD. I simply mentioned RPD in particular as the worst offender, but it extends to others as well.

Great, and survivors also naturally have some good maps too (haddonfield and badham come to mind).

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The point here is that boon perks can easily cover multiple entire maps and, despite the occasional belief, are not counter-able at this time.

RPD was one glaring example that has left me personally traumatized, but the conditions that made boons strong in this case were high walls, small map, and winding corridors. Those conditions that make boons strong apply to more than just RPD, including Lery's, The Game, and Midwich to name a few.

The original post also refers to more open maps, like autohaven, and how easily it was for them to cover it in boons as well. This should give you an idea that, despite my worst-case scenario example, that boon strength pervades more maps than even mentioned here (along with future maps).

It's just not very fair when there's no permanent or reliable way to deal with them as a killer.

Heck you don't even get rewarded for snuffing out the totems because you're wasting more time as a killer doing in almost every scenario relative to the time gained by the collective group of 4 survivors.

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Honestly this whole situation reminds me when they added Meyers into the game with the original DS.

Not as bad as that, but it's getting pretty close.

Have Boons been nerfed yet?