Do people actually have a problem with Exponential?

COH is blatantly overpowered.

Exponential is fine.

My main problem is just the boon mechanic in general however not the question that was asked I suppose. I personally think its a bit broken, not as bad as CoH, just because it very much affects slugging. While I don't advocate for slugging every match till you win as it isn't really fun sometimes slugging can get you out of a tough situation. I don't have an issue with unbreakable (a personal favorite of mine) or no mither (though who in their right mind slugs a no mither?) or soulgaurd because unbreakable punishes the tactic though only once, nomither I already said, and soulguard is niche but nice when it works Though all these perks have in common that they're personal and take up a fouth of your build. With exponential everyone gets a 5th perk, save you, of an unbreakable on crack. (I personally haven't run into the perk being useful because I don't slug much plus I haven't played much since the update) I think the perk needs some tweaking (like your perk has x tokens and when a survivor uses the boon to recover a token is consumed) but at the end of the day it isn't something I dread being in my match.

Exponential's one of those perks that's mostly useless on its own, but has the potential to be a powerhouse in a SWF. The build you're using does make it seem like you'd be able to pick yourself up stupid fast, but that's not the real threat with Exponential (and you apparently didn't use it anyway), so this is just a killer being salty and probably assuming you spent the whole game immersed. The problem case with Exponential is when a SWF brings it in a flashlight/sabo/breakdown style build, with the following formula: everyone tries to go down in an Exponential zone, everyone else pressures the killer with flashlights/pallets/sabotage so that they can't immediately pick up the down, and the survivors either get a save when the killer picks the player up, or the player picks themselves up if the killer leaves them down. But Exponential in an uncoordinated team is pretty harmless.

Well. Unless you're Twins. Twins understandably hate it too, because their cooldowns can prevent Charlotte from being able to reach a survivor they downed with Victor in that timeframe.

As someone who slugs and camps because I play for myself (and myself only):

I have no issues with it. I just let people come in for the res anyway, and down them again, like normal. I generally get a free hit before they can do anything with the free getup, because I just hit them and down them again. It's just a safety net that does nothing, since I'm under it cutting holes in it.

As a 50/50 (Killer and Survivor) I don't even have problems with CoH. If a survivor is healing in the vicinity, there are perks to pick-up on that with and it's easy to hear unless the survivors are using Bite the Bullet. Exponential is fine just the way it is too. I've been playing for two years and RARELY will a Killer just leave a survivor on the ground unless the other players are trying to buy the downed survivor some time. I match Exponential with Flip-flop (converts recovery to wiggle) and was accused of cheating so many times because players refuse to understand what each perk does and how they can be used to their fullest. It seems that the only people really complaining are the Killers that expect a 4k every match. I don't get a 4k every match and I'm fine with that because at the end of the day... it's just a game. I am not the best Killer or Survivor but I do what I can and I find different ways to approach each match. If I had to pick a perk to be looked at though... I would say BBQ has a lot of issues. I don't actually have an issue with BBQ but I think that a lot of low-key cheaters walk into matches and hide behind that perk when in fact, they just know where everyone is. For example, Shadowstep and Distortion both block the effect of BBQ and somehow there are a few Killers that manage to just pinpoint everyone in less than two minutes.

There's nothing particularly wrong with the boon mechanic in general. Provided the individual boon perks are balanced around that general system there's no problem. You can see that for example in how Exponential and Shadowstep generally don't generate that many complaints despite using that Boon system themselves. Circle of Healing is only an issue because its specific effects are too strong for the ease with which a survivor can get to its aura. Assuming they eventually tone down Circle of Healing's speed, etc, it'll be on par with the other perks.

Lets ask the killer i accidently blast mined to repressed alliance into a flashbang.

Exponential is a bad perk, however as killer I can't tell what boons are on a totem so I have to treat every one as though it is Circle of Healing, which makes Exponential an annoying perk.

Can confirm, had a player call me a good for nothing showoff after escaping with zero perks

Shadow Step is the only boon that is actually a threat if you ask me. Circle of Healing is overrated by killers who play by the survivor rulebook. It is cute that they whine about healing speeds as though a tunnel victim has time to get healed. Cringe.

A few popular dbd streamers cried that Boon: Exponential was going to be OP but shockingly it isn't. It's one of those parts that isn't good by itself, but in a certain build is pretty good.

I only had survivor teammates grieving me once they noticed I ran Exponential. I was doing my Jonah adept and had a Feng that pointed at my Boon, then made the gen explode and sandbagged me when the Killer came...

Had similar experiences in other matches and I am quit confused why people act that way...

However I as a Killer would never complain about Exponential. If I slug this is a risk I have to take. Also that Soul Guard combo is pretty sweet and I like it myself...

That's only if you divide the survivor time by 4, which isn't accurate for 90% of the match. You're not getting 4 survivors freely doing whatever they want at all times unless the killer is AFK, or the match has only just begun.

It always cuts into objective-usable time, 1 to 1. A gen isn't suddenly going to -not- be without repairs for 14 seconds just because there's four survivors in the match. You bless a totem, one gen is going to be done, at minimum, 14 seconds later than what it could've been.

Exponential is garbage, if a Killer slugs someone on the aura of a Boon without snuffing it out thats entirely on them as 2 out of the 3 Boons are related to faster healing (CoH can be used to heal downed people faster).

Yeah, I know about multi leveled maps, if you cant snuff it because its on another floor pick and hook, Exponential literally only works if you slug which is decided entirely by you.

Since it got in the game I believe Ive seen only 1 game where Exponential had any use, both as Killer and Survivor.

It's completely backward to judge a perk assuming that survivors are perfectly efficient when you aren't running it, and wasting their time when you are. It doesn't matter that the survivors aren't "freely doing whatever they want" 100% of the time, because they're still gaining time in which to either do what they want, or they're losing pressure because the killer CAN'T keep someone occupied if they're off playing in the corner stomping a totem.

The simple fact of the matter is that 3.5 seconds of the team's potential progress is all that is lost by blessing a totem. If the killer at any point has to stop what they're doing to deal with the totem, then that time is bought back. That's multiple seconds where everyone who's on a gen can stay on a gen for longer, because either chasing someone, picking up and hooking someone, or any other action that could delay someone it being stalled by several seconds. One player taking 14 seconds is a tiny investment when to counteract it the entire opposing team has to be occupied.

You can paint idealised situations where the killer only kicks a totem when nobody is on a generator or saving etc, etc, but that situation is only a theoretical and equally likely to every other conceivable state of the match when the killer hears a totem nearby.

This is ALL assuming that the perk placed on the totem gets literally zero value, and the time dynamic still breaks even or better for survivors. As soon as one of the perks has even the slightest bit of impact on the match (a chase drawn out due to vanishing scratch marks, the killer taking extra seconds to find someone because their aura wasn't shown with bbq, a person getting up/picked up earlier, a SINGLE HEAL from CoH) the killer is going further and further into the negatives in time lost.

That's not true. You have four survivors. Which means your potential progress is 4 x 14 = 56 seconds of work. If that one survivor is blessing a totem, you'd be down to 3 x 14 = 42 seconds of work.

You still lose 14 seconds. Blessing a totem will always set your team back 14 seconds of work.

You're coming at it the wrong way. You don't suddenly spend 3.5 seconds blessing a totem just because you have three teammates.

You're closer to the truth if you point out that the killer spending 2 seconds stomping out a totem grants 2 seconds of free time to all survivors, ending up with 8 seconds, but that doesn't work either because the killer is never pressuring four at-a-time.