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Killers should have 5 perk slots

beatddb
beatddb Member Posts: 565

I think we should see perks with "weight" depending on how impactful they are on a game. Survivor perks have a lot of weight because the meta is very strong (Dead hard, CoH, DS, IW, etc). This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't because all 4 survivors run the same meta perks every time.

But sadly for killers, even a meta build is outweighted by survivor's meta. It is 16 perks against 4, after all. And to make things even worse, as a killer you need to "give up" on a slot for a slowdown perk if you don't want survivors tbagging at the gates at the 5 minute mark. So, you already have one less perk slot for the fun build you were planning.

I think 5 perk slots for killers would relieve some of the limitations killer builds have, and you actually could have a chance to use a build without feeling like being genrushed.

Comments

  • adam1233467
    adam1233467 Member Posts: 1,106

    Imagina nurse, blight with 5 anti gens, is gonna be fun

  • ThatOneDemoPlayer
    ThatOneDemoPlayer Member Posts: 5,623

    So, Corrupt Intervention/Hex: Ruin/Hex: Undying/Pop Goes The Weasel/Hex: No One Escapes Death or Corrupt Intervention/Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance/Dead Man's Switch/Call Of Brine/Pop Goes The Weasel every game?

    5 Perk slots won't fix much. Gens will still go fast because that's the only objective Survivors have and stacking more and more slowdown won't help lower tier Killers and will only make higher tier Killers even better

  • Murgleïs
    Murgleïs Member Posts: 1,096
    edited March 2022

    He said 5 slots with limitations of how strong each perk is. Maybe read past the title. I would prefer 6 slots with :

    • 2 slowdown max
    • 2 info max
    • 2 utility max (franklin, noed…)
  • HectorBrando
    HectorBrando Member Posts: 3,167

    Perks are balanced with a 4 setup on mind, making it 5 will require to fix a ton of incredible busted combos.

  • MikaelaWantsYourBoon
    MikaelaWantsYourBoon Member Posts: 6,564

    No thanks. I don't mind on Trapper, Legion, Myers etc.


    But we have Nurse and Blight in game.

  • DbD_Enjoyer
    DbD_Enjoyer Member Posts: 459

    I think we should have 8 actually, 1 extra for each survivor and that would still be just half of what they have, so its very balanced and fair IMO.

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,028

    And have an extra slowdown perk on nurse and blight, no thanks

  • NinthPixel
    NinthPixel Member Posts: 60

    I would want 5 perks just so Obsession Builds are less restrictive. If you don't bring Furtive Chase or Nemesis, then your whole build can fall through because the obsession DC'd. Maybe top tier killers dream up boring Slow Down builds, but I think most slow down builds are run because of such strict limitations. Realistically you only get two Perks; A and B and then C and D to cover the weaknesses of A and B.

  • TotemSeeker91
    TotemSeeker91 Member Posts: 2,358

    But...killer perks are so much more impactful than survivors, they have to be

  • TheArbiter
    TheArbiter Member Posts: 2,616

    Not this again

  • egg_
    egg_ Member Posts: 1,933

    Survivors should have 6

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,365

    Killer is in nowhere near a state to warrant 5 perk slots

  • Cameragosha
    Cameragosha Member Posts: 630
    edited March 2022

    Killer should have perk 6 slots and give KWF to couter SWF.

    Kill with friend.