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Boil Over sucks

DarkShadow0220
DarkShadow0220 Member Posts: 38
edited April 2022 in Feedback and Suggestions

Boil Over genuinely used to be considered the worst survivor perk at one point. With these slight buffs, everyone is overreacting and it seriously still sucks balls. Boil Over does 3 pretty mediocre things that all together make it one of the most under-powering and situational options for a wiggle build:

  1. 80% increased intensity of your wiggle effect. This seriously is a worthless effect unless you're on RPD or Lery's. All other maps this effect never ever comes in play. Even then, maybe it can buy you 15% wiggle speed maximum, really terrible and placement luck based.
  2. Hides hook auras within 16 meters. I actually think this is great because it convinces baby killers that oh I should go to the furthest hook because boil over told me to! Unless the killer has EYES, maybe God equipped Plaything on the killer when they spawned into the trial (in real life) that falls for Boil Over,. You don't even need to memorize hook spawns, just use your eyes as a killer and this effect is also negated by normal gameplay.
  3. 33% of your current Wiggle progression when the Killer drops from great heights. I don't even think the game knows what a "great height" is sometimes from my experiences of using Balanced Landing, making this effect kinda iffy to trigger. But regardless, this effect is again, map reliant and doesn't do much unless you purposefully go down in a specific area.

Wanna know the worst thing about Boil Over? It gives the killer the damn notification at the corner of the screen so they can counter allllll of these effects. Just don't fall, note the most likely hook locations, and deal with the wiggle intensity on a likely open map. Stupid dumb killer mains making their faces red when they get moved side to side a little bit. I've used this perk and gone against it. The only way to abuse it seriously is on the top floor of the Eyrie of crows. But that's not the perks fault, that's the map design. Killer mains need to stop exaggerating over survivors getting anything in this game I swear. Dozen wiggle perks better than this one. If BHVR nerf Boil Over one more time I'm quit game.

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