You're bad if you run the meta, apparently.

I mean...the proof is in the pudding. Those that relied on Dead Hard? They don't know what to do now that it's gone, and it's hilarious. The amount of survivors i've gone against, and seen other people (like creators) verse, who go down like a sack of broken hammer handles, is hilarious.

It's a pretty good indicator that since chases are ending that much quicker without their E key, they weren't as good as they thought they were.

I got flak for using Repressed Alliance....I was called a bad player for using it even though it kept the Gen from regressing lol

That's the point players will always find fault in everything they will blame the patch when their skills were being carried by perks or they don't want to admit they got played so they insult someone else

Well I have had people tell me that I didn't win the game but my killer won it for me...

Busted perks aren't going to win matches for you if you're terrible (no, not even NOED), but a decent player can achieve boosted status by leaning on them.

Good/great players are going to remain good/great, but average/decent/mediocre players who leaned on DH are going to be faced with a dose of reality.

You are right to some extent, any dancing gleefully on the ashes 8s probably not good form or a show of good character, BUT there is the thing with options in games. There will always be something that's mathematically better then other and this will eventually form the meta of a game. If everything is well balanced and designed then you can pretty much make anything at least somewhat workable.

But if any option is way, way, way stronger then comparable other options in its class and if it becomes a no-brainer or auto-include for the vast population of the game, then you normally have a boosted or runaway option.

I will go so far and name a certain perk: DH. This was all discussed to death and you probably know all the ups and downs, but DH was such a runaway option. It stood head an shoulders above the rest (at least after BHVR adjusted the validation thing) and it was way more flexible and useful in nearly any situation, giving survivors a out-of-jail card if plaxed right and lead to a whole lot of very unfun situations were survivors escaped that should by all rights have gone down.

DH was in fact so strong, that it covered for a lot of mistakes and even boosted a lot of survivors over a long time. It consistently let them survive situations that they shouldn't have and became a crutch without even realizing it. A lot of survivors of medium looping skill still got out of tune pickle just because of this one perk.

On top of this you also head extremely good survivors, who could literally run some killers for 4 gens, who actually didn't needed this perk, bit ran it just in case. This survivors became nigh untouchable, because the strong effect was added to their considerable skill.

Now the new patch took away DH from most of the playerbase. The erstwhile amazing players are now still amazing at looping and will now just go down when they commit a mistake.

But the players who were only in their MMR bracket because DH boosted their survival rate beyond their skill? They get their crutch taken away and now literally planted their face nosedeep into the ground. They never learned how to loop beyond some basic tricks or how to escape a chase with trickery because they frankly never had to. This players are now in for a rude awakening and it sucks, but playing without DH is very possible, you just need to develop the proper skills. This will mean dying a good amount of times, and some players hate this, but the playing field has finally been leveled for the first time in years.

DH was so dominant and such an oppressive factor on the game that nearly everyone is feeling the Shockwaves right now. Again, I agree with you that its not good to rub it in and I try to make it easier on those players by playing, for the first time in month, by the survivors rulebook and going for maximum hooks were possible and by not tunneling. It feels like a gigantic slap of stone has been lifted from my shoulders and I can honestly enjoy playing killer again.

I've seen a post like that earlier. It makes no sense to me.

What does it stems from, beside immaturity? Ill-placed self-righteousness? I hope they grow up someday.

Yeah, true, everybody rightfully expects a bad killer to have NOED.

Having NOED in game gave me 3 kills just because of that expectation.

I didn't used it, but I counted on survivors counting on me having it, wasting time to ensure their absolute victory against the obviously inept killer and I got three of them with Bloodwarden xD. (I needed one out for the timing though.)

That NOED aura reveal timing was such a good idea, survivors are more hopeful to find it in time now. 😁

Unfortunately, survivors don't get to complain about it. They were the ones who normalized it to begin with.