Eruption is poorly designed.

The perk should notify them when they get incapacitated. It informs solos that the perk is there so they know to counter it. It doesn’t nerf it against swf cause there already aware of it. Giving the information to solos will help it out

Yeah, the new Eruption is frustrating for a lot of reasons.

1. In solo queue it's very hard to tell exactly when a survivor is going to go down
2. You cannot tell the other survivors that you are incapacitated so they just run up to you teabagging for a heal and you have to stare at them like an idiot
3. It might not seem like it, but 25 seconds is a LONG TIME. At least with DMS you could go cleanse a totem, heal, open a chest, etc.....Eruption? I just have to stand there and twiddle my thumbs.

Having a visual indicator that someone is incapacitated would be nice - perhaps a small glow of chains around a survivor or something. But also, I'd rather they revert the buff to incapacitation and buff it in a different way. I actually have a whole folder of clips where a killer was saved from me beamer saving by getting Eruption value BEFORE the buff, so the incapacitated value wouldn't be useless, it just wouldn't be extremely boring.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure how you'd buff it without basically making it better POP. Maybe a buff to how many times you have to kick? Kind of like how you use Oppression and it starts other gens regressing. Perhaps it could count the 2 other closest gens as being kicked? I think if the Incap time was nerfed a bit, this wouldn't be so bad, and would save time kicking. Obviously they wouldn't activate kick perks automatically, but they would explode from Eruption.

Maybe they could buff Eruption so that it incapacitates all survivors for 30 seconds, not just the ones who are doing gens. This would make it more fair by preventing it from being able to be countered by SWFs.

They could do something similar with DMS. All generators that were worked on in the past minute could be blocked for 45 seconds every time you get a hook to make it more fair.

Maybe they could also make it so that if a survivor's been on the hook for more than 15-20 seconds and you haven't started moving towards it, there's a stackable anti-scoring event where the Entity takes half of your bloodpoints at the end of the match.

My idea is that they make any survivor within 16 meters or something of that generator suffer from the incapacitated status effect. It would make sense considering the perk is basically implying you are putting a bomb in the generator.

Eruption is pretty hard to time even with coordinated groups depending on the killer unless you get off super early

Considering eruption can be countered with communication, I'd take this as a killer. A nice buff. The incap is too easy to avoid, so while it's great, it's not as useful as I'd like.

it works as intended, it needs no change.

First of all it has a cooldown, second, it needs the kick, third, you can simply counter it by working on another gen while the killer is chasing instead of the one he just kicked

Or you could Gen tap... to stop the regression then just wait till someone goes down

You know paying attention to how the Killer plays... That's not a Solo nor SWF favored... it's gamesense favored

Incapacitation itself is an questionable desigend effect. You are being put into spectator mode basically.

I think what it should do is reduce affected actions speed up to 80%, so you at least dont just spectate

"Just don't do gens for 5 min, lul". How am I supposed to know what my solo queue teammates are doing? Why should I sit AFK until someone goes down in order to do any gens?

They need to understand that, 25s is not the end of the world, like, ok u are incapacitated but the killer is not even on you, so the survs can hide or go to another place, and then when is safe return to the gen and probably finish the gen.

If the others survs are downed easily and eruption is get in their ass, is not the perk fault.

My brother play soloQ and he never complained about eruption, PR+DMS and others shits, like u said "ok, killer have eruption", he just complain about one thing, sometimes, SOMETIMES, he is abandoned on hook, after making a lot for the team.

That soloQ problem never hurt him, he have in fact a lot of random team that he played with and was like playing SWF.

It's one thing to know that the killer has Eruption when early on, you can usually find one gen they haven't kicked. But when it's late game and the killer only has a few gens left and keeps going between them to kick them with Eruption and then get in a chase, do you just not do any gens or get incapacitated and stand around doing nothing?

I agree 100%. I’ve never liked the perk even before it was buffed, but it was rarely used before so it didn’t get much attention. But yes, it hurts solos far more than SWFs because solos don’t have a reliable way to counter it. But on top of that, 25 seconds is also just way too long regardless to not be able to do anything, and the scream effect also disproportionately affects solos for the same reasons.

An idea I had for it was to remove the scream and incapacitated effects entirely, and instead the gen gets blocked for 12-14 seconds when the perk triggers, regardless of whether or not it was being worked on. This means SWFs can't let go to counter it, but it has a shorter duration and also no longer inhibits other actions, giving it more counterplay. It may also be fair to increase the regression to 12%, to counter the fact that if the gen erupts while no one is working on it, the gen being blocked will prevent it from passively regressing over time for a bit.

Also just going to say: Incapacitated should not be used in this way for long periods of time. It makes sense for Victor and Pinhead's chains because they are actively designed to make you deal with them before doing other actions. But on a perk like this, it just becomes incredibly boring to play against and non-interactive.