Please nerf Sprint Burst! I see 2-3 every match now!

I myself are using Lithe the most in my survivor games, just for the ease of activating it: basically every chase I'll be vaulting something and with some for thought can get away scott free without getting hit.

But I also have a soft spot for Overcome, just for the easy usage and lulz factor, especially if combined with Lucky Break and even better Inner Healing.

Of all the exhaustion perks I think that Spront Burst has und potential to be the singular strongest, but its also the hardest to get best usage out. 99% a Sprint Burst ain't easy and won't let you do many other things, and Sprint Burst users are sometimes bound to walk/sneak everywhere, so if that's the foil to them sprinting away, I am kinda ok with that.

Oh yes! Other exhaustion perks might surprise you, but a survivor who walks away from you while looking over their shoulder give up their paupers play immediately.

You see, it took me quite some while to figure out what the problem with this patch was. Its not only SWF vs Killers vs soloQ players, but its also different skill levels.

I am probably not at the highest reaches of the MMR system, but I am definitely not mid. In the past I even once reached the supposedly high MMR and had the most sweaty games were every single game felt like it was the dbd championship finals against seal team 6. You had to use every trick in the book and got invalidated by DH at every singel corner and barely got a foot on the ground, and even if you managed to get a few kills, it left you burned out.

I relaxed my stance subsequently, dropped a bit in MMR and probably ended up somewhere in high-mid to low-high MMR. Games were still super challenging, but I didn't have to give it my absolute max just to stay afloat and not sink. A few games were like this, against super organized SWFs, but most games were sorta ok and I won some, lost some. But DH ALWAYS had a stranglehold on the game.

Now the first day of the 6.1.0 patch the whole survivor front crumbled and ripped like wet toilet paper. Remember, in the higher reaches of the game 75% of the players used DH and a lot of them had learned to rely on that perk. The first 2 days were like an all-you-can-kill-buffet, everyone was in stupor and paralysis and just blankly stared at you while you slaughtered them and their peers. The MMR system was unable to deal with all the killing and everything was in jumbles and everyone got matches with everyone else. But over time things stabalized again, and now things in my MMR corner of the game look pretty much the same as before.

The survivors adapted super quickly to the new status quo and how killers got different recovery times etc and that they now had to loop instead of using DH, but frankly a lot of the better player already knew how to loop, they just got DH in the past on top of their pretty good skills.

Now people who are not in chase stick to gens, gens don't fly as fast as in the past, especially since often people team up in duo teams with Proof Thyself, but you can't make too many mistakes and leave them ideling for too long, or everything explodes in your face. The good players still loop like a god and greed palettes to the absolute max, they now just greed a little less and go for 2 loops instead of 3 or 4. Games feel a bit less stressful and fairer now, especially the disappearance of DH means that a survivor that missplayed now often gets hit and downed, but its not as if playing killer is somehow playing with cheat codes activated. Its still all pretty challenging and if you slack or whiff too many swings, then a game will easily end in a 0-1k. Oh yes, you can easily snowball if you keep the pressure up and its especially under pressure that some survivors commit the kind of mistakes that will get everyone killed and hand you a 4k, but thats not a "just turn your head off and plug the 4k" thing, far from it.

From what I gathered in the lower reaches things look quite different? I don`t know... I play about 50/50 killer survivor and I am definitely no great survivor, but I am decent. And I am not having all this trouples that some people discribe. Yes, sometimes I get camped to death, but thats definitely not every other game or even every game. Surviving is now challenging and not the default outcome of a match, but that just means that you have to pull your weight and do something to help your team, and not run half the match behind the killer in the hopes of scoring a juicy flashlight save.

I never used DH in the past, because I hated it so much as a killer player, so I learned how to survive without it from the very start, and I guess this skills help me now a lot, since I myself never had big problems against killers in the new patch, it was more the stupor of the other survivors. I kid you not, on the first couple days I had intire matches were I did all 5 gens! Thats ludicrous! But things got better and now I have pretty fun survivor matches again.

So no, developers aren't handing me free kills, which makes me immune to the effects of Sprint Burst, SB is just much more manageable then DH and gives you options. You don't have to chase every single survivor who SB away the moment you approach them, but you had to deal with every single 3 in 4 DH in play and see your efforts and good plays go to waste because the survivors knew how to use DH to its greatest effect.