Pain Res + Mericiless Storm was fine
All this doom and gloom and fighting over the return of PS + DMS didn't need to happen. The interaction between PS and MS was was so corner-case and minor to be a joke, and BHVR could have safely ignored it.
IF you hook somebody AND it's on a scourge hook AND somebody is on a gen AND that gen is over 90% AND it was never over 90% before THEN they get a bunch of skill checks. Big deal? Either the survivor passes them all and has a cool clutch moment they can feel good about, or they fail one and that's that. The game wasn't breaking.
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It is not as though any buffs or nerfs are made because something is gamebreaking. That is what killswitch is for.
These are just made arbitrarily. Of course it was fine, as many other perks were before they got gutted (BBQ being the one that hurts the most).
The only perk that NEEDED changed was DS free escape, and only that aspect of it. It could have even used compensation buffs to get rid of the conspicuous actions caveat.
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Imagine they wanted to do something about the interaction between MS and PR.
Imagine they just made the MS skill checks active for a set amount of time.
No. Let's instead ressurrect another perk combo interaction that they openly wanted wanted to remove in the previous patch.
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Im confused that was a perk combo? I genuinely never play against it
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"Hmm, this pain res+merciless storm interaction is rare, and funny when it happens. Let's address this by gutting mettle of man"
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I don’t understand what’s problematic about pain resonance + merciless storm.
Merciless storm only activates once per gen and the skill checks are kinda hard, but not impossible. Especially when more than 1 survivor is on the gen.
I feel like they were looking for an excuse to bring back PR + DMS. I mean they could’ve just changed merciless storm?
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So the old combo was pain res + dead mans switch. Pain res would make you scream and let go of a gen and dead mans switch would then block that gen for 45 seconds
new combo was Pain res + merc storm. Pain res wouldnt kick you off the gen with the recent patch causing the gen to regress. If you happened to nearly have the gen done and where doing the skill checks for merc storm it would cause more skill checks to be needed because merc storm is active till the gen completes. i believe it totaled 40 merc storm skill checks.
As a killer I barely ever run pain res with dead mans switch before the patch as blocking the gen would remove the regression that pain res has.
I think this update is a fair one because they have still removed the notification of which gen has been hit by pain res but if your running it with dead mans switch you could then get notified. Basicly 2 perks to get notified and regress instead of 1.
It is so easy to counter as a survivor. Once you know they have pain res you just let go of the gens before someone gets hooked then you get back on the gen. Killer doesnt get dead mans switch and you stop the ongoing regression. Most of the time if Dead mans switch doesnt activate a killer won't come to a specific gen they will go looking for survivors because the assumption is no one is on a gen.
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In addition to that, doesn't this just make the combo even stronger?
Because now the gen interrupts, meaning merciless storm will block it instantly. Basically instead of having a chance to potentially hit 40 skill checks in a clutch moment you instead just get a big chunk of progress lost, a blocked gen, and the middle finger.
Like what? It makes no sense.
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Exactly. These changes don't make any sense. PR + Storm was literally not an issue at all.
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Also you can literally do the exact same thing with jolt
WHERE ARE MY JOLT CHANGES BHVR? OP PERK COMBO ALERT.
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I agree this is one of the most stupid changes I've ever seen. If devs really don't like the effect on Merciless Storm, just give it a limited number of skill checks it can trigger. The point is that the problem is clearly on Merciless Storm, not the other perks. What about jolt anyway? What about potential future regression perks? They should just make a simple fix on Merciless Storm instead of messing with other perks, having more things to worry about in the future, and also nerfing DMS for no reason of its own (now DMS basically has to be used with Pain Res. On its own it's garbage. It can take 20 seconds for a killer to find the gen being worked on after hooking a survivor, so it would only block the gen for 30s - 20s = 10s. WITHOUT DMS, the survivors may not be able to work on the gen for 10s anyway if they are driven off of it. This is again just back to more limiting build choices for killers, not to mention PS + DMS is just punishing solo q while doing nothing to SWF when the solo q SWF gap is clearly already the biggest problem the game needs to urgently address at the moment.)
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Ds was not free escape it punished tunneling and survivor had to hit skill check to even do that. To reach endgame survivors had to also play well and that point they definetely deserve to have chance to escape.
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I really don't understand the logic here. If there is any...
Also the change to Mettle of Man is very questionable. If anything it makes me want to use the perk even less.
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"Skill-Check hard, free escape fair!".
DS during EGC was unfair, no matter how much you may try to spin it. Just because the Survivor made it to late-game doesn't mean they deserve to escape
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You can thank Le Reddit for overblowing a situation that would likely only happen 1/100 games if that. Oh well, guess they'll really have something to complain about when the combo returns and you see it much more often than that.
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Killer usually makes mistakes when that happens so it was fair. I maybe got hit total 3-5 times with ds at EGC in over 1000 matches I have played.
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"Hurr durr, Killer make a single mistake, Survivors are owed free Escapes".
Wonder how'd it be if same went for Survivors
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Yeah, or they could have limited to about the same amount of checks than the perk alone.
Maybe they saw something else that they aren't telling (because they feel it's not really relevant)
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I mean, the slowdown perks in general needed a change with all the basekit changes. If the gens were upped to 90 seconds but all slowdown perks remained the same, while camping and tunneling remained the same(its less awful nowadays, even though the change is barely noticable), then I would have expected 60% of the playerbase to drop out untill the changes were reverted
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If it's the endgame and you were just unhooked, that is your chance to escape. It was a 100% free escape in the endgame, not just for the survivor using it, but for anyone they were abusing it to bodyblock. In most games, there was just no mathematical way to play around it.
I don't give a ######### about 3 seconds vs 5 seconds, but it needed to deactivate during the endgame, yes.
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It is BHVR, pal.
Why are you expecting logic?
Why are you expecting good things?
This is a mistake.
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It was never issue for me I always managed to slug them before they could make it close to the gate and waited the timer or I just got the one doing save down. But best counter ofcourse is win the game before endgame and in most matches I did just that.
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