Killers aren't allowed to use fun or smart builds

I mean, yes, they did... But that also has literally nothing to do with the topic.

But again, why should survivors have to go out of their way to counter a perk the killer may or may not have?

They nerfed this Perk because of Nurse. If Nurse stops breaking the game and stops holding back Perk Design, you can have fun and smart Builds all you want.

But it was clear from the beginning that this Perk will go hand in hand with Starstruck on Nurse and the Devs nerfed the Perk instead of tackling the Problem itself (which is Nurse).

It's to keep the top killers from getting too op.

This trend is so rough, it just continues to kill perks with potential.

Honestly, the general idea of the Perk is great. It allows Killers who dont have a high mobility to get into a new chase pretty quickly. Basically the opposite of BBQ. While BBQ can be useful on Billy or Blight to get into Chases quickly, it is not useful for Killers who have low mobility. But Awakened Awareness would benefit those KIllers.

Nurse with Starstruck just breaks it.

You can after the first time you see the nurse has starstruck. It's only a surprise the first time it happens. And even then, if you see a nurse you could just assume it's starstruck and get away from her when she gets a down. It shouldn't be that hard. The cooldown on a successful attack is 2.7 seconds and nurse fatigue is 3 if she uses both blinks. It also takes 1.5 seconds to pick up a survivor. So you have a total of 2.7 + 3 + 1.5 = 7.2 seconds to get away from her. In that time you can travel 4.0 m/s meaning you can get 28.8 meters away before starstruck kicks in.

You have to basically be standing next to her (remember lunge range is 6 meters) in order for you to not be able to escape the starstruck.

Isn't this the very definition of exhaustion perks? A survivor approaching a hill/walking/moving towards a vault point all have a killer wondering "what exhaustion perks are they runnin" and doing a corresponding action for a perk that the survivor might or might not have equipped. You'll know after the first instance of seeing them run/drop/etc. but that isn't the exact same as agi+starstruck? You'll know after the first instance of someone being in the TR after pickup that the killer has starstruck and can react accordingly for the rest of the trial.

Yea let me just leave 20 seconds early to avoid instantly going down to a killer because they're running agi + starstruck. No other killer has this type of potential using starstruck/instadown perks it's ridiculously free

are you seriously complaining about aura perks

Yeah, I think she should be looked at, all I see these days are nurses with star-struck. I would be happy if they made her blink attacks special attacks.

You're allowed to run whatever you want in the game. I'm still gonna run this perk for fun.

They need to deal with SWF first, shes the only killer capable of handling those types of players.

Killers should go into a match thinking that the Survivors are using the strongest perks

And Survivors should go into a match thinking that the Killers are using the strongest perks

Also this game has become about what perks are used and not what Killer is being played

Ah yes because Nurse is notorious for having an attack cooldown AND fatigue, it isn't like its only fatigue or anything. Survivors only get 4.5 seconds to run away that's 18 metres of distance. Less distance than a single base kit blink covers.

So the first one is true, but so is the second. Its not that the devs are survivor sided so much as they bend over backwards to appease poor survivor play. Many survivors don't get better bcause they don't need to get better, they still win an adequate number of games just by being carried by various safety nets, second chances, and the fact that they have 3 other players who very well can be carrying them (yes, this even applies to solos.) They continue rewarding bad play while not incentivizing smart play, so the only ones who improve are the ones who actively try to.

Killer is trial by fire in every sense of the word. You very well can (and often do) suffer a lot of punishment in your attempt to improve, with much less to fall back on. There still isn't even an option to practice killer powers and or work out addons without having at least another person willing to be your training dummy to even access the practice mode (which will eventually be rectified, thankfully.)

Here's where the discordance happens: As killers suffer through it and actually improve, games become much more reasonable for them. They rely less on going against survivors worse than they are, and instead start working out more advanced strategies and juggling more mechanics simultaneously. Thats part of why veteran killer players don't really see the struggle of most inexperienced ones, the game might have been completely different when they were in those same shoes. Likewise, as survivors improve they see how many other survivors get absolutely carried and have not developed the skills or strategies that other experienced players often do. They see the ragequits on first hook, DCs when a nurse screeches, and every other form of ruining the game for their team. Its especially why they hate solo queue, because there isn't much reason to actually improve as you are sharing agency and the game doesn't want you to have more.

So basically, the devs need to be smarter about their changes. Stuff like the changes to wesker's power was a great example, it helped both sides compared to how it was before. It gave both the killer and the survivor more individual agency on whether the attack connects or not by removing issues that affected survivors ("but i dodged that how did it hit!") and killer ("What the hell did i brush up against that stopped me mid lunge?")

Thats like saying "survivors aren't allowed x because coordinated SWFs are in the game." The game is directed by chaos, not balance.

A situational meme build on any killer

an absolute monster on Nurse

"starstruck agi"