Changing perks according to what you see survivors bringing into match

Power moves isn't actually a hard achievement to get, I've done it 10 times over in solo queue post 6.1.0 (though can only really prove 42 games since the others I didn't have time to loot a chest, the masquerade flashlight was stolen off a dead person). Complaining that killers take perks like lightborn, franklins, or starstruck to deal with flashlight saves (Which as a reminder means one less slowdown perk) is literally a skill issue

The only things a killer can even bring that effect items are Franklins, Lightborn, and a drop item addon like Bubbas Begrimed Chains addon or Legions Stolen Sketchbook addon. All of these do nothing if survivors don't bring items (or don't bring the right kind of item in case of Lightborn) and pretty much require at least 3 survivors to be bringing something to even be close to worth it (if you're not a killer like Hag that autoloses to a flashlight or Trapper that autoloses to a map) so removing the ability to see if survivors are bringing items would basically drop the pick rate of those perks to 0% outside of Hag and maybe Trapper as a serious pick (killers that do "haha funny item thief" meme builds would still use it though)

Lightborn is bad because flashlights are already pretty weak items so using a perk against them isn’t really worth much. In fact the more survivors you see with flashlights the better off you probably are that match. So regardless of what happens in the lobby you probably shouldn’t use Lightborn honestly.

Franklin’s is useful regardless of the lobby because it is unusual for survivors to have no items at all going into a match. It doesn’t really matter much if they bring a toolbox versus a medkit, for instance, you’ll get value out of Franklins provided they have an item. So again you don’t need to see the lobby to get value from Franklin’s.

Basically neither of these perks is good or bad because of seeing people on the lobby. Lightborn is usually bad either way, and Franklin’s is consistently “ok” regardless of what they bring.

It's their right to adjust based on what they see.

You also need to adapt as a survivor (SoloQ). Say you join a lobby with a flashlight, you find 2 others with flashlights; That's a guaranteed franklins/lightborn 90% of the time.

Same with toolboxes, 2-3 toolboxes, you can expect the killer to go heavy with slowdowns/franklins. Try to hide/change your strat based on your teammates. Say i find one with a flashlight, i usually remove mine and get a flashbang for example to not force the killer into bringing anti-perk or even switch my build to a gen pressure one.

And now for my toxic advice, you can always last second switch (Don't bully me) :P

I use it because I'm sick of the the blinds that make no feasible sense that work like looking at a wall and they get a blind at a 180° angle or when I don't feel like doing the whole dance around with 2-3 flashlights trying to hook one survivor.

Then we have unavoidable blinds like at pickups or at locker grabs when the Killer has no wait to stop the blind unless the Survivors get the timing wrong (which isn't hard to get wrong)

So are you going to read my comment.... Try thinking of what the Killer goes through instead of what you go through

I think you need to accept your personal bias about the killer role does not mean killers need this specific nerf. Considering in other posts you've outline in this topic you talk about your teammates griefing you, but you are still focused on making it about the killer being at fault.

I think it's safe to say no amount of changes would actually make you happy.

Dude, if the whole team is locking you and teabag you and the killer is ok with them just leaving, it really might have something to do with you.

Wait - "I kept running by the gen she was doing" - so you repeatedly led the killer to the gen that a team-mate was working on? Sounds like you were griefing her first, to be honest, and that likely had something to do with why she wouldn't take a protection hit for you.

Okay, she still shouldn't have bodyblocked you but it's at least more understandable.

Yeah no… this is why killers should be allowed to see what items survivors bring into the lobby.

If a killer brings say Lightborn because survivors have flashlights... they probably are not the best at killer in the first place and need all the help they can get. You could change killers in the lobby of course but now you have to back out entirely if you want to change killer

Surv team:

4 survs

16 perks

4 offerings

up to 4 items, potentially 8 total addons

So yeah, I am not seeing the injustice in letting the killer see the items here. And again, if you're really dead set on pulling one over on the killer, you can last second switch.

Being solo doesn't change that the other survivors have 12 perk slots to use.

I also play solo 90% of the time and I really don't struggle unless I get teammates who rage quit at the start of the match.

Yeah, it makes life easier if to know what your teammates are running, but whether swf or solo, the killer still has to account for all that mess regardless.

Also, like you I only really struggle and get put out by rage quitters. That is my #1 frustration with solo play, by a mile. The killer being able to see my medkit or toolbox doesn't even register.

For sure. Unless you're an inexperienced killer or the survs have some flashlight hacks, flashlights aren't a big deal at all.

That said, every once in a great while I'll peg a team as a flashlight bully squad in lobby and bring Lightborn just for the lulz, but that's rare. And the reality is that most of your lightborn users run it every time, so seeing items in lobby doesn't really move the needle there. Killers who know how to deal with flashlights don't bother.

And Franklins is annoying, but only because it is run so infrequently that I often don't notice it right away when I do get hit with it, which is a me problem.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I've played plenty of matches where some surv (or worse yet, a coordinated team) with a nuclear powered flashlight has blinded me from what felt like impossible angles (like nose into a long wall) or though tiny gaps, and while those stick in my brain, they just aren't that common.

I would estimate roughly that maybe 1 in 20 flashlight save attempts against me succeed, and most of them are in deadzones.

And of course, there are always hackers out there. But none of these are enough to get me to run Lightborn with any regularity.