Does Eruption need changes?

I mean, technically all SWF that solo doesn’t is voice comms. So not only it would say this specific issue but also other ones as well.

No it wouldnt, what about different languages? A chinese, korean, japanese and far east russian or an USA citicen, a haitian and a mexican.

But SWFs are almost always done by people who share at least one language and comunication is what counters Eruption, not aura reading seeing your companion auras doesnt alert you when someone is going to get downed unless you are also seeing the Killer aura, you see someone hurt but you dont know how close is the Killer, he may be 20 meters away or swinging for the down.

There would be a language barrier in more cases than not, Europe and Asia have more players than USA and even then USA can get paired with Mexico and the rest of central America, then there is middle east, Iranians and Israelis dont speak arab and the arab speaking world doesnt speak yiddish or persian, as far as I know Australia is paired with East Asia. You cant adjust the servers for Europe nor Asia because that would reduce the pool of players enormously in some countries.

Hell even at certain times Ive got japanese people on my lobbies with full japanese bios on their profiles and speaking japanese kanjis on chat so Im 99,99% sure they were real japanese and not weaboos trying to put an act.

Think of vhs and the pings would work like that, also who the hell is in the uk region playing with someone who only speaks Chinese? that's not how the regioning works in this game you would have to be using a VPN. If you are well then thats on you for going to a region whos language you cant speak.

In Europe, I played DOTA2 several years, a game with inbuilt voice comms, it was useless as a team tool, most often than not it was even a hindrance and I usually muted almost everyone who used it because they werent using it for its intended purpose.

Lets describe how most matches where you actually had a team who could understand at least one language went, first of all teenagers screaming and throwing tantrums (this happened almost always), different nationalities bickering among eachother (in 2014 it was impossible to play if your team had russians and ukrainians because they would sabotage eachother, imagine nowadays...), people who could understand but couldnt speak fast enough to get any real use out of voice, burps, music, music spam, burps spam, music AND burps spam, edgelords being racist/sexist just for the sake of it, xenophobia, people repeating what others said but with a silly voice, people getting pissed at that, dogs barking in the background nonstop (special mention to dachshund, yorkshire and bichon frise owners, small dogs but powerful lungs), some weirdo playing Hitler's speeches over the mic and a long list of absurdity.

That being said sometimes you could actually die of laughter, once there was this guy who started arguing with his wife/girlfriend over the mother in law and we got to hear ALL of it, it was 30 minutes nonstop bickering, some dude with a chatbox spamming Duke Nukem quotes, a guy trying to convince the team the world was ruled by the Illuminati etc.

And as I said, this was when at least the 5 players could understand the same language (usually english) but usually around 50% of matches there was at least one or two people who couldnt understand a single word of anything but their native, they could understand written small orders like "defend" "go mid" "go top" "jungle" etc but other than that? not a single word, especially not spoken, in the end the inbuilt voicecom started to fall into disuse because it wasnt useful.

You dont need a chinese player to have someone not understanding english, in my country I can guarantee half or more of internet players dont speak english very well and much less understand it when someone speaks at a fast pace and its not a small country you can find players from here on a daily basis, there are several countries with the same "problem" in Europe. Then again, you have Asia, I believe China, Japan and South Korea are paired together and they dont speak the same languages and english there is even less spread than here.

It does nothing to "make it balanced" because it has virtually 0 effect on SWF who can just call out that they're going down, making it a worse Jolt. Solo Survivors, the weakest role in the game, get absolutely demolished by it moreso than any other single perk.

Letting the gen go after someone has been injured? You know someone injured can still run the Killer for a lot of time, right? Are you supposed to not touch the generator until you see the guy being downed? Eruption is totally busted, every activation adds 9 seconds per gen affected and if someone is caught adds another 25 from incapacitation for a total of 34 seconds of stalling, no single perks gives so much with such meager requirements, a kick and a down.

Lets compare it to other similar shaving progression and mostly unavoidable perks

• PGTW: same exact requirements and it can give you max 18 seconds of stalling on one gen (assuming you kick a gen at 99%).
• Surge: requires only a down, gives 8 seconds per gen affected and it may affect 3 gens tops for a total of 24 seconds (except on layered maps which can affect many more).
• Pain Ressonance: requires a down and a Scourge gives 14 seconds on one gen.

Now you put Eruption in 3 gens and you get 27 seconds (9 per gen) and if you catch 2 Survivors there is only 1 person being able to progress the objective for 25 seconds, on top of that incapacitated players cant do anything but hide in a locker and wait, they cant even unhook.

Enjoy Eruption while it lasts because its time will come eventually.

Yeah, they should reduce the time the survivor remains Incapacitated but increase the instant regression.

Perk is not fine.

When a perk has no counterplay for a massive majority of the playerbase (soloQ), no that is not healthy.

The Incapacitated should be removed entirely. It makes the perk absolutely braindead on 3 gen situations. Maybe buff the regression to 15% to compensate, although it would still be a decent perk even without this (this just shows how broken the perk is currently, when it can be nerfed and still be one of the strongest perks)

So an unavoidable DMS+Pain Resonance that can affect multiple gens at the cost of a kick and without the need of using a Scourge Hook, yep, sounds super balanced.

Yes, I think that suggestion is still too strong for a perk with no counterplay for half the Survivors and very little investment, Eruption needs a bigger nerf than that because your suggestion is just a better version of two already good perks paired together.