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What's the purpose of Potentional Energy?
Could somebody, please, explain to me how to use Potentional Energy? What's the reason for using this perk?
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Breaking a three-gen at the end of the match, or otherwise just taking care of the last generator quicker if you don't have a hugely decisive lead.
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Basically, you gather up charges from a safe gen, then finish said then, and dump all those charges on a riskier gen for a quicker repair.
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From what I have seen so far, the purpose of Potential Energy is to ######### over your team.
Have yet to see it used in a somewhat smart way. But whenever I see a Survivor using Potential Energy (which, thank God, is rare), I already know that this game is probably lost.
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You could have searched the forum. You would have found at least one other thread answering this question, if not more.
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Potential Energy is kinda situational in some aspect. It can help counter 3 gen situations, as long as you keep your charges. It can counter Merciless Storm (If you save enough charges). It can help you get a head start on a gen. Those are basically it's only uses.
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It can also counter Tinkerer....if you remair the Gen to just before Tinkerer goes off and then dump all your charges into it then unless the Killer is right near where your at they won't be able to get to you before you finish the Gen.
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Two main uses:
1) You're about to finish a gen and you know the killer won't bother you for a little while, charge Potential Energy just before the gen pops to get a head start on a riskier gen.
2) The killer is hard camping a 3 gen at 2 gens or more remaining. Charge Potential Energy on one of the gens outside of the 3 gen and use it to dump progress into the 3 gen quickly to try and break it.
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To sandbag your teammates. Seriously. It is clear to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the reason the perk exists is to sabotage progress.
Anyone saying otherwise is oblivious to the situation that the perk can actually be used in. That situation is the gen trifecta, where a killer is patrolling three gens. That means, the absolute ONLY situation where the perk could actually do a thing to help survivors, is the exact same situation where the killer will be going out of their way to hit you once and make you lose all of the saved up progress.
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I get it's usefulness but overall it seems like a big risk for little reward. I feel like most players with the right frame of mind to make actual use of it, are probably the sort of players who are conscious of 3 gen situations anyway. But ensuring that the killer won't get a hit on you to delete your stacks, combined with gen regression perks, I feel there's a fast potential for a killer to just eliminate anything you get from using the perk. Probably useful in well coordinated swfs though.
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"3-genning is unbeatable!" until you put 1/3 of a gen's progress on instantly, and that's just one person.
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To sandbag your teammates by trying to use it and then losing 30% gen progress in 1 hit.
For real tho it's a super all in anti 3 gen perk. Ether the killer is actually hard camping a 3 gen from minute 1 and ignoring the rest of the map or it's a missing perk slot.
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It's a perk that can be useful in clutch situations! It's definitely a perk with pros and cons, as you're banking on it being useful in a later part of the match, such as on a more guarded gen. ^^
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I use the perk because it has pretty blue lights and it makes me feel like im doing something different than just working on a Gen 😂
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It's quite deadly if the killer isn't careful.
If the survivors know that the killer is trying to defend a specific gen or guarding the 3-gen with their life, a simple 20% can make A LOT of difference albeit the user(s) don't get injured of course.
People are complaining bc they're seeing it used in soloQ but what's new? SoloQ sucks ass. A swf using this is good af.
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I've used it to great effects when dealing with one particular gen that a Killer wants to defend and the other people want to flock to it like moth to the flames. You can get a gen to like 90-95% and the killer chases everyone off, the killer kicks it. They chase someone, someone else gets on, gets kicked again, back and forth. It's a war of attrition where the Killer is effectively holding 2-3 people hostage and they will eventually close the deal.
With potential energy you can run to a safe gen, get full stacks, and when the Killer is distracted for 2 seconds you can nuke that gen to completion.
Very specific but the few times I did that it was entirely game changing.
It progresses the game, and it stops the other solos from killing themselves due to sunken cost.
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You use it when your solo teammates inevitably 3 gen you.
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1/5th. The in-built conversion rate clips a third of the progress absorbed.
That, combined with losing charges upon getting hit, means the perk has far more drawbacks than benefits, and there's no reason to bring this perk under any circumstances.
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