COB-Overcharge-Eruption, the broken combo

This 3-perk combo is the single most busted setup in the game currently. Let's talk about each perk individually, which ones are problematic, which aspects are problematic, and why the combo itself amplifies the problems with each perk significantly.

Let's start with COB. Possibly the least problematic perk in the stack. For 60 seconds after kicking ANY gen, it will regress a gen at 200% speed (-0.5 charge/second, or -30 charges in 60 seconds, aka 33% of the gen), and will double as an info perk if someone happens to hit non-Great skill checks on a generator, which good players can typically do pretty consistently. Taken at face value, and at the highest level of play, this is a regression perk that will eat, at most, 33% of a generator in one minute before reverting back to regular regression speed, while also requiring a kick. In my honest opinion, there is nothing inherently problematic with this perk.

Now, Overcharge. Overcharge will gradually ramp-up the speed at which a generator regresses from 75% of base speed to 200% of base speed over 30 seconds. Additionally, Overcharge generates a difficult skill check, which will regress the generator by 15% if it's missed. On its own, Overcharge isn't terribly problematic. It gives killers a way to ensure a gen regresses quickly if they're willing to commit the time to camp it, and punishes survivors for leaving generators unmonitored for long periods of time. I do think there are some aspects to this perk that are overly punishing, especially when there is a weaker player on the team. The skill checks can be difficult to hit after match fatigue sets in. Examining a somewhat similar regression perk - Oppression - which triggers a difficult skill check for 3 random generators currently being repaired, or causes them to start regressing if no one is on them. Oppression has a cooldown of EIGHTY (80) SECONDS. The fact that Overcharge can trigger an infinite skill check every time a generator is kicked, which also eats additional progress if failed, with no cooldown, as well as ramp-up the regression speed of a generator so quickly all the way up to 200%, is far too powerful. The perk has far too many things going for it. In my opinion, the ramp-up needs to start lower (say 50%), and increase over a longer period of time (say 60 seconds). The skill checks need to be either more generous with the success zone, or go entirely.

And lastly, for the worst offender, Eruption. Eruption will activate when the killer kicks ANY gen, will STAY active when the gen hits 0%, will eat 10% progress from the gen while it is active when a survivor is downed by any means, and will incapacitate anyone who happened to be working on the generator for a whole 25 seconds. The biggest slap in the face? Eruption has a cooldown of THIRTY (30) SECONDS. This perk is beyond broken, and stands head and shoulders above every other regression perk in the game. I'll examine the issues with the perk. First of all, there is no indication that a generator currently has Eruption active. Even a gen at 0% can be unsafe to work on. Secondly, there is no indication that the perk is about to trigger. Unlike Pain Resonance where you can see when a hook is about to happen, a teammate going down is impossible to predict accurately and consistently. Thirdly, 25 seconds is an absurdly long time in DBD. That's almost a third of a generator, a full heal and some change, a totem cleanse, and so on. During this time, a survivor is entirely useless; you cannot do totems, you cannot do gens, you cannot heal, you cannot use items. You're essentially dead weight. Lastly, the 30 seconds cooldown. Eruption's cooldown is so short that by the time a survivor begins to recover from the previous proc, you can kick another gen, get another down, and make the survivor useless again. It's beyond absurd that this perk continues to exist in this form.

So is Eruption a slowdown or a regression perk? Ironically, it's arguably the most powerful perk in both categories. In terms of regression, it provides a 9-second regression on each generator kicked that currently has at least 10% progress on it. Compared to Pain Resonance, another strong regression perk, which requires you to find one of four hooks, and eats 13.5 seconds of progression from ONE generator. As far as slowdown goes, Eruption will cause every single survivor hit by the perk to be useless for 25 seconds. By contrast, the next most powerful slowdown perk is Deadlock, which locks the generator with the most progress for 30 seconds whenever a generator is completed. In a perfect world, this gives you 2 minutes of guaranteed slowdown across a game. In order to exceed this value, Eruption needs to hit 5 survivors. Not to mention that Eruption becomes significantly more valuable in late game 3-gen situations where survivors are forced to try and knock out the last gen quickly while fighting a battle of attrition against the killer.

So what is the most egregious thing about this combo together? Plenty of other perk setups have very strong synergy. This combo in specific incentivizes, and amplifies one of the worst and most boring playstyles currently available in the game: 3-gen camping. How does it do this? Let's look at the numbers. First off, assuming I'm doing my math right, Call of Brine+Overcharge will start a generator's regression at 175%, at which point it will slowly ramp up to 300% over the course of 30 seconds. Over those 30 seconds, a generator loses about 18 seconds' worth of progress, at which point it begins to lose .75 seconds' worth of progress every second for the next 30 seconds, or 3x the normal regression speed. During this time, if any survivor happens to tap the gen, they have to succeed at a great skill check (while possibly being pressured by the killer), or they will lose another 13.5 seconds of progress. If any survivors happens to get downed during this time, the generator loses another 9 seconds of progress. If any survivor happens to be ON the generator during this time, they will be useless for 25 seconds. Is this beginning to paint a picture on why this combo is so busted?

So what's the solution? Imo, Eruption needs to get nerfed into the ground. Incapacitated needs to either go entirely, or be reduced to something tiny like 5 seconds. The regression % can be increased slightly in order to still make it viable. Call of Brine+Overcharge should not stack with each other. The game should prioritize one or the other, but not both at once. They simply provide far too much value and far too much regression in too little time. Lastly, the cooldown on Eruption needs to be cranked up to 40-45 seconds. And as a final note, the other current regression/slowdown perks that are outside the meta (like Oppression and Grim Embrace) need to have a second look taken at their values. If a perk like Eruption which gives constant value throughout the game and provides BOTH slowdown and regression, moreso than two perks combined, there is a real issue with balance somewhere. It's absolutely inexcusable that this combo continues to exist in the game in this form, and I've seen even some of the worst killers I've ever gone up against gets carried to a 2-3k while using this.