Has there ever been a perk that's as busted as current day Eruption?

As busted? Idk. But more busted I know a few: Off the Record, Circle of Healing, old Decisive Strike, old old Decisive Strike, old Dead Hard, current Dead Hard, Unbreakable, old Iron Will, Deliverance, old Mettle of Man, Prove Thyself, reworked Boil Over, Windows of Opportunity, Adrenaline, OG Self-Care, Lithe, Sprint Burst, Exponential, old Borrowed Time and old Spine Chill.

If all these perks are ok, then Eruption is also okay since it has much more counterplay to it.

So... basically any survivor perk with a moderately decent effect is busted?

Dude the perk is fine. I'm playing M1 killers and it's a nightmare without meta perks.

Busted? No, basically only Off the Record, CoH and Dead Hard are truly busted. However, more oppressive than Eruption? Sure.

That is a long time to deal with that perk. DH has nothing to do with this, so I'm not even going to talk about that.

Just because you haven't seen it in "your last 15 games" doesn't mean others are having the same experience. I'm seeing it in almost every game I play. I do believe it's busted and needs a change soon.

Eruption is not busted lol, its actually well balanced and really fair. It have a setup phase, and its 25 seconds, get over it, really.

I dont think i have ever lost a match to eruption, it have been prolonged... yes.

but hey, that is the purpose of anti gen perks.

How much time do you think a flashlight save cost the killer?

• but they are fine right? because thats the killer that loose time and not the survivors (btw.. the killer is the one in a hurry, because gens are getting done while he/she waste time and when the gens are done, the game is over).

Gens are going too fast as it is, for the slow moving killers anyway.

Let me put this video here, just to illustrate.

I had written a lot more text, but i think Otzdarva says pretty much what i wrote and more, so i see no point in repeating that.

The Incapacitated used to be 16 seconds and it was worthless. The only change it should get is the effect can only be applied for 45 seconds to a gen. If you don't down somebody in that time, then the effect is gone. If it procs, then it enters cooldown.

Eruption by itself is just destroying solo Q teams since they cant know when someone is gonna go down

easy way to change that perk while not making the perk useless , simple:

"when putting someone into the dying state , any gen affected by eruption will apply the next effects:

- 30% debuff to repair speed actions for 20 secs

-survivors will be affected by the hindered status effect during that time aswell

No more BS of being forced to do nothing during that time...and also a secondary effect for people that dont want to deal with the 30% debuff and instead prefers to leave the gen.

I simply love how everyone just loves acting high and mighty on a discussion thread for no reason.

Having just come out of several solo queue survivor games that lasted more than 20 minutes, one of which against a Nemesis on Haddonfield, who tunneled a survivor out of the game within the first minute, and then refused to move from a 3-gen zone or the remainder of the game, using only gen regressing perks, I can say that while it might not be bannable now, at the rate this is going, it might be soon enough, and yes, this perk should be nerfed, or significantly reworked.

First things first: you cannot compare the experience of a solo queue player at mid MMR with that of either higher MMR SWF players, or that of killers of any MMR themselves. Sure, you love the perk as a killer, you don't mind it in SWF teams with good communication and the right perks. As for newer players (those without the right perks to counter for example), and solo queue players, the perk feels wildly different. You don't have any way of communicating efficiently with teammates, and you can't just counter it like it's no big deal. The fact that it happens on a down makes it extremely hard to predict, without the injured teammate communicating about when they are about to go down. As things stand, there are no perks that actively prevent Eruption from happening, and very little ways of countering it, if any. All of you higher MMR/SWF players in general, as well as the killer mains, who defend the perk, need to get off your high horses, and realize that you don't represent the most of DbD's community.

Let's not forget that the video Otzdarva made to explain gen rushing takes into account a perfect situation where the killer doesn't interrupt the survivor repairing the generator. Let us also remember that the way most streamers and content creators play does not reflect the way the average player will play the game. The very childish reaction of telling people to "get good" or learn to play around it will not solve the issue at hand. Just like the old Dead Hard, and arguably the newer version, it's not only a matter of skill, as the perk is not easily countered. And even then, being forced to bring the exact same perks in every single match takes away all the fun, and frankly, the point of the game itself. I don't want to have to bring gen-rushing perks to every match, or Blast Mine, or Repressed Alliance, just because 90% of the killers I'll face have the same exact, idiotic gen-kicking build.

There are quite a few ways to change it to make it less oppressive. First, it could be made to only work upon hooking survivors so it's more predictable. The traps could have a time limit, like Blast Mine or Wiretap, and expire after a set amount of time, to prevent abuse of the perk on multiple gens. There could be an upper limit to how many gens can be affected at the same time, which would evolve as more gens are completed by survivors. Regardless, it needs some changes, and soon.

I am a survivor main and I agree that slow moving killers need good gen regressing perks. What I think is the problem is for some killers they are way too strong like any other perk. Perks should have different affect for different types of killers. Nurse can blink from gen to gen and use overcharge on 4 gens while pig will sweat her pants and maybe do it on 2... not mentioning nurse on small map and pig on big map. It shouldnt be that the same perk is OP for one and this is the problem