Would you Sandbag your teammates if it was perk related?

I think it's hard enough escaping as survivor without sandbagging, and that there's enough sandbagging without incentives, whether accidental or not.

I would not.

I don't speak for everyone, obviously some people would have a field day with this, but I don't think losing 30% progression on a gen (assuming failing 3 skillchecks to become the obsession) can have a worthwhile counterpart ever. The action speed boost would actually need to be massive to make up for the lost progression.

Look at it in reverse : would you, as killer, accept a survivor perk that puts instantly 30% of progression into a gen, with its drawback being that the survivor becomes exhausted/blinded for a long period of time ? Injured with mangled ? Or even exposed ? That would still be broken. (even assuming only one gets taken into the game by lobby).

I can't see a bonus that would be worth, even individually, the trouble you put the team through... Except MAYBE, something that has to do with hatch, and the perk would play the role of a "jumping the ship" once the survivor thinks it's impossible to win, and would sandbag to see hatch aura for example (to maintain the original spirit you intended of sandbagging others for personal gain, let's say the hatch switches places everytime the obsession changes, so it's impossible for all players to know where hatch is definitely).

Which is already kind of when most sandbags happen anyway.

So, I'm obviously not on board with the concept of encouraging toxic plays, but I'm also unconvinced people would actually play along.

That being said, I could see a killer perk that plays with how much a survivor annoys you through notifications : like if they've missed more than x number of skillchecks or fast vaulted / exited out of lockers while not in chase x times, they get exposed or their aura revealed (or KI) for a little while. It would not happen a lot, but it could find its place on certain impossible skillchecks builds.

For the put into broken, I think you're looking too far on the sandbag aspect.. As in, I think it would be neat concept in itself !

I don't know how it would be justified lore-wise, but a killer perk that makes it so that self-heals inflict you with broken for 30s/35s/40s. As in, you wasted 16s trying to heal, but now you're not only still injured but you're also broken. It would counter Circle of Healing and the medkit meta as now survivors would need to group up for heals.

Or, since CoH is gonna be nerfed again and probably into the ground, the opposite : Being healed by another survivor gets you broken and still injured for a 30s/35s/40s. As to not make healing completely impossible, the perk would be on a cooldown of maybe 60s, so that heals are now only possible after you've already wasted the time it takes for one health state. It would favor either self-heals, which hopefully would be less common once CoH gets nerfed, and take a lot of time, or big group heals, where all survivors are together and easy to find, and mostly, not on gens.

The second concept would probably be much too strong (or much too weak once the survivors catch on and if they have medkits), and require additionnal tuning, but there's potential in the idea ! =)

if it was a perk of a survivor and it would give some kind of buff like +2% to speed, then of course it would be a very strong tool in the right hands and swf