hey devs, why do you guys keep doing this?

Esque los desarrolladores no aprenden de sus errores. La verdad le dan mucho mucho valor a los supervivientes, tengan en cuenta a los killers tambien. Claro maten a erupción pero háganse a los ciegos con las premades con chat de voz comunicados en todo momento, que no es parte del juego y es una gran ventaja extra, o con la perks: demuestra lo que vales (demuestra el genrush), resiliencia, con los 4 survis con cajas de reparacion con recambio a tope. Para que sea equilibrado deberían tocar un poco esas perks también, no lloro por erupción pero lo justo es que también toquen las perks de genrush meta, o no debían destruir totalmente a erupción hay muy buenas ideas de cómo cambiarla sin destruirla en los foros, a la comunidad no nos gusta que hagan estas cosas por favor escuche nos. Sino de una vez deverdad que en la siguiente actualización que se pueda matar a los killer como en el juego de Jason xd allí haber si les parecera equilibrado, los killers podrán matar a los survis y los survis al killer :) equilibradisimo

Exactly. They decided to give this perk a completely pointless effect. It's not just other perks being better but other perks giving you what you need WHEN you need it.

Honestly, I'm almost willing to run Eruption every game and start heavily slugging beyond reason. I'm sure survivors and devs alike will be happy about that.

I just hope that when the mid-chapter rolls around, that we'll see at least some of the high number of second chance perks that survivors have access to, be reworked into something more manageable.

I'm not rooting for anything to be gutted, just properly reworked. Killer perks like pop, ruin, thana, and now eruption, have been gutted to the point to where they are worse now than when they started, and with survivors having access to perks that greatly increase generator speeds and extend chases far longer than they have any right to, it makes playing killer an absolute headache. There's a reason why killers would use slow down builds, because without them generator repair speeds and second chances are far too accessible to survivors, especially when they're using items that help aid their perks/objectives. It'll definitely be interesting to see what the stats are going forward without quality slowdown perks for killers anymore.

Here's hoping that things improve with the mid chapter, because right now quality perk design/fusion is seriously lacking, and that's for both killer and survivor.

I think what you said (before deleting it) was quite accurate.

There are plenty of killer mains who will admit that Eruption is overtuned, I saw them all the time on one of the gazillion Eruption posts, but this topic is also one where emotions flare up. And as always, no side or faction is a homogenious mass, you will always find all kinda opinions on both or all three or four sides.

That being said, yes, drawbacks and downsides can have their place when balancing a strong perk, but are often quite harsh or uncalled for and overshoot by a good margin. As the other guy said, gutting a perk is just lazy game design and not helping any perk variety. Switching one meta out for another is ok and even fun when its done regularly, but just meh when done at a glacial pace.

BHVR should nerf the 5 most played options on both sides and buff the 5 least played and repeat this process every month, with the added rule that last month perks are exempt from further buffs or nerfs this round. This would lead to a constantly changing and evolving meta thats more or less explored regularly by the player base. But right now it seems that things more often get changed when people yell loud enough. In the case of Eruption that yell is most likely justified, but it would be nice to finde a way to "balance" it without making it so bad that if is removed from the pool of played perks.

Something similar happens with all the calls for "we need this or that perk as basekit" or "roll x is basically unplayable without Y. Make that basekit asap!!111". If something is deemed by you to be so essential that you would wanna have it basekit, there is an easy solution: just equip the damn perk!! Many killers suffer in the early game, so Corrupt Intervention should be basekit, right? Well, no? Just equip Corrupt Intervention if you think you need it. Everytime we make something basekit, we lessen the pressure to actually wanna equip that perk, reducing perk variety and make more and more players pick the strong and known meta perks, because they get to have their cake AND they got to eat it too, no real downsides.

How many real BT have you seen in the last month? Or the month before that? Maybe two? And that were probably returning players after a longer hiatus that didnt know about the changes. No one plays BT anymore, because they frankly don't need to. Everyone just plays with the basekit BT and gets an extra shadow perk this way. So for the sake of perk variety we should not add anymore basekit perks AND should not nerf perks into the ground, but reign in the outliers, while making them still playable.

On this regard, DH is so strong, we could even run the perk on a token system, like say two tokens per game, while lengthening the effect time to 0,75s and it would still be played, because of its universal nature.