Lets talk about upcoming mid chapter update

I hope they leave the meta perks, and buff some of the useless perks that no one runs.

Like: Corrective Action, Premonition, Calm Spirit, No Mither, etc.

Considering Dead Hard is currently the most complained about perk and Peanits hinted that the perk isn’t going to be changed soon, I’m gonna say no perks are getting nerfed except maybe some regression perks or possibly CoH.

Maybe Blood Rush if they realise it encourages tunneling.

Some Gen Regression Perks would be nice. Maybe Killer players would actually get better at the game.

Be careful what you wish for. Last time they changed Calm Spirit they thought it was a buff. And since then I have seen the Perk used even less (and it was super-niche to begin with).

There is a difference between buffing Perks a lot and making them unhealthy. Your examples are Perks which got buffed into unhealthy, because being unable to do anything for 25 seconds was just dumb. And Thana was a problem on certain Killers (which it still is, yet less people are running Thana on Legion or Plague, probably because there are enough attractive Slowdown-Perks around).

However, I would say that Buffs like Off the Record and Lethal Pursuer were really well done. I mean, you can argue that Off the Record also benefits from DS nerfed into being basically useless, but I can totally see OTR being used with 5 second DS as well. And I would not consider OTR problematic.

And Lethal Pursuer was already decent, but the additional effect made the Perk a lot more attractive to use since you did not have the feeling that you are playing with 3 Perks after a few seconds.

So it is possible to buff weaker Perks. The Devs just need to be more smart with it and test it - because I highly doubt they tested Eruption enough.

Oh sorry, I didn't mean not to buff weaker perks. I was referring to buffing them by "a huge amount".

What I'm meaning is yes we do need to buff weaker perks, but not above the level of the current meta. Eruption was terrible because they made it stronger than the old meta. Even if they hadn't nerfed Ruin or Pop, Eruption still would've been meta because it was just so much better. Eruption probably would've still seen use if they never buffed it simply because the old meta is gone.

So yes, buff weak perks but bring it to a balanced level and nerf the strong perks to the same level rather than making more overpowered perks to replace the current ones.

I mean what could they realistically do to change DH?

Reduce the "On-Hit" Sprit Burst by 10-20%? Reduce the time-window to 0.25 seconds? I mean they are surely ideas but people will adapt to the changes and people will just go back to complaining again, nothing will have changed.

Dead Hard, as a perk, will never be balanced in the eyes of the community since there will always be something to complain about it, then again, when is this community never complaining about something pointless or exaggerating.

Hey at least we got zero cooldown jolt

No nerfa for now, hoping for buffa on niche perks

And completely revert unneeded scream and scream perks nerfs

I dont think, that I would agree. I dont really care about OTR as mutch as old DS. I nearly dont see anyone use OTR as an offensive perk and if I see one, that run into my face and bodyblock to just get the OTR hit, than I will tunnel this person until he/she is dead. I only need to tunnel someone only once because of that. That to the offensive part, the deffensive part isnt that good for an anti tunnel perk. If you really want to tunnel just hit them right of the hook. This Deactivats OTR and BT.

No speed boost and a few seconds of no collision after it triggers.

Still great for greeding pallets, gets out of the way in chases in open space.

No

Generally speaking they need to stop nerfing as much and focusing on buffing all the bad perks. We want to widen the list of viable perks, not just replace them with something else.

That said, there are a few outliers that need nerfing/reworking as they're unhealthy for the game in their current state. That would be DH, CoH and PT. Other than those we need to focus on buffing bad perks. I generally think the rest the perks are fine.

CoB and OC are also fine. Since Eruption has been nerfed these perks aren't an issue.

Side Note: When picking what perks to buff they need to look at the ones for both sides that encourage fair and fun game play. For example, Grim Embrace is the epitome of encouraging fair game play and not rewarding tunneling. This perk should be at the top of the list for getting into the meta.

usage rate =/= powerfulness though. - Or put differently: Seeing the same numbers you could just as well get to the conclusion that survivors have way fewer viable perks which results in very high usage rates of very few perks while killers have a broader spectrum of viable perks, resulting in overall lower usage percentages per perk. --- Not to mention that, contrary to survivors, killers function very differently from each other and there are certain perks that are meta on some killers but not on others, which further spreads the percentage points across all perks.

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Tbh, I don't think there's much in the current meta to drastically change. - Dh is there, as always, but that's a can of worms in and of itself. Prove might get a change with all the whining that's going on --- but that would only further strengthen the split-on-gens-meta. It would flat out drop from the meta - with nothing to replace it, as of now. On the killer side... on their own all those perks are perfectly fine - for killer it's usually much more synergising effects that are the issue. So if anything I can see the regression perks collectively getting a "to a maximum of"-kinda line, to limit the stacking.