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Background Player

Horror_Gaming
Horror_Gaming Member Posts: 275
in General Discussions

Should the perk work if you are picked up and break free of the killers grasp as well? This would mean if you are flashlight saved, wiggle free, pallet saved, or DS in the time frame then you are also given the speed boost. Would this be to strong or a nice buff?

Comments

  • Emeal
    Emeal Member Posts: 5,298
    edited March 2023

    Might be too powerful.

    We could also let Smash Hit work with DS, I think that would be really nice.

    Sure its a strong synergy, but Synergy that works against tunneling is okay in my book.

  • MiniPisa
    MiniPisa Member Posts: 31

    Are you saying the person who is being picked up has the speed boost?

    Honestly wouldn’t hate this as a separate perk, like “when you flashlight save/pallet save someone they gain a speed boost” blah blah. Though I can see why it could be paired it with Background player, I think it could be too frustrating for killer players against an organised team

  • GillyBeannn
    GillyBeannn Member Posts: 554

    I feel we could create a whole new exhaustion perk for that because I had the same idea too. whenever you break from the killers grasp by any means then you gain a 150% speed boost for 4 seconds. the reason being 4 seconds is because it takes one second to get off the killers shoulder. So yeah, make it a new exhaustion perk in the future and leave background player to it's unique way of working

  • HugTheHag
    HugTheHag Member Posts: 3,140

    Honestly it could.

    Might be too powerful, but doing a separate perk for it would be too situational and therefore trash 90% of the time.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    Then they would have to rename the perk Foreground player