Sprint Burst vs MFT
So since made for this came out I was using it in almost all my matches, prior to that I was running sprint burst in about all my matches.
I recently switched backed to using Sprint Burst and thought I'd share my opinion on this perk:
Is it good? Absolutely. Is it better than sprint burst? Well, on it's own no, but there is 2 aspects that make it debatable.
The first is that when running hope and mft you are nearly untouchable to most killers in the end game and the second is that it pairs very well with dead hard. Then there are some killers where MFT is almost certainly better such as singularity, but I think for most of the killer cast that's not the case.
MFT on it's own just does not compare to sprint burst for a lot of reasons.
1) MFT is simply a lot less effective against the stronger killers than sprint burst. Moving an extra 3% faster against a nurse, blight, wesker, oni, spirit, etc. has a very small impact. The 150% burst of speed from sprint burst can frequently make a big difference against them.
2) Sprint burst is more effective against killers playing hit and run. Whether that's a killer who gets a hit before returning to protect their 3 gen, or a stealth killer with some kind of anti healing build, sprint burst being active totally denies the element of surprise, which hurts any strategy involving stealth or catching survivors in dead zones a LOT.
3) 99 sprint bursts are often unexpected and can put the killer in a situation where they think they can get a hit on you when they actually can't causing them to waste a lot of time on something they never should have.
4) Any map that has a very strong structure or setup benefits extremly heavily from the burst of speed provided by sprint burst allowing you to reach those much stronger setups from much further away.
Do I think it could use any changes? Maybe to make it not work with DH/hope in some way, but that's besides the point. In my killer matches I haven't had too much of an issue with this perk, and my experience as survivor is that sprint burst is usually the better choice. I want to have a discussion about what you guys think. Is it better?
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Well, there's something I don't think you're accounting for.
Unlike SB, MFT has a second effect of being an anti slug perk. Heck, doesn't even need to be a slug; just heal someone in general. Heal someone you get 10 sec Endurance. Just because.
Furthermore, SB exist to help you reach resources. MFT does that (if you're injured, obviously) but also makes those resources stronger since you're still faster while able to loop tighter than the killer. If you're extra confident, you can just use the on-hit Burst when healthy as a psuedo SB with MFT to be functionally impossible to catch in a reasonable time (although, that requires balls of brass, ngl)
I agree it's weaker against the already top tier killers but... so was Original MoM. It doesn't make the perk fair.
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MFT does help you reach resources, but only when you are not cut off by the killer. If you have to run past where the killer is coming from to reach those resources which is often then case when trying to reach a specific very strong area sprint burst is better since you have to wait for the killer to not be between you and the area you want to go. MFT can give you one or 2 more loops usually but that does not outweigh the utility provided by sprint burst. Weaker killers rely on hit and run, dead zones, and 3 gens to win against strong players. Sprint burst is just far superior in all 3 of those situations. Then against stronger killers you generally prefer SB.
I've used MFT around 220 times and I can count on 1 hand the number of times the endurance effect has been useful. I don't think it's a huge deal.
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I've been running MFT for awhile now, and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've gotten value from the endurance part of the perk.
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