Why dont BHVR create new universal perks,and useful ones that is

I actually like unlocking universal perks in my bloodweb, especially on survivor since I don't have a main. It gives me a joy idk why.

Also all the perks you mentioned are chase perks, which yeah new survivors will have to learn how to loop. I would recommend Deja Vu, and Prove Thyself aswell.

To answer your question. It is more profitable to have players buy survivors for there perks, instead of "having some perks be free".

Shattered Hope 2.0

What Otz said about WoO is right. There's too many maps to learn. Unless you are a veteran player, you're gonna need WoO just to have some idea of where anything is. Just make Kate and Clown part of the base roster. WoO would massively benefit new survivors and the Clown isn't exactly popular, or new.

I know people feel like WoO makes survivors worse players, but most people aren't going to play past a couple hundred hours, so who cares. Let them have something to ease the growing pains.

certain teachables should be turned into general perks if you ask me

One example I can give is visionary

It would be a great thing to do, but then new players wouldn't feel pressured to pay BHVR money to get better perks, so it's not going to happen.

Kate can be unlocked with shards. No money needs to be thrown at the game.

If BHVR wants to give new survivors access to perks that can help them learn the game, WoO is a great choice. The perk is also great for solo queue players who lack communication. In my view, new players having access to Kate straight away would do more good than harm. It's not like learning map layouts is getting easier for new players. It only gets harder as time passes.

I know that, but new players still have to grind for it. Not to mention that many new players don't watch content creators, so may not even be aware that the perk exists. I watched a bunch of survivor gameplay before I tried the game, and I never saw the perk. So I didn't know it existed until about a year after I had started playing.

I know you are not a fan of WoO, due to the impact it has on matches. But it's already popular. Why not just give it to the players who need it the most? I'd rather have a bunch of new survivors sticking around on autopilot, rather than them getting downed after ten seconds in chase every match and just giving up.

I'm just being realistic here. It would be better for everyone to learn the maps organically, sure. But with like 50 variants, how are the majority of casual players going to learn the maps? Most players will never put in enough time to learn the maps properly, so having a universal perk like WoO would help them out greatly.

There's enough perks as a survivor that you can be viable from the start. That's "good enough".

While the grind can be annoying, it also is a reason that the game keeps a player base. Having perks locked behind either pay or grind means either BHVR gets paid or people stay in the game and play to unlock things. In the latter case, it gives a sense of reward to finally earn something. I grinded out all of the survivors I could purchase with shards (waited until half off sales) and it felt more meaningful to finally have access to certain things. If I'd just had it from the very beginning it probably wouldn't have meant as much.

It's all a psychological trick to feel like my playing a video game has actually accomplished something, but that's a lot of what video games are.

Add to this that stacking boon perks was a bad idea. It was always going to be impossible to make a perk like dark theory valid if you had to imagine it could be used on its own or in conjunction with 3 other perks. The end design of boons was that there was one major boon that it would be very foolish not to run if you were doing boons (circle of healing) and 3 other minor boons that gave minimal benefits and you might or might not run on top of it (this is a balancable design, but its not the way BHVR approaches the game).

I don't know how you differentiate between 2 and 3. Knowing whether a pallet is present or not is the main reason to run to an area.

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I think both supporters and opponents of WoO get something wrong about the perk. It's not a memorization or a skill issue per se, though those can be linked. Even if you memorize every map while in a chase your brain has to run through that information to figure out the best path. That might only be a fraction of a second, but its those small differences in time that determine whether the survivor makes a pallet or not (and it introduces the possibility of mistakes).

Windows skips that process, allowing even an incredibly experienced survivor to path faster than they would have without it.

I don't really have an opinion on whether it is too strong or not. I rarely run it because I feel it ruins the immersion of being a survivor which is a totally different issue (it's also makes the map ugly).

Knowing the layout of a main budding with all its windows is not part of learning maps?

Nightlight is primarily used by mid to high MMR players. I doubt most new players even know what Nightlight is, let alone use it to keep track of their performance. So we're absolutely going to see meta builds be the most popular ones on Nightlight, and cannot use it to interpolate what low MMR players are using because they're excluded from the site's dataset.

By inferring that the entire playerbase uses Nightlight equally and then also presuming that because of the presence of MFT and Lithe (given every other perk on that list is relatively easy to acquire) that the only people using Windows are mid-to-high MMR, you're presenting an incomplete view of the picture and presenting it as a complete view - an easy mistake to make, sure, but one that needs to be addressed when it does show.

Finally, please don't be rude. We all want the same thing here - for the game to be the best it can be, so there's no need for hostility.

I'm responding to the below quote.

• Learn maps
• Know which pallets are already used or not used
• Automatize survivor gameplay in regards to chases ( just run to yellow )

Personally, im fine with the first 2. Sadly i feel like the 3rd is the most common usage out of the 3. Please prove me wrong!

You say you are okay with the first two, but I don't see how you draw a difference between 'know which pallets are already used or not' and 'automatize survivor gameplay' because knowing whether a pallet is used or not is the thing that allows a survivor to automatize what they do.

I think some more fun perks should be made universal. Things with a bit more fun based instead of objective based to get new player more hooked into the game. Objective Based Perks are mostly useful after you get hooked. Not at the start.

Well...I say this about pretty much any game. It wouldn't be very money earney. Plus, they probably keep them for survivor dlc. To make you pay more.

What would it be? I feel like we got every possibility with the current boons, what could be new to that?

Maybe hiding the sound or the progress of gens which are currently under repair inside the area?

nevermind seems too OP