Suggestion: Limitation on perk choices
Some thoughts about perk limitations… please let me know your opinions on this.
My thoughts are, that it could bring more balance to the game if the choice of perks was liminted. For example:
Survivors can only choose one perk that gives them a speed bonus (no matter on what: either healing or running, or gen progression), aura reveal for killers/survivors, stun/blinds, …
Killers are limited on one perk with aura reveal, gen regression, etc.
The idea behind it is, that the effects can't be exploited to full extend.
I think this could bring more variety on builds and reagarding the amount of perks given atm … it might bring some balance.
Sure, it would nerf some builds very heavily, but change encourages creativity! Maybe we see some other perks more often again.
What do you think?
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Why would I willingly approve of a feature that limits my freedom to push all my perk choices in one direction?
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Like I said... balancing - so some games are not way to one-sided.
Srsly, killers playing 4 aura reveal perks or surviors running 3 speed boost perks .. that's not fun at all.
There are so many perks to choose from
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I don't think this is an avenue they want to go down, as it limits player freedom.
Everyone gets the same four perk slots, four chances to improve their abilities. If someone wants to go all in on one aspect, then they're missing out on the rest. It also self-corrects for this, the only issue if whether or not individual perks are properly balanced.
Preventing this would be the end of things like Endgame builds, Healing builds, chase builds, gen-jockey builds, etc. And instead we'd end up with an even more restrictive met where everyone plays the best Exhaustion, best Healing, best anti-tunnel, and best repair perk, every single game.
A killer playing 4 aura perks is a killer playing no endgame, no chase, and no regression perks. Not to mention all of the perk synergy, such as Lethal Pursuer and it's effect on increasing the duration of other aura effects.
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yeah, the focus on only the best perks might be a big issue there, that's right. maybe limit on 2 instead?
But I don't think it's that bad for the game to bring some fresh winds into the existing builds at all. I mean, every new chapter we get 3 new perks at least, the amount is getting more and more horrible and the options to exploit some perks increase. Nearly every new chapter there is a new balance issue and limiting the freedom a little bit might rebalance it.
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I don't want to just stomp on your idea because it has merit from a balancing perspective but players who have spent thousands of hours leveling up and unlocking perks on everyone suddenly being told they cant bring the build they worked so hard to unlock? We would see a massive departure of players. Me included probably. For example I love running 4 aura reads on pyramid head. Overpowered? Not even slightly. But extremely fun for those snipes. Same principle applies for other builds too. If your objective is too limit just overpowered builds I would suggest instead reworking all the perks individually so they can't stack together.
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But then again the way some of the perks work is why they can't do that
I would love for that to happen as well... but it wouldn't go right (Just look at Overwatch)
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like, it literally kills the concept of build, and if the killer is using 4 aura perks he can´t do anything about gens, if he´s using 4 slowdown perks he can´t do anything about ´´immersive´´ survivors, you know what i mean?
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Ok, I see your point. But other games have changing limitations, too. For example trading card games: you buy cards for a lot of money and suddenly they are forbidden to play. Annoying, yes - but you find a way to play around it. Or online RPGs like Guild Wars 1 - they changed a lot of skills during the active times and forced the players to think about new ways to play.
I get that some builds are incredibly funny to play with specific killers and surely some aspects may be aside when playing a 4-aura-read build but then again I see such builds exploited by tunnlers or an absolute wall to play against für people being new to the game. I know, that's a whole new topic I don't want to go in deeper...
But what's for sure: there are a lot of perks that need a lot attention and rework...
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Yeah, I know what you mean and I get all your points and I'm very thankful for your opinions. They let me second guess this idea, but nonetheless I think it has to be done something about overpowered/ meta builds. Only relying on the same perks/ perk combination isn't healthy for a game on long terms. I'd love to see more varience, only playing against the same bunch of perks because they work well together is kinda boring.
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