Why is everyone using Windows of Opportunity?

Multiple reasons:

Its good training wheels for looping

Its useful in soloq

Its synergies with many perks

You could make a case for it to be the strongest solo survivor perk in the game. I use it a lot because even if I know where the closest pallet is when in chase it could be gone, and that is why this perk is so good. Being on a gen and see my loop options for when killer comes is very helpful.

It's a good perk for newcomers who try to familiarise themselves with the maps and learn how to do good loops.

Blindness status effect will cripple WoO users, it’s hilarious when it happens lol

WoO is a perk that shows how OP the resources of the maps are really, It is strong, but it is only because of the OP maps and the non-communication in solo Q, when it's preventing you from getting in bad positions just because of lack of information, as such it is a tool, if it is problematic, it also show that everybody is getting better at the game :

"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. - Ani DiFranco"

In that case why can't killer see survivors and survivors see gens ? (I think it might be too much info) Edit : might as well make the wallhacks useless, NO ?

I dont' think it is the right solution...

Over-exposure. It get's boring to see and go against Pain Res and Pop every game, just like it get's boring to see and go against WoO, DH, SB - Whatever.

Doesn't mean they should get nerfed, but over-exposure does have a lot to do with it imo.

I dropped it for better alternatives

For most perks, sure. But for WoO there's not really any clear indicator that you're going up against it. You'd notice perks like DH, SB, Adrenaline, UB, etc, because you can actually see them in play. With WoO, you'd never know if a person had the perk or was just familiar with the tiles.

"whining streamers" are developers now? Thats new to me.

WoO replacing MFT...in complaints

so predictable

Dont speak of him... You might reanitmate an old evil.

There are two main reasons

Some people run it so they can know which pallets are still available and haven't been thrown by their teammates.

Other people run it because they are bad at running the killer and they need a big yellow "run here next" sign.

You can usually tell the difference because the second type will sometimes just beeline to a random z wall and then panic

That's fair. For WoO, I can kinda guess if they avoid broken pallets, but that may be comms or just good game sense. I do see it a lot in the endgame screen, but that may be confirmation bias.

No, they aren't popular for the same reason.

WoO is popular because it let you play with the autopilot brainless mode.

Gen regression perks are popular because without them the third generator is repaired just after the second hook in a lot of scenarios.

That is also my take on it. I dont run WoO myself, but I can understand why people run it. And I am pretty sure I also got downed in situations where WoO would have helped me, but I am also very sure that the Perk I took instead of WoO helped me to survive in other games.

And I never was really frustrated when going against someone with WoO. And since it is a Perk which bridges the gap between Solo and SWF a bit, it is a good Perk overall and it is great that it is in the game.

WoO can be really obnoxious at times, when you feel how the survivor is going on autopilot. These specific kind just bee-line to the next pallet, drop it and bee-line to the next and you as the killer can't do anything about it besides breaking chase. In essence, this turns the game into an interactive movie, where you just follow the script and press a button intermittendly to proceed the script. Its boring as hell.

But not all WoO users play like this, most use it as a sort of radar to see whats going on in the trial: there is a pallet being thrown over there, there is a dead zone over there, the injured person is close to a pallet, so maybe they can go down under it, "OMG that other Meg is throwing every single pallet on the map one after another, maybe I should let the killer injure me and take the chase, otherwise we will be out of pallets in about 1min" etc.

I really think that info perks are the least of our concerns, info is important and info is strong, but info also leads to interactions and more fun aspects of the game. Usage percentage of a perk should never be the main deciding factor if something got to be nerved, we don't need a 6.1 meta shakeup every 6 month, thank you. What should be looked at are individual perks that are overtuned and that are breaking too many rules at once. DH and MFT on the survivor side and Eruption and old Thana on the killer side, for example.

WoO is not such a perk, even though I hate the way some players auto pilot with it, but that is more of a nuisance then a soul killing torture like old DH was. A kina comparison could be made with Ultimate Weapon that as a whole isn't as OP as some players claim, just very stressful at times to verse. At heart it is a strong info perk that gives a momentarily round about check where everyone is, but you don't see any aura and unless a scream happens right next to you, often times the survivors will have booked it by the time you arrive at the scene, BUT it keeps the game from getting stale and moves things along, leading to chases instead of the killer stumbling along aimlessly with 2-3 gens popping unopposed. The only real scenario where the perk is unfair is in endgame with 1 person left, as it trivialises any gate play and I wouldn't mind it loosing that part of its power. I do love the way blindless messes with WoO users, though, so I really wouldn't want to keep that, but in the end that could go, too, I only really care about the one time scream. (Oh, and the way it interacts with Pig Boxes etc. Thats probably unneeded, too).

Considering its used for seflish chase builds, its primary a chasing perk.

Don't let anyone tell you newbie Survivors are using this perk, they're using Selfcare and only Selfcare.