Lets discuss boosted killers

On the PTB it is significantly harder to pip, this implementation will solve the problem of boosted killers mostly.

about 6-8% per gen if survs are perfect which literally is thanatophobia.

nah, I also think that the only killers deserving of rank1 are ppl like Scottjund marth Zubat etc when we talk about killermains.

The skillcheck system in this game is a failure to begin with, feels like it's implemented for mobile gamers or some crap. We need a different system but that will never happen.

Blocking off windows and Bloodlust is a workaround around the bad mapdesign that this game has to begin with. Most killers CANNOT work around these factors, aside from that bloodlust is rarely used at high ranks because it takes too much time. Most of the time I end up with BL1 because I was chasing somebody after a pallet break into a loop, if the devs fixed acceleration to make looping like that impossible then we wouldn't need BL. Sorry that I don't feel like playing Spirit, Billy and Nurse.

This is also the reason why doing a no-perp "challenge" on highrank killers doesn't do much in the first place because most highrank survivors will nullify most of the killer perks in the first place while also being stronger than a perked up killer when they have no perks themselves. This isn't because survivors in general are much better players than killers but because the game is tilted in their favour heavily.

Fixing the stupid looping or rather Killer-Acceleration issue should be a no-brainer for the devs, esp considering that removing the pallet loops would only affect super-high-skill survivors anyways since your average surv doesn't perfectly cut corners. I bet my ass that most ppl wouldn't even notice that.

Calm down. I'm not saying DR/M&A is a crutch, I'm saying it potentially can be depending on the context. Where you seem to be inclined to just say "any killer that uses NOED is boosted" which is just a huge over-generalization. You take a situation out of context to make it a very black or white affair, when in actuality it's all gray.

When it comes to the game's balance you have to look at what is more likely to be used as a crutch. It's like a sliding scale. DR/M&A is very unlikely to be a crutch, mainly because it's impact on the game will be very minimal. But NOED/Ruin have a very VERY large impact on the game and therefore are more likely to become crutches for a player. They can both single-handedly sway a game, whether the killer is good or not.

As for the colorblind stuff... that's a different story. We aren't talking about these fringe cases where someone has some disability they have to overcome in addition to game mechanics. We are talking purely about the game mechanics and what constitutes a boosted killer in those terms.

Again, if you can tell the difference between a boosted survivor that can't ever escape unless they are in an SWF and a skilled survivor that just happens to be in an SWF, you can tell the difference between a killer that is boosted by Ruin/NOED/whatever else and a skilled killer that is just using these perks.

@The_Crusader "Some killers do benefit from the set up time. It is possible to win without but often requires a much larger snowball."

Yea I'm not denying that a killer can benefit from the set up time gained by Ruin. I'm saying that it's not exactly necessary if you have a good strategy as you can stall the mid game and get a snow ball going there as well.

@TheEndOfSolace "I never use ruin unless I want a really chill game."

Yes this is what I'm saying. I put on Ruin so that I don't have to try nearly as hard to have a successful game. Sometimes it almost feels like Ruin is doing a chunk of the work for me in those games where it stays up. I can screw around a bit more and not worry about playing super well.

Like last night I played some games as Pig. One game my Ruin was in the top part of Blood Lodge and the survivors did not find it until after 2 were already dead, and they just barely finished 2 gens. I got the 4k (well 3k because I gave the last dude hatch, but I caught him and had him dead to rights so it counts) but it was a super chill game. And these survivors were no push overs, at least 2 of them were very solid survivors. The one Claudette had me chase her for quite some time before I caught her (I actually got Bloodlust 3 unintentionally because she was doing such a good job with jukes and windows), which if I didn't have Ruin would have probably lost me the game. And if I didn't have Ruin I wouldn't have chased her for so long, but since Ruin was keeping the gens down I knew I could afford to chase her for a while and do silly things (like trying to use ambush at safe pallets and stuff). Basically, Ruin turned the game into easy mode for me. That's why I say it can potentially be a crutch perk because in some context it makes the game so much easier for killers that they don't need to learn skills in map pressure. Ruin just does that work for them, so long as it's not found immediately (which is actually more often than people claim it would be).

While it's true that some survivor perks allow for boosted survivors, that doesn't change that fact that some killer perks allow for boosted killers.

"But that guy started the fight, why am I getting arrested too?" Because you took a bottle and broke it over the guy's face.

The guilt of one side does not excuse the guilt of the other side.

This reeks of bait, but eh.

Why does the entity block windows? Because instead of addressing infinites, and extremely poor map design they'd rather chuck bandaids into the game instead of fixing the problems.

Same goes for Bloodlust. Bloodlust doesn't fix anything, it didn't before it got nerfed, and it does even less now. Again, it's a bandaid for poor map design.

Ruin is a meme, and so easy to deal with it's unreal. Totems have a set spawn, you can bring a toolbox to negate it or make the check bigger, work with someone, blow the totem that you spawned on, or simply. Get good. It's not hard to hit greats assuming you even get that many skillchecks. I've had an entire gen where I got 2 checks. Ruin sure stopped me.

I find it hilarious how BBQ is a crutch, yet it had counters when it released. Only 3 or so killers can really make use of it with their mobility. On top of that they STILL gave you whiners a perk to stop it, an in-game mechanic change to avoid it, and you STILL cry about it.

NOED? You finish the gens in 3 minutes, teabag/insult the killer, but when they start bringing NOED it's suddenly unfair, killers op, it's a crutch, reeeee! Do the totems, stop being bad. Run Small Game, learn the spawns. You didn't do the easy counter, so you got punished. If all killers had actual power, and could pressure you'd see NOED, camping, and tunneling drop.

Also referring to "crutch perks" since we're being so broad. Unbreakable, Decisive Strike, Sprint Burst, Borrowed Time, Deliverance, Balanced Landing, Adrenaline, Self-Care, etc. There's a reason you only see these perks on survivors, and it's not cuz their perk pool sucks, or a perk just doesn't work cuz you're not killers and your power doesn't cuck you out of 70% of the perks available.