Overview of all the new surv perks

I still stand by that troubleshooter is a decent perk it allows you to not accidentally run into a gen that’s almost about to be done

It doesn't matter, if these perks are good or bad. As long as they aren't better than the established meta, they will be considered weak and nobody will run them. At least not for long.

I tried it for about a week after someone on here recommended it (maybe it was you? Can't remember sorry) and while it was okay, there were just way more perks I felt gave me better value. Couldn't justify keeping it in my build

The mechanic isnt rich, the age of perks and powers that doing 1 single job is over. Now we mostly have thing that mixed together.

With new perks, Alan's for example, each perk of his requires other 3 perks to create a combo to make it fun. Stand alone its really useless.

Remind you that chasing with killer for 1min would save your teammate 3sec of Gen...

Chemical trap has too much gen progression required. You need to be chased to use the perk to good degree but if your being chased as first chase then you will not be able to use the perk because your being chased/tunneled to death.

When you equip Chemical trap, you get two types of games

Game A) You get chased entire match unable to do any gen progression.

Game B) You are not chased entire match and have chemical trap entire game. You can try to do some weird bodyblock pallet play with it but it is awkward when your not using the perk for yourself. Your often just wasting your time and throwing because your doing not doing gens.

The perk would be way better if it was active from the start of the match. Maybe it works like deliverance where if you safe unhook, the perk reactivates. It is not really underrated and BVHR is releasing a better version of the perk called Champion of light where all you need to do is shine flashlight.

I think these perks could maybe be interesting, if they weren't quite as situational. In solo queue, you will not use a situational perk because you have no guarantee that it will work and in a SWF there are other better things you can use to sometimes fit the same niche.

Although Deadline just isn't a good perk. It's hard to balance on one hand because extra skill checks can be pretty beneficial for survivors (just look at Autodidact), which would make it a very strong perk (maybe too strong in some builds) but on the other, the downsides are so harsh that using it is too big of a risk.

Looking at this list of perks should be weakening your argument, not supporting it. If you don't want just the strongest stuff, if you like experimenting to see what has value and in what scenarios, there's been a lot in this timeframe to use. I'll go through this list again to make my point here...

Yoichi: So we have one good perk right off the bat, Parental Guidance. Decent value, decent synergy, not incredible but definitely something you can run. Then Empathetic Connection, a perk with a good effect that it can be kind of hard to notice working. Not bad in the slightest, but I see why people wouldn't want to run it. Then Dark Theory, which imo is just a bad perk. Yoichi, who you're laughing off entirely, has two perfectly serviceable perks.

Haddie: While we have one bad perk, Inner Focus, her others are fine. Residual Manifest has an interesting quirk and enables the kind of gameplay a lot of survivors like by buffing flashlight blinds, and Overzealous is a perk that gives you generator value without being a genrush perk, because it makes messing with totems worth it. So, yes, actually, Overzealous is fun, it gives you an actual side objective that'll benefit you without being broken.

Ada: I agree with you here. Wiretap is good, Low Profile is functionally serviceable but just not a design many want to use (putting it in a similar boat to Empathetic Connection, just less reliable), and Reactive Healing is too finnicky + destroyed by the status effect I hate spelling. I wouldn't go so far as to say "unusable trash", but not desirable to be sure.

Rebecca: TWO very strong perks, Reassurance and Hyperfocus. While Reassurance is a straightforward one, Hyperfocus also has the benefit of making skillchecks more challenging, which is (in my opinion) an attempt at making generator repair a little more interesting for the survivors that complain it's boring. I'd also defend the design of Better Than New, but I'll admit it's missing a little something to make it more worth running.

Vittorio: Quick Gambit is really bad, no denying that, but while Potential Energy may be a little contentious in the strength department, it at least has an interesting design and a clear use case. Fogwise, though, is just flat out a good perk, there's not much more to be said on that front.

Thalita: I don't know why everyone acts like Cut Loose isn't a good perk, it's literally just Quick & Quiet that emphasises mindgames a little more, that perk's obviously fine. It's quite good, even! Her other two, not so much, the Teamwork perks are both borderline unusable due to their ridiculous cooldowns on top of finnicky designs + Friendly Competition is a pretty mediocre effect for a pretty underwhelming action.

Renato: Background Player is good, Blood Rush is at least interesting even if it's not the strongest, and as mentioned, the Teamwork perks both suck.

Gabriel: MFT is still fine, but even if it weren't, Troubleshooter is a strong and (subjectively of course) fun perk. Scavenger... I'd consider it too inconsistent to use, but it's potentially strong.

Nic Cage: Obviously everyone agrees these perks are good and fun, so I won't repeat it beyond that.

Ripley: All good perks, to varying degrees, and with interesting designs to boot.

Alan Wake: Too early to tell, but none of his perks are flat out bad on the PTB at least. The boon could use a bit of a buff, I don't think Deadline needs the injured stipulation (+ I think the Madness-lite effect is like Hyperfocus, meant to make skill checks more interesting instead of being a flat downside), and if anything Champion of Light might need a slight nerf.

As we can see from going through the list again, every recently released survivor has at least one good and interesting perk, most have two, and only a few have anything I'd call genuinely flat-out bad. There are a few inconsistent ones like Scavenger and Low Profile, perks that you can't guarantee will activate, but not many and even those aren't necessarily bad, just harder to want to bring.

Survivor perk viability right now is the best it's ever been, between new releases that bring interesting pieces of a full build, old perks that have always just been good, and old perks that have been getting buffed or reworked. People just have to start approaching the idea of a perk build with a little more thought, instead of immediately dismissing things out of hand for not being on par with Adrenaline. A few actually bad perks doesn't mean all survivor perks recently have been bad.

I mean, I use Blast Mine, so. Yeah.