Survivors are keep getting garbage content

With all traps reset every 2 seconds after popped, and survivors who pop lose 1 heath state, yes. Easy A. Nasty combo.

I just want killers that feel unique to play against. SM, Knight, Hag and Larry are different but it's the same match of trying to break gen defense.

Xeno feels too much like Nemesis.

Chucky feels like Pig with a buffed dash and no head traps.

Whiskers feels like a more basic Blight.

Nurse, Blight, Spirit, Plague, Oni, Legion, Myers, Gunslinger, Twins, Cenobite, Onryo, Doctor and Dredge all feel very different to go against and stop the game feeling stale. BHVR has more hits than misses, but the last six killers just don't feel unique to go against. Larry could feel unique, but he's mostly played like Hag, so the survivor experience feels stale regardless of his toolkit.

I'm really hoping the new killer has something truly unique about them, and isn't just an uglier version of Demo.

At this point, you will never be happy about a killer again.

Each killer you mentionned have something unique to them and a secondary power that FEELS similar to one already existing.

SM has her drones and the clawtraps system, this is unique to her.

Knight, you can think whatver you want of coursew but this guy has 3 other guys modelized with unique stats and properties and he can command them to do tasks, he is one of the only killer in the game that can micromanage, the guards system is unique yo him.

Singularity... I mean, what isn't singular about this guy, the most unique killer in the game imo. He has biopods with camera likes mechanics, he can teleport from seeing you in it's biopods, he has a shield to protect him from pallets and engance his strenght, the first killer with basekit anticamp mesures. This kit is nothing like other killers in any way or shape, the fact you use it to only defend gen is more on you than on Larry. This thing is pure aggression.

Xeno is the first quadrupedal killer, with a level of details and animations unmatched before (one of the first killer to properly climb up stairs and glide trough them), entire fully fledged network system with footsetps detection, it is underground as you can hear survivors just on top of you (use stridor or surveillance and you will hear sounds better), the network is actually below the map and not just a teleport. Finally, the flame turrets with motion sensor, this is a first for any killers, this counterpower is the most unique one and create a new dynamic in the trial. Also one of the most unique killer in the game, the tail is the only not so great part in this kit but it's fairly different than Nemesis, you can achieve hits than Nemesis could only dream off just with the fact you have verticality.

Chucky has the footsteps system that is incredibly unique and is the first killer with a 3rd person view.

Wesker is the first and only killer to grab and throw a survivor and the only killer woth a 40m radius.

I understand your feeling, i kinda have the same thing, when Xeno came out, i was overjoyed (to be clear, i am so happy that it is here in the game, but this moment made me realise that IP did not really matter to the majority, people wanted the Alien for so long and now it is considered a trash design by most if not all of them. What matters is gameplay, IP are just the sugar on the cream IF the gameplay is accepted by the community, but the more we advance in time, the less this will happen due to the feeling of déjà vu), at the end of the day it is still, repair the gen, turn around a pallet and leave/die. Even tho the killers are unique and objectivly better and better, the core game itself is lacking novelty. That is the problem, survivors needs new mechanics, base one, not perks. Even interactable maps like Nostromo would be great. If survivors could do more than just play around pallets and windows. Even killers could use new, general mechanics beyond kicking things m1'ing, running in 4.something and having a terror radius.

To be fair, I really like these discussions about the latest perk trends for survivors because we sometimes forget that situational perks aren't automatically bad.

But if we look back I actually see a lot of issues (Short context: I like to build perk builds around specific perks based on the character. f.e. Dwight with Bond, Open Handed, Windows and Kindred.)

Alan: B: Illumination a little too weak. Reason is the aura reading / increased boon speed. I agree that it's meant as a support boon, so I would love a higher boon speed increase. Champion of Light only needs a lower Cooldown. Deadline is a lil' to specific imo. Would love if it works while healthy but with the price of losing the Reduced penalty for missed Skill Checks (-50 %).

Ellen: Chem Trap is fun to make distance but depends heavily on the pallet u r using. Its best used late game. For chem trap I would love to gain stacks, so you can use it multiple times instead of only once in a red moon (Max. 2 stacks). Light Footed is not as strong as people tend to think. Reason is that you still hear survivors breath heavily if they run and the scratch marks are already telling. To get good usage you would need a very specific build and that would leave you very weak once you are getting focused. I would love if Light Footed could have only one condition. Lucky Star is honestly fine. Like it's a great addition to locker builds.

Nic: Nic is so awesome, I love his perks. Drama is such a fun and good perk, no complains. Plot Twist is really useful and counters perks like Surge. Only Scene Partner is trash - I hate it so much. If anyone asks me why, look at the gif. xD It cancels vaults like doctor used to when he got released.

Gab: MFT is still fine though. You play it with something like DH or OTR and you are good to go. Scavenger is just not good. Due to the 5 great skill checks you need to hit IF you even get enough of them. There is once again a full build needed to get value here (Hyper Focus, Stake Out, maybe Deadline etc.) Reducing needed tokens would help I would say. Troubleshooter is honestly good - like I enjoy it. I would only buff the duration from 6 to maybe 9 seconds, so you still get value if the killer breaks it instantly.

Renato: Background Player is strong enough (Maybe even too strong). Blood Rush is strong, but super situational so its very unattractive to play with. Like if I got safed after I struggle, it's most likely that the killers comes back. So only Renewal / Second Wind can help her IF I manage to heal someone. And mainly Sprint Burst is really good in that build. And to increase the chances of getting value you wanna pare it with adrenaline so yeah. Super specific for a once per trial perk that doesn't always manage to give you value. Teamwork: Just no. Super bad. I like the Idea of teamwork but it's super punishing and the effects are terrible.

Thalita: I.. never understood the value of Cut Loose really. Friendly Competition supports doing gens together which is already super bad. And once you've finished a gen, 5% for 75 seconds is meh. And again Teamwork: bye.

The trend that I see with perks is simply that they have specific needs to receive value and even then it's not that great. I love f.e. the idea of Better Than New (Rebecca) but why would I bother using it? 16% for tasks you probably don't do is not great + you can lose it once you get hit.

I mean isn't this more about the latest content for survivors? Most of your perks are "Old" and some are not even as strong. Like we surely can argue about Items etc. but that is just missing the mark. A lot of the latest perks have very specific conditions to meet to receive neutral value. Doesn't mean they are automatically bad of course but I do understand why people think f.e. Boon: Illumination is not good. The same goes with Hex: Two Can Play but again, it's about survivors this time.

Chemical Trap is a pretty lame perk.

WoO is a bad perk?

The cherry picking is insaneeee. Survivors get a gen progression/speed perk every update while killer’s last regression perk was call of brine. Anti face camping was implemented, basekit bt implemented, hud icons implemented, you wanna talk fun perks? Plot twist, background player, buckle up + for the people ect… the list can go on but I just got back after not playing half a year and I already know they got as much so I really don’t wanna hear it

Do you have examples of perks with a lower pickrate than WoO that are better?

I don't have hard numbers on any of the pickrates, but I can definitely name perks better than WoO that aren't on the official top ten list- and everything on that top ten list, too, every perk on that list (save for Self Care, actually) is better than WoO.

But for a couple others, we'd have Botany Knowledge, Overcome, Lucky Break, We'll Make It, Alert, Distortion.

For just aura perks that are stronger, we'd have Alert, Empathy, and Troubleshooter just off the top of my head.

It's not a high bar - any perk that actually does something beneficial is gonna be better than WoO.

I wouldn't say all gen speed perks are bad. Resilience is meta and Deja Vu is amazing for solo queue. There is almost always one of each in my games. Hyperfocus is also pretty good.

The rest though... yeah...

I've seen the "WoO is not that great"-take before and to me it feels like a somewhat "arrogant" take coming from good players. As a very mediocre player for me WoO makes a huge difference in my performance in chase.

Especially on the newer maps I don't know all possible pallet spawns so WoO helps me a lot, of course more experienced players will know the spawns anyway. Same thing with pathing in chase, good players can loop the Killer and still plan a good path I can't (I remember a situation when my bf watched me play and told me "you could have taken the window there" when I didn't even register the window).

What I'm trying to say is that I think, that good players underestimate the usefulness of WoO, because they don't need it to do well, which isn't necessarily true for weaker players.

I do like some of the perks you mentioned though, overcome for example, but if you're getting tunneled it's a one time use, so in this situation I would get more value from WoO. Alert and troubleshooter are nice aswell, but I would probably get the most value out of them If I combined them with WoO.

The new survivors healing perk seems pretty good. If it doesn't get nerfed then I might buy her.

I've been using Champion of Light non-stop and it been giving me value almost every match. Its a fun and useful perk, specially if the killer breaks a semi-unsafe pallet, then you can blind them and get to another loop.

If survivors are not getting any meta perks, i must disagree. We had the Buckle Up + FTP combo recently. Killers have been using the same perks for years too (the most recent change is grim embrace, but i think its not the best on all killers, mostly being strong on S tier killers). Aiming for "meta perks" might not be the best solution for the game, specially since they can be quite gamebreaking. I just wish they've made stronger niche perks, so we could have different playstiles (for killer and survivors).

For me, i wish they gave more buff towards SoloQ coordination (basekit Kindred and maybe Bond, and other type of info buffs) than making stronger perks. Also, BHVR could review some niche perks like Autodidatic, Overcome, Reactive Healing, Solidarity, etc. and give them a buff.

You still can't practice survivor in custom matches, only in training and that's only one Killer (and the Trapper bot was really bad the Last time I tried training) and one map.

This was posted before the new perks were released to the public and even then, the new regression perk relies on survivors missing skill checks which you almost 95% of the time never see in games at a high or even mid mmr unless you’re running a crazy doctor skill check build. It looks underwhelming and unreliable.