Would it be a good Dev Update?

Actually some great thoughs!

I especially like stbfl and the survivor basekit changes. However, I think punishing people for playing in swf is bad. This is the hole BHVR dug themselves.

Add faster crouching for Piggy basekit and you got me. ^🐽^

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I dont think adding a basekit mechanic for killer and excluding some is not good design. This leads to the discussion what killers would be good enough to not get this mechanioc and what killers would be bad enough to warrant the mechanic. I dont think this will ever happen, despite the idea being solid.

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maps: rework gideon meat plant. This map is awful and should have changed years ago.

Nemesis: adrenaline injector seems like a complete zoning addon to me. I would not encourage that part of the Nemesis´s power. Make the first part 0.2 and leave the cancellation part out and its fine by me.

Bubba: i thought he was in a really good spot after the last update. Therefore the suggestions you make seem like overkill to me. If im wrong there, please correct me.

They're not going to give killers basekit corrupt. I definitely agree with the other poster that people would never agree on which killers it would be OP on. I'd also point out they just nerfed gen perks because of how strong they were when stacked. The last thing they're going to do is give killers a free slot for another gen perk when kill rates are already high.

Survivors see auras: I could see the idea if a survivor is within the range showing auras, but the pallet drop doesn't seem right. This is conceptual game dev idea though about whether soloq should have a unique feel or not.

Basekit Corrupt for Certain Killers: So this is somewhat similar to a Jund idea of giving different killers different gen kick speeds as a way of slightly buffing the weaker killers.

The problem is which killers are meta varies based on region and MMR. A basekit corrupt would make many killers incredibly oppressive at lower levels.

Perks

Shadowborn: This is pretty close to 'if a survivor blinds you, the survivor is downed'. I could see a smaller buff to the haste, or a change to an exposed effect, but combined seem way too strong.

Balancing a game around the beginners is horrible idea. It's good to add some features that would help them learning the game, but do not balance the whole thing around them.

Didn't say balance game around them, but you also can't ignore them. Designing the game around any single bracket of players is a bad idea.

If you get SoloQ closer to SWF (not close, but at least closer) it will make game much easier to balance.

True, but what are you willing to give up from a design perspective? I like the way the soloq game is designed. I don't want to know where the other survivors are, I want some mystery about what is going on. I think the devs believe that also makes for an overall more enjoyable game experience. Balance isn't everything.

Most of these changes I find to either be unhealthy or just bad in general.

The survivor gameplay changes, as BHVR said, wouldn't ever be a thing since survivors are supposed to get as little info as possible plus they'd make 2 perks completely useless.

The killer gameplay changes are primarily just needed for killers like Trapper and Myers and that's it.

The changes to Billy are essentially all bad and one of the add-on changes would even encourage back-revving survivors which is unhealthy.

Nurse physically can't be nerfed that hard at all since major nerfs to her would mean EVERY paid killer would also need nerfs since they can't have paid killers being stronger than any free killers otherwise the game would, officially, receive the Pay2Win tag.

Nemesis base-kit changes don't justify each other, but the longer crate opening would be good. Adrenaline Injector would be the only actually good change for add-ons since one of them is redundant, one of them encourages using M1 which is more boring than M2, and the other one is just pointless since it just gives one-time-use effects.

Bubba doesn't really need those buffs exactly since he just received some amazing buffs to his kit and, just like with Nemesis, only one of the add-ons would be good and the others would either just be hard nerfs and unbalanced(especially with Spark Plug).

Shadowborn would quickly become an unhealthy perk for the game real fast.

Corrupt Intervention shouldn't be made unavailable to ANY killers since that is the ENTIRE purpose of teachables and wouldn't make sense.

Save The Best For Last should be buffed back up by the 1% they took from it, but the deactivation for the perk isn't needed due to it just being a major redundancy since you can't face-camp within 12 meters anyways and being past 16 meters would likely result in the unhook happening before the hit with STBFL can even land meaning the survivors can still get away regardless if they get hit.

Surge would be nice to work with an M2, but the cool down, just like with several other of your suggestions, would primarily just be a redundancy since the only killers who'll typically be able to do this would mainly be Bubba and Oni.

Alert buff would be nice. That's all I have to say for it.

Breakdown is already a frustrating enough perk as is so it 100% doesn't need the respawn timer increased.

Calm Spirit, even though many people don't like the debuff, I actually like it just for the fact that it makes sense with the fact that you're not rushing your chest opening actions and such which is what makes it quiet. Plus the perk does need some kind of downside with how many positive effects it gives.

Resilience I'd actually prefer that change.

And, finally, for Windows Of Opportunity this change would be HORRENDOUS. If I remember correctly, BHVR attempted to test how people would feel if it had a cool down at all and they were hit so hard with so much backlash that they got rid of the cool down immediately. I don't even use the perk all that often whenever I do play survivor(mostly because it doesn't help me that much), but even I know that it having a cool down would be aweful.

Nemesis: zoning is not something i would promote. From what i read, this addon heavily rewards zoning. Therefore im against it.

If you give solos or duos a mechanic that makes the game nicer but leave it out for 3 or 4 - groups, your punishing them for playing in groups. Is what it is sadly.

Bubba: thx for clarifying. Im not too invested into him, therefore this was really helpful.

I never said they need it basekit. I was pointing out the killers get a lot of information early as basekit. Survivors need to use a perk. Not anywhere was I suggesting that it should be made basekit.

But what about the swf that are not on voice comms?

You say that Nurse, Hillbilly and Blight don't get to have corrupt intervention because they can traverse the map in seconds. I do not like this, because it is a slippery slope that would call into question on why certain killers are restricted and others are not.

I assume you posted those 3 killers because of their mobility. What about Dredge? He can travel across the map faster than all 3 of these killers, so much so that Lethal Pursuer means he can be in a chase within the first 20 seconds of the match.

Perks and game mechanics should be as generic and non specific as possible. They already removed old Tinkerer and added the special attack requirement, that is as far they should go. Singling out killers will just make people that play those killers feel like they have less options. Corrupt already deactivates if someone gets downed, that's as good to reducing the imbalance between killers as it can get.

Also the hinder change on infection for Nemesis feels a bit odd. We have not gotten to experience what the 20% hinder will feel like, since the Devs confirmed it is bugged and will be fixed in an upcoming patch. Might as well wait for that patch to come out before making changes to it.

The cooldown is only 10 seconds, basically none at all. After that Dredge is the fastest killer in the game at traversing the map.

I assumed you wanted to have a civil conversation or discussion about this, but sure go ahead and laugh.

To comment briefly on your statement @Azulra, you don't see Ghosties and Pigs use Corrupt because it a) betrays where they are, b) can be a liability to their stealth because it promotes people running right into them, a disaster for Ghostface in particular. I'm of the opinion it's overrated for all but a few Killers and on top of that it's just not a very good perk for Stealth Killers. I would rather run Lethal Pursuer to set up the first hit instead.

That's fair, no hard feelings here. I agree a lot of the complaints about it hold little water, it's inoffensive when used the proper way, the problem is people use it to autopilot loops instead of to learn loops.

There's a lot of obvious clues yes. The pallets are red and blue so are walls. The vaults have yellow cloth, like WoO's aura. Gens have a visual and sound tell, so do exit gate switches. Even the hook tells you how long you have been on it by Entity summoning progression AND progressively smaller skill checks. And you can tell where even Stealth Killers are by the crows, same as they can tell from you - Killers always set off crows even in Undetectable, and move grass and corn the same as Survs. There's so, so so so many tells in the game and yet, Survivors choose to ignore all of it in favor of Autopilot: The Perk.