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I'm really just scratching my head at most of this update.

I had the same thought with the Moris… it's just promoting a terrible playstyle and encouraging even more toxicity in the games as killers are basically never going to want to let the last survivor go now.

Corrective Action is going to lead to even faster gen rushing.

Distortion is being absolutely gutted and is nearly useless now. Let's think about this in terms of numbers: even if a killer ONLY has BBQ and Chili, in most matches you'd get 3 aura reading blocks vs their possible 11 aura reads. It's horribly unbalanced. Even lowering the charges to 2 would have been a better compromise, but as it stands now everyone is better off just removing Distortion and putting on either another gen rush perk or Off the Record. Just can't believe they're nerfing Distortion with no mention of any changes to Weave Attunement still.

Leverage rework is another great perk to incentivize tunneling, though maybe it'll have the added benefit of at least making people stop healing right under the hook.

Glad for the Skull Merchant nerfs though. Not sure how much they'll do to actually make people want to play against her, but it's good to see things at least being tried.

I've run out of tokens plenty of times myself, but yes two tokens would have been fine. Lethal and BBQ is a combo designed to quickly snowball a match, it needs to have some counters.

The Distortion nerf makes aura reading builds insanely strong. For the most part, there is no counter now. I could see the perk working if there was only Barbeque and Chilli, but killers can stack aura perks/add-ons. So the perk saves you from one aura read, and then you get found immediately with the next.

I can see what the devs were going for, but I think they went a bit too far with the changes.

I feel like most of the perk changes are really solid. There's a clear trend towards wanting to make games dynamic and active rather than encouraging passive/slow playstyles, and turning around to give killers more tools to begin and effectively engage in chases after making proxy camping less effective feels like a really fair tradeoff, especially with how many more varied tools survivors are getting to play around killers too.

Most of the killer changes are just really nonsensical, though. Skull Merchant is being turned into Freddy 2, they may as well disable her until the rework if they want to discourage playing her so badly — and it isn't just that the changes are bad, they've actively removed the parts of her kit that were dynamic and interesting and shunted her back towards the unhealthy playstyle that everybody hated. Haste for scans was interesting and incentivized gathering good information from around the map by rewarding you with map mobility that was rarely much of a factor in chase outside of the single stack for using drones to effectively zone, and drone disarming was pivotal in making her drones more of an active tool for forcing plays on loops instead of something that you just plop down on a gen you want to hold and walk away, which is basically its only use now. She was the only m1 killer with a really consistent ability to force survivors into lose-lose scenarios in chase by utilizing good macro and map knowledge and required that survivors play tactically and coordinate. What they're proposing is just a basic m1 killer with a free, very weak info perk.

Billy mains are going to be very disappointed and it's bizarre for him to be the only nerf to an S tier killer we've seen in such a long time when he's barely in that bracket to begin with, especially one that just outright dampens all of the best aspects of his power without making it more directly skillful to use — if anything, better overdrive gave Billy a higher skill ceiling, and this is going to flatten out his play and make it more homogenous. And for the Twins… why? Just generally, who thinks they need an outright nerf?