A tiny buff to Wesker to further discourage tunneling?

the thing to talk about his green add-on called Video Conference device. To my understanding, what this add-on does is reduce amount of time it takes for infection to tick 1 charge. there are 100 charges to his infection.

You worded it a little strangely, but your maths works out... so just for myself, and the sake of clarity, I don't believe Video Conference Device changes tick rate. If it did, that would mean 0.8 charges every 0.7s, which gives a charge rate of 1.14286c/s, which actually is approximately a 42.8% increase.

This would be a very strange and misleading implementation and given how other areas of the game are implemented, all this add-on does is change charges per second from 0.8 to 1.04c/s, which is exactly what you did in your maths, but that clears up any confusion 😅

So why is 4% still strong for wesker? Moving slower means that you can sway from right to left less. so if wesker is able to use his ability at correct time, he is guaranteed with good aim to hit his bound on you because it is impossible to sway enough left or right due to hindered ability.

Knowing this, Cleansing wesker's infection should be done immediately in almost every situation.

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If you want to use his infection as tunneling tool, you can look at white meter to avoid perks like decisive strike and his grab still punishes you for using anti-tunnel perks like Off the record.

I think everyone understands that being infected is a problem to avoid, the 4% as you rightly state makes it much harder to turn left and right to avoid hits, and you combine that with the fact you can be instant downed as well, that's absolutely something you want to avoid. The problem is off hook, it basically has no threat cause it takes too long, even with add-ons, so it can be effectively ignored for at least a good half a gens worth before it realistically becomes a concern.

I would also argue that being able to reliably wait out Decisive Strike, especially over 2 cycles is an investement of time that isn't really worth it in grand scheme, and kinda has this idea of being fixated and determined to tunnel, rather than a genuine consideration of if its actually beneficial for you to do so or not. I'd argue you're usually better off trying to down the survibor ASAP and taking the DS if you're so determined to tunnel, cause now your next tunnel off hook is immediate, no counting required.

We've had this back and forth quite a few times with regards to killer powers when discussing Pig, Sadako, even Knight, so I imagine we'll continue to disagree here 😅

You have a tendency to see little to no value in survivor slowdown at a macro level. A non-tunneling playstyle attempts to keep survivors engaged with as many tasks as possible, and knowing survivors are occupied dealing with the threat of your power, be it RBTs, Condemn, Infection, Jailer, Hex: Devour Hope, whatever it is to seek a chance to put survivors in an unrecoverable snowball position. It also attempts to keep control of the game via overloading survivors to keep them dealing with your slowdown, healing and unhooking instead of working on gen progress to by more time for that moment to occur. This is not your playstyle I gather, where if it doesn't directly facilitate killing a survivor quickly, then it's use kinda gets written off for you.

The classic example I recall is our discussion around Pig, where you see RBTs as a mechanism that allows you to predict where the injured survivor off hook is while doing RBTs, thus allowing you to intercept and throw them straight back on hook for a second hookstage, thus making it easier to tunnel. This is again true, you are not wrong, and you can do this, but I hold the opinion that by doing this, you're a weak m1 killer not making use of your slowdown, whi h is Pig's main strength. If you fail to down this survivor quickly, get caught by a DS or a Dead Hard, and/or end up wasting lots of time focusing more on pushing this survivor off boxes repeatedly, you can easily throw the whole game. You can even lose this survivor depending on RBT rng. The Pig to my mind is more about identifying your trap pattern while trying to maintain a 3vs1 to then squeeze at the right time when you know a 4 box headtrap is in play and the good options available to survivors are significantly limited. This is what slow down mechanics facilitate, the ability to exert presure on multiple survivors while the other survibors are occupied.

Returning to Wesker, none of what you've said is wrong perce', but we're once again on this discussion of the value of survivor time pressure. Mechanisms like Wesker infection force survivors to take time off gens to deal with the killers passive threat, and by extension buying more time in the trial. It's a problem for survivors that coming off hook survivors need to run somewhere safe (because of the tunnel threat), take the time to heal, then cleanse the infection. Ideally the helper brought a first aid with them, but if not the unhooked survivor has to go and grab one from somewhere which can add 20s or more to their down time just from all the walking they have to do. All of this amplifies with Wesker's build, whether is gen regression, healing time increase, hex builds, whatever he's trying to do.

If you're doing especially well, this cycle continues to play out, overlapping different unhooks, and the survivors are having to take longer and longer routes to run across the map and cleanse your infection, alleviating gen pressure for Wesker, while also having the ever mounting threat you find the survivor you need to tunnel out of the game. This seems to me where your playstyle doesn't seem compatible with slowdown killers, because in all our discussions, you seem to continually hold the stance that there is nothing of value in any of this, and instead seem to prefer to tunnel, which is fine, but it's not the only way to play.

My goal with this change is to ensure that infection is a consistent time sink survivors need to deal with when facing Wesker, which in turn creates windows where a timely down limits the options available for survivors for things like unhooking, healing, trying to make saves, etc, etc.

This is the unique combination for traits Wesker brings. Decently strong chase and map traversal power with a weaker slow mechanic vs. Blights very strong chase and map traversal power and no slowdown mechanic at all vs. Pig's weak chase power/map mobility supplemented by stealth, with a strong slowdown mechanic.

Wesker having a weaker, but consistent slowdown in his kit is a buff that makes a killer that strikes a good balance of strengths, without him being oppressive or unfair with any of them.