Game Needs An EMERGENCY HOTFIX PATCH - FOLLOW Creative Assembly

No, that's a true statement. But at that point majority of people can try buffed Legion 1 time and perform well (possibly even better compared to when they play kaneki) against a great portion of soloq teams. Kaneki is not the first killer we got that is both really strong and has a fairly low skill floor. (old spirit, old SM…)

As for the p2w part, I was referring to the dictionary definition, which says:
practice of paying to get weapons, abilities, etc. that give you an advantage over players who do not spend money.

By that definition, a killer player who buys Kaneki is in no way more advantageous over a f2p killer player, as there are objectively (according to the general consensus) stronger killer options are available in the base game. (I could even make the argument that Spirit is easier to play while being free and on par with Kaneki in terms of strength, if not stronger, but that's debatable.)

What are the perks that are meta-defining and locked behind a paywall? I feel like most current meta perks are accessible for free on both sides. On top of my head worst offenders are DS and Deadlock and can fall under p2w, but both of them have great alternatives in their own categories.

Also, you can always wait and eventually get those perks from Shrine of Secrets. I don't generally buy survivors, so that's how I got all of Lara Croft and Nic Cage's perks.

Enduring + Brutal, though, is a nice combo (enduring/brutal/spirit fury might be a meme, but it's a fun meme). I just said Trapper because you can get Brutal from him, which is nice; I'd rather play Wraith but his perks are not great.

Anyway, I think not having a totally meta build as soon as you pick up the game is fine. Learn a simple Killer, kick a few things; then get artist or clown and you're sorted. Bonus points for Pinhead's perks soon to be coming into the free tier, so you can get gift of pain + pain res without spending anything in the time it takes to get some basic competence down.

Want? Often. Need? Unless you want to sweat every game and are determined to play like your life depends on it, no. You need to play differently without it, but you can still win and have a ton of fun without it. 99% of the time, no side's going to play perfectly, so what does it matter?

I mean if they keep it this way they'll bleed their survivor playerbase over the long term as more problematic killers get added, queue times right now are not quite 2v8 level but getting there.

Sloppy Butcher, Spies/Whispers, Iron Grasp, Noed. "Solid" on practically everyone sans Nurse (and even then it "works" on her). Getting a 2k kinda depends on the player though as player whos horrible will still do horrible no mater what build.

Your also missing something, some killers like our favored Artist has multiple perks that are "solid" for multiple killers. The amount of killers youd need to unlock is less than youd think to get a general "solid" build, unless your going for something specific of course.

killswitching a killer that you cant just hold w and win with its basically suicide for the games current revenue stream, he is NOT that strong to warrent a killswitch

Maybe, but there's considerable reputational damage here: selling something, then turning it off (plus licensing!) in less than a week when nothing is outright broken – imbalanced is not broken, regardless of perceived or actual balance – is not going to look good.

Especially given that BHVR only released it on Tuesday and will only be looking at the first weekend's data by the time the event's meant to start. Kind of bad timing on that one.

killswitch new character that works as intended by devs, is like "I dont want to say that word here". Do you think they realy turn off him jsut because he is "unbalanced"? Most people have problem only with his first injury. Thats it. They'll never do it because they loose money then.

Creative Assembly live service games aren't on 4 different platforms.

This killer isnt as easy as everyone thinks. Attack…Cooldown…Leap and attack. Cooldown. Leap to survive to catch up. Survivor is stuck and cannot move, now so is the killer…You guessed it! Cooldown. Leap over window. Cooldown.. cant hit anything. You leap and bounce of random objects, which if you haven't noticed in this game there are many. The killer cannot down with his power. Just because you are injured doesn't mean anything. Other than his hitbox being broken thats about all that is going for this killer for Console players. He's a pc killer.

I've not played Ghoul yet but I was under the impression that the ability's aim assist was to make him playable for console players. There are already a lot of Killers that are extremely difficult to make work on console (Huntress, Trickster, Slinger, Pinhead, Oni et al) and without some latitude I think it would be impossible to land his Kagune Lunge using a controller.

This of course does not mean some of the really egregious hits I've seen should be a given, and it's completely unrelated to the other, highly oppressive aspects of his power like inflicting Deep Wound and the very generous Berserk timers that give you incredible mobility for very little. Whatever they do to Ghoul (and I think they're going to have to do something about him given the strength of feeling in the community and his undeniably pubstompy nature) I hope it's to some of these problematic points and not just taking a sledgehammer to his power à la Skull Merchant.