Would you take smokebomb over a medkit?

It has infinite uses.

The only thing stopping it is a cooldown between uses.

Which may be an issue.

I would just because its something to shake things up, add Lucky Break and Iron Will and you could have a lot of fun with it imo. I would probably bring Strength in Shadows to heal if really desperate, its a nice perk I used to run quite often too even if it isn't always worth having it

Yup... I'd use that over a medkit, lol

Right now the best thing you can do is take a medkit with a syringe. Pop it and start working a gen for 24 seconds of efficiency. Pretty much nothing can get you that level of efficiency consistently in terms of items. Sure maybe this thing might sometimes get you out of a bind, but its not "every" time that it can work.

Generally perks and items and such are about consistently getting that value, some things might be able to get more value but if it is rare or hard to get that value it usually isn't worth taking over say, pain resonance, which is pretty simple, consistent value.

If they're good, they'll probably become the only item I bring to a trial on the regular (outside of Chaos Shuffle or my Locker Dweet build, when I'll be bringing a Med-Kit instead).

I'm not a big item user and much prefer to bring perks for getting stuff done, which is why I'm such an advocate for the Botany + Self Care combo. But this item looks like it will be a lot of fun and might tempt me back to playing more Survivor games. It will be funny to do a disappearing act on the Killer by dropping a fog bomb and sprint bursting away from my gen.

It does sound like they will be quite a bit weaker than the void crystals, though. Those weren't terribly effective either, so I'm a little bit worried they'll be kinda useless in practice. I think it might have more functionality in common with a Distortion token than the void crystals, and be mainly used as a way to hide your aura on activation.

I'm SURE they're going to nerf it because a lot of killers are going to cry about it (and Franklin's Demise will probably become a constant perk because of this); so no, I prefer to keep carrying my medkit and leave it on the edge of the map to use later xD

Past the (semi)novelty effect, nobody will use this item ever again.

if it has an aura suppression effect I'll 100% shill for them.

I'll still use them regardless, as I loves them last time they were around.

Yes if it’s cool, I’ll absolutely put down my medkit for a Smokebomb. Rah rah like a dungeon dragon. I wonder what the addons will be.

Me with my smokebomb SoonTM:

They should have Franklin’s Demise auto trigger the smoke bomb once it hits the ground as a minor risk to running it.

you're missing the point. the point is unless the smoke vial has like a 40-60 second cooldown (so you can use it every chase) and/or it consistently really trips up even the good killer players playing the best killers (in which case cue the (probably warranted) complaining and inevitable nerfs) it's not going to be worth running over other options if you care about actually having a decent chance at winning.

it's not that facing bad killers is fun, it's that not getting any value whatsoever out of an item you brought (especially when you could've brought another item that would've actually been beneficial) isn't fun. and smoke vial is one of those things that's, by design, going to be insanely powerful or completely useless. we'll see what it ends up being.

sure but dying or indirectly causing your teammates to die because you didn't choose the optimal thing (which has been heavily encouraged ever since 6.1.0, especially in solo queue) still sucks even if you want to be mr optimist^tm. like please try to tell me with a straight face that you prefer losing over winning.

then unless you're an absolute god at chases & macro or you're playing in a 4 stack of like-minded people you are actively & significantly lowering your team's chance to win before the match even begins. if we had an MMR system worth a damn that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but unfortunately we don't, and unfortunately the state of solo survivor is miserable unless you're stoned or a streamer that has chat to talk to.

that's just how it is. i wish they'd actually do something about the current state of killer & map balance so running goofy ######### wasn't so damning compared to meta ######### but instead they're sitting on their hands doing soft handed changes to low tier killers 9 years in so w/e.

We'll wait for the first set of nerfs because it's going to probably be complained about to death by every killer who encounters it.

I can alredy see it as a counter to aura perks like barbeque. Someone getting hooked while ur on a gen? Pop smoke and keep going, they wont read your aura across the map

I had the impression that auras are only blocked when the killer is within the mist. It being a sort of portable Distortion would be interesting.

Never stated it has infinite uses. Might be add on reliant, be like two charges on the item. Wait and see, people are panicking and calling end of the world every time something bigger is changing. We got a lot of qol as killers as well as some improvements to make the game more fun. So now let them do something for survivors too.

There is a response, 2 comments under mine, from BHVR.

It said this: "It has a single rechargeable use on a cooldown."

Cough cough the over abundance of aura reading perks and addons while also killing distortion cough cough

Sorry I had something in my throat

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