Why is Streetwise not killswitched?

Please explain how nemesis was "critical enough" but Streetwise isn't. The criteria seems way too subjective and we don't understand why it's "nuclear" option. It is not easy to actually disable something? It's 1 survivor perk out of 100 that nobody really uses anyway.

I think there needs to be a serious reevaluating of WHAT warrants a kill switch.

If you consider infinitely charged toolboxes that last for the entire game to be okay and non-gamebreaking because it takes a bit of time to set up, then I'm genuinely afraid for what else could be considered okay.

This exploit is single handedly making me unable to play killer because it's based on something that isn't even visible in the lobby and does NOT have a counter. The only possible counter for it would be old Franklins and how it would drain an item of charges over 90 seconds - which was removed in this exact same patch.

For the record, you kill switched Nemesis due to broken perk interactions. Which was justified, don't get me wrong, but you should apply the exact same sort of leniency here. The same way you should have applied it to Merciless Storm when that was bugged to rip 50% off a generator. But what this means is that this insane restriction that's being suggested that it's only ever used for things that actually cause the game to cease functioning entirely is just not true.

It comes across that BHVR doesn't want to killswitch two things at once because it's embarrassing to admit multiple things are completely broken. And that's extremely frustrating in a patch where so much of the game is broken.

Genuinely, I want to know what the justification is for keeping Streetwise available to use - and WHAT exactly makes it better than simply preventing this exploit from appearing in every other game I play. Is this TRULY WORTH a perk that's intended purpose is tied to a mechanic of the game people never do in regular matches? Do you REALLY think the majority of Streetwise users currently are running it so they can loot a chest normally and play the game without exploiting it to hell and back?

And if you really think it's worth the case, what does the 15-to-1 ratio of votes down to votes up on this response say about how the playerbase feels about that? It might actually help to listen. Maybe, just maybe, we are right about this.

kinda hard to interpret this in any way besides as an endorsement.

Hear that, kids? Try to break the perk!

point of order that Merciless Storm did deserve a killswitch, and got one.

Why that perk deserved a killswitch and not Streetwise is anyone's guess

It got killswitched, then was immediately broken at soon as the killswitch ended and was not killswitched again.

It's not breaking the game? How is infinitely saboing hooks not broken? How is infinite charges on generators not broken? What's the point of your Killswitch if you won't even use it on something so obvious as this!

And we are communicating back that the decision is terrible and should be reevaluated. My bitterness here is not directed at Jocelyn, but the decision of the team as a whole to let this continue ruining matches for arbitrary and ridiculous reasons despite literally everybody, except for the people actively abusing it, lighting a fire under BHVR's ass.

Good for you buddy… Enjoy your games :)

she is doing her job, but that job relies on listening to feedback and relaying it to the team. if the info she relays to us is as disappointing and bizarre as this, the main team deserves to know how ridiculous their responses are to an already controversial patch full of issues

You all killswitched potential energy within the hour of it giving infinite tool box charges and this bug is giving any item infinite charges. This is either the most tone deaf thing you all have done in a while or you're blatantly showing you guys favor the side of 4 over the 1. I lost 4 games in a row yesterday to 3 to 4 people using street wise and gen rush builds. It genuinely feels like you all do not truly care about this health update to your game anymore and don't care about the health of your game in general

Its unfortunately becoming more and more obvious employees of BHVR aren't playing their game as much as they used to.

Or you could use the Universal Perk Plunderer's Instinct and any of the three perks that guarantee the specific item to speed up this process, which multiple videos have already shown is occurring. You can also bring Coin offerings to increase the amount of chests, as the map can hold up to 16 chests (3 at base + 4 for Human Greed and Hoarder, which killers are bringing to get video of the survivors performing the exploit + 8 chests for a entire party of coins + 8th anniversary offering on any killer older than and including Vecna), making them incredibly easy to find. You can also do this with things that are not toolboxes and get permablinds or heal at max speed for the entire match.

Respectfully, if this is the case, the team needs to reevaluate the killswitch criteria. It doesn't take much time to do at all, it can literally be done in seconds after you find a chest, and it gives even the strongest items infinite time to use. The fact that Nemesis, an entire killer, was (deservedly) killswitched for an unfair advantage, but just a single perk that provides an advantage just as crazy and unfair isn't killswitched really says a lot.

Infinite medkits also allow you to heal other surivors much faster, in a meta where it is already incredibly fast to heal others or yourself. Being able to heal yourself whenever you want is also incredibly strong. It means you don't have to put yourself in any danger of finding another survivor to heal. There's a reason that the best addons for medkits besides styptics and syringes are charge increases.