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Idea for Plague in 2v8 (Probably need Plague mains critique)

TheSingleQuentinMain
TheSingleQuentinMain Member Posts: 173
edited August 2025 in General Discussions

I hit enter before writing my stuff on accident. Give me a minute.

I don't main plague and I have to confess, I don't like to fight her. I'm very concerned as to how she'll play in the 2v8 mode, as her infection kind of works similar to legion: it tends to grow the more survivors are remaining in the trial. Especially in the context of how certain killers (Oni) can seriously utilize things like the broken status effect, I do think she needs to be…different from her 1v4 design. The idea is as follows:

  1. (Nerfs) Remove infection spreading (survivors cannot infect others, infect objects like generators/etc), and instead of injuring, it inflicts exposure, and the survivors make grunts of pain. Pretty much, I'm just trying to prevent the Oni problem.
  2. (Rework) To avoid having too many killers that rely on map interactables (things like Pig's Jigsaw Puzzles, Weskers/Nemesis's Bottle Sprays, Singularity EMP Printers) I suggest we remove the Pools of Devotion and replace them. She'll now earn Corrupt Purge by fully infecting someone (+25 Charges), having people infected (+1 per a second), up to a minimum of 50 Corrupt Charges. She can store up to 150 corrupt Charges, then she'll be forced into corrupt purge. Hold Ctrl for 1 second to activate the corrupt charges manually. Activating corrupt Purge will cause all currently infected players to be cured after 20seconds.

I know I don't really have a buff to compensate for this, but I'm fairly concerned about how she can broken in this mode. I'm not only open to critique, it's kind of what I'm looking for.

Comments

  • SAWII
    SAWII Member Posts: 375

    One thing I wish that BHVR would consider is that some killers will NEVER work well in 2v8, no matter how they try to tweak their powers. Legion is a prime example of this, but I think that Plague would also fit into this category: killers who can injure easily but can’t necessarily down quickly on their own. 2v8 makes these kind of killers borderline broken. I appreciate you trying to find a solution, but I truly believe that certain killers do and will absolutely kill this mode for survivors.