2v8 keeps getting worse
In original Killers had unique abilities, like Hillbilly exposing Survivors, which actually made them different and encouraged unique synergies. That was replaced with 4 classes that give minor changes and work the same on each killer.
Herbs were a fun feature that encouraged engaging with something else than just the objectibe and rewarded people for it. For some unknown reason they were removed.
The Escapist class has been given at will Sprint Burst which made escaping extremely easy.
Legion, a whole killer, has been removed. Instead of trying to make it work, content has just been taken away.
The killers are unbalanced with seemingly no attempt to adjust them to be on the same level. For example. Nemesis and Deathslinger get some small number changes, meanwhile Wesker and Dracula get a third dash, which are massive buffs.
The first one was by far the best 2v8 implementation and while some positive changes were added (for example, play while you wait), generally this game mode has a downward trend.
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It is crazy that strong killers for a mode like this like Blight, Dracula, and Oni are getting huge buffs, meanwhile already somewhat weak killers like Deathslinger and Nemesis get basically nothing. Utterly baffling.
Legion was fine and a good team could counter them pretty easily. Going against Oni is the real problem since they could snowball especially with Legion, and Oni is just absolutely boring since the only counter is to pre-drop due to their ridiculous 2v8 buffs. Either make it so Oni is not always in power or get rid of the turning nerf.
The original killer synergies was a complicated yet cool feature that I feel like BHVR didn't want to put the resources into maintaining sadly.
Escapist is fun, but it makes chases very frustrating on some killers; another case of strong killers like Nurse, Blight and Oni being unaffected while m1 killers are punished hard. Herbs were great, shame they removed them. A lack on new survivors classes in a mode that is already stale doesn't help at all.
Overall its a casual mode so I don't mind its awful balance, but some of BHVRs decisions on this mode are very questionable.
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Original abilities only worked when close to eachother, which is generally a bad thing to do in 2v8. The new classes aren't good either but the old ones were not good at all.
Herbs were part of the Resident Evil 2v8. It's unfortunate they didn't keep them, but alas.
Escapist SB is dumb, yes.
Legion was removed because of all the hatred against them.
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and i hope legion stays gone. Not every killer should be in 2 v 8, legion is one of them.
Herbs should come back and never should’ve left.
Escapist needs to change.
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