New Anti 3 Gen Perk!

Correct me if I'm wrong but a lot of the complaining about regression meta these days seems to come from people being annoyed that they feel obligated to run it just to keep up with the pace of the game. This would counter it, yes, but it would also leave many killers high and dry, unable to deal with current gen speeds while also lacking the mobility or zoning to prevent progress. Gen kicks are limited, PR is limited, so wars of attrition aren't really tenable any more.

I do like the idea of a perk designed to mitigate nasty 3 gens. Although many would argue that landing in a 3 gen situation is survivor fault. It makes it a dicey situation because any perk that can undo a 3 gen would massively adjust how survivors have to play. Gen choice goes out the window and which gen the killer pressures no longer matters. Not sure I'm clever enough to come up with a perk that's balanced for this purpose

❌Anti 3-gen perk
✅Anti gen perk

You do know some people hit every great skill check, right?

It's also people like me, who are annoyed that tunnelling only is as viable as it is thanks to perks like Grim and Pain Res.

I dont mind regression perks existing, but its mobility killers overusing regression perks when they dont even need to rely on more than 1 perk that makes the regression meta so annoying. In fact, I wouldnt mind if regression perks would work like exhaustion perks. It used to be. Ruin and Pop were mutually exclusive, you could only have 1, not both. It would be nice if using 1 regression perk would put other regression perks on cooldown. Then adjust the numbers so that you only need 1 regression perk and only really bring 2 if you have a similar situation like Ruin and Pop. Like, you could still use Pain Res and Pop, because Pain Res only has 4 uses and Pop remains useful for a longer time. But running both at the same time you wouldnt be able to use both on 1 gen in quick succession.

On top of that, if people say they have to run it because otherwise they dont stand a chance, is more an issue with the MMR system rather than the pace of the game. Ofcourse the game is going to be difficult as hell if your average chase against any survivor you face is 120 seconds. I've been facing players who "only" have 200 hours playing a certain killer, I've faced that killer 300 hours and played it for at least 100 hours also. Ofcourse I am going to outlive chase.

If I were to demand anything from BHVR, it's to implement some basekit changes that would actively hurt current playstyles a lot. Then reset MMR for everyone. It doesnt make sense that I face 2 entirely different Weskers. One running 3 info perks and 1 regression perk just in case and absolutely demolishing us after merely 5 minutes with 3 gens remaining because we dont have comms, the other one running 3-4 regression perks, tunnelling at 5 gens and slugging in the 2v1 and barely having 1 gen remaining. One clearly fits the MMR bracket, the other got there due to the MMR system not accounting for the fact that killers can force situations to happen that gains them much more MMR than they should.

You're right. There are killers with so much innate pressure that regression isn't 100% necessary. At least not stacking it as much as possible.

I think we kinda see the main issue with going after regression perks with a nerf. All it will do is widen the gap between S-tiers and C-tiers. It'll make some killers so much harder to succeed with, and others will be impacted yes, but not by much.

It would make the survivor experience better, but might hurt the variety of killers faced. Trapper matches would be over in a flash outside of a lucky early game snowball, Blight matches would largely play the same. So more Blights, I imagine.

As for your scorched earth approach, it might flatten the curve a bit, but it'd definitely be a risky decision in terms of player retention. It could just as much be the saviour patch as it is the apocalypse patch.