Best time to be a survivor main

Nerf Killers? Buff Survivors? Endgame is too situational?

Okay, a lot of things going on here. I'm going to give my opinion on each one.

First I'd like to state that I have around 1600 hours in this game, and I'm currently at rank 3 survivor, and rank 1 killer. I've been to every rank and I understand the different kind of play styles there are.

So a lot of people think that survivors have "overpowered" perks and that killers don't have good enough perks. Well, I completely disagree. You can call/think of me as survivor biased, but I'm going to try my best to explain my thoughts to you. So I see that people are complaining about MoM a lot, and I can agree that when it works it's a strong perk, but only against people who play killers that aren't very strong. What's unfortunate about it is not only does it counter the killer, but it counters the concept of the killer. So unless the devs change the concepts of the killer, they're still going to find MoM as a wall. So how do you counter MoM? The best way I can see to counter it as someone like Wraith is by getting it over with as quickly as possible, or doing the opposite and ignoring them. If someone is obsession, either make them using it up quickly as possible or avoid them for the remainder of the trail. But I promise you, there is no other perk in the game better than Hex: No One Escapes Death. Let me explain why. The devs have stated that NOED has counter play, however I'm gonna have to give a fat disagree on that one. The thing about noed is that there is no skill to it. All it does is allow the killer to down survivors instantly (without warning up until the first hit) and grants them more movement speed. Now it is good that it is a hex totem, as it can be easily taken care of. Once NOED has been exposed, survivors can search the map for the relative hex totem and cleanse it. With the upcoming endgame changes, that'll be harder to do. Ignoring the fact that 1 or 2 survivors have probably already gotten downed by NOED, what else can you do? Well, you could preemptively cleanse all 5 totems on the map. So what's wrong with that? Here's a list of what's wrong with that.

1. Cleansing all 5 totems takes A LOT away from gen pressure, which gives the killer tons of time to hunt for survivors.
2. There is a 1/57 chance that the killer has noed. That is a 0.017% chance that you will deny NOED. Also a 99.98% chance that you are being completely useless to your team.
3. Let's say a trapper is running NOED. So you start the trial, the trapper downs someone and decide to face camp them. Now what's the best counter to face camping? Gen rushing. So you gen rush, a hooked survivor can only stall so much. You end up getting all the gens done, and the survivor on the hook dies. So the trapper decides to now go and kill other survivors. And boom, what happens? Noed. But why didn't you preemptively cleanse the totems? Well if you took time off gen pressure, you wouldn't have been able to get to end game in the first place.

The main problem with noed is the lack of skill it requires. The killer doesn't have to do ANYTHING to activate noed. Even if the survivors get rid of noed before endgame starts, noed still provides value for the killer since it caused survivors to get off gens and cleanse totems. So what could be done to make NOED more skillful? Well it could be something like devour hope. In the fact that, you get stacks during the trail, then if you have enough stacks once the exit gates are powered, NOED will activate. That way, they killer would have to work for their insanely powerful insta down and movement speed. Another concept would be making it like the perk Hope. For a certain amount of time, survivors are exposed and you move faster. That way it doesn't even have to be a hex perk. The only perk survivors can use to go against noed would be MoM (depending on the killer). But then again, MoM only saves you from one hit, and you HAVE to be injured otherwise it won't work. Adrenaline will only help you gain distance, otherwise it won't help. Decisive Strike was removed from the picture, all the killer has to do is count to 60 every time a survivor gets unhooked before picking them up. Otherwise decisive only works against killers who tunnel, and there are plenty of better ways to play than just tunneling.

Anyways, onto "buffing survivors"

The only buff survivors have gotten other than their perks in the last couple of months were the vault changes. Other than that, survivors have been getting nerfed quite a bit. Not sure if you remember the amount of pallets there were on the map before the pallet nerf, or the pallet vacuum, or the amount of tiles that used to be on each map. Yes, survivors have been getting small buffs but nothing significant enough to complain about. Perhaps you remember the ever so famous instablind from back in the day? Why nerf that when killers have 5 blink nurses, Iridescent head hatchets, Insta kill myers, no phasing sound spirit, mint rag hag, irididescent king doctor, insta down gas bottles... all comparable to what, an insta heal? All insta heals do are give extra hits. Extra hits don't matter against any of the killer addons I just listed, and don't even get me started on how different the hitboxes of the killers are from a long time ago, and no, it's not just lag, I refuse to accept that it's just lag. Something changed with the way they swing their attack. Now I need to state that I was using insta blind as more of an example of survivors getting put down, but yes I do agree the insta blind was useful, and I do think that nowadays most killers are very weak, however what makes them strong isn't the way you play them, it's the insanely powerful addons they all have access to, and hopefully something like that won't come out of something like the Freddy rework.

Endgame is not situational. The endgame is supposed to be in the survivors favor, since the that's the state right after the survivors successfully completely all 5 generators and the killer did not put enough pressure onto the survivors. Survivors aren't supposed to have tension or struggle during endgame unless the killer has brought perks to do so. What the devs seem to be doing is for some reason put the endgame into the killers favor, and all everyone is saying is to buff it even more because "the time is too short".

Quick edit, I forgot to mention that I have actually experienced the vaulting the entity window glitch, and I hope it gets patched ASAP.

Also toxic behavior should never be a reason to nerf a survivor/killer. Toxic behavior derives from the player playing the game, not the mechanics that the player uses.

It's almost as if killers can't adapt and that the perk is getting changed, oh wait it's the bad killers that refuse to adapt and then make up excuses for their badness. I guess next you'll say that it's survivors fault Legions abused not 1 but 2 exploits and thus got Legion nerfed.