Make Vile Purge more of a threat

I can smell the DCs increasing already.

Give the fully sick survivors 2 things when they vomit: the Hindered status for duration of vomiting, and a 6m AoE that infects everything around them. With the hindered status popping up periodically the Plague becomes more of a threat in a chase but isn't so OP that survivors can't deal with it. Currently the only times survivors get infected is either through direct interaction with another survivor/object that is infected, or by being spewed on by the killer. With infection time on objects being 35 seconds (up to a maximum of 50) however, survivors generally don't get infected the majority of the time without the Killers direct intervention. With the AoE though, objects all over the map would get frequently infected by sick survivors when they vomit which would give the spread of the infection more of a "Plague" feel that would help the killer apply better map pressure.

Another suggestion people have made is to have infected gens experience regression for the infections duration that survivors have to combat with slightly slower repair speed, which honestly sounds like a decent buff but might be a bit too oppressive. For that suggestion I'd say the Regression rate should be half as strong as a normal gen kick, but adding that extra half rate on top of a gen kick might prove to be too fast of a regression. It's an interesting Idea that would add better gen pressure and control for the Plague, but I'm unsure if it would be too strong, and with the AoE suggestion above it might prove to be overpowering.

Either way, i believe the first 2 suggestions here to be the best one's, because of how they would change Plague matches (I don't think they'd be too broken), and they would encourage survivors to cleanse at fountains or risk getting periodically slowed in a chase or infect their allies.

Let’s also nerf the insta-heal at the fountains a bit. I mean, you DID just recover from Plague after all.

I propose you drink from the fountain to cure the sickness, but remain injured (if hit or if the disease progressed that far). You then have 1 minute to drink from a clean fountain (the one you just used is corrupt now) for the free healing. During this minute, fountain auras will still be visible.

Good survivors allready don't waste any time healing when they don't have to. Being Broken just make them rush the gens even harder.

Vile Purge is just a different way to get the first hit on survivors. If they juke around a lot it can be even longer to infect them rather than just hit them. Vile Purge is not a threat by itself.

Compare it to Legion's Feral Frenzy. Some would say its also only good to get a free first hit and nothing else. But you get detection out of hit. You can bounce quickly beetween targets and the survivors can't juts ignore Deep Wounds forever. Eventually they have to mend, even if it only waste a few seconds, its less time spent on gens.

Back to Plague, getting a survivor fully infected can be arguably harder than landing the first Feral Frenzy hit and you get absolutly no momentum out of it. If the survivor manage to escape you or they get infected by the environement they don't have to do anything about it as long as you are not around. The sickness does nothing to hinder the survivors by itself.

The problem, from what I seem to understand, is that the game's meta is at a point where (good) Survivors would rather just power through gens instead of wasting time healing. And because of that, being in a position where they can't heal doesn't really matter if they don't want to heal in the first place. Granted, if there are random teammates who can't afford to give up healing, being contagious could be a problem for the state of the overall team. But if you have a full team of Survivors who are comfortable playing without the need to heal, Vile Purge does very little to them.