Have the devs learned from Mettle of Man?

I am concerned about 9 perks being useless. I don't really care having an op perk (surv or killer) as long as it changes the game a bit. I'm tired about the same perks over and over.

The last useful perk was head on and it's more about it being fun than useful.

I hope a perk like letting you instaheal a teammate when you're injured after being hooked twice for ex. rather than a perk letting you see the crows aura in a 36 meter radius for ex.

We'll see Soon™

Head on does work.

This better be bait. It turned online, basically for free, and provided you with an extra hit. Not to mention how well it synergised with insta heal medkits, which are already borderling problematic on their own. Should it be reworked sooner or later from its current state? Yes. But you are kidding yourself if you dont think it needed to be dumpstered.

Yes, it is useless now, but a useless perk is less damaging for the game state, than a blantantly broken one. The same logic was used back when Freddy was released.

Imo MoM wasn’t broken, DS hurt my early game so I definitely didn’t like it.

Yes and LF.

I never complained about it but it did bring back old memories of being bullied as killer at end game before DS got nerfed. MoM on it's own wasn't a big deal but when everyone has it that's four more hits on top of the Adrenalines, DSs, and DHs and it takes an insane amount of extra hits to down everybody enough times to win. With body blocks end game was pretty much a wrap if multiple people were running MoM.

They should start with getting rid of the aura reveal for it though to see if more people would start using it again. I'm all for more good survivor perks but they shouldn't revolve around an easy second chance. A comparative killer perk to old MoM would be one that let's you instadown after you miss a set number of attacks. I guess like NOED but without counter play.

We'll find out. It's hard to design survivor perks that are good but don't also break the game when multiple survivors have them. They can only do so much with the current systems and status effects. They could maybe have secondary effects in the event that you have the perk but aren't the obsession. So old MoM would be tbe primary version, but not being the obsession would be current MoM. Kind of like survivor versions of Hex perks. Powerful, but risky and potentially useless.

Removing aura reading isn't going change MoM state. The way you use MoM right now is that you bring a medkit with instant heal, you take a protection when a survivor is getting carried to a hook, then you heal yourself. The next time a survivor is brought o a hook, you can now tank 3 hits, so MoM is like sabotage hook perk now. The problem with old MoM is that it had no counter-play because every killer has to hit basic attacks to down survivors, so it was inevitable instant heal for the survivor. In my opinion if they wanted to make it a perk you earn, I'd say change the condition to 2 safehook.

Strong perks are fine, what matters for perks is that they got counter-play. If they lack counter-play, they're often really problematic.

I doubt the Ash dlc had already a good incentive for people to buy it. It's Ash from Evil Dead, first licenced cosmetics, first time we got a licenced character based on the actual actor etc.

I don't buy any "MoM was op to be a cash grab" talk. Sorry. Honestly, what I think what happened, was that the devs wanted a perk which fit to theme of "Evil has a way of always finding you." quote from Ash vs. Evil Dead and also the idea back in their mind to reuse the Endurance status effect some day. Then mixed both together and accidently created a perk, which was horrible.

And yes after Legion, I even trust that they might have been blind by their own work not to see the issue with it beforehand or listen to early community critique after the leak.

I mean, sure, people buy it for "Its Ash from Evil Dead". But if you never watched the show, this no reason. You need reasons for people to buy something of a franchise, when they are not familiar with it.

With Killers it is different, because new Killers bring variety. But Survivors dont bring Variety, except for their Perks. And if you dont like Bruce Campbell, did not watch Ash vs Evil Dead (or Evil Dead) and dont like the look of the Character, would you buy it when there are only mediocre Perks? Most likely not.

At least people who did not watch the show or do not like Bruce Campbell, will buy the DLC less than before, because it does not have anything for them.