So, about gens...

Personally I'd like to see gen times increased, like up to 2 minutes for one gen, BUT for each generator completed, subsequent gens go 10 seconds faster.

That would slow down the game substantially at the crucial early stages, and reward working together on one gen at a time over 3 gens which would all be maximally penalised.

However, getting down to the 3 gen situation you wouldn't be at a disadvantage compared to now.

Obviously the numbers could be tweaked, maybe make the last gen faster than now for instance.

They should do something different, survivors should have an other real objectivr. Or increase time to repair generators like you said. (Until they found a new objective to do for the survivors)

But, they should also rework ruins. A game with or without ruins is totally different. Removing the penalty regression would be a great Idea if they increase time to do a generator.

Idea for a rework of ruins : Have a skill check every 8/6/4 seconds ? (Only good skill check, excellent skill checks can't be done. But they should do something. After 3 years, it's time to do something. We all know why ruins is in the game. A perk shouldn't be so overpowered.

Yeah I know, we can destroy the totem. Is it fun to find a totem in all the map ? No. It's boring to play survivor : M1 simulator / searching ruins simulator. I only like to play survivor to be chased and help the others.

I think the speed at which a survivor repairs a generator should be tied to their rank. If you're a red rank survivor, you contribute less charges per second to the overall repair than a purple or green rank survivor, etc. This would have the natural effect of increasing generator repair times for full groups of red ranks while not punishing lower-level players who are trying to rank up. In fact, it would provide a nice, linear experience for improvement at the game. As you get better, things take more time--which consequently makes matches a little harder.

This also solves the problem of trying to balance changes to gen repair speeds for lower ranks. By tying the repair speed to the rank of the survivor and not the generator itself, you aren't inherently making the game harder for lower ranks, who naturally tend to struggle more against killers. By receiving no speed penalty (or a marginal one as they progress from brown to yellow) they still have the chance for a competitive match against the killer, even if they aren't the most optimal with looping and chases.

Sounds like a Pop goes the weasel meta 😂

If everyone would do it there would be no point.

Game main appeal is playing with friends. If you can't do it then game is dead.

That would never happen and devs already said that multiple times.

@theArashi the video is probably not the best example. The killer took 90 seconds to finish the first chase, didn't protect the second gen he could DEFINITELY hear and did not even return to it after the down. And you don't see if the killer was camping (as you can see he was tunneling, eating the DS almost on purpose) which would support gen rush as well.

@Troman I think gen rush, except for a whole team using speed buffs with perks and items, is not really plannable. The main problem on early gens popping is, that you can't control the whole map. Survivors can spawn directly beneath gens. Survivors can choose to not tap the first gen they see and wait until you got past it. So the killer has to pass by within 80 seconds later again, to protect that gen, including searching the whole map and most likely getting into a chase somewhere. And if you combine the cases, you might have all survivors work on gens before the first one gets found. It is totally random, of course. But it is always possible that you have a bad chase and 3 gens are finished after the first down, if the survivor chased does not run into gens being worked on. Or at least, finish the first chase in time, find another one and finish that chase as well. Still possible that at least two or even two and a half gens are done before your second hook. As I said, not plannable, but always possible.

I would also like to test a version where team play is supported, not slowed down, or solo play is slowed down and team play stays the same. @Huntar @Inacurate I like the belt idea also. I once had the idea that the killer should be able to manipulate certain gens, so the survivors need to find special parts to repair, before they can go on with that gen. At first that seemed to go too much direction "Friday the 13th" game where you need to find stuff spread over the map but could be combined with that belt idea, so the gen is protected for some time, until the belt drops.

@ThatMetal1 the 5% base regression on kicks would be nice, that also is kind of counter to the salty "I tap the gen dude! Wanna kick it again dude? We can run this forever dude!"

@Johnny_XMan I'd say as soon as the ultra altruistic survivors stop camping and swarming the hooks for the insta unhooks. If ever anyone talked about hook rushing, it can just be about survivor initiated snowball scenarios.

@Piwatte Sounds like the whole game is no fun to you, no matter how gens are supposed to be finished. If you say you have fun in chases and help others, just go for the killer and chase, letting the others do the totem/gen stuff, right?

@theArashi "If you can't do SWF the game is dead" Pretty quit death sentence here. SWF came with patch 1.0.3. But I also would never +1 on removing this, and it will not happen

If you want to reduce gen speed then all killers would have to be nerfed. Killer mains are always thinking in SWF but never realize how hard it is for solo players. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve been in where 5 gens were left despite no ruin because everyone wants to urban evasion to the corner of the map when they hear a heartbeat.....in red ranks....................

if no players play killer because of swf the game would die either way, though.

In any case it's a slippery slope, you don't know how many killers would opt-out, I don't know the current killer retention rate.

What I can observe is that my games are instantaneous as killer, while as survivor I have to wait 5-10 minutes. Rank 1 on both. This tells me something on the current state of the game.

Also the fact that you call both of those perks "Crutches" leads me to believe that you can't run a killer, and you are one of those survivors that won't touch a gen until Ruin is destroyed. Nice try though.

I play both pretty regularly, but thanks for playing

I thought of reducing repair times further for multiple people on a gen while making single generator repair speed slightly faster to compensate. Several people are on one gen during the game at many points in the game, and I actually feel gens fly the fastest when that's the case even as killer. I don't usually see 3 gens pop at the same time(I have before, but usually I'll go around keeping pressure on multiple gens where that doesn't happen), but when there's that one team who all pile up on one gen I have to look for that 1/8 gen that they're working on and if I don't find it in time it pops super quick even without Prove Thyself. Or if I'm chasing a survivor, they can get that one gen done super quick because I'm not there to pressure them.

Slowing repair speed for single gens and having gen speeds faster with multiple people is also an option, but that brings the case where you have to find one generator out of 8 that's likely to pop before you get anyone. Then you get someone in a chase and the other 3 are on a new gen. Discordance wouldn't just be meta, it'd be necessary.

Decisive strike only works when you have been hooked, and if you have been picked up again shortly after that unhook has happened. You can't use it at all unless you have taken a step down. Same thing with a number of good survivor perks including self care even.