Some (Probably Bad) Balance Ideas I Had

These are just a few balance ideas I had, of course feel free to give feedback.

("Reworked" Means the current text would be replaced or edited.)

("Buffed / Nerfed / Changes" Means new text is added.)

New status effects:

• Favor:
• Each stack of Favor grants an additional 20 % blood points at the end of the trial.

The point of this effect is to homogenize blood point gain effects. Although there isn’t a maximum number of stacks, you may only be able to get a small number of stacks from an individual perk.

Perk Changes

Flip Flop (Reworked)

• While in the dying state, 100 % of your recovery progression is converted into wiggle progression when you are picked up by the Killer, up to a maximum of 40/45/50 % total wiggle progression.

This change makes the perk more useable, by reducing the requirements to get the full effect.

Poised (Reworked)

• After a generator is completed you leave no scratch marks and recover from Exhaustion 50 % faster for 6/8/10 seconds.

This buff would hopefully make the perk more noticeable.

We’re Gonna Live Forever (Reworked)

• When you take a hit to protect a Survivor, you gain a 5 % Haste effect for 10 seconds.
• Each time you perform a Safe Hook Rescue or take a hit to protect a Survivor, gain a stack of Favor, up to a maximum of 2/3/4 stacks.

These Changes make the perk have an in-game effect, while slightly reducing the amount of blood points it gives.

Iron Grasp (Reworked)

• While carrying a Survivor, you will not drop them when you get stunned or blinded, but you still suffer from the other effects of the stun or blind.
• Effects of Survivor struggling are reduced by 50 %.
• Time to struggle out of your grasp is increased by 6/10/14 %.

I wanted to make Iron Grasp relevant by making it give you something that other perks couldn’t, something to make it stand out compared to agitation. By adding the semi-immunity to decisive strike, as well as flashlight or pallet saves, I think the perk could get at least some use again. Also I removed some of the struggle resistance, because I don’t think this made much of an impact on gameplay.

Barbecue & Chili (Reworked)

• After hooking a Survivor, all other Survivors' auras are revealed to you for 5 seconds when they are further than 40 metres from the hook.
• Each time a Survivor is hooked for the first time, gain a stack of Favor. You can get a maximum of 2/3/4 stacks.

My goal with these changes was to make Barbecue & Chili less common by making its bloodpoint gain effect weaker, and to make it use the Favor effect. Hopefully now its less generic in its purpose.

Boil Over (Reworked)

• You obscure the Killer’s ability to see hook auras while you are below 20 % wiggle progression.
• Your wiggle speed is increased by 20 % while you aren’t Exhausted.
• When you struggle out of the Killer’s grasp, you become Exhausted for 60/50/40 seconds.
• You do not recover from Exhaustion while running.

I decided on these changes because the struggle effect increase wasn’t very meaningful, and I wanted to make the perk increase your wiggle speed, but I wanted it to be limited in use. Also by obscuring the Killer’s ability to see hook auras, it tests the Killer’s knowledge of hook placements.

Babysitter (Reworked)

• Each time you safely unhook another Survivor, you get a stack of Favor, up to a maximum of two.
• When you unhook another Survivor, the unhooked Survivor runs at 105 % their normal running speed and leaves no scratch marks or blood trail for 4/8/12 seconds. Both you and the Killer see each other’s auras for 6 seconds.

In my opinion, this perk needed a change to make the perk more incentivized, and to make the effects more powerful. Hopefully these changes will do that.

Hangman’s Trick (Reworked)

• Hooks are no longer destroyed by sacrifice.
• The amount of time it takes for survivors to sabotage a hook is increased by 30/40/50 %.
• The automatic repair timer of sabotaged Bear Traps is reduced by 60 seconds.

The point of this change was to make the perk more viable even when survivors aren’t sabotaging hooks.

Hex: Ruin (Reworked)

• At the start of the trial, one of your dull totems becomes a hex totem.
• While the related hex totem is standing, the following effects are active:
• Whenever a Survivor comes within 16 metres of a hex totem, they will be affected by Ruin for the next 40/50/60 seconds, which causes the following:

• Good skill checks result in 5 % regression on the Generator.
• Great skill checks grant 0 % bonus progression on the Generator.

• The Ruin status effect does not go away when the related hex totem is cleansed.
• Whenever a generator stops being repaired, after 15 seconds it will explode and the generator will regress by 5 %.

If generators are going to be made slower to repair, this perk would need to be rebalanced. I also decided upon these specific changes because I think they will make the perk more interactive, and make it something that discourages leaving a generator.

Prove Thyself (Reworked)

• Reduces the size of good skillcheck success zones by 20 %.
• Succeeding a great skillcheck within 4 metres of another Survivor will result in an additional 2 % progression and increase your chances of triggering a skillcheck by 8 % for 3 seconds.
• Gain 50/75/100 % more bloodpoints for performing cooperative actions.

These changes would make the perk be much more beneficial for survivors who are confident in their ability to hit great skillchecks, and it would make generator work more interactive at higher levels of play.

Leader (Reworked)

• Increases the other Survivors' healing, sabotage, unhooking, cleansing, opening exit gates, and chest search speeds by 25 %, and increases the size of their great skill check success zones by 10/15/20 % when they are within 8 metres of range from you.
• Survivors can only be affected by one Leader effect at a time.
• This effect persists on other Survivors for 15 seconds after leaving the leader's effective perk range.

These changes allow the perk to help make working together more easy, without making it too much stronger.

Discordance (Reworked)

• Any time two or more Survivors are working on the same generator, that generator’s aura is highlighted in yellow for 4 seconds. This effect can only trigger once every 8 seconds.
• Reduces the range of Survivors’ aura reading perks and items by 0/2/4 metres.

Mindbreaker (Reworked)

• For Survivors that have repaired less than the equivalent of one generator:
• Any existing Exhaustion status effect timers are paused while the Survivor is repairing a generator, and after ending a repair action, the Survivor is afflicted by the Exhausted status effect for 5/10/15 seconds.
• Survivors don’t recover from Exhaustion while running.
• Generator repair speeds are reduced by 10 % for Exhausted Survivors who aren’t using toolboxes.

These changes were designed to make the perk have at least some use against survivors that aren’t running exhaustion perks, and to make it change up how survivors play.

No Mither (Reworked)

• You don’t leave pools of blood.
• Your grunts of pain caused by injuries are reduced by 75 % at any time.
• Grants the ability to fully recover from the dying state.
• You recover from the dying state 50 % faster.
• If you would ever become fully healed, you will instead remain injured, but gain the Enduring status effect for 10/20/30 seconds. Any damage taken during that time that would put you into the dying state will instead apply the Deep Wound status effect, you then have 20 seconds to mend yourself.
• If you take any damage while affected by Deep Wound or if the Deep Wound timer ends, you will immediately be put into the dying state.

This change solves two of the issues that made No Mither such a bad perk, while keeping what made it challenging. Because you don’t start the trial injured, and aren’t technically broken, the killer no longer automatically knows if you have the perk equipped. Also, you can now make use of healing, but it only provides a temporary buff.

Cruel Limits (Reworked)

• Whenever you injure a Survivor, all windows and vault locations that are further than 24 metres away from you become blocked by the entity for 20/25/30 seconds.

This version of the perk makes the effect make more sense in context of the description, and will make the perk much more powerful.

Item Changes

Toolbox nerf:

• While holding a toolbox, you suffer from the Exhausted status effect, and can’t perform fast vaults. You reman Exhausted for 5 seconds after holding a toolbox.
• You do not recover from Exhaustion while running.

Flashlight change:

• Each time you turn on the flashlight its battery will be consumed moderately faster for the rest of the trial.
• Added 2 seconds of use to each flashlight.

Spirit Changes (Based on The Spirit and her addons from version 3.4.0)

Quality Of Life Changes:

• Added an indicator to the Killer’s screen to give better feedback for passive phasing.

I wanted to make The Spirit’s passive phasing more central to their kit. Now that The Spirit knows when they are phasing, they can try to take advantage of it. 

Yamaoka’s Haunting Changes (Nerf):

• While activating Yamaoka’s Haunting, all Survivors within 6 metres will hear an auditory warning.

This change means that The Spirit now will have a harder time at pallets, because there will be a giveaway as to when they are charging their power.

Father’s Glasses (Rework)

• Survivors and their auras are visible during the activation time of Yamaoka’s Haunting.
• Moderately decreases Yamaoka’s Haunting reappearance movement speed.
• Moderately decreases Yamaoka's Haunting reappearance duration.

Prayer beads (Rework)

• Removes the sound emission while using Yamaoka’s Haunting.
• All Survivors hear the auditory warning during the activation time of Yamaoka’s Haunting.

Dried Cherry Blossom (Changes)

• Added slightly increases The Spirit's base movement speed.
• Added tremendously reduces Yamaoka's Haunting power charge speed while in a chase and for five seconds after. (1.5 seconds to 3 seconds)

Juniper Bonsai (Buff)

• Added considerably increases The Spirit's passive phasing duration. (0.5 seconds to .75 seconds)

That's all of them.

Edit:

I've got some more

Sabotage Changes:

• Hook sabotage progress will be reduced by .5 % of its total progression each second that the hook isn’t being sabotaged.
• Hooks destroyed by sabotage will auto repair after 240 seconds of being sabotaged.
• The amount of time until a hook is automatically repaired is reduced by 30 seconds each time another hook gets sabotaged or a generator is repaired.

Quality Of Life Changes:

• Added another bindable action specifically for grabbing Survivors.
• Added options for players to change the color of auras.
• Added an option to change the opacity of noise notifications.