Does Noed need a strong buff?

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I'd rather have NOED completely reworked to do something else entirely. It's unhealthy for the game and single handedly leads to a lot of misleading stats.

this seems like a real overkill, sorry thats way too much.

NOED, despite not being a great perk, is still a strong perk to be used.

i would say the perk needs some changes, that in the end would end up as a buff, yes, but nothing nearly as strong as your idea.

what i think needs improvement is the mechanic of punishing survivors for failing the secondary ovjective, not the strength of the overall perks effects. imo, if they didnt do a single totem, noed should be a huge punishment for them. currently they can ignore all totems and just cleanse the lit up one, rendering the perk useless.

i also dislike how cleansing 4 totems means just as much as cleansing 0, as the perk will still be just as strong as when you'd just ignored it. so its also frustrating from the survivors perspective. like, i literally wont come back for my team if i did 4 totems and they still get hit by NOED.

ive come up with 2 ideas (one simple and one more complicated) for possible changes of this perk that would fix this issue.

1) (the simple one):

NOED lights up every remaining dull totem / uppon being destroyed and a dull totem still standing, it switches to said totem until all are destroyed.

that way teams that completely ignored totems will probaply not get rid of the perk, though the more totems you did throughout the trial the easier you can get rid of the perk. so as a benefit for the killer, the perk wont get taken down asap uppon the affected totem being discovered. and as a benefit for the survivor, it actually fells rewarding to take down totems during the trial now and the killer had NOED, since every dull totem you cleansed was one taken down NOED totem, instead of everything being basically useless if just a single totem survived until the gens got done.

2) (the more complicated one):

NOED works like a tombstone Myers. however, uppon using it to kill a survivor, 3/2/1 totem(s) will be destroyed.

this would, again, punish survivors for ignoring totems all game, however the more totems they destroyed the weaker the perk actually gets. on top of that, the perk would get limited in a way where the killer cant use it to cheese a momentum and get a 4k out of a 0k. since it works like a tombstone Myers, you wont be able to insta down them and slug, you'd basically just be able to insta mori them uppon getting close - if there are enough totems left. on top of that, this would actually change how strong NOED tier 1, 2 and 3 are, since a tier 1 NOED would only allow for a single mori, tier 2 would allow for 2 mories and tier 3 for up to 5 (theoretically).

(yes uppon first reading this sounds like an incredible buff, but the more you think about it, the more balanced it actually gets)

in the end, cleansing 5 totems would always disable the perk though. it would still be 100% survivor reliant to ever activate. all i aimed for with these changes is to make the perk more punishing for those who didnt care about totems at all.

however, both would allow for counterplay besides cleansing the totems aswell, just as the current version of NOED does.

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It should also block exit gates for exactly 2 min and 1 second during collapse to make it fair.