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Survivor are just skins! A change?

ich_häng_mal_rum ich_häng_mal_rum
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I‘m a survivor main, but sometimes I like to play killer because it’s more variety. You have to decide which killer you choose cause all of them have their special power.

Why the devs don’t release for survivor special abilities, a bit like one of their teachable perks for example? I would like to see something like:

  • Dwight: motivate teammates, they can work in his near 2% faster
  • Meg: can run 2% faster
  • Claudette: 5% healingspeed
  • and so on...

So you have to decide with character you play for the ability not only for the skin... It would give survivors more variety and every perkbuild would synergies a bit different. Sure, the killer shouldn’t see survivor in the lobby but he knows in the match about their abilities.

What you think about this idea?

Comments

  • DelsKibara DelsKibara

    I'm pretty sure the devs have said multiple times they have no plans on actually giving Survivors any form of special abilities, they really are just skins, they're not meant to play differently.

  • Frankie Frankie

    I don't see why you couldn't just...use their teachable perks, then. Survivors are meant to appeal to identities, not to skills.

  • ich_häng_mal_rum ich_häng_mal_rum

    But their is the point when you have all (helpful) perks on all survivor, then they are only different skins and voices... then you play only your favorite skin!

    It‘s very important that the abilities are not to strong, just something like a few percent or a little bonus, not like a „5th perk“.

  • DelsKibara DelsKibara

    @ich_häng_mal_rum said:

    But their is the point when you have all (helpful) perks on all survivor, then they are only different skins and voices... then you play only your favorite skin!

    It‘s very important that the abilities are not to strong, just something like a few percent or a little bonus, not like a „5th perk“.

    That's the point.

    You onlyl play as your favourite skin.

    Survivors are not meant to have any abilities whatsoever

  • ich_häng_mal_rum ich_häng_mal_rum

    I switch only between the characters because it’s boring to see the same every match. I have all perks on the most characters so I could use every setting on them...

    Why is it so hardly to imagine? In real life the people all a bit different, some more sporty (= Meg), some more quit (= Jake), some have more feeling for tactics, some are teamplayer...

  • ich_häng_mal_rum ich_häng_mal_rum

    And by the way, it would compensates the gap between the killer and survivor grind. If you want play a specific killer cause of his ability you have to level him, but on survivor side you just need all survivor on level 40 and than you can prestige your favourite character/skin.

  • PigNRun PigNRun

    The problem is the following:

    • You would create "meta Survivors" if the values actually make a difference (and thats something everyone wants to avoid) and they would have to be considered with every single map tile, perk and power released afterwards as well as all the content already in the game. Thats a massive amount of work. Therefore, these character-specific traits have to be extremely small.
    • If they have to be small and non-noticeable, why waste time on that in the first place? Why have Mag running 0.1% faster than other Survivors? Might as well keep them all the same. Especially with these Devs and their hard-on for consistency.
    • There is only so much you can make a trait out of. We are at 21 Survivors right now (22 in a few weeks). Give me 22 unique traits that dont affect balance, fit with their respective character and dont turn into a "5th perk". You simply cant with how simple the game is and how much content there is and will be.

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