Let us upgrade Perks directly!

HEX_MalusGrey

Upon learning a new perk from the bloodweb, let us upgrade them directly with BP from the perk menu!

The grind in this game is unbearable and whenever you need perk X for a specific build idea it can take day's or more until you get them. You add more and more teachables to the game but every time you do so, the grind get's worse and you drive your best customers away.

Let us cut out the tons of addons we don't need and buy upgade perks directly.

AhoyWolf

Pretty good idea, but I would just remove perk tiers altogether.

Kind_Lemon

I mean, this is what you're looking for, no?:

@Kind_Lemon said:

(for bloodweb and perk leveling, skip past the spoiler/italics)

Spoiler Spoiler Warning ▲ ▼

First and foremost, I think a White Ward should prevent add-ons from being lost upon an escape if the devs do go through with this change. I personally dislike it given that I have very few clean rags or rubber grips despite having upwards of one hundred of brown bloodpoint offerings each. Keeping these add-ons after a successful escape is the only way they can compete with the amount of bloodpoint offerings without burning through tens of bloodwebs worth 50,000 points each.

About killers keeping add-ons: I think considering adding the rule that killers lose their add-ons only if a survivor escapes would be an intriguing idea even if only for the sake of lore (eg. the Entity rewards killers for doing well). However, before considering this, the issue of bloodpoint gain, the cheapness of bloodwebs, and perk acquisition needs to be addressed.

Perks and Bloodweb leveling

As it stands now, perks can only be obtained through the bloodweb, and the sheer number of perks in the game requires an inordinate amount of bloodpoints to be spent and bloodwebs to be run through in order to acquire most (if not all). The developers decided to make the bloodweb cheaper to combat (among other things such as 8k common bloodpoint offerings) the grind to acquire all the perks. In doing so, the developers allowed players to breeze through bloodwebs and accumulate hundreds of add-ons and offerings that can't be used in enough games before the player reaches the bloodpoint cap and has to start leveling again or waste the points.

The BEST solution (not the easiest) is to add another menu in the bloodweb tab that is designed solely for upgrading perks and then increase the prices of items on the bloodweb. I have incomplete drawings I may edit in later, but for now, imagine it as similar to the UI structure of the loadout tab (add-on choosing, offering choosing, etc.). There is a bloodweb section and then a perk section that can be switched between with ease.

How it functions:

• The bloodweb no longer spawns perks higher than the first tier and teachable perks, so once a player has purchased a perk in the bloodweb, he/she will have to travel to the perk upgrade menu.
• In the perk upgrade menu, players will be able to see the perks they have purchased off the bloodweb. All perks (other than the first tier of teachable perks) not purchased from the bloodweb will not appear. If a player clicks on a perk, a prompt will show up asking the player if he or she would like to upgrade the perk a tier (or downgrade, but I'm still not sure about having this option) and will show a price twice that of the next level's rarity (eg. upgrading from common to uncommon will be 8,000 and upgrading from Very Rare to Ultra Rare will be 14,000).
• Purchasing a perk on the bloodweb does not immediately consume another perk node. Instead, The Entity will first consume the highest rarity node in the furthest ring.

I think this solution is best because it removes the problem part of the grind from the bloodweb, the sole way for killers to get items and add-ons and the only way for anyone to get offerings. It gives the developers more flexibility in the future to play with prices and the numbers of rarities of nodes on any given bloodweb. Even perhaps more crucially, it allows players more agency in deciding which perks to be able to upgrade, avoiding (for the most part) unwanted perks and giving players more of an option to plan out builds and strategies without relying on chance to such a degree.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6030815/uploads/YQKFIWTIZGMM/perk-leveling-282-29.png

https://us.v-cdn.net/6030815/uploads/LLMYBPPJFFWX/perk-leveling-286-29.png

(ik the amount is inconsistent with what the above post states. Follow the post and treat the pictures as rough drafts.)

(P.S. This also brings back Ultra Rare and Common perks)

Direct leveling of perks provides a path to solve soooo many problems with the game around add-on balancing, "the grind", mori frequency, key frequency--everything.

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Kind_Lemon 

An advocate of place-able totems, a priming-pallet interaction, and the removal of Exposed from tier 1 Devour Hope.

Also supports changes to how many survivors need to be present to start repairs on a generator.

#revertNurseaddons #reverttieroneDevour #reverttieroneBL #nofreechaseresources #placeabletotems #revertBillysounds #workwiththemusicyouhave

WeWillFloat

@[Deleted User] said:

In that case you're going to need to add RPG elements to the unlock criteria,

In order to purchase the next level of the Perk, you need to 'use' it, such as:

BBQ Lvl1 (10,000 BP)

BBQ Lv2 (20,000 BP) Unlock criteria: Hook 12 different Survivors

BBQ Lvl3 (30,000 BP) Unlock criteria: Hook 24 different Survivors

Woah, that sounds really cool!