LB change defeats the purpose of plenty other perks.
This will be the first time this has ever happened. So far ALL scratchmark perksa re just terible. Because it seemed like the devs actually understood how valuable scratchmarks and blood are to the killer seeing as how THE ENTIRE GAME IS BUILT AROUND IT.
Poised-Straight trash. 10 seconds of hidden scratch marks when the killer may not even be around. A MAX of 50 seconds total....50 seconds total.
Babysitter-Straight trash. EIGHT seconds of hidden scratch marks and blood pools when someone who has it unhooks you. THAT person now has their aura revealed to the killer. Yes, this weak perk came with a penalty
Lightweight- Scratchmarks vanish 3 seconds faster. Sounds good to a newb and on paper but in execution is again....trash.
Distortion-3 tokens max 10 seconds each token of hidden scratch marks. Again, not happening when the killer is near and only 10 seconds. TRASH.
Dance With Me- DECENT leave no scratch marks for 3 seconds when vaulting. THIS is one of the few decent ones and its only THREE SECONDS. Are we seeing a pattern here yet?
Deception-DECENT....again. This hides scratch marks for a HUGE total of 3 seconds....
Self Preservation- One of the newest and most trash perks in the game. Leave no scratch marks or leave blood behind...for only 10 seconds...if someone ELSE is hit within 12 meters of you. the heck? How is it possible THIS perk got created so close to the idea of MASSIVELY buffing another perk to be infinitely superior to THIS one?
To spell it out. This is the first time a perk will be introduced that FLAT OUT removes the purpose of many other perks. There is legitimately ZERO reason to use any of those perks other than maybe Distortion after lucky break gets changed. This is absolutely BROKEN.
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Killers have lot's of perks that slow Generators down: Oppression, Overcharge, Surge, Ruin(Ruin is like the Dance with Me of this comparison in that when it works it works well but rarely does,) Thrilling Tremors etc. Yet, what do they all have in common? Well, they all ######### suck so killers use Pop & Corrupt instead. This is the same exact thing.
Literally not even the slightest bit comparable but okay. Every good killer gen slowdown perk has been nerfed. And they make sure they don't mesh well together with any other slowdown perks. Oppression and Overcharge are terrible. Surge is ignorable. Corrupt is entirely counterable with patience and only hurts inpatient survivors. 3 gens can be finished in one chase. POP is barely unbeatable.
LB literally will also buff an already top tier perk like Iron Will. QQ will now be as good as Iron Will USED to be. Take a hit with LB, IW, QQ and run into a jungle gym. Absolute potato if you don't lose the killer. There is literally NOTHING the killer can do to know what you did.....
This is just INSANE that survivors will only need to use HALF of their loadout to hide 100% of their normal tracking when injured. This could be a problem if it required 4 perks to accomplish...but just TWO slots? Jesus.....