Its not a bug its a feature
I have many arguments, why the recent change:
5.0.1
-Fixed an issue that caused the "Contaminate Survivor" score event to grant objective points instead of deviousness points.
has more negative effects than positives.
1st, it is very lore friendly, [spoiler alert for resident evil 3 in 1st point] it was his purpose, to hunt down or infect stars members and specifically Jill Valentine, he did infect her at the end of his life and reached his objective with that. Besides that he also had the purpose to infect as many people as possible, he was seen mutating zombies into stronger ones and infecting humans. Basically infection was his "objective".
2nd, it gave players a rewarding, motivating feeling for an otherwise wasted hit event. When you infect a survivor with the tentacle attack, they gain a big speed boost without getting injured, resetting the chase, this feels demotivating, the extra points made it something you look forward to, which made it rewarding instead of frustrating.
3rd, it made him unique and gave motivation to play him. He would be the only killer that can earn more than 32k bp and it would give him a unique role as a farming killer. The first one to have a unique blood-point event. I don't see many reasons to play him over many other killers now, like Pyramid head.
4th, he is not a strong killer, which justifies a extra point event like that and gives him his spot in the roaster. And a reason to play him over stronger killers.
5th, it had a max point value which was a extra, but not huge. It rewarded 850 points, if you infect all 4 by yourself it would reward 3400 points, if all 4 vaccines are used (extremely rare) AND you infect all 4 by yourself, it reaches a max value of 6800 which is not the limit of 8000 points. And its hard to reach anyway since most of the time maybe 1 vaccine gets used. For the lore that also makes sense , since [Spoiler] he never really completed his objective. Jill got cured and he died.
6th, it would reduce the ever growing big grind of dbd in a fun way.
7th, i have seen no one complain about the score event, no survivor or killer complained about it, what is quite a achievement for dead by daylight.
The only positive i can see is maybe conformity which makes it easier to understand.
As you see i don't think this change brings more positives than negatives, i would like to have it reverted if possible.
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