New Franklin's is [Insert any bad word here]
Who thought this change was needed? Yeah it's nice that items don't just disappear anymore but now it's annoying like hell.
Gray or green medkit? 2 seconds on the ground and a heal is not possible anymore
Any other item, you get chased for a while or get hooked. In both scenarios the item is almost or completely empty.
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It's strong & annoying.
Even though some killers here would disregard this for the simple fact they can't delete keys / items anymore & camp them.
Deleting key users is more fun anyway.
Its a necessary evil, but nontheless an extremely annoying evil. Im sure they could've thought up better ways to change this perk than "doesn't thanos snap your items, but your charges instead." Like cool? I Get to exit the trial with my empty medkit. And its not really that useful or engaging on the killer side either. The clicky nea doesn't get to use her basically already useless flashlight? Wow, that is such an amazing upside. Hitting survs to make them drop their items isn't that useful, and its entirely annoying for survivors.
they changed the perk because they couldn’t think about how to make it not affect vaccines for Nemesis
I love it.
That's one theory.
Can't they just make a blacklist/whitelist of items for the perk to not affect vaccines?
Also, I can't even imagine whenever you would face Nemesis, he would have Franklin's on. Would make the killer 5x more fun for the survivor.
I hate how Franklin's destroys almost every other item but keys as it takes forever for those to lose all charges.
I didnt notice that, but that might be because few people use it for their charges-addons...
To open the hatch, no charges are needed.
I'm not gonna lie... Old FD Was better (and by old I mean the patch before the RE Chapter), but not because it not only threatened to destroy an item in 90 seconds, instead it's the fact that a survivor had 90 seconds to retrieve their items in order to preserve them and their usefulness that made putting it on Killers such as Trapper, Hag, and The Executioner, an incredibly fun ride!
Those killers could cover the dropped item with a trap, or Trail of Torment, and force survivors to choose whether they actually wanted their item back enough that they'd risk the killers Wrath. While admittedly Trappers traps could be disarmed, and Hags traps could be crouched past to retrieve their lost items, The Executioners Trails of Torment effect was completely unavoidable for those wanting to reclaim their items, which made FD my go-to perk for almost all of his builds!
Now however, If the item lost is a brown one, or has spent more than 10 seconds on the ground, most survivors just give up on retrieving it (even it it's a key), and that puts these killers at a considerable loss. Traps/Trails with effective Bait was what made this perk work best with them, but now... Hardly anyone falls for the "bait" aspect because they know that the items is likely useless to them and instead they go searching through chests for something fresher.
In all honesty, these killers made the best use of this perk! But now... sigh... It's been reduced to a simple annoyance perk instead of the often feared tactical advantage it once represented.
I really wish they'd bring back old FD, it was a lot more fun and more tactically advantageous for multiple killers. What we have now... is just something simply meant to annoy people with, and while many will claim it's "stronger in general," I feel that it simply isn't as fun or tactical anymore.
I mean it is annoying if you bring a medkit with addons for 2-3 heals, but still survivors don't rely on items to escape and killer wastes a perkslot for it that could have been used for Ruin/Pop/NOED/Tinkerer/Sloppy/Discordance/Surge or whatever the killer did not bring.
It’s not a theory, they confirmed it after the patch launch
Dont know if this is true or not but i heard somebody speculate that franklins was changed because of Nemisis coming into the game and to have a syringe completely removed from the game would not be cool
I hate the new franklins but only other option was for BHVR to hire someone as programmer so what can we do?
Such an awful change. Does nothing against keys.
They changed it in the patch right after changing Franklin's
Keys DO need 1 charge to open the hatch
but for me as a person who has no knowledge of programming, this sounds like something a programmer could easily fix?