What are your thoughts on the status effect addons.
Personally I dont like them. Like at all. Every one of them just feels boring. Also most of them are pretty useless feeling. Like oh great this person I was in a chase with is now blind during the chase. The only good ones imo is exhaustion(3 killers.) and mangled. My issue with mangled addons is its a slower heal while it may actually impact the game a lot it doesnt feel like it will during the match. Maybe some claud was at like 90% of a heal when you found her and its all thanks to begrimed head but you dont feel that as a killer. Compare that to something like charge speed, cooldown or range while they make the killer more fun to play as you can use their power more or let you get more hits. Also a bunch of these addons feel like they make no sense when they apply the debuff like if I am nemesis and just whipped someone why would I want them oblivious, unless you lose them or are trying to hit and run as nemesis, but why though, this addon is useless and it purple. My biggest gripe with them however is they just feel lazy. It feels they just need to clog up bloodwebs and fill up the amount of addons each killer has by copying and pasting the "hit with power = debuff" addons especially when it comes to purple.
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Tbh most the status effects are pretty awful and not worth running. The only decent ones are generally Mangled, Exposed, and Oblivious.
All the rest of them are generally just weak effects and/or they last significantly too short to matter whatsoever. Most these other status effects could literally have their their durations doubled and they'd still be bad. That's a good illustration of how bad they are.
Exhaustion was a strong status effect, but now the durations have been made so short they're essentially trash that you can get off mid chase.
Broken is an awful status effect no matter how long you make it. You want survivors to waste time healing and this debuff encourages them to gen rush. It just needs to do more and be given an addition effect.
Shout out to Hemorrhage for being probably the worst status effect in the game that has needed a buff for years.
It depends on the Status Effect.
Hemorrhage as a whole needs to be reworked, its terrible.
Blindness is niche bc not many Survivors use Aura perks, maybe use it to hide Auras you show (EX: Rancor, ToT) but again niche.
Mangled is good as long as its for a significant duration. Exhaustion is really good for the same condition.
Oblivious IMO is underrated, might be one of the best status effects in the game for a Killer. It's addons are pretty good last I checked.
Broken is ok, but really shines when paired with anti-heal perks or against styptics/syringes.
Exposed is Exposed, arguably the best in game.
Pretty underwhelming about 90% of the time.
I run some of the mangled add ons sometimes. Especially after they got standardized to (almost) all last until the Survivor heals. Other than that... not really.