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Eruption is an extremely unfun perk for solo survivors

White_Owl White_Owl
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I'm sorry if this will come off as a sort of a rant, but last match I played I spent more than 2 minutes not being able to do anything thanks to the incapacitated status effect. The worst thing is that everytime I got hit by Eruption I kept thinking that if I were on SWF/comms I could easily avoid it.

The problem here is that as killer I find Eruption very fun, since it makes kicking gens feel much more rewarding, but I can't stop thinking how solos gets majorly screwed by this perks.

Maybe it could more fun if survivors got incapacitated only when coop repairing, or something similar. I honestly don't know how to keep the theme of the perk while still making it enjoyable for both sides, but in its current state it is not.

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  • Biscuits Biscuits

    Eruption users almost always run it in combination with other slowdown perks so it ends up becoming a nearly impossible task. On top of this it makes it very easy to force survivors into a 3gen, and in a soloQ setting there is no way to warn your teammates that the killer is only defending one area.

    For me, once I notice the killer is running multiple slow downs and trying to force a 3 gen, I just go next. I am going to lose anyway.

  • Crowman Crowman

    Eruption is certainly problematic atm. It basically makes any 3 gen situation nearly impossible to break. Don't get me wrong it should be hard to break a 3 gen, but Eruption adds an entirely new layer of difficulty to it.

  • sizzlingmario4 sizzlingmario4

    How to fix eruption:

    1. Cut its duration in half, and replace the incapacitated effect with the generator being blocked. This means it no longer inhibits other actions other than working on that generator.
    2. Make it so affected generators are blocked regardless of whether they were being worked on or not. This means SWFs cannot dodge the effect anymore by calling out when someone is about to go down, making the perk better against them.
    3. Survivors no longer scream.
    4. Increase the regression to 12%. Since the generator being blocked will prevent passive regression during that time, it is only fair to compensate by increasing the instant regression penalty.
  • fake fake

    The generator repair status setback should be buffed and the time out of action should be nerfed.

    If SWF did not exist, it could have been nerfed more correctly and significantly.

  • DBDVulture DBDVulture

    @White_Owl said:

    I'm sorry if this will come off as a sort of a rant, but last match I played I spent more than 2 minutes not being able to do anything thanks to the incapacitated status effect. The worst thing is that everytime I got hit by Eruption I kept thinking that if I were on SWF/comms I could easily avoid it.

    The problem here is that as killer I find Eruption very fun, since it makes kicking gens feel much more rewarding, but I can't stop thinking how solos gets majorly screwed by this perks.

    Maybe it could more fun if survivors got incapacitated only when coop repairing, or something similar. I honestly don't know how to keep the theme of the perk while still making it enjoyable for both sides, but in its current state it is not.

    You're not wrong but SWF is an extremely unfun experience for solo killers.


    Eruption should be changed so that it cant be defeated by voice coms but locks the generator in a state of regression for a long time after eruption - maybe 45 seconds where it cannot be stopped regressing.

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