Fifth Category Perk Slot (Hexes/Aura Reading)

Mappleseruhp

Hi everyone, I was thinking about a new way to promote perk diversity while adding a secondary objective for survivors. When thinking about this, I tried to come up with a way for survivors and killers to feel more of a connection to their build, personalizing it in a ‘free’ way.

The way this would be accomplished would be a fifth perk slot for both survivor and killer that can only be used on a certain category of tags added to each perk. These tags would be hex perks for killers and aura reading perks for survivors. Killers would get a free fifth perk slot that can only be filled with a perk coded with the Hex tag. This would add a secondary objective for survivors and slow down gens without increasing their time. This would also allow for more hexes to see an increased usage rate as killers become more comfortable with them in their builds.

Survivors would be able to fill this perk slot with any perk tagged with aura reading. Doing this would allow survivors to specialize their build based on what they want to accomplish in the match. Whether this be windows of opportunity, alert, empathy, bond, empathetic connection, etc. This addition would also provide new value to the blindness status affect, which is often considered useless. This would be an update both sides would appreciate and bring new depth to load outs and gameplay.

DjEnderFox107

@Mappleseruhp said:

Hi everyone, I was thinking about a new way to promote perk diversity while adding a secondary objective for survivors. When thinking about this, I tried to come up with a way for survivors and killers to feel more of a connection to their build, personalizing it in a ‘free’ way.

The way this would be accomplished would be a fifth perk slot for both survivor and killer that can only be used on a certain category of tags added to each perk. These tags would be hex perks for killers and aura reading perks for survivors. Killers would get a free fifth perk slot that can only be filled with a perk coded with the Hex tag. This would add a secondary objective for survivors and slow down gens without increasing their time. This would also allow for more hexes to see an increased usage rate as killers become more comfortable with them in their builds.

Survivors would be able to fill this perk slot with any perk tagged with aura reading. Doing this would allow survivors to specialize their build based on what they want to accomplish in the match. Whether this be windows of opportunity, alert, empathy, bond, empathetic connection, etc. This addition would also provide new value to the blindness status affect, which is often considered useless. This would be an update both sides would appreciate and bring new depth to load outs and gameplay.

@DjEnderFox107 said:

With DBD constantly adding a new killer and multiple survivors each chapter adding 3 new perks there will soon become an abundance amount of perks to choose from.

Adding A Fifth Perk slot would also add more combinations and builds as there are plenty of times that an extra perk slot would be need to make to a build perfect.

With how much perks are getting nerfed ,especially on killers, adding an additional slot would make that perk without it being completely useless and an waste of an slot.

With how the game is currently it’s not a necessary change but I would hope for the future or to make games a little more balanced more perk slots should be added Even possibly making Killers having Six perks slot and Survivors only having Five slots

I posted something like this before so if you want to see what the community has to say about it, here ya go😅

RaSavage42

MEH... without setting the rest of the perks up like that... it'll end up not working