Is Eruption mega nerfed now?

TheArbiter

Seeing as how kicking a gen to apply it would consume 1/8 and then downing someone and activating it will be 2/8. So is it now extra pointless in this meta compared to pop?

Hunkulese

@RpTheHotrod said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3624222#Comment_3624222

This kind of thing happens fairly regularly. Not necessarily always surge related, but there are plenty of things that can cause a generator to get hit multiple times in quick succession. The whole "8 will never happen except for 3 gen campers" is an absolutely ridiculous belief.

You won't come close to regressing a single gen 8 times if you're playing normally. Go play ten games and report back how many times the 8 regressions would have come into play. The number is going to be zero unless your normal playstyle is to stay at one gen and kick it over and over again or you're hard camping à three gen from the start, which is what they don't want. Even if you have a heavy regression build with eruption, surge, pain res, and pop, you're not going to get to 8 on a single gen unless you're really, really bad at chasing.

It's a significant buff for killers in 99% of games when you factor in the doubling of gen kicking and getting rid of gen tapping. Not to mention that Ruin is back to being kind of useful.