Does anyone think Jason's omni-present evil mode lasting indefinitely is good game design?
The counter is supposed to crouch walking. Well, the problem with that is Jason can stay in his power as long as he wants to. You could be crouch walking forever just waiting on an unknowable duration. It's a bad counter. Jason is like if Spirit could phasewalk with no limits. And don't get me wrong. Jason is mostly balanced. But omni-present evil mode is broken.
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Jason is such a weird killer and the "Counterplay" that people are suggesting is so strange.
So the general counterplay is "Crouch" or actively throw yourself at him to get chases, which has never been a thing in DBD. Even with other killers, including killers who are Anti stealth in their design, still allow for some degree of stealth. Terror radius or lockers can be used to avoid the killer or at least move preemptively but Jason offers no indication and now way to tell if he's right behind you or half way across the map and "the grass moving," is not a reliable way to tell.
Ok, so you crouch to avoid the killer ok, fair enough, but this is what is starting to happen.
The survivors are loading in, just stealthing waiting for him to find someone. Yes, the survivors know they have to do a gen to win, but they also know if they start a gen he is going to teleport on top of them and the 1st survivor found often the least likely to escape.
Even if survivors don't do this, this power drags matches out to a crawl. I thought we all agreed that Skull Merchant was miserable to go against because she dragged matches out for 20 minutes? Why is this suddenly fine for Jason? Because he is strong?
We all agree what the problem is, the omnipresent ability.
Jason gets pre-broken pallets placed in the locations where no pallet has spawned, so his power is not related to pallet density.
Ive found it similar to wraith. Just because you heard wraith go into cloak doesn't mean you'd start hiding and avoiding objectives. Wraith can also see peoples auras in cloak and show up without a sound que. I think as time goes on more people will be less intimidated by being found in omnipresent evil and will just avoid letting it be passive pressure.
It’s not better, you can still see and hear him.
the lack of sound cue is only possible with an offering/add on and that’s literally just for uncloaking. You can also still see him and hear his grunting if you’re observant letting you get a head start on a chase and being able to see auras with him is perk dependant. All these things are basekit with Jason, that’s the point people are making. Jason moves much quicker in his OE form than Wraith does too. Not mention Jason gets haste and inflicts exhausted the latter of which wraith doesn’t.
There’s literally no reason to play wraith anymore when Jason does everything he does and with the skills and abilities of about 4 other killers to boot.
This is my main issue with him (and The First) he combines the powers of too many killers making them redundant. Why would you even play Huntress or Trickster now when you can have a ranged weapon you can pick up mid chase without going to a locker and be faster in chase too? Why would you play Animatronic when you can travel round the map without doors and have a ranged weapon that not only sticks into the survivors but impales them into things reducing mobility as well?
The design is completely problematic on a grander scale than people thinking he’s unbalanced or OP. They’re literally making their legacy killers (and not so legacy ones) redundant.
I stated in another thread that I feel like he should not be able to see the red stain thing of survivor if the survivor is doing objectives. Like if they are cleansing totem, repairing gen, opening chest etc. That way at least the killer has to come to check and listen if the survivor is there an not just see the stain a go pop out. This would give survivors that little security to fix the gens and it would also not hurt to give him longer power charging in the start of the trial.
How its currently is just grinding the matches to halt anytime he is in power.
One part of his kit I don't know if its a bug or not. You still scream while still in a locker. So atm if its a bug or a feature not even lockers can counter him.
Its a bug and it would not matter if you don't scream as the locker will not block the killer instinct that he also gets so he would know you are in there.
Ohh right. I forgot he ALSO has killer instinct 🤣