"Eruption has been a hot topic as of late, and for good reason"
It surprises me how you seem to be trying to hear the community, but you always try to do it your own way, much worse than the community suggests.
So many ways have been suggested on this forum as to how this perk could be fixed so that it remains useful, but becomes healthier.
I personally don't give a f about Eruption, because I've never played with it, but I hate this trend:
>weak perk
>we have improved it, the percentage was too safe, now there should be more desire to take it
>you know what? Remember when the perk was weak? This is bullshit, see how you can make it even worse now
Do you guys only see black and white? Sometimes you can do something in between, you know
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It's the BHVR formula for success
Have you considered the fact that the Community sometimes comes up with really bad ideas?
Which bHVR tries and it just don't work out good. Sure the Community can suggest things, but that wont make it good ideas-
Eruption had its time and now it will be strong, but not in the same way as before. We deal with it now.
Because the ideas the community came up with were utter trash? I'm really glad bhvr doesn't actually listen to them most of the times, especially most people in this forum
"Block the gen instead of giving incapacitated" wowzr so instead of staring at nothing because of incapacitated we can stare at nothing because the gen is blocked, or do a totem because that's useful. As if we didn't have already DMS and deadlock that block gens long enough
"Nerf incapacitated but buff the regression" because we totally need more regression, as if we don't have enough synergic slowdowns. I really loved back then getting my gen regressed 40% because of pr+pop. Such a fun mechanic
The aura reveal isn't even bad. Killers with high mobility and slugging killers can make a really good use of it (plague, oni?)
Changing it to blocking and then tweaking the numbers from there would be the smart way to go about nerfing things. Incrementally. BHVR appears to approach nerfing with a 'smash face into keyboard until change is made' approach half the time, which doesn't appear to have balance as a goal but just making a different perk.
The aura reading's not good, because the Killers it would be good on already have options that don't rely on them spending time to kick a gen to maybe get some aura reading later if they're happy to leave a person slugged. It's got a long duration, but there's so many caveats (up to and including 'because the survivor screams, they get to know that they're visible') it's just... mediocre at best.
Because the high mobility killer and slugging are already sooo loved by survivors and not the aim of a multitude of complaints 😂
Maybe you hope basekit UB might still come with more slugging and more nurse/blight might finally lead to the much desired nerfs?
You’re absolutely right. Every time a change is made in response to community feedback, it seems like the devs go out of their way to make sure the change is as disconnected from the community feedback as possible.
I don’t know if it’s due to arrogance or an attitude of “we have to do things our own way” or what, but totally agree that it seems like if there are 4 options for how to make a change and everyone in the community is asking for option #1, 2 or 3 because option #4 is the worst, the devs will always pick option #4.
So you want more slugging to happen? I'm sure survivors going to absolutely love being left on the ground with nothing to do other than to bleed out and die from boredom. 10s of aura after downing someone is absolute garbage bc it's gives you info when you don't even need that info. There very few killer who can make use of this information and even then there much better info perks like BBQ, and flood of rage that both encourage killers to hook survivors and give info when you need it the most. New eruption is going to be the wrost regression perk and the wrost info perk in the game.
What? I was agreeing it's bad aura reading. It's good only if you're in a position to slug (and want to slug), and can get over to the gen within 10s (actually, get over to where the Survivors have run off to after screaming on the gen), and if you kicked the gen first, and if Survivors were now on that gen.
In other words, it only gives you aura reading if you set it up in an endgame scenario where you can predict which gens people are on anyway, and the aura reading it gives is horribly timed and not useful. And only viable with slugging.
I'm so sorry! I quote the wrong post! I meant to reply to the one above you(damn phone) Again Im really sorry. My mistake.
My reply was meant for you egg.
I saw a post where the community thinks 80% kill rate is acceptable/desired. I dont want the community to make any decisions hahaha.
BHVR is an immensely tone-deaf developer that I think only is rivaled by Blizzard's Overwatch Devs by the amount of just seer incompetence they have as a team. They look at problems and seem to only see a way to nuke it rather than fixing it. All you did was make a perk NOT worth taking BHVR, you did this with Pop, Ruin, Thana, and now Eruption. Learn to use a soft touch or just REVERT instead of nuking a perk from orbit.