With all the Survivor buffs being added I think it's time to look at Totems and Hexes.
Survivors NEED a secondary objective to go for, this is why things like Hex: Plaything are so good. It's not actually the Oblivious that is good, it's the fact that Survivors now have a secondary objective to worry about, which means that gens don't get done in 5-8 minutes. There needs to be some sort of Hex made baseline, personally, my vote is Hex: Ruin, and it cannot be cleansed for the first 80 seconds of the match, Ruin is already super weak and a near useless perk even with things like Undying. Having it made baseline would help slow down gens and give a single secondary objective early on which is when Survivors are strongest and killers are weakest. The game is often decided by the early game, if the Killer gets some good hooks before 2 gens pop there's a good chance the Killer will win, but right now 2 gens pop within the first minute of the match if that.
Survivors need to be given some other objective other than "Repair Generator" because it creates a system where often times you're forced to tunnel for even a single kill (which is also why using kill stats for balance is so narrow sighted and stupid) which feels bad for both sides. Totems already exist, as do hexes, so they should be used for more than just a perk specific tool that few people actually use because of how inconsistent/useless hexes are.
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What do you mean the survivor buffs ? You mean the Brand new part nerf the prove thyself nerf oh yeah the healing and medkit nerf COH being absolutely gutted so it’s only useful in a coms with a swf dead hard being activated after being unhooked the only good thing a survivor has got this year has been made for this lol and every killer main on the face of the earth has started a witch hunt for that perk we don’t need secondary objectives
I've been doing lots of hex builds on streams lately an almost every match 2-3 are taken down in the first minute. So many are right out in the open or next to a gen they do need more different placements an better ones.
SoloQ hud update.
Basekit BT.
The obliteration of gen regression.
Spirit addon nerfs.
Nurse addon nerfs + basic attack change.
Soon to be basekit deliverance anti camp.
But no, our precious BNPs and med kits! two things that completely broke the game, finally being... balanced? survivor needs buffs.
Dude nurse is still the strongest killer in the game her nerf was to make her more fair with how attacks work. Spirits MDR is still strong just not oppressive.
So things that should be since the start and changes that only affect facecampers
What buffs?
You cant just go "well they should have been in the game already so they arent buffs" when they are, by definition, buffs.
I absolutely agree but the removal of startstruck nurse absolutely counts as a buff to me.
Maybe if you are playing a weak killer or a killer doesn't have a natural game delay or slowdown as part of your power.
But can you really argue that killers like nurse, blight and spirit need a base kit buff to make them better. Yes, to win with weaker killers you need slowdown, that is what perks are for, but i doubt creating a natural slowdown for every killer when the killer power level gap is this wide is a terrible idea. And for killers that already have natural slowdown like SM, it would make them even more obnoxious.
QOL changes are good and i like the concept of other objectives for survivors, but the game isn't designed with that in mind and maybe it never will be until a sequel.
And as base-kit, all the survivor side objectives are really a waste of time that rarely help nowadays.
Chests are an RNG fest that give you undrewhelming that maybe you can't even use "Why are broken keys and green maps still in their pool of items", totems don't do anything if neither side has perks related to them and all totem perks and boon perks are way too restrictive and hard to use if not in a team. The only exception being inner healing.
No they are QOL changes that should have been in the game since the start spirit has needed this for a while remember prayer bead spirit ? Spirit with no directional audio most times none at all Blight needs to be brought down a peg and in my opinion nurse needs completely reworked