Survivor perk idea - A hard counter to dropping your item
To preface this I’m a killer main who plays the vast majority of my matches as killer and am loving the new Franklin/Weave combo.
However as a solo survivor it’s a nightmare to play against, particularly if you like being able to get one or two heals without relying on teammates so I think a perk similar to Lightborn but for survivors that stops the killer from being able to force you to drop your item in any way would be a nice if niche perk.
It could also have another minor effect, not sure what.
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They could call it "Iron Grasp".
wait i've heard that one beforeIf you gonna use a perk slot anyway, you have plenty of healing, reparing and even sabotaging perks, I don't think we need anything like that
Can I have a perk that prevents my teammates from bringing items in solo queue, so I don't have to roleplay as an Amazon delivery driver to haul their dropped items to the corner of the map in every game where we face the franklin's/weave combo?
That would be nice. Followed a couple team mates from hook to a gen that should have been done ages ago and both ran over a toolbox near the gen and I was the only one to pick it up and check, and of course it was Weave Attunement. Had to go find a corner near a completed gen to leave it. I'm glad killers are enjoying it but it's ridiculous and I'm not sure why the devs felt it was fine unless they were worried about Vecna not selling.
At least you can counter it with that roleplay driver, as opposed to something like old PR/DMS or just plain bad players
It seems dozen times better for a 2 perk slot of a killer
I think you are touching on some great points here, the Franklin/Weave Attunement has really rustled the item system to its core.
The parts of this game that deals with item-drops is designed a long time ago and they leave me wanting for better systems.
It’s why I mentioned Lightborn, it’s not really necessary at at all but can be very convenient, plus I’m really not sure teammates would consider me bringing Self Care an improvement over that perk idea.
If there’s some perk or meta in the game that I find really annoying I’ll start bringing a perk to counter it even though it could just be considered a skill issue, like for example a while ago I was getting really annoyed with bully squad SWF teams bringing a map, Boil Over and whatever else so I started bringing Agitation, it wasn’t exactly meta but it made matches more fun for me, similarly before the Deja-Vu changes I’d bring Bond and Prove Thyself when I first started playing survivor so I could consistently find generators.
It's ok. They'll absolutely gut weave attunement in response to the complaints and we'll have yet another pointless perk that does nothing at the end of the day. Then everybody will slot the game stall perk of the week in it's place and the sweet sweet status quo will be preserved. Nobody's allowed to have anything interesting or new. Just the same stuff, for forever.
true, we all know killer perks get nerfed really fast. I'm giving it at most 1 update to see it nerfed to the ground.
And the difference is light or hook denial in general is more or less basekit feature many people uses, then what you are suggesting here is a perk that completely counters already extremely niche perk combo that isn't even strong
Do we need a perk that just disables flip flop/power struggle completely without any way to "counter" the counter? no definitely not, unneeded, excessive and honestly kinda ridiculous
Lightborn completely counters Flashbang as well more or less Residual Manifest, the fact the combo is niche I guess would mean it wouldn’t get used except for survivors who really don’t like dropping their item.
Flashbang or residual manifest is still an extension of flashlight, item drop isn't such common effect
It will definitely not be an "OP" but I'd rather wish them to use OTR, any exhaustion perks, reassurance or whatever meta than that hard counter perk, even from killer perspective
Welcome to the life of someone who doesn't like using meta perks, or doesn't look at them like they are meta (because I want to enjoy the game but somehow I always find the sweatiest and untolerable killers :) ) and I could almost make every perk work, but whoops. BHVR just came and slapped buffs-nerfs across the board and now nothing exists just the meta.
Thankfully I don't mind such things. Because at the end of the day something will ruin a game that otherwise I would've had fun in. Let it be perks, maps, or in some cases certain killers with obnoxious combos.
For some god forsaken reason somehow no one in the dev team came up with actual perks that could influence one another to have a different effect/or tweaked numbers. (Like DH + No mither combo should remove DH's hook requirement so the adapt would be doable, and you are still 2 hit if you look at it.
Imagine a couple of these:
And these are just a couple ideas. Some weaker perks could have multiple ones. Otherwise the balance of these combos would be up to the developer teams and would shake up the meta a little.
Back to the original topic though. The only gripe I have with Weave attunement is it combos with franklin's too well and 12 meters is almost an unconditional wiretap. And survivors don't have as many chances hiding their auras unlike killers.