Scully162

@kate_best_girl said:
Im sorry but its not a punishment on survivors for not doing totems its literally just a reward for a killer who performs bad. Its only a clutch perk made for 1k end game face camps and thats really it. If it stopped being a hex and actually took effort and something for the killer to activate it it would be great but all it does is give you a kill for free :/ I keep seeing people say "Well just cleanse totems!" Okay well I'd like to present the argument of when someone jumps into a locker with DS just open the locker! It gets rid of DS and you don't have to wait 60 seconds to chase that survivor again! Both wasting time to cleanse totems on a chance the killer is running a perk is a huge waste of time and could cost you a game same as a locker DS could so why is one perfectly fine but the other is a huge detrimental problem that the entire community must rally against?

So, scenario -

You managed to get everyone onto death hook but gens have been popping the whole game. You're onto 1 gen left and two are nearly done so you don't have the time or map pressure to commit to chases, instead needing to kick gens and chase as a secondary in the hopes that a survivor blunders and you can snowball from there when disaster - as you kicked a gen three survivors got onto the other gen and completed it, activating all four of their adrenalines, returning the downed survivor next to you to who then runs away to the exit gates using the speed boost. They never cleansed totems, so now you have NOED. They 99d the gate and are now body blocking you to prevent you from downing their injured one. Luckily for you, you also have STBFL at 6 stacks and as such swing and down the body blockers but the other two manage to get out.

This isn't OP, this isn't "giving an easy win to the killer", it's just allowing them to make up for a lack of late game pressure attributed to the fact that the punishment was spread evenly and as such nobody died early on in the match. The killer still worked hard for the win, and ultimately the survivor's had a massive opportunity to cleanse the totems. If this is horrifically OP then any perk that provides a significant but temporary advantage when conditions are met are by extension extremely OP (e.g. adrenaline, SB, DH etc) but in my eyes they really aren't OP.

in Lets not pretend NOED isn't a reward for bad killers Comment by Scully162 March 9, 2020

@Stitch7833 said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1118384#Comment_1118384
well 99.9% of the forums are asking for nerfs, and so many people seem to cry that everything is so strong... personally iv never had an issue with dead hard and if i know someone has it i just dont swing and wait for it, honestly survivors will only wait so long before they panic. and like someone said before they go through you if you swing, this is due to killer and survivor moving so fast towards each other, if you dont swing you can block pallets/doors. as for the stand still thing the thats rare people do it and there must be a reason they are just standing there so expect it. you should always be prepared for DH, i have seen so many killers panic during a chase and swing too soon even though they know the survivor has DH

I tend not to, but the fact that it can be activated while standing is an issue in and of itself considering the fact that in the perk's description it says it can only be used while running. The prompt for this post was admittedly a frustrating edge case but I feel like these issues have caused some survivors to escape when they shouldn't have. Idk though.

I tend to wait for it too.