SadonicShadow

If they could figure out the ranking system where it properly measures skill and deranking was eliminated or at least made very difficult to do i think scaling the difficult of the trials based upon rank would be a good way to go about buffing killers while helping out the noobs. I suggested before that as you go up in rank there should for example be less and less pallets. Pallets help new players survive for a bit but on high rank, highly skilled players they are an overpowered nightmare. Seriously reducing pallets for true high rank players would be a good balance forcing them to rely on mind games in jungle gyms and being stealthy. To encourage people to reach the highest rank possible there could be an end season reward. Depending on the rank you achieved you could get a lump sum of bloodpoints and maybe some shards or auric cells. I also like the idea of giving those that reach rank 1 a special cosmetic for the next season and you have to keep reaching rank 1 each season to keep the cosmetic available to you. It could be a glowing, bloodred shirt or something like that.

in Reasonable, non-game breaking Killer buff Comment by SadonicShadow June 4, 2018

@vampire_toothy said:
I see where you're coming from, but I don't believe they should take steps to remove SWF even if partially by limiting the amount of members allowed to join it. The reality is that not everyone fills up their game to have a 4 man squad with the pure intent to be nothing but toxic, this is a rarity out of all players in total. For me when I play the game as a survivor I often play solo but occasionally when I see a friend or two online then I decide to invite them to have fun with them as that's pretty much the point of games - to have fun. I do agree something should be done so that the killers can be better equipped to handle toxic groups or changes in the game that will continue to penalize toxicity or toxic actions and at the same time changes that help those out who play solo so that all survivors in general are in the same level of ability to cooperate so that effective changes can begin to happen. But in general, I just disagree with the idea of removing 3-4 player SWF groups mostly since it's already been in the game for a long time and most people just want a game they can enjoy with their friends.

Thank you for your reply and i agree with you. I also use SWF. Its mostly just my girlfriend and i but sometimes we run with 3 and once in a blue moon 4 people. We dont play toxic either and i can agree that its not every group. I just want to see some serious balance changes because even if my group of friends are not aiming to troll the level of information we get for being a squad is unfair to the killer. As a killer i just get fed up with how little power i actually hold in this game. The killer role is supposed to be a position of power. A weakling survivor should not be able to 1v1 a killer in any circumstances yet they can and then when you throw the SWF level coordination into the mix with tryhard survivors you have a killer that is absolutely powerless. Even a god tier nurse can get dumpstered by them. Its sad. I just hope by the end of 2018 we will have a balanced game that will account for SWF because playing killer makes me want to pull my hair out sometimes when i face cancer squads.

in Get rid of 3 and 4 man SWF. Comment by SadonicShadow June 4, 2018

They are really going to need to do something about the grind again as more and more characters get released. The bloodweb is already polluted with so many perks and the fact you can only buy one at a time and usually only at a single tier for 50k per bloodweb once you reach level 50 is insane. I have a goal in my mind to reach p3 level 50 with all perks on all characters in the game so that i can feel a sense of completion. Right now that goal is starting to look more and more unattainable with the hellish grind that awaits as more perks and characters are introduced.

in Increase BP earnings Comment by SadonicShadow June 4, 2018

@powerbats said:

@SadonicShadow said:
I always liked the idea of selfcare giving you a sort of no mither effect. Gets rid of blood drops and sounds of pain, you still limp and you still go down in one hit. Then buff the self heal speed to the normal heal speed and tremendously buff the self heal efficiency atleast to the point that a brown medkit can give you two full self heals. This would mean if you want to fully selfheal you need to bring a medkit, if you dont have a medkit you just have to live with a subpar heal that mitigates the seriousness of your injury until you find a medkit or a teammate. Atleast this way the perk still has a functional purpose and gives people a real reason to bring medkits even if its a crummy brown one.

That's an interesting idea actually and perhaps make it so that if you don't have the medikit/find one you'd only get the heal more fully done if you run the botany perk. Also if you fail the self heal skill check make your cries of pain louder ie aura fail bigger for that one time fail.

I actually like the idea for that combo. If you dont want to bring a medkit just bring selfcare + botany and that would allow you to fully selfheal. 2 perk slots for full, unlimited selfheals. Would be a balanced tradeoff.

in Make Self-Care a limited use perk Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

@powerbats said:

@SadonicShadow said:

You speak like someone who has never played at the high ranks as killer. If you think going up against 4 decisive strike pallet loopers along with brand new parts is fun then by all means have at it bucko.

I never stated I was high rank and my experience with pallet lopping is there since I've seen it from both sides as a killer and as someone watching someone else doing it. But that's not the issue, the issue is you're whining about not getting free wins basically because you don't want to have to build to counter what you see.

You're the only killer poster main so far that in every thread whines about survivors not making things easy for them. If they pallet loop you, destroy the stupid pallet. DS has a cooldown, use that to your advantage. You know they're going to run it counter it with addons/perks/killers.

I ran into a 4 man SVf group last night as a lvl 1 Hillbilly., I got pallet looped and obstacle looped a lot. I destroyed pallets, I stopped chasing and went back and damaged gens,. I also remembered where the survivors would go to lopp me and cut corners and downed them.

I managed to down survivors 6x or so and while i didn't get any sacrifices I still got them down including the expert who was ranked 8 and had prestiged and at least 1x possibly more. I did all that without a single addon or perk as a lvl 1 Hillbilly. Now if I with almost no experience on the Hillbilly going up against a 4 man SVF group with all those perks and a rank 8 can down people you can't complain then.

If you can't adapt, outsmart, out think, out plan, out everything against them then it's not the devs fault but your own. Is the game balanced at high ranks against SVF no, but that's no excuse to give up and whine that you can't have an easy game. Because duh you're at high rank it's not supposed to be easy to win.

You whine they're not entitled to your time well you're not entitled to waste their time or get an easy win. How is you getting a free win a fun game for them? Isn't that hypocritical to say you want to have fun but don't want them to. You need to quit griping over what you can't control and grow up and start using the knowledge you should have to take advantage of where you can and try and negate where you're weaker.

The top killers aren't all on here whining about it non stop nor are they making excuses for the shortcomings. No, they're working on strategies, planning ahead, doing their best and making sure they don't stop trying to improve. The other thing they're not doing is coming to the forums whining incessantly about how unfair things are. They're actually making good posts on how to improve things without skewing it so far in the other direction.

As someone else already stated solo queue is 30% survival rate which is absurdly low and is probably even lower when it's newer players mostly. As I've suggested they should give killers buffs against svf groups but only those members of svf groups.

Finally realize SVF isn't going away, it's here to stay and most people want to play with friends. So saying people need to just quit if they want to play with friends because you can't handle it suggests you should be the one to quit. The more people that play means the more people that have bought the game. The more people buy the game the more money the devs have to make improvements you know like the ones they're working on right now.

You know the ones like pallet looping and DS etc that you conveniently ignore with all your posts. Lets face it you don't want a balanced game, you want free wins since that's the only way you'll have fun.

All i am going to leave here in response to this unnecessarily long rant is look up Marths Depip Squad on youtube. if you think i stand a chance against that or that it is balanced then no one here can help you.

in Time penalty for dodging and disconnecting Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

I always liked the idea of selfcare giving you a sort of no mither effect. Gets rid of blood drops and sounds of pain, you still limp and you still go down in one hit. Then buff the self heal speed to the normal heal speed and tremendously buff the self heal efficiency atleast to the point that a brown medkit can give you two full self heals. This would mean if you want to fully selfheal you need to bring a medkit, if you dont have a medkit you just have to live with a subpar heal that mitigates the seriousness of your injury until you find a medkit or a teammate. Atleast this way the perk still has a functional purpose and gives people a real reason to bring medkits even if its a crummy brown one.

in Make Self-Care a limited use perk Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

@powerbats said:

@SadonicShadow said:
I dodge as killer but only if i see things like 4 toolboxes/ 4 flashlights or an obvious Seal Team 6 SWF group. I am not going to waste my time giving a cancer squad a game just so that they can harass me. They dont deserve a game.

So in other words you don't want to have to actually use your skills and out think the other side but have a free win handed to you.Way to feel entitled to not have to try at all. You see 4 toolboxes go with the 2 dbl perks that counter that as well as a killer that can counter. They go 4 flashlights go the counter to that as well as killer. There's also the offering you get to have the advantage there since you can clearly see what they're doing.

Go Lery's and the Shape or the Hag there and wreck their kitchens since you as the killer have options and can plan ahead. Oh and just stop whining voer you can't see their profiles good grief if you need that much of a handicap you shouldn't be playing a killer. Do you really need the entity to hold your hand that much to give you a chance?

If I was the entity I'd sacrifice you and get a real killer, not some whiner who can't act the part of the killer good grief. The killer i supposed to be ruthless and fearless and not care about the game being fair or easy for them. The good/great killers overcome all obstacles and sacrifice everything in their way. They don't ask for the survivor to please play easy and stad in front of the hook.

You speak like someone who has never played at the high ranks as killer. If you think going up against 4 decisive strike pallet loopers along with brand new parts is fun then by all means have at it bucko.

in Time penalty for dodging and disconnecting Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

@Axlegolas said:

@SadonicShadow said:
I dodge as killer but only if i see things like 4 toolboxes/ 4 flashlights or an obvious Seal Team 6 SWF group. I am not going to waste my time giving a cancer squad a game just so that they can harass me. They dont deserve a game.

why shouldn't they "deserve" a game? what kind of weird thinking. again you are a perfect example why it should be done. take franklins with you. YOU can see the swf to prepare. the swf have to guess what's coming and can't provide for the killer

Except when they last second switch in 4 flashlights lol. Sorry, i play this game to have a good time not play ring around the pallet with 4 man decisive strike with all brand new parts. If that is your idea of fun then your a masochist. I cannot and will not subject myself to that. They are not entitled to my time. I make the decision if i want to host their game and if i dont like what i see i have every right to leave that lobby. They can go ruin someone elses day.

in Time penalty for dodging and disconnecting Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

I dodge as killer but only if i see things like 4 toolboxes/ 4 flashlights or an obvious Seal Team 6 SWF group. I am not going to waste my time giving a cancer squad a game just so that they can harass me. They dont deserve a game.

in Time penalty for dodging and disconnecting Comment by SadonicShadow June 3, 2018

@Jack11803 said:
@SadonicShadow
My suggestion, give solo full SWF like comms, so them survivors can be nerfed without making the solo survival rate even worse than the current 30%

Honestly if they want to do anything with it this would be a good start. Give Solo queue optional voice comms and then buff the killers significantly. This would literally destroy the atmosphere BHVR was trying to make with this game but that has been destroyed the moment they introduced SWF anyways. I think at that point something seriously drastic would need to be changed to buff the killer. Either remove pallets so that the chases can end quickly or rework the whole objective system and give killers more time to get something done.