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• @Mister_Holdout said:
  It's a free escape in a game where killers are already under-powered verse good survivors.

  C'mon now.

  People keep saying survivors are overpowered but BHVR showed the stats on one of their streams in November (I believe the 15th?) and even at rank one across platforms, percentage of survivors escaping is 40-45%. Getting average 2 kills out of 4 possible sounds fairly fair to me (although I wish they'd drill down further and have shared the rates per character)

  in Why does decisive strike need a nerf? Comment by Auspun December 10, 2018

• @Wolf74 said:
  Or just imagine the killer could pick a perk that would actually be like DS.
  Let us call it "decisive attack".
  "2/3/4 survivor start the match exposed. This status is removed after they got downed once."

  How would you like that?
  DS makes a 2 hit chase a 3 hit chase, this perk would make a 2 hit chase a 1 hit chase.
  Would you like that?

  Devil's advocate but that's NOED (except at the start rather than end). And yeah it's possible to counter by cleansing all totems but searching for them takes up time that could be spent towards escaping, especially if you're solo because then you have no clue how competent your others are or if they're cleaning totems

  And while D-Strike doesn't have a way to get rid of it in advance, it does have the Obsession to indicate that there's at least one person with it so if you see someone as the Obsession then you can adjust accordingly, whether that's chasing towards hooks, waiting til they're close enough to a hook to be able to pick up or dribble, or angling yourself so that if they strike they'll be dropped into a corner.

  It's also notable that D-strikes aren't an automatic thing but a skill check, I'm sure they're hit more often at higher ranks but still not a guarantee. I usually go against killers in the lvl 10-8 range and the number of games where _any _of the survivors have an Obsession period is maybe 1/4 games, a fraction that can get reduced further depending on if killer is running Obsession perks (or if they're running a survivor Obsession perk like OoO, unlikely I know)

  I think any nerf intended like making it Obsession-only should have other effects if you've not the Obsession so it's not a wasted perk slot

  in Why does decisive strike need a nerf? Comment by Auspun December 9, 2018