An Idea

Ok. So I’ve been thinking about the health of the game. I don’t think it’s a mystery that things haven’t been looking great recently. Here are my thoughts:

One, Gen progression and slowdown both suck for the game. They take you out of the horror and strategy game aspect by just making blatant that the objective is to prevent/do gens. Gens which we all agree are no fun. So my solution is very simple: remove them. All Gen progression perks changed, all Gen regression perks and addons changed. No more messing with Gens. Toolboxes are now only for sabotaging.

Second, healing yourself is far too powerful. I know, I play survivor, I get that healing yourself makes the game feel better and not having to rely on your stupid teammates is nice. However, it’s broken. You should be punished for getting hit. You shouldn’t be able to just heal yourself up without sacrificing anything. And I know that healing takes time, but not enough. If you want to heal yourself, it should take a long time like with self care. Boon circle of healing is also stupid broken. It can single handedly win a team a game and often does. One perk shouldn’t make that much of a difference. So here is my proposed changes: medkits are now only for healing others. Boon circle of healing is now just for healing others. And self care stays. Teams should be forced to work together, and be punished if they don’t. And I know solo queue is rough, but it would incentivize more people running info perks like empathy and empathetic connection to find and heal their teammates. It would also mean people actually heal you after the unhook instead of seeing you have a medkit and rightfully leaving knowing it’s a better use of their time to be doing Gens.

Overall, I think these changes would help significantly. Not more Gen kick meta. No more Gens popping before you get a chance to find anyone. And no more watching the whole team go from injured to healthy while you know they’re on different sides of the map. I don’t know about you but I like the thought of the game without having to worry so much about Gens and prioritizing chasing and strategic outplays and game knowledge instead. Interested to hear your thoughts.