I remember people thinking Alien was gonna be the next chapter like 5 years ago lol.

I believe the purpose of lucky star is to allow you to, once being left out of a chase, become more aware of your teammates positions and allow you to approach them more quietly for a more safe healing from teammates.

Rapid brutality with STBL will be extremely interesting especially on killers that have a special attack that can break pallets (nemesis, demo, etc.)

rapid brutality on killers who can slow down survivors like clown will probably benefit more as they can use there power to counter the no bloodlust penalty

I always get so excited to see new monstrous killers, kinda scratches the itch evolve left behind and I've been hoping for this license for a very long time, and I love the stealthy side of killer too, super excited to see the power!!!!

One small detail you didn't comment on for Alien Instinct, Scott is that it only tracks INJURED survivors, so if no one is injured, it does nothing. It'll be good for killers who can constantly be keeping the entire team injured, like Legion or Plague, will likely be a bit less useful for killers who have a hard time keeping teams injured.

Rapid Brutality is going to be really good with STBFL especially on m1 Killers like Pinhead and Clown since you rarely get BL due to their power reseting the timer.

The set speed for Chemical Trap is so quick you can put it on after stun or if killer tries to mindgame for a sec you can plop it on while they are doing their silly little mindgames.

Interestingly if you pair Chemical Trap with Any Means it still works for as long as Chemical Trap is active. Some potential there 👀

I think the last perk is meant to make locker escapes from chase slightly more reliable and to give you direction towards gens or teammates to progress or heal after your escape. I agree that blood is a bit of a problem still.

I don't think people are realizing chemical trap can probably be used almost right after you drop a pallet, imagine dropping shack and then immediatley trapping it, making it across the map.

I can imagine Ultimate Weapon to be good on oni. A lot of people just hide when you use your ability so the general trend is to use power when you see someone. But with the perk you can use power from a far and traverse the map quickly AND still find someone even if they hide

Some notes about Chrmical Trap are that it works with any means necessary, so if you believe the killer is coming near you can prematurely drop it and setup the perk. The interaction to set it up is incredibly short, allowing you to have it while the killer is in the stun animation. Also, because of any means this works against spirit fury.

Lucky star + inner strength + deception + quick and quiet will be a really neat combo

Chemical trap can also be a really good time waster in medium loops. Instead of stunning the killer and running away, you can stun and use it then loop around for a bit. If the killer decides to break the pallet you probably get the same distance as running after a stun, but you wasted more time for the killer.

My main issue with alien instinct is the oblivious effect tells the survivor they are being seen. That alone kind of robs the perk of the unexpected ambush potential it seems to be designed around.

Light footed would also be a pretty useful counter against spirit. If they run mother daughter then all they can go off of is the survivor noises. If they go for recharge then they'll still be able to see the scratch marks but it's a very interesting perk for sure

From what I've seen everyone misses the fact that you can simply use the pallet trap mid chase. And I think this perk gonna be a huge problem. Imagine survivors droping save pallet or even god pallet and then trap it right in your face. At this point the chase is lost. The best you can do is take the L and go search for another player. This is much scarier than blast mine. Imagine 4 players with MFT+Chemical Trap on Gideon... Yikes

It’s also worth noting that killers can VERY easily see chemical trap, it’s not a guess but you can tell by the giant trap on top of the pallet.

Lucky star might be better if it let you get a silent rushed exit of the locker. Then you could quick and quiet into a locker, silently rush out of it and get the effects mid chase.

Lucky Star is amazing, I hope they don't rework it. You get useful info whenever you want to get the heal you need or to find others on the map as well as know what generator to go to or avoid depending on the situation. Seems like a fun cool info perk. I'm actually excited to try out all these perks.

Chemical trap is actually good fun with Any Means Necessary! Since all survivors see the aura of a trapped pallet, you can drop a god pallet, attatch the trap, pick it up and a teammate or yourself could use it in chase later within that 120 window. If you get a stun and a blind a killer is likely to break it.

I think with Ultimate Weapon they choose Blindness because it's a counter to Windows of Opportunity or other aura reading that would help you in chase so Blindness does help more then you think especially with Windows being the number one most ran perk.

I have a feeling lightfooted could be used when tailing a killer for a Flashlight save, but i will be excited to try it out with some scratchmark perks

I think the biggest downside to Alien Instinct is that the survivor who gains oblivious instantly knows they were revealed to the killer and are likely the next target. It gives the survivor free information that they can use to preemptively hide or run before you reach them.

Fun to observe that on nominal stealth killers or killers using perks to make their terror radius smaller can use the locker perk to pinpoint survivors really well actually

I've gotten value from Lucky Star 10 out of 10 attempts tonight using Inner Strength as combo. It's really good, the killer can't hear your grunts of pain in the locker, so even if there's a tiny little bit of blood around it, its strong, combine it with lucky break and quick and quiet (I've not even done that yet) it'll be damn good, similar to the bite the bullet build. You could do it with Iron Will but Lucky Star at least gives you the added bonus of leaving no tracks after leaving the locker too.

Removing 2.7 seconds of weapon wipe, Rapid Brutality gives you 1,46m on the survivor. With 8 stacks of STBFL, it gives you 1,68m. STBFL at 8 stacks lets you walk 1,08s early after hitting, giving you 4m on the survivor. Together, 8 STBFL and RB will give you a total of 5.7m on the survivor. To give an idea, 5,7m is about 1m more than the additional lunge you get with Coup de Grâce, it is about half of the inside of killer shack.

Much love to you scott, keep these fast updates coming!

Chemical Trap works on pallets that are reset with Any Means, so you can trap good pallets if you know someone is going to say loop shack or something. That may change after the PTB, but it works, even with Spirit Fury.

The only use for the Blindness effect in Ultimate Weapon would be to counter Windows of Opportunity, but if you're a good survivor you know where the pallets and windows are anyway.

in testing rapid brutality, the timer resets if you hit a survivor again during that 10 secs, but the speed boost doesnt stack. so its only ever the 5%, thankfully

Ultimate Weapon paired with Dead Man Switch is gonna be crazy. Its basically a Static Blast aura for every killer which gives you an easy time to trigger Dead Man Switch because you let go of the gen while screaming.

can the trapped pallets be pick up by using any means necessary perk? if so what will happen to the trap?

will it work if you drop a pallet set the chemical trap and pick it up with any means?

You can actually but the pallet trap on a pallet and then pick it up with any means to have a pre-trapped pallet later in the game

They definitely wanted Lucky Star to be used in synergy with Inner Healing. Heal up in the locker then it gives you some idea of where you could go next. Alternately, it of course has great synergy with Head On and Quick and Quiet, where usually getting into a locker while injured is fairly risky due to the noise, Lucky Star can give you opportunity to try it, giving even a second more time for Head On to activate. Could even throw off good killers that are adept with using audio in combination with Deception; again all of these rely on you being injured and more so acting as a Hail Mary. It clearly isn't meant to be meta, more so a fun addition to the whole locker centered shenanigans. If you have enough time, survivors can also run past a locker to throw their scratch marks and blood forward then run back into the locker for a bit of misdirection, since you won't make any noise while in the locker, it would be very unlikely that even good killers would just assume you have Lucky Star (considering it's niche aspect) and play around all of a sudden not hearing grunts of pain specifically while in a locker.

Windows of opportunity is the most played perk by survivors and make low to mid skill survs use it to run killers (myself included because I dont play enough to have maps memorized). So the blindness may not help that much at top levels but for probably 60-70% of the player base its gonna be brutal.

Ty Scott! When you test the killer let us know what you think about the flame turrets. In Otz showcase they seemed really weak but idk how it will feel in a real game.

I think Lucky Star is tailor made just to synergise with Inner Healing, so that straight after healing you can see your next objective straight away, whether it's doing a gen or healing another survivor.

Wait if you stun the killer wouldn't you be able to place it then or no?

With lucky star u can exit the locker immediately and run around with no blood or grunts of pain. So prob not as bad as you think. And yes you can place the trap immediately on the pallet as you throw it down

With the pallet trap perk the best use would be pre dropping a good pallet and trapping it , later when the killer Has to kick it You gain way more distance than just normal stun

My question is with Chemical Trap what happens if you place it and then reset the pallet with Any Means Necessary

You can lift trapped pallets with any means necessary Chemical trap + Any Means Necessary + Smash hit Use it on shack or any other strong pallet, instant chase ender

I don't see why Chemical Trap couldn't be used instantly after dropping a pallet. Unless there's some hidden cooldown we're not being told about, this seems very strong.

You can use Any Means on a pallet you trap with Chemical trap, so you can trap pallets like shack before chasing there. (this is very niche, but if you can have one person trapping pallets and resetting them while someone else uses the pallet it's not too bad)

Does rapid brutality stack? With stbfl I can hit 2 3 people fast, do I get 15% or does it just refresh duration?

Omg i love the new survivor perk i love staying at the same loop and this will maybe have the killer break pallets less especially when they know you got the perk

As stated If combined with STBL, maybe infectious fright and discordance or Forced hesitation and it has potential to stack considerably. Rapid Brutality is very niche but when it hits it’ll be scary.

What happens if you put a trap on a pallet and then pick it up with any means necessary?

Chemical works with any means which kind of makes it better if you wanna playaround

In alot of my games today ive had people run Chemical Trap and Any Means Necessary, they pre-drop a god or quite safe pallet, arm the trap, then pick it back up to use later in a chase, quite strong and usually means a lost chase.

With chemical trap, it doesn't specify any sort of time requirement to install the trap, unlike say, Any Means Necessary that requires 4 seconds. Could you theoretically install it after getting a stun with a god pallet, forcing the killer to eat the trap?

Ultimate weapon causing blindness kinda counters Dark Sense since it lets you see the killer’s aura when they’re within a certain distance after a gen pops. I’ve been using Dark Sense to make some stupid stealth plays in kyf lobbies and I think this would directly prevent something like that :)

How long does it take to set Chemical Trap? Can you just set it while the killer is stunned? Does anyone know?

7:15 I wonder if it will also go on Huntress builds, especially since those can include iron maiden... Like Lethal Pursuer, Iron Maiden, Darkness Revealed and this sounds like a fun build.

If someone picks the pallet up with any means necessary will it destroy your chemical trap or will it still be there when it’s dropped again?

What happens if you pick up a chemical trapped pallet with Any Means?

Honestly, rapid brutality probably won't effect me with its downside, mainly because i use bloodlust as an indicator to drop chase if the loop is too good or i can't catch the survivor.

Chemical Trap can be combined with Any Means to have the trap pre-installed on an upright pallet.

Rapid brutality will be great/fun on a few killers such as scratched mirror myers,since you cannot gain bloodlust anyway while undetectable,or on any killers that can go trough pallets pretty easilly such as demogorgon,nemesis or bubba Also this will synergize very well with stbfl ofc,brutal strength,hex blood favor,infectious fright or any of the other perks that encourage you to chase and go for other nearby survivor to keep the perk activated as much as possible I use forced hesitation,infectious fright rapid brutality and stbfl on demogorgon and the same for myers but replace infectious for wtv youd like i use knockout or devour hope personally...its really fun! As for Ultimate weapon,i came up with a similar build on huntress with darkness revealed,infectious fright,iron maiden and ultimate weapon,you shoot,you reload,you gain aura read,you throw hatchet or go there and if the survivor hide when you get there you reveal them again if you down someone you are rewarded for "spreading the pain"(i dont like the term slugging)and the added benefit of the blindess can be annoying if you hide the people you down,there no escaping this fucking build😅reload and repeat...its pretty naughty on every inside maps and dead dawg saloon

i wonder how strong "Rapid Brutality" is on singularity, since he can quickly close the gap after a hit

Honestly, chemical trap might be way more useful depending on how it works. If you can put the trap on in a split second, then theoretically you can throw a pallet regularly in a chase and apply it in the split second it takes for the killer to react and break it. However, if its gonna be like 3 seconds (like blast mine and wiretap where you have to do the gen for at least 3 seconds) then its as you said.

Chemical Trap will stay active when put upright using Any Means Necessary, meaning that you can stun a killer, blind them and if they decide to break the pallet, they get slowed and you can make it more or less anywhere

about the first perk you can use save the best for last to make more value from it

I want to try Rapid Brutality, STBFL, Brutal Strength, and Enduring for a speedy chase build.

I wonder if the pallet trap persists if you reset the pallet

rapid brutality and a stbfl build would seems pretty strong for catchup

Most of these perks are pretty great tbh, not exactly meta but they’ll go a long way for sure

I think the blindness for ultimate weapon is bhvr’s way of countering windows of opportunity since it’s the #1 used survivor perk

the fast vaults feel slower than live servers, but i cant find if they mentioned a change. its like you dont get as much distance anymore.

I would disagree that STBFL has no downside, the downside is that you can't hit the obsession without losing stacks, which is the whole reason why STBFL is only really good on certain characters. Rapid Brutality will likely be strong on ANY M1 killer, not just the ones that can use a special attack to hit the obsession. Also, Chemical Trap might be pretty strong actually if you can put it on a pallet after stunning a killer

I think Ultimate Weapon gives Blindness to counter perks like Windows and Bond when chasing the survivor. I wish it was Oblivious also but might be too op then.

You can reset a pallet w any means with a chemical trap still on it

When you down someone with Rapid Brutality and pick them up quickly enough, you can have a little extra speed when carrying them. And Light Footed is gonna be insane for sprint burst build.

I actually like how none of the perks are super overtly OP this time for once. I would be pretty happy with the game if every perk was just flavor for niche situations instead of all of the ridiculous game breaking shit we normally get.

all I can really think about is how powerful chemical trap will be on god pallets specifically shack pallets. like yeah you can only use that once and it's not gonna be great but I'm thinking you pre drop shack pallet place the trap and then shack just becomes a ungodly safe zone, u either force the killer to take the slow and basically get a free escape card or the killer can try and force you out of shack but as long as you have that pallet ur kinda invincible. although I imagine in most cases this won't be that practical or easily pulled off

Chemical Trap is useful to use when you drop the pallet. If you have a good distance to drop and use the trap on a god pallet you are going to make a huge distance. It won’t work against some killers like Pyramid, Nemesis or Xeno that can hit you through the pallet

I can't wait for yerv's ultra pallet build video with chem trap, smash hit and vigil.

The only use I can see for Lucky Star is as a budget Bond, you can see all your teammates when you exit the locker which could be good if you need to get healed up

that blindness on ultimate weapon is a good counter for windows of opportunity. good survs dont need windows but its pretty common rn and is nice to see dead zones so thats probably the application they are going for

Maybe Lucky Star can make the pools of blood already out vanish quickly when you step inside to try and cover your tracks?

When this go live, it’s the obsession job to force protection hits. Especially when carrying to the hook.

The one key component of Ultimate Weapon is that it is a 30-yard interrupt aura that can only be countered by one of the most terrible survivor perks in the game. Combine this with Dead Man's Switch on a mobility killer like Blight and you can bring the entire game to a standstill with little to no counterplay other than stop working on any gens after a hook (even then, you're still giving the killer a free chase.)

I have trained for this perks introduction since I started playing this game. I mainly play with no audio so im good

Great review Scotty Kun!!!

I think you're wrong about chemical trap. You can immediately apply it after dropping a pallet so it can work at safe pallets like shack.

Holy shit light footed is gonna be my go to in flashlight save builds and fuck all the spirits I’ll be facing 🌚

Will you be trying lords of the fallen?

Doesn't alien instinct perk counters itself? Like I mean, if the killer hooks someone and you get the oblivious status effect, you already know that he is in fact seeing your aura so you kinda can counter play it why going in one direction and then turn around in that 5 second window or at the very least be prepared of the killer coming for you huh?

Stoked to try Rapid Brutality on clown since he never gets bloodlust from his bottles resetting it.

Rapid brutality instead of removing bloodlust, should enter cooldown when entering bloodlust

looking at those patch notes and demogorgon stocks go UP. plus now with rapid brutality and STBFL on demo will be so goated and im excited

Ultimate weapon gives blindness MAYBE as bhvr’s solution to windows of opportunity?

The pallet trap one is especially evil because it really only hurts Killers with no movement ability (M1 Killers) while stronger/faster Killers (Wesker, Blight, any teleporting Killer etc.) won't care that much. It's also a great anti-Bubba tool if the pallet was dropped previously since if he breaks it he basically loses the chase. 50% imo is _way_ too much even for 4 seconds (even for 4 seconds, you're still slower than Nurse. Imagine Trapper or Nemy dealing with that sh*t, the chase is automatically lost unless the Survivor goes afk). Like most chapters, the Killer perks are pretty mid on their own, only Rapid Brutality is truly dangerous if combined with STBFL.

You can very easily use chemical trap in chase, infront of the killer after dropping a pallet

8:37 Scott with the sleeper build forearms wtffff

Chemical trap is like blast mine and wire tap but instead of trapping a generator, you trap a pallet

i wonder if chemical trap applies to nemesis when he breaks a pallet form afar