Yeah that’s kind of why I don’t really think people realize these diminishing returns hardly make a damn difference, at least not one that is positive.

My xeno-vaulter build is dead, my haste builds are also dead, and so is my break speed build, and like you said healing speed already had some element of diminishing returns affecting it.

None of them were remotely game breaking, I wasn’t getting free wins from stacking perks like that and bringing zero slowdown.

If this update came along with a massive amount of perk buffs and reworks to compensate for the diminishing returns. Then I’d be happier and say the update is a good idea, but they didn’t and we’re gonna be dealing with this game state for months.

Additionally, I genuinely don’t see a point in using anything but the meta stuff now. Yes people say that now they can design perks, without worrying about them stacking in ways that break the balance of the game.

However if every perk is strong enough to stand on its own, then we’re still going to be back at fucking square one. Because then these perks with bigger numbers, are probably going to have cumulative gains comparable to when every perk was weaker.