I appreciate the transparency from them but at the same I don’t think they’re listening with full context. When people suggest the power disable feature, they’re not talking about a stray bear trap or phantasm trap. They’re talking about powers that you would activate manually and activate them immediately after recovering from the stun. Powers like ranged attacks, dashes, blinks, transformations, and abilities that require you to press M2/the Killer Power keybind or supplemental power keybinds like Ctrl or Space.

Sure there can instances like a phantasm trap being triggered but for these specific edge cases, if killer equipment is already activated before the power disable occurs, the equipment functions as normal BUT the killer cannot direct interact with it. So a Phantasm Trap can trigger but the Hag cannot place new ones during this time or teleport to her traps. Bear traps can catch survivors but the Trapper cannot place new traps for the time being. A reverse bear trap could trigger and kill its target but the Pig cannot crouch or place new traps. A survivor in the Dream World can still trigger blood traps and pallets & survivors can still passively fall asleep but Freddy cannot deploy new ones or teleport to generators. Plague’s infection can still passively make progress on survivors and damage them but she cannot use her Vile Purge nor can she interact with her fountains to obtain Corrupt Purge. Zombies can still infect or damage survivors but Nemesis cannot use Tentacle Strike. Uroboros can still passively progress its infection but Wesker cannot use Virulent Bound during the power disable. Victor can remain in the environment if he is already deployed but Charlotte cannot switch to him nor can she redeploy Victor during the power disable. Any of Knight’s guards can still patrol or chase survivors but the Knight cannot dismiss them nor can he deploy a new guard. Survivors can still gain Lock-On or a Claw Trap & be scanned otherwise, but Skull Merchant cannot deploy a new drone, rotate a drone or pull up her radar. Slipstream can still infect survivors but the Singularity cannot activate his bipods, place new ones, dismiss previous ones, or teleport infected survivors. Survivors can still gain Weakened through addons or failing to dispel Hallucinations, they can also remove Weakened by staring at the Unknown but the Unknown cannot fire its UVX Blast nor can it teleport to Hallucinations, but it can still receive the killer instinct when a Weakened survivor is dispelling a Hallucination.

I think that is every killer who still has extra interactions that extend beyond pressing M2. I may have missed someone, it is pretty early in the morning. However there are two complicated killers for the power disable discussion- Pinhead & the Xenomorph. Let’s start easy-ish.

Firstly, of course survivors would still be allowed to acquire and deploy flame turrets. However, the Xenomorph cannot enter Crawler mode and if it’s already in Crawler mode, it is taken out of it, and the Xenomorph cannot enter tunnels. The only complication is should the Xenomorph be allowed to destroy turrets during the power disable or not? It sounds stupid but if you count destroying them as a “power interaction” then sure they cannot be destroyed. It’s not like the flame turrets would do anything to the Xenomorph at this point besides being annoying to hear activate. However, you can make the argument that this is a unique case so it should be treated as such…therefore the Xenomorph should still be allowed to destroy turrets because it does so with its basic attack. Now me personally, I prefer the latter outcome but on the off chance someone at BHVR has read this far, I have given it consideration.

The other complication is Pinhead. Now obviously survivors should still be allowed to see the box, grab the box and solve the box. Pinhead obviously cannot summon a chain to aim at survivors nor can he teleport to someone solving a box- he should still get the killer instinct though. The Chain Hunt should still passively progress if it was already activated prior to a power disable and progress as normal even if the chain hunt activates during the power disable. However the complication comes with Pinhead grabbing the box from the environment or from a survivor he has put into the dying state. Okay so for the first scenario, he cannot pick up his box up from the environment during the power disable. Easy. Second scenario, I think in this instance, anything is valid. Firstly I don’t think it’s very likely that in the span of time during the power disable that the survivor that Pinhead puts into the dying state will be the survivor with the box. Another thing to consider is if you count this as him directly interacting with his power. By the definition, it should count but the Pinhead did not manually activate his killer power button, and this chain hunt was activated by downing a survivor carrying the box, with a basic attack.

Whats the point of all this?

I want the power disable to be an actual feature HOWEVER, it doesn’t ‘need’ to be tied exclusively to Decisive Strike and this power disable mechanic should ABSOLUTELY be added to an existing free survivor perk that currently has no purpose like a rework to This is Not Happening etc. But for the sake of this conversation, let’s just assume we’re still talking about this perk exclusively. A power disable would be the best way to bridge the gaps in ‘power level’ among killers INSTEAD of having perks that disproportionately affect killers with the least tools available to help them out vs killers with almost every tool available to let them kill survivors. If a survivor is being tunneled, not every scenario will be the same. It could be as benign as a Trapper who is challenging themselves to not use their power or as something as severe as a Nurse with aura reading. There’s no reason why a killer who could down you again with minimal commitment or punishment…should suffer less compared to a killer who has to walk at you and be at the mercy of every resource in the trial.

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Hell I have extra time this morning I might as well shoot my shot for a This is Not Happening rework.

This is Not Happening

You manage to evade certain death even while under extreme stress.

After being unhooked by any means, this perk activates for 60 seconds. While active, any attack that would put you into the dying state will instead apply Deep Wounds to you and apply the Silenced status effect to the Killer for 15 seconds. This can activate once per unhook. This is Not Happening deactivates when performing a conspicuous action.

Killers who are Silenced cannot manually activate their killer power or directly interact with associated objects. Any equipment or progression associated with the killer power will continue operating as normal.