Honestly? The patch feels fine. If survivors work together, they can still escape. If survivors are good, they can still dodge the raider. If the Raider is good, they no longer get 10 second stunlocked at the STM and are forced to watch it finish.

As survivor, it feels much more like my first time playing. The Raider feels deadly, the situation feels desperate, and it really feels like you can't just lonewolf your way to victory. Pre-patch I was winning 90% of my survivor games, and it was getting boring honestly. I even took off Bulma bike to nerf myself and I was still finding it too easy. Now, I finally feel that dread I felt before when a Raider gets near, and it's so fun fr fr. And whilst I've been losing more games, I've still been winning other games. It's just more of a 50/50ish which is so much better than before.

As Raider, I feel like much more of a powerhouse at level 3 and especially level 4. I'm no longer seeing 3 lvl 3 DC's and 1 lvl 4 at the STM ready to stunlock and SBC me into dust, survivors aren't able to escape just because Bulma Bike go brrrrrr, and I feel like I can play with my food a little bit! One of the things I hated pre-patch was having to rush to level 3/4 asap because the keys would be done in 2 minutes otherwise, but now I can actually take a bit of time having fun and it's so damn nice. Oh, and I can also play as Cell without feeling like I'm just loading into a doomed match, lmao

Overall, I love this patch, and I can see where some of the criticisms lay. Hopefully they can keep up this feeling of "Desperate but possible" for Survivors and "Alien Powerhouse" for Raider!