Why is Windows of opportunity meta?

[🍂🎃Jason Funderberker🎃]

I returned to the game a few days ago after 2 years of absence and I can see WoO being meta right now.Is there any reason for that or is it in lack of better perks?

[Truth seeker]

The remove the 20 sec cd making the perk a free info perk. You will know where all the loop are and where your teamate are gettimg chase. You cant really have a better passive than that for survivor.

[Tea4Two]

yeah, so much information. Knowing what tiles and options you have before you turn that corner is a big advantage, give it a try and see what you think.

[Tragopan]

It's mostly due to a lack of better perks. While it is useful in solo que for knowing what's been used and how to route your chase these things are also accomplished just from a bit of scouting and awareness.

I say this as an avid WoO user. Would love to use something better but most Survivor perks are memes.

[miketheratguy]

Someone was just asking about this a few days ago actually. In addition to the reasons given I'd say that "escape" perks are on the rise because healing has been so decimated.

[Farewell]

WoO is newbies who doest know map spawns
Just one less usefull perk for survs

[Null Winter]

As others mentioned, constant aura reads in a decent area is good regardless of whether you're rolling solo or cheating it up with SWF. It does the main job of Alert (locating the Killer and used pallets) and the side job of Empathy (tracking where an injured Survivor in a chase is going) together.

Healing perks have fallen off, since healing is still pretty fast after the nerfs and a medkit still does the job for the two hooks any non-meta Killer will get in high MMR.

A lot of the trolling perks (Head-On, Flashbang, etc.) only get a bit of usage due to how fast matches go by now, so even a person spending the entire match trying to waste the Killer's time will get as much mileage out of a simple flashlight without committing a full load-out.

Gen perks get less popular as you go up the solo ranks, since personal survival and anti-tunnel/camping perks take over and you simply have to trust that other people are also efficiently touching gens. It inverts against a co-ordinated SWF, since you'll usually have two dedicated genners with appropriate loadouts, a no-life runner that has memorized every loop down to the pixel and millisecond, and a miscellaneous filler that is either meant to back up the runner when they go down or was a random because their fourth didn't want to stream today.

[Mors_Indecepta]

Originally posted by Tragopan:

It's mostly due to a lack of better perks that require zero input from the player

Fixed that for ya. There are WAY better perks than WoO, for survivors, but a lot of the best ones require skill and strategy.

[Tragopan]

Originally posted by TheMetalOne:

Originally posted by Tragopan:

It's mostly due to a lack of better perks that require zero input from the player

Fixed that for ya. There are WAY better perks than WoO, for survivors, but a lot of the best ones require skill and strategy.

Care to elaborate?

[Mors_Indecepta]

Originally posted by Tragopan:

Originally posted by TheMetalOne:

Fixed that for ya. There are WAY better perks than WoO, for survivors, but a lot of the best ones require skill and strategy.

Care to elaborate?

I think the clearest example would be Hyper Focus, or even a build centered on that perk.
I've seen survivors blow through gens at ridiculous speed using a Hyper Focus build, but it requires a lot of skill to pull off correctly.
I've played this game quite a bit, and I've seen a lot of creative and effective survivor builds. None of them contained WoO.
Windows of Opportunity is kinda like what Lethal Pursuer is for killers...a bit of a crutch.
I've actually had a lot of fun using blindness perks on killer, due to the popularity of windows, and you can really tell which players can't do a chase without windows.

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Originally posted by TheMetalOne:

Originally posted by Tragopan:

Care to elaborate?

I think the clearest example would be Hyper Focus, or even a build centered on that perk.
I've seen survivors blow through gens at ridiculous speed using a Hyper Focus build, but it requires a lot of skill to pull off correctly.
I've played this game quite a bit, and I've seen a lot of creative and effective survivor builds. None of them contained WoO.
Windows of Opportunity is kinda like what Lethal Pursuer is for killers...a bit of a crutch.
I've actually had a lot of fun using blindness perks on killer, due to the popularity of windows, and you can really tell which players can't do a chase without windows.

hyperfocus does indeed require a lot of skill if you don't use other perks to "fix" great skill-checks, but the fact that it's used so little means that it's not that good on its own, either because it requires toolbox or other perks in synergy or the skill required is not compatible with the benefit granted.

I particularly stick with the last option, since by Nightlight the perk was in 17th position the last time I checked, even more so with the last nerf in the heal base-kit, which reduced the bonus of great skill-checks from 5 to 3%, and it MADE A LOT of difference as I use the hyperfocus perk constantly, and the perk that should reward the skill both in repairs and in healing, ended up losing versatility and becoming just "gen-reapair"/rush.

[Shiro]

wasting a slot useless perk

[Fajoe]

In SoloQ I like it combined with Bond and Open Handed, you get so much info about anything happening in the game. But there are strong other builds out there

[🍂🎃Jason Funderberker🎃]

I went in with my old build which was Iron Will- DH - Resilience and WGLF.the 4th slot was always to play around (used wglf for bps back then) but the first 3 are my go to perks.Iquickly dumped wglf but the other 3 still kinda work,even though the two of them,to my big disappointment got nerfed a lot.I will also be using WoO for a little bit,see how it goes.Since I am still rusty with my loops maybe it will help me.Any other suggestionthat imay be missing for the 4th slot?