Decisive Strike is a Unique Perk
belonging to Laurie Strode
.
Prestige Laurie Strode to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Decisive Strike for all other Characters.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike activates for the next 40/50/60 seconds:
- When grabbed or picked up by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check
to stab the Killer and escape from their grasp.
- Stuns the Killer for 5 seconds.
- Causes you to become the next Obsession.
are powered.Decisive Strike is disabled for the remainder of the Trial after use.
Decisive Strike is deactivated prematurely when performing a Conspicuous Action and remains disabled for the remainder of the Trial.
Increases the Odds of becoming the initial Obsession of the Killer by +100 %.
The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.
"There is nothing to be scared of." — Laurie Strode
History
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
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3 seconds | 4 seconds | 5 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
Once per Trial, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun them for 3/4/5 seconds. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
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3 seconds | 3.5 seconds | 4 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
Once per Trial, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun them for 3/3.5/4 seconds. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
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3 seconds
45 % |
3.5 seconds
40 % |
4 seconds
35 % |
Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
Once per Trial, when the Killer's Obsession, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun them for 3/3.5/4 seconds. When not the Killer's Obsession, succeed a Skill Check when the wiggle meter is at 45/40/35 % to escape the Killer's grasp. Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
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40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 3 seconds.
Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 5 seconds.
Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 5 seconds.
While Decisive Strike is active, the following interactions will deactivate it for the remainder of the Trial:
Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 5 seconds.
While Decisive Strike is active, the following interactions will deactivate it for the remainder of the Trial:
Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 3 seconds.
While Decisive Strike is active, performing Conspicuous Actions will deactivate it for the remainder of the Trial. Decisive Strike deactivates once the Exit Gates are powered. Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
| Icon | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
40 seconds | 50 seconds | 60 seconds | Using whatever is at hand, you stab at your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape.
After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike will become active and usable for 40/50/60 seconds. While Decisive Strike is active, when grabbed by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape the Killer's grasp and stun the Killer for 5 seconds.
While Decisive Strike is active, performing Conspicuous Actions will deactivate it for the remainder of the Trial. Decisive Strike deactivates once the Exit Gates are powered. Increases the odds of being the Obsession. The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time. |
Change Log
Patch 1.3.0
- Nerf: slightly reduced the original stun times of 3/4/5 seconds to 3/3.5/4 seconds.
Patch 1.4.0
- Rework: Decisive Strike is now an Obsession Perk.
- No change: Decisive Strike remains unchanged in functionality for the Killer's Obsession.
- Nerf: Decisive Strike now requires non-Obsession Survivors to progress the wiggle meter to 45/40/35 % first, before receiving the Skill Check.
Patch 2.6.0
- QoL: moved the Skill Check prompt to the beginning of the pick-up animation, rather than shortly afterwards.
- This causes a successful Skill Check to stun the Killer right after finishing the pick-up animation.
- This change was implemented in an attempt to mitigate the time-waste that comes for the Killer with a successful stun.
- Nerf: Decisive Strike is now only available after having been unhooked within the last 40/50/60 seconds.
- Nerf: reduced the Stun timer to 3 seconds across all Tiers.
Patch 2.6.3
- Buff: increased the Stun timer to 5 seconds.
- This change was motivated by the ability of Enduring to reduce the Stun duration.
- This change was motivated by the ability of Enduring
Patch 3.0.0
- Indirect Buff: the Stun timer is no longer mitigated when the Killer is using Enduring.
Patch 4.6.0
- Nerf: added several Deactivation conditions to prevent the use of Decisive Strike as a temporary immunity shield while progressing objectives, which was not the Perk's intended use.
Patch 5.4.0
- Change: added Blessing to the Deactivation conditions.
Patch 6.1.0
- QoL: reworked the description to just mention the newly created and standardised Conspicuous Actions as Decisive Strike's deactivation conditions.
- Nerf: reduced the Stun timer back to 3 seconds.
- This change fulfilled a belated promise that the Developers would reduce the Stun timer after removing Enduring's ability to affect it, since that ability was originally the reason for having increased the Stun timer to 5 seconds in the first place.
- Nerf: Decisive Strike is now automatically deactivated once the Exit Gates are powered.
- This change was motivated by the general inability of Killers to prevent a Survivor from escaping during the end of the match if Decisive Strike had not yet been used.
Patch 6.5.0
- QoL: added a buffer of 0.5 seconds between the Decisive Strike Skill Check and the Skill Checks of the Wiggle Mechanic to clean up their interaction and cause less confusion.
- Perk Users are granted a small amount of Wiggle progression to compensate for this delay in case of missing the Decisive Strike Skill Check.
Patch 7.7.0
- Buff: increased the Stun timer from 3 seconds to 5 seconds again.
- QoL: added a new stabbing animation to using the Perk, giving it some visual flair.
Trivia
- While Decisive Strike may only be used once per Trial, one is not obligated to use it after the first unhook.
Letting the Skill Check run out without pressing the associated button is not considered a use, allowing for the Perk to instead be used after the second unhook. - Players commonly referred to the use of this Perk as "stabbing the Killer".
- Decisive Strike is often abbreviated as "DS".
- Decisive Strike also activates if you end up being grabbed by The Dredge from a Locker from either interacting with it while The Dredge is hiding inside it or The Dredge teleporting into the Locker you are hiding in.
History Trivia
- Between Patch 2.6.0 and Patch 3.0.0, Decisive Strike was affected by the newly reworked stun timer reduction of Enduring, which prompted the Developers to buff the stun timer to 5 seconds with Patch 2.6.3.
- Despite initial claims of reverting that change once Enduring no longer affects Decisive Strike, the reversal did not take place until Patch 6.1.0.
- Up to Patch 3.4.0, Decisive Strike was affected by Unnerving Presence, greatly reducing the size of the Skill Check success zone.
- Older versions of Decisive Strike, before the rework in Patch 2.6.0, were bugged and always stunned the Killer for nearly ~4.5 seconds, regardless of the specified stun time.
Video
| Repairing a Generator to deactivate Decisive Strike | |
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| Old Decisive Strike's effects (pre-6.1.0) | |
| The Killer picking up a Survivor while Decisive Strike is active | |