#7332 Lay Waste Fails to Trigger on Special-Breaks Despite "Any Generator Damage" Conditions

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Bug: Lay Waste Fails to Trigger on Special-Breaks Despite "Any Generator Damage" Conditions

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Bug #7332

Lay Waste Fails to Trigger on Special-Breaks Despite "Any Generator Damage" Conditions

Status:	Open
Priority:	High
Added by:	Anonymous on September 16, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	10.2.0. PTB
Actual Result:	Special-Breaking Generators counts as Damaging them, so Lay Waste should activate on Special Breaks.
Expected Result:	If you use a Special-Break to Damage a Generator, Lay Waste will activate and go on cooldown, as it is described as triggering "Whenever you damage a generator".
Severity:	Major
Reproducibility:	Always
Platform:	Steam
Additional Notes & Comments:	If this is working as intended, then there is an issue with language consistency in perk descriptions. https://youtu.be/SVrs_fi8l_c

Steps to Reproduce

Play as a Killer that has the ability to Special Break Generators
Equip the perk Lay Waste
Play the match
Cause a Generator to Special Break while Lay Waste is not on cooldown
Observe the Perk not activate as it fails to go on cooldown

Explanation

The Perk Lay Waste fails to proc on Special-Breaks, despite the activation condition for the perk being "Whenever you damage a generator" with no stipulation on whether it's a Special-Break or Basic-Break. This means that when The Knight uses a Guard to break a Generator, or when The First uses Shattered Wrist Rocket to Special-Break a generator, the Perk is failing to trigger as described. (This would keep the Perk's behavior consistent with the recently- and hotly-debated ""The Serpent" - Soot" addon for Wraith triggering with Turn Back the Clock for any type of Generator damage.)
https://youtu.be/SVrs_fi8l_c