I don't think heart trinkets would be as gamebreaking as they are in Lockdown.
In LD they can literally triple your health, while in Survival, even though they'd obviously give you more chances to deal the Hunter some damage before you're dead, you'd still be quite vulnerable. And if you're the Hunter yourself, extra health would probably be most efficient when used by an Assassin whose only weaknesses are low health and speed. Although chances are that Hunters would win most rounds anyway.
But this is only about Heart Trinkets, I don't know anything about the others...

@Hijadestone
yeah, UVs might even be more effective than trinkets if combined correctly. Although, even with UVs, the Hunter would still have more advantages than you, no matter which UVs you may have.
Only especific (and rare) combinations of UVs+Trinkets+Prey Class would cause the Hunter significant trouble, and unless the Hunter's a complete moron, he'd always be able to use his speed advantage to shoot you from a distance and avoid melee damage or AT LEAST give up on you and chase other Preys, if you're too troublesome.

Heavy knockback swords would give their wielder some advantage, that's for sure, but I think brandishes or other lighter swords wouldn't do so badly.
I should try to revive this thread once more... k, so, Lockdown and Blast Network both allow CE revivals and that means they're profitable for the devs, but Survival doesn't allow any of that at all, revives only happen at the start of each round.
So, how would the devs profit from Survival?

what if we work the other way around? Players could pay to have specific resistances during their Hunter round.
I once posted
"I made hunters immune to statuses because of possible exploits:
Strikers would freeze the hunter and boost away.
Triglav users would freeze the hunter and deliver massive damage.
Sudaruska users would stun the Hunter and run/boost away.
Faust users would block Hunters' weapons.
LOTS of players (Polaris, Magma Drivers, Furious Flamberges...) would put the hunter on fire for free damage.
etc. etc. etc."
but on a second thought it may not be that easy to escape the Hunter, due to its amazing speed, and Preys being able to deal more damage with those weapons wouldn't be a problem, it would be a strategy.
So, if Hunters weren't immune to status, the game would become more chalenging for them, more weapons and strategies would be viable choices, more weapons would be crafted to be used on Survival (CE sink = profit for the devs) and those status immunities would be put for sale (more profit).
Yes, the Hunter might become weaker when facing a group of Preys (or even become the Prey itself), but grouping is also a chalenge since the spawns are separated.
Should I change that in the OP?

That's the point, I think that'd add even more strategy in the game. Instead of just charging on any Prey, Hunters would actually have to think before doing anything, and even though those status would obviously be useful for Preys, stun wouldn't make the Hunter be slower than any of them, only less faster, shock only makes you stop walking for a few moments, but you'd easily catch up any nearby Prey after that, and freeze... well freeze would be the most hateful of them all, but hey, there are only 4 weapon lines in the whole game that inflict freeze (excluding Cold Snap and Frost Gun which are just...) and out of those, 2 are swords which can be easily avoided if you have guns and speed (and they only freeze with charge attacks); the other two are Hail Driver, which has slow bullets, and Shivermist Buster which is a bomb. Not many people use bombs.
So, Hunters would definitely become weaker, but not exactly underpowered (the way I see it) and they can always use freeze resistant gear like Skolver and Dread Skelly or even buy the immunity itself for some CE.
And the devs would get their profits. ^^

Oh, and about curse, only Faust deals it and like the others swords, can be easily avoided if you have guns and speed.
(I hope I got you convinced now =P)

So you're saying that if the devs didn't let bonuses go beyond that limit (which is only present within ASI, CTR and Damage bonuses) Bombardiers would have a hard time. . .
Well, if you consider that each CTR degree removes around 7.5% of the bomb's basic charge time (according to the wiki), a Very High bonus would remove around 30% of it, and that combined with the CTR: Medium every weapon receives at heat-level 10, it would become a Maximum! with 45% of Charge Time Reduction. Same goes for Damage Bonuses, which gives 7% bonus for each degree.
So I think the Max! limit wouldn't be much of a problem, since 42% and 45% are considerably high '-'
Also remember that Bombardiers can use the Iron Ability to avoid charge cancelling.

About Statuses, I think too that the Hunters should still have some resistance but not complete immunity (which should only be accessible via purchase) in order to remain powerful. I guess a basic resistance of 25% of the damage and/or duration of said status should be fair, with a limit of 60%, to prevent stacking of resistances from reaching immunity.

You're both right, I think new players may like quicker matches better, and the longer ones would very likely be played by the more experienced. A thousand crowns seems like a reasonable price too.
I'll try to figure out the best reward distribution for a thousand crowns fee and will update the OP afterwards.

EDIT:
I figured I should restrict the use of trinkets, as they would ruin Survival (like they did with LD), so I edited Basics a bit.
The old Frenzy mode is now 'official' and the 11-player game is now called "Extended mode".
Prices and Prizes for the Extended mode have been raised.

There are still a couple of things I'd like to discuss before finally moving this to graveyard:
- Costs and duration of status immunities.
- Duration of the Iron ability for Bombardiers which should be determined by the current shield power.

btw, I was joking. No way I'm graveyarding my thread!! =p

I know it's a bit expensive, but that's a fairer price for that much playtime... And a thousand crowns is not even close to what you'd spend in half-an-hour in the Clockworks, and is somewhat the same you'd spend in Lockdown.

Of course, Frenzy would still cost 200 crowns, I've only changed prices for Extended matches.
Or did you mean less than 200 crowns?

The upcoming charge changes would make them invincible only after it's fully charged, while Iron would make them invincilble at all times.
Not quite uselss, but definitely less effective. I agree we should revamp it a lil bit, although invincibility frames would depend fully on luck and not on strategical use of it (I hate anything luck based, specially Lockdown)... Maybe we should make it active at all times, just like the Flair; I've always thought the Assassin had a certain advantage over the other two classes, because it doesn't need to worry about using its ability at the right time since it's always active.
I think it would be nice to have those skills as passive characteristics. Of course it'd make things a bit easier for Hunters but it's a way to compensate for the Status Immunity loss.