What does red herring do?
Can anyone explain to me what it does, and why you would use it? thanks
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You use it as a distraction I believe.
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If you work on a gen for 3 seconds the perk activates, Now if you walk away and hide in a locker the killer gets the explosion notification on that gen.
So the idea is you start a gen. Maybe one in the corner with nobody on it, an irrelevant gen. Then you move away and get in a locker. The killer gets the notification and they walk across thinking the're going to find a survivor but suprise! nobody there.
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Or, the killer has pop and you want the killer to waste it on an irrelevant gen so you lure them to that one.
It does seem rather weak though, rarely do killer care for blowing up skill checks anyway
Off the record also seems pointless, but For the People seems amazing and easily abused.
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Troll perk for public. Work on the same gen then set off explosion when you hide. Watch the lolz unfold as you wait for the hatch to spawn.
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Can't you just fail a skill check and save a perk slot to do the same thing? My first thoughts on the perk anyways.
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why does it only take 3 seconds compared to diversions 45 seconds?
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yes but doing that bring the killer to you where red herring sends them away from you.
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Basically a time wasting perk for the survivor, and will only work on baby killers. If you want to waste a killer's time with noise notification then just fast vault a window, plain and simple. Besides, if the notification requires you to go into a locker, then that's a free grab for the killer. Gen not being worked on, no scratch marks, locker right next to the gen, you see where this is going. You could exit the locker but then the killer will easily hear you exiting and get a free hit. Sure you can go across the map to enter a new locker but that's a huge waste of time. And why would you stop working on a gen after 3 seconds? And if you work on a new generator the perk deactivates, so you either waste your time by doing nothing productive in hopes of wasting the killer's time by going to your location, which won't happen with killers that have common sense. I think it's a contender for the worst perk tbh, but I still think Deja Vu holds that title.
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