Hex Totem Spawns
So I just ended up DCing in my last game, not proud of it, but I admit it. I've played multiple matches tonight as killer and I swear to the freakin Entity man... Every single match, my hex totem spawns out in the open for everyone and their grandmother to see like a beacon signaling a ship from a lighthouse to avoid the rocks.
And in every one of these matches, my hex totem went bye-bye practically at the very beginning of the match. Not only that, but it keeps spawning right near the gens.
Examples:
First map was coldwind farm, it spawns right there in the corn field, burning bright as all hell and what is not even two squares away? OH LOOK! A GENERATOR!
Autohaven? Well let's put this brilliantly burning bright totem right here against a dark as hell red wall of a jungle gym so it's brilliant yellow/white flame can be "hidden" and just for a reason for the survivors to not want to come over here, we're going to put a generator with three working spots on it right next to this tree beside the looping area.
Or how about my last match that I dc'd from out of purest annoyance? Oh yeah, Hawkins lab. Over near the portal room. Let's put it up on that slightly collapsed platform. It'll be hidden from the front by the barrels despite it burning so bright. But wait, you have to go up the ramp/stairs to get to the upstairs gen and turn around to face the generator. There's no way they'll see the hex totem with the generator sitting right across from it's visibility side.
Yes I get it, I'm ranting, whining even and I admit it but seriously. I feel bad for killers when I play as a survivor because the hex totems are so damn easy to find. And I know, we got Blight now with his Hex to make the other hex totem respawn to a dull totem. But I've watched plenty of youtubers and other twitch streamers who play killer. It takes the survivors no time at all to notice. 9/10 I've seen them break the blight Hex before the main hex. And yes I'm aware that you can see when people are near your totems with the perk Hex: Undying. But what are you going to do as killer, just run around and guard your hex totems all match?
I've looked at other forums and found people saying that the totem hex spawn locations are being worked on, but some of those dated way back when. Hell I've spawned multiple times as a survivor, right next to the hex totem! Like I go into the map, it does the little visual spin around scene and right next to me, burning bright is the hex totem!
There goes one of your perks. Now useless. But really, is anything actually being done about the totem spawn points or is it just up in the air as "we'll get to it when we get to it."?
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Hex totem spawns on graphically updated maps are quite good. You can expect reworked spots along with the above mentioned update to the maps.
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The reworked maps aren't much better far as I've seen from killer and survivor side; honestly the hex totems stick out even more than they did before. I mean a place like Springwood? That thing is the beacon from LotR. And that doesn't stop the fact that they are still spawning close to generators or near survivors. Just as I've said, I've spawned right next to them multiple times and they are literally gone before the match even started.
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can we talk about the hex totem bunkers in lerys? It's pretty crazy on some spawns, others not so much.
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I saw a disgusting good totem spot on Yamaoka’s Estate, it was really well hidden, behind layers of green dangling grass and a fat bush. Luckily I had Detectives Hunch, but if I didn’t no one would ever find it.
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Hexes have always been high risk and purely RNG based - fairly unreliable even once survivors get wise to most spawn locations (even without perks). Thrill of the Hunt was the OG protection hex but that was too range based for the notification, Retribution didn't give enough on it's own unless you were running it to protect NOED but the new Undying hex adds in quite a bit of value for protecting Ruin, Blood Favour and sort of Third Seal (A little less for DH, Lullaby but prevents the situation you're having where it breaks immediately). Also works with Haunted Grounds especially against dunce survivors who will expose everyone a 3rd time.
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I went against a Huntress earlier who got 5 stacks of Lullaby and nobody could find the totem.
I fee they’re either too easy or too hard. Out in the open like Crotus Penn or buried away behind things away from all objectives like in some of the indoor maps.
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