Until grabbing is fixed, please no more grab challenges
Grabbing challenges, like many of the killer challenges, are completely up to the survivor letting you complete them. Grabbing ok particular hasn't worked properly for a long time because it gives priority to the survivor, taking away the killer's grab, that he should have got, a majority of the time. Which makes me wonder, why are we still doing grab challenges? You're not only putting their completion in the survivor's hands because if they're alert or run Spine Chill, you simply can't sneak up on them, but also grab takeaways. Tell me: if Any Means Necessary or Lithe or something like that was bugged, would we still be getting challenges that require us to use those things? I think so. If we can keep getting grab challenges when grabs are clearly a broken mechanic, anything's possible.
Even the act of grabbing itself can be game-throwing. You have to waste time coming from an angle they don't expect, and if you're right up on the gen and they let go of the last second, you don't get anything for it. It's as if you hit them normally but had to take your sweet time getting into a pointless position. You have to bank on getting matched up with absolute noob and clueless survivors who are like, "Please instadown me, mr killer!"
I do know that you can grab them by mindgaming a window or a pallet, but again, it's on them to make the mistake. And wasting all this time mindgaming a pallet waiting for them to mess up, you'd have to be massively in the lead of that match to be wasting that much time. And who are we using for this challenge? It's most likely Ghost Face, who kind of sucks in red ranks. Or Pig, who has a loud *shing* sound when she uncrouches. Or Wraith but with like silent bell and the add-on that makes your red stain and terror radius disappear for a few seconds after uncloaking.
Very annoying challenges. Would not recommend again.
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Seconded. Please no more grabs.
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If only if Survivor can be instructed by just standing for just a second! Like.... they need to be not facing the gen in order to be not grab at all; it seems very exploitable if Survivor ping doesn't match Killer ping, thanks to dedicated servers and the likes; a Survivor can work on gen/unhook a fellow Survivor in front of the Killer's face; at the right moment when before they can tap the attack button at the same time; the Survivor gets hit and can do whatever they want in front of the killer!
Or at least, make it so that Attack Louge (not just pressing m1/ quick tap on console button) allows to Killer to be able to grab any Survivor if they are close enough by a meter! I remember the old grabs in which you can pull the Survivor off the window and toss them on the floor before being pick up (it was a slow Animation; but it was amazing to enjoy)
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Agreed. And while they are at it, bring the old grab animation back:
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I doubt they even know grabs are broken. This would require a community manager or mod to relay the message to them.
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Your best chance at this type of challenge is to tunnel someone and hope they jump into a locker to hit you with DS. Grabs have been busted for insanely long, I honestly can't see them ever being fixed.
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What you don’t like freezing in mid animation and letting the survivors get away every time?
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Actually the best way is to farm. i just drop the first one i catch at a gen while hitting it and they let me grab them.
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Played as Spirit to complete this challenge. Felt real scummy, but I couldn't have got it done faster any other way.
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Literally if I'm lucky I'm getting a grab once every like 500 matches or something. Grabs are like Plague, too reliant on survivor actions. It makes for a very weak and unreliable mechanic when one side's mechanic completely depends on what the other side wants to do. In this case, the brokeness which is grabbing.
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The easiest way to get grabs is to farm with survivors, grab the on gens and let them wiggle out. Or play double range add-on Nurse Tinkerer. With Tinkerer you have many occasions to have grabs. Ghostie boi can also have grabs.
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Just go in and farm and get the survivors to let you pull them off gens.
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It's been a well-known fact for years. They're playing dumb.
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And this isn't even a regular grab challenge. You have to "interrupt and grab" them, meaning grabs from lockers don't count.
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If farming is the only way to complete this challenge, that kind of shows what's wrong with it, huh?
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This. Absolutely this. Many times I feel robbed out of a good stealth grab due to the server ping and it honestly hurts to see.
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For real? ######### that.
Somehow I never even thought about that. It's certainly going to be the way I do it.
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I genuinely forgot grabs were a thing until this post
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Yes, even as a wraith using the iri bell to be silent, I'd be right up behind a survivor, mid grab animation, then suddenly they'd be halfway across the map.
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If they based challenges around what's not broken in the game, we wouldn't get anything beyond, "Select character and click 'Ready.'"
But no, seriously, grabs need to be fixed. And the sad thing is we've been complaining about grab challenges with broken grabs since the first Tome.
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I got so absurdly lucky with the latest grab challenge, I got down to last survivor in a match and tried to point him at a gen and he let me just grab him off it repeatedly. Grabs are so goddamn broken and it's obnoxious. I was trying to do the challenge as ghostface for HOURS and I got maybe one grab every... 10 matches? and every match I had at least 2 or 3 broken grabs, where I just get frozen in place for 3 seconds because the survivor peeled off 2 seconds before I grabbed them on their end but they were still on the gen on my end.
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Grabs have been broken ever since dedicated servers. So for well over a year. There is no way they don't know.
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