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How I would fix The Pig

Paintingexpress
Paintingexpress Member Posts: 13
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As we all know, The Pig is objectively weak. The power in mind is quite powerful, but in execution it can often come off as disappointing, irritating, or extremely rewarding. Due to the very sporadic triggering of head traps and the almost useless power Ambush, I have come up with a complete power rework that still feels similar, but is ultimately better to feel and much more fun to play with and against.

Issues:

  1. The Pig's bear traps can either be very powerful and rewarding or completely useless, all due to luck.
  2. Ambush takes too long to charge
  3. Entering "crouch" speed is too slow
  4. Bear traps encourage and heavily reward tunneling

Change Proposal

Power: JIGSAW'S BAPTISM:

The Pig starts the Trial with 6 Reverse Bear Traps.


Inactive Reverse Bear Traps: 


While standing over a Survivor who is in the Dying State, press the Active Ability button to place an Inactive Reverse Bear Trap on that Survivor's head.

  • Survivors may attempt to free themselves from an Inactive Reverse Bear Trap by searching Jigsaw Boxes for its favor. If the box favors the survivor, the survivor will instantly remove the trap. If the survivor is not fully favored, the Inactive Reverse Bear Trap will activate and instantly progress 25% of its total progression.
  • 3 Jigsaw Boxes are located around the environment.
  • Survivors may leave through an Exit Gate while wearing an Inactive Reverse Bear Trap.


Active Reverse Bear Traps: 


Whenever a Generator is completed, all currently Inactive Reverse Bear Trap will activate:

  • Active Reverse Bear Traps initiate the Death timer, a countdown timer displayed on the Survivor's Status icon that expires after 150 seconds.
  • Once the Death timer expires, the Active Reverse Bear Traps snaps shut, automatically sacrificing the Survivor.
  • A Survivor attempting to leave the Trial Grounds through an Exit Gate with an Active Reverse Bear Traps immediately trips the Reverse Bear Trap.
  • The Death timer is paused whenever the Survivor is being chased by The Pig or is in the Dying State.


Removing Reverse Bear Traps:

To remove a Reverse Bear Trap, a survivor must commit an act of selflessness to gain favor. Acts of selflessness are measured in tokens, requiring a total of 5 to gain 100% favor and remove a Reverse Bear Trap safely.

These acts include-

  • Taking a protection hit (3 Tokens).
  • Safely rescuing a survivor from a hook (2 Tokens).
  • Healing a survivor (1 token).
  • Be chased by the killer (1 token per 45 seconds [timer does not descale when getting chased])
  • Progress a total of 100% generator progress (2 tokens).

However, survivors are granted the option to take a risk. Survivors may go to a Jigsaw Box and attempt to remove the Reverse Bear Trap without any favor or without the 5 tokens of favor (I.E. 3 tokens). Each individual token grants a 16% bonus to favor, with a base favor of 20%. This means that at

  • 0 Tokens = 20% favor
  • 1 Token = 36% favor
  • 2 Tokens = 52% favor
  • 3 Tokens = 68% favor
  • 4 tokens = 84% favor
  • 5 Tokens = 100% favor

The chance you will successfully remove a Reverse Bear Trap is directly related to the amount of favor you have earned by committing selfless acts. Failing to remove a Reverse Bear Trap when attempting without 5 tokens of favor will instantly progress your Reverse Bear Trap timer by 25%. The Jigsaw Box will then shut off for 60 seconds for all survivors. Removing a bear trap will reset all tokens of favor.

SPECIAL ABILITY: Conceal

When any survivor is trapped by an active or inactive Reverse Bear Trap, conceal becomes activatable (transition 3 seconds, gains no movement penalty but is not able to attack). When activated, The Pig will disguise herself into a randomly chosen character from the trial who is wearing the Reverse Bear Trap. The Pig will become undetectable and will move at 100% movement speed. The Pig will appear as though she is an injured survivor, but will not leave trails of blood, will not be able to walk, and cannot be healed by other survivors. The Pig can remove concealment at any time by canceling the power. The Pig can be broken out of concealment by a survivor:

  • Stunning the Pig
  • Blinding the Pig
  • Being hit by the Pig
  • The mimicked survivor removing the Reverse Bear Trap

SPECIAL ATTACK: Ambush

When in concealment, press and hold (charge time 0.25 seconds) the Attack button to perform a lunge at 350% movement speed and with increased range at the penalty of being able to change direction. Missing or successfully hitting a survivor will remove The Pig from concealment.


Examples of the Iridescent add ons.

Iridescent Syringe - Survivors hit by ambush immediately go into the dying state. The mimicked survivor's Reverse Bear Trap will immediately be removed.

Amanda's Letter - Reverse Bear Traps are instantly activated when the survivor is unhooked outside of your terror radius.