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Rework "Predator" to instead leave footprints that appear permanently minute(s) later

ThatFancyWraith
ThatFancyWraith Member Posts: 5
in Feedback and Suggestions

Rework the perk "Predator" to instead leave blue footprints that work opposite to that of scratch marks. Scratch marks appear instantly and last for 10 seconds while footprints are invisible for 120/90/60 seconds before becoming visible for the remainder of the trial. Footprints are used to track survivor movement patterns, not to know where a survivor was recently. If a survivor continuously hides in the same place, it will eventually show that. Survivors leave footprints behind at all times except crouch walking.

sirjamesfanciest concept.jpg

I painted them into a screenshot to illustrate my point.

Comments

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,030

    i like the idea, mabye even color coded footprints?

  • Emeal
    Emeal Member Posts: 5,300

    cool idea.

  • Firellius
    Firellius Member Posts: 4,541
    edited August 2021

    I don't think this would be particularly helpful. Knowing where a survivor was a minute ago isn't particularly valuable information, and I think at that point, you'd be better off just patrolling gens.

    I do like the idea of footprints though. Perhaps predator can replace scratch marks with foot prints that better indicate the survivor's direction, as opposed to scratch marks, which simply indicate where the survivor has been.

    EDIT: Also, if the footprints don't fade, eventually there'll be such a jumble of them that they become unreadable, too.

  • Milo
    Milo Member Posts: 7,383
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2398628#Comment_2398628

    The idea I assume is to see where survivors go regurarly. They did mention that in the main post Footprints are used to track survivor movement patterns, not to know where a survivor was recently. Which would help new players a tad.

    But as you said it would become a clutter of information you cannot really decipher later.

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429

    The timing is a little weird. I would say they could work if the footprints appeared 20-30 seconds after (so 10-20 seconds after scratch marks have vanished) but then disappear after 60 seconds.

    If they were permanent, this perk would quickly become useless after about 2 minutes as the entire map would be littered in footprints and they would give you exactly zero information at that point.