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Increase Hook Timer

Hello,

if you slow down Gen Speeds, you also NEED to increase the Hook Timer. You made camping stronger with just increasing the time to fix Generators.

The Basekit-BT Change will not change that. And the DS-Nerf will help even less.

So you should increase the Hook Timers by roughly the same amount you increased the Gen Speed.

Comments

  • SkeletalElite
    SkeletalElite Member Posts: 2,890

    I agree with this, increasing the hook timer will not matter to a killer who is not camping 99% of time.

  • mischiefmanaged
    mischiefmanaged Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 374

    Agreed. Time where a survivor is on the hook is time when they are not doing anything. Same reason slugging is so effective. Hook timer should just be base increased. There's absolutely no anti-camping measures included in this update that discourage facecamping. It only discourages tunneling off hook which is good in itself.

  • Taingaran
    Taingaran Member Posts: 289

    What about the Off The Record perk?

  • NerfedFreddy
    NerfedFreddy Member Posts: 394
    edited June 2022

    Hook time absolutely should be increased from 60s to 80s per hook stage as anti-camp measure

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 17,632
    edited June 2022

    Yes, this exists. But it is a Perk and they changed a game mechanic (time to repair a generator), so they should add another game mechanic (increased Hook timer).

    Off the Record does nothing against a face-camping Bubba for example. At worst, it is a trade for Bubba.

    I dont know about 80 seconds. But if they increase the total time needed to repair 5 Gens by 50 seconds, they should increase the total Hook timers of all Survivors by roughly the same amount.

    So 65-67 per Hook stage would be something. I mean, if you want to nerf facecamping really hard, you can increase the Hook Timers dramatically. But I am more aiminig to make it roughly the same as currently.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 7,846

    100% agree. I get why they increased gen times and I'm fine with that, but hook timers absolutely need to be longer if this is going to happen. We really don't need to buff facecamping.

  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,629

    Increase stage 1 timer at the very least. An extra 10 seconds wouldn't be crazy

    stage 1 to stage 2 is way more important than stage 2 to death ironically because stage 1 is what buys you the most time and let's you eat another hook later

  • ThatOneDemoPlayer
    ThatOneDemoPlayer Member Posts: 5,623

    Generator times didn't even need increasing

  • Raccoon
    Raccoon Member Posts: 8,149

    Previous Gen Speed = 80s

    Hook Timer = 60s

    Ratio - 75%

    At the VERY least, they should make it ~68 seconds as 90 * 0.75 = 67.5

  • ad19970
    ad19970 Member Posts: 6,759

    It definitely should be more. Camping should be nerfed, not buffed or kept the same it is now. Killers are getting great buffs to help them deal with their frustrations, survivors should get the same.

    A hook timer of 80 seconds would be great. Perhaps even 90.

  • ihateboons
    ihateboons Member Posts: 167

    Deadlock bubba GG

  • Bwsted
    Bwsted Member Posts: 3,452

    The fact is that chase potential has been buffed as well and DS took a huge hit, that OTR doesn't make up for. Chases are shorter and increasingly so as resources are consumed. It's gonna be safe to substantially increase the hook timer. If I put pressure on your teammates, they will have to rescue and the timer will be cut short anyway. And since I can down faster, I can achieve a net gain.

    Substantial hook time is realistically the only incentive to leave the hook without having to rework game mechanics. And with increased gen times, it would be fair to killers as well.

  • b4d_p3rks
    b4d_p3rks Member Posts: 39

    no one is talking about monstrous shrine?