Dredge locker teleport suggestion

Mister_xD

Heya,

As we all know by now, if there is a set of multiple lockers next to each other, then the Dredge's locker teleportation ability will always prioritize a locked locker over an unlocked locker, unless there is a Survivor inside said unlocked locker / interacting with it.

In other words, the Dredge will always teleport to the locked locker.

As many of the Dredge players will know, this mechanic does hurt it quite a bit, especially on maps with lots of lockers on them. You usually don't have the time to just walk around and manually destroy the locks (especially since these locker sets allow Survivors to lock them as many times as there are lockers present) and always being stuck in a locked locker when teleporting greatly hinders your map pressure. And given that it's not that strong of a Killer, I feel comfortable making this suggestion.

So without further ado, here's my suggestion:

We keep this mechanic in place, but we allow the Dredge to use up another teleport token to quickly shift into a different, nearby locker (one that is part of the locked lockers set, which is currently impossible to do). As a compensation to this we could have its power take longer to recharge based on the amount of tokens used, similar to Blight.

That way we could allow Dredge to avoid the locked locker, but it would have to pay for it by getting an increased power recharge time in return (and of course would be unable to do that when entering the locker on its third teleportation). Additionally, and this would come into play with larger sets of lockers, The Dredge would not have control over which one of the other lockers it shifts into, so if that one happens to be locked as well, it pays the extra power recharge time without getting a benefit from it (we could have the algorythm keep prioritizing locked lockers here, but to avoid the Dredge shifting back and forth between two locked lockers, would need make it so it can't reenter a locker it has already shifted out of).

Any thoughts on this idea?

Mysterioso

Although, I do like this suggestion, Dredge is already as is a pretty decent killer imo. Hence why he has addons that allow him to exit locked lockers faster. Haddies Calendar or something I believe.

INoLuv

The speed addon teleporting and the addon of seeing what locker is locked should be basekit, no reason not to.