Killers need individual hook tallies for each survivor in a match. Please.
The survivor HUD was a buff for solo queue survivors, and now an anti face-camping mechanic is going to be added in the future. I think it's time for killers to get a visible hook tally displayed on each survivor indicating how many times each survivor has been hooked. This would be a quality-of-life improvement for killers who want to spread out and maximize hook states, as it would make it easier for killers to keep track of each survivor's hook states. The hook tally would display for killers just like the survivor HUD, as shown in the attached image above.
The main concern I see against this proposal is that killers might use this hook tally to tunnel out survivors. In actuality, this is not really a concern because a killer intending to tunnel, and in the process of tunnelling, won't let the targeted survivor out of their sights anyway, so a hook tally does not affect, aid nor encourage this strategy meaningfully. More frankly put, If the killer intends to tunnel a survivor out of the game, they're going to tunnel relentlessly anyway, regardless of what a hook tally HUD tells them.
One example of a positive, quality-of-life benefit that a hook tally would provide for killers is letting them know which survivor would be good bait to use to bait altruistic survivors in endgame. Say that that exit gates have been powered, and the killer spots a survivor that has only been hooked once. It is ideal for the killer to chase and hook this survivor, since the other remaining survivors will be 99-ing the gates and then moving in for the hook save. This way, the killer gains an opportunity to find and chase another survivor, as opposed to the killer finding a survivor (in the endgame) that has been hooked twice, the killer hooks this survivor, the survivor immediately gets sacrificed, and the remaining survivors simply open the gates and immediately leave.
Behavior, please consider this quality-of-life feature for killers. It is the fair counterpart for survivors having an HUD. If solo-queue survivors (a large portion of the survivor playerbase) no longer need to guess what their teammates are doing, then killers deserve a hook tally in order to more easily keep track of hook states for hook maximization. Thank you very much for reading, and thank you all for the work that you do for this game we all love!
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I agree.
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Yeah, hook states are pretty important for the Killer to keep track of even if you're not tunneling. It's common for Killers to get baited into chasing the one Survivor who isn't on death hook if they don't keep track of hook states, for instance.
Or, you may not be going out of your way to hard tunnel off the hook, but when you've spotted two Survivors at once and one of them is on death hook while the other isn't, the one who isn't on death hook is simply unimportant if your goal is to secure kills.
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