Make pickup animation interruptible by pallets + make it faster to compensate
Killer immunity to pallet stuns during the pickup animation is unintuitive. So I suggest making the animation interruptible. But this on its own would be too heavy a survivor buff. So to compensate, I suggest that the animation be faster to save killers time in general. The balance of such a change would be determined by the tuning of the animation speed. Could end up being a net buff to killers but it would be worth it IMO as a survivor main.
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No learn the timing, I am tired of skillful things being taken out of the game
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it was like that in 2016 and 2017, i wonder why would they change it… cof cof
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I see where you're coming from. If you're right that the pickup-pallet timing minigame deserves a permanent place in DBD, then it deserves to be made part of the tutorial, or have some other indication that it exists. (As it exists it feels like a bug to those unaware)
One way to do this would be a survivor perk that makes it interruptible so survivors would have to commit a perk slot to remove the minigame— just as killers can use lightborn to remove the flashlight minigame
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Survive with friends and protect the president builds would abuse that so hard, only way it could work is with a token system that gives you a token when others are hooked and with this token you can spend one to do what you say. You lose all tokens when losing a health state.
Even with those conditions its still too busted, if they want to make it seem like not a bug (because it isn't) they could have an animation play over the killer that looks like the entity protecting them from a stun if the survivor messed up the timing1 -
Unless you make pickups instant, this would make it too easy to secure pallet saves and killers would just be forced to slug any survivor under any pallet.
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The visual indication on failure would be a big improvement. I like the idea a lot.
As for the token idea I like that as well.Another idea is a perk that shows the timing during the pickup animation before the pallet is dropped.
This would be analogous to the Nurse's brown add-on that shows the landing zones of her blinks. Pure training wheels.0 -
This was tried once and it was a disaster.
Saves were more or less free, and killers couldn't do anything against it.
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