Just a comment about the motivation behind the Ruin update

Yet you seem to forget that as long as a Survivor is chased, all of the other 3 Survivors have absolutely no Reason at all to not work on Gens rendering its value almost non existent. As a Killer you actively would have to give up a chase in order to keep them from Gens but doing that will most certainly not contribute to the Killer getting Hooks. Maybe wait until changes to the pace of a trial are made and then push out this change alongside them or otherwise Killer Players (especially on High Ranks) will Resort to cheap and unfun tactics like Slugging, Tunneling. Especially Tunneling because if you manage to kill one survivor really early, the rest of the team is basically doomed. Yeah that’s definitely more fun than current ruin. Moris will probably be used even more because Killers have way too little time to hook 4 Survivors 3 Times. To compare one Gen equals 20% Of their Goal (not counting exit gates) completed. One Hooked Survivor equals 8,33333% of a Killers Goal Completed. When a Killer chases a Survivor, by the time the survivor is downed, 2-3 Gens will already be completed meaning the Killer did 8,33333% of his objective, Survivors already completed completed 40-60% of their Objective. The only thing that prevented the average high rank Match from looking like this was either Ruin or really bad Survivors. In fact Ruin actually proves whether or not a Survivor deserves to be at that rank. Good Survivors won’t even bother with searching for the totem and will instead work through it, meanwhile bad Survivors were punished and would be forced to waste time to search for the totem. I know a lot of people made the argument “duuuuh iF yOu cAn’T pLaY wiThOuT rUiN, tHeN yOu sHoUlDn’T hAvE iT!!!” And I honestly am amazed at how unoriginal people get with their arguments. The Reason why Ruin was pretty much mandatory at high ranks was because it was the only way for a match to have a possibly fair length of match for a Killer. Now I am able to play good on high ranks without ruin but it is a truly miserable and stressful experience that is absolutely no fun whatsoever. Now if this comment isn’t a fair criticism of a bad choice done by BHVR, then I don’t know what is.

BHVR hire this man as your PR man. He is clearly better at this than almo, peanits and whoever wrote those terrible patch notes last week

Hi Almo,

Id like to give my peice of mind in this. Ive only been playing DBD for about a yr and in the beginning hex skill checks completely dominated me as a survivor main and new player at the time. But as time would fly by and experience kicking in i managed to reach rank 1 survivor and hit my hex skill checks about 75% of the time at high rank games. Practice makes perfect overtime is my point here. And with data on a perk that 80% of high rank killers use to help apply pressure early game and butcher it to cater to a set of audience bcuz of their ability to not practice hitting hex skill checks and learning over time is completely one sided truthfully. As i have slowly opened the doors to playing killer often lately and wanna challenege myself to achieve rank 1 with the the killers i use (trapper,huntress,legion,hag) it is definitely out the door now. As for myself i use hex ruin on all 4 of these lower tier killers(by the way)especially as a trapper main to apply early pressure and stop the gen rush from occuring . And yea ppl will argue thats theres other perks that can still do that but just take a look at the data you pulled recently about 80% of high rank killers using ruin , facts speak for themselves and theres a reason for it. Now this will force ppl who main low tier killers or who often use lower tier killers to play with killers they may not prefer aka the high tier killers like billy,spirit,nurse......so im sure ill prepare to face more of those often killers often as a survivor after this ruin change but now the biggest issue is low tier killer mains like myself will either have to A)switch to a high tier killer to hopefully win a few games after of course learning how to play them overtime..... or B) Quit playing killer period because the lower tier killers that i enjoy playing with more will be decimated majority of my games thx to hex ruins new nerf. Please highly think about this before rolling out that change. Trust me as a lower tier killer main it will hurt us in the long run. Thanks

Your designer notes directly contradict this.

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Recent data show that Hex: Ruin is used in over 80% of all games in the red ranks, and across the entire userbase it appears in about 45% of all games. 

We took a close look at the perk to identify what makes it so frustrating to play against. Three key issues were identified: 

1. Its punishment of new players or those who can't hit Great Skill Checks. Newer players trying to help veterans with generator repairs tend to make the situation worse rather than better.

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"Easy" for new players is "less frustrating". Learning skills to play certain game mechanics is part of every good game, otherwise different skill levels in a game will not exist.