Make totem spot's better and harder to find

Unfortunately, they've tried it several times and each time it hasn't worked. I've given up on hoping.

Yes, it takes an entire map rework. We know that, but their speed at reworking maps is sloooooow, thus my lack of hope.

Well, to be fair, I did have a Ruin spawn in the open that a few nights ago on GF (Ruin/Surveillance combo). A rank 10 Claudette found it and I had to get her out of the match quickly before she cleansed it.

Thankfully, they weren't SWF on comms, because the other three never found it, and there was even a generator in the general area. Post game, I saw that they were ranks 15, 13, 13.

So, @shalo has a point. 🤣

There are also good Totem Spots, but nobody talks about them. Probably because Survivors dont complain about stuff like that on a constant basis like Killers do.

This is on Storehouse on one of the walls of the Storehouse. Without the Map, I would not have been able to find it:

Totem Spots on new and reworked Maps are sometimes insane. In the end, Hex-Perks should be a risk/reward, you can have a Hex-Totem next to a Gen or so hidden that it does not get found for minutes.

They are high-risk-high-reward depending on the Hex. Provided you can move out of range before the unhook so you get a stack, Devour Hope lets you insta-down after 3 unhooks, and fatality after 2 more unhooks.

If even one dull totem is left on the map, NOED can allow a killer to snowball in the endgame, be it in a match where everyone was hooked twice already, or as a consolation prize after being looped for 5 gens and the killer was on the ropes.

The Third Seal isn't exactly great but never underestimate how impactful not having auras can be if survivors are not coordinated.

I definitely think totem spawns should be hidden a little better but it's hard to argue the hex perks themselves are weak. There's perks that shouldn't be a hex though like Huntress Lullaby and Retribution.

EDIT: I also want to bring up Devour Hope and Huntress Lullaby in terms of Hex design. Both require 5 hooks pretty much. Devour only gives a stack when you're a certain distance away when the survivor is unhooked, (so death-hooks and in-your-face unhooks don't count) and Huntress Lullaby gives stacks for any ol' hook.

So for about 5 hooks, one makes skill checks harder and adds extra regression on failed skill checks, the other lets you instadown on 3 unhooks and mori on 5 unhooks. Huntress Lullaby needs a buff or not be a hex perk anymore. We need more hex perks that are extremely strong if ignored like Devour Hope.

The Dead Dog Saloon (Grave of Glendale) has some of the best totem locations and it's actually occasionally hard for me to find all 5 of them even while being aware of most of their spawns (Especially with the hidden box spawns near Gallows and Edge of Map Dead Zone sometimes). They did make a lot of the totem locations harder to find on many of the old maps but I think it's a work in progress until it gets to this level

I imagine nobody talks about the "good" spots because most survivors assume their idiot teammates were just blind (which is the case like 50% of the time) or, even more likely, they die and leave the match before it's over so, depending on the hex in question, they might not even be aware it happened. Alternatively, they found it... therefore probably didn't think it was some incredibly hard-to-find spot. If you can destroy a killer's entire perk slot, it should at least not be sitting out in the open right next to a generator. Which it is way more often than it should be.

Totems spawns are the reason why I usually don't like running hex perks.

Now that blight is coming out, hopefully, undying will fix some issues. At least they'll have to cleanse the 5 totems to get rid of hex perks.

Once, I thought a solution that the devs could do to fix this, which is fairly..."easy" to implement.

1: For each map, you create a long list of fixed totem spawn positions.

2: When the match starts, 5 totems spawn in 5 random positions, given that list of positions per map.

In order for this to work, the list of positions should be long enough so people can't easily remember all the positions.

I think that this simple fix, would be an improvement.

I mean, sure, the open spot on Disturbed Ward should not happen at all. But when I look at a map like Autohaven, it is inevitable that Totems (Dull or Hex) spawn next to Generators, because there are not many structures/junk where you can hide them in. So more "clean" maps will have easier Totem Spots than Maps which were fairly new and have more stuff distributed on the Map.

They said that Totem Spots are an ongoing process and they have improved quite a lot. But it is a lot more work than simply placing them on a different spot, because on some Maps, there are simply no good hiding spots, even tho they can (and should) at least change the most obvious spots (like the one in the open on Disturbed Ward).