Totem Spawns are a baseline skill in this game
To play dbd at a high level, you NEED to know totem spawns well. It amazes me how many times I end up being the one to take out Ruin or Devour because my teammates don't know how totem spawns work.
Especially with the introduction of Hex: Undying, its just really clear to me that the Devs expect Survivors to know totems by now. So more people need to buckle up and spend the time learning the spawns. Hexes are more common then ever and being oblivious about them will cost you games.
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The problem is totem spawns are ridiculously unbalanced.
On some maps the totems are right next to generators or sometimes even right in the open. You can even spawn right on a hex totem.
And then you have maps like Lery's/Midwich/Hawkins... Good luck finding all the totems there without Detective's hunch.. no knowledge of totem spawns will help there.
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Could also just run Detective's Hunch....unless that messes with your much needed precious meta obviously....
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As MrLimonka said, the older maps have terrible totem spawns while every map since Badham has great totem spawns, especially Midwich. Good luck trying to find all the totems there.
With Undying and Ruin now entering the meta, a lot of time will be wasted looking for totems, even if you know the locations off by heart. I forsee more map items being used in the future along with Detective's Hunch.
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The problem with the indoor maps is that you don't know where you are let alone totems
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So, you think it is a baseline skill to, on top of memorising the maps themselves, memorise 10-15 different totem locations, most of which are tile-specific? For 35 maps?
Even ignoring that, you've got to realise by now that people often just don't do totems. It's not a matter of not knowing spawns or mechanics, it's a matter of not caring for various reasons, both good and bad.
I would also like to point out that I have lost more games to fellow teammates wasting time on totems than I have been killed as a direct result of said totems. Oh no, the killer has Ruin - so let's stack on the gen and have it done in 48 seconds. THEN we go totem hunting til we find the next gen.
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