Totem indicator

I feel an actual on screen totem indicator would be too good for survivors and be a huge nerf to perks like NOED.

I think a good fix would be a map wide unique sound made for cleansing dull totems (similar to the hex sound). This way it would allow solo players to keep track without feeding too much information too easily.

It's wild to me that totem spawns are in static locations. Almost all of them are atrociously out in the open and incredibly easy to locate from great distances. That kind of terrible placement really feels like it's the product of a purely random system that just choses arbitrary X,Y coordinates, not something some programmer went through the effort of placing by hand.

Totems were supposed to be a secondary objective for Survivors to slow gen speed down, rather than just increasing gen repair time.

Instead, we got a huge bonfire underneath active Totems because "It takes too much time to do them all."

We get daily complaints about NOED because "I can't be bothered to cleanse all the Totems before rushing 5 gens."

Instead of decent placement, we get Totems right out in the open (sometimes with a big bonfire lit underneath them) because "It's too hard to find them when I'm trying to work on gens."

Maybe it's time to stop the hand-holding and actually make players think a little about the match their playing. We have so much information just dumped on the UI, it might actually collapse if you add anything else.

I really long for those days when you had to pay attention to health states and actually consider why your speeds seem slightly slow.

%100 For a totem counter if you are playing solo.

Aw come on, just run one of the two great perks for finding totems or bring a map. Being spoon fed information takes the fun out of the game.

Perhaps that would be good for in-game knowledge, but the issue is that totems aren't something survivors are able to innately sense in game. A survivor can write down how many times their friends are hooked, but they won't be able to know if another survivor is doing tokens.

Of course, game mechanics trump lore. That would be a welcome addition, I'm sure, if it passes the lore test.

Just add it to small game and bam solved

I agree I’ve got a ghostface vid that shows this.

4 survivors not able to do totems and reach endgame are not good survivors. If cleansing totems is all it took for the killer to win, then the survivors do not deserve to win.

With my powers of Solo Survivor I will use telepathy to know how many totems are left.

HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnn

*Brain Rupture*

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I’m really glad you guys all liked the candle idea. Full disclosure, it’s not my idea. Something I saw on the forum quite a while back, but I’m not sure who to give credit to.

Nonetheless, I REALLY like the concept. I spread the word every time I see one of these “totem counter” threads with hope that it might gain traction.

If you like it, please mention it from time to time as well. At some point a dev will see it and realize that this would be easy to implement and a positive change, thematic change!

Am i the only one who thinks survivors get to much information? Years ago, survivors had to pay attention. When someone was downed, they had to remember if that survivor was injured before or if some sort of exposed status effect is active.

Now survivors know what perks affect them even before they affect them. They can see that they are affected by Overwhelming Pressence, even before hearing the killers heartbeat. Which gives them a visual warning that the killer comes. They can see that Ruin is active or Lullaby. They can see whenever Undying is on the map by getting a notification whenever they are close to a totem.

Why do we need so much information? Wasn´t the game more fun, when people had to guess and actually pay attention?

Brilliant

Good point, the devs keep balancing around solo low ranks while promoting SWF at every corner. Shouldn´t the devs balance around SWF? I mean, we have official discord channels that help to find other players.

Oh and forget about Undying. Devs won´t reverse the changes. They never do. Maybe we´ll see a rework of the perk in 2 years. But most of the times the devs nuke a good killer perk it stays weak forever. Take Enduring for example. It used to reduce the stun timer of everything. Even DS. Now it only reduced the stun timer of pallets, while we have more perks that are used to stun the killer. Or Fire Up. It was so weak at its launch, that people thought its bugged. Turns out it works at intended and hasn´t seen a buff since release.

So no, Undying is dead and will stay dead. Doesn´t matter if the devs implement a totem counter or if the totems get a bright lightbeam that indicates that there is a totem. Survivors are allergic to doing them and will only do them if forced to. Nothing will change that. Undying was a test to see if survivors would do totems if forced aaaaand nope.

So your saying, I should actually waste my time running into each possible totem spawn to count, instead of doing the generators. Which also is a death sentence if the killer is good. Yeah, it's predictable, but you still have to run all the way to check.

"Bring a perk to counter this, bring an item to counter that."

You can't prepare for every scenario, and considering that maps are kind of rare to even get in the blood web it's not a consistent way of knowing in every match. If I was doing my treasure hunter build maybe but it's not the same as knowing without the help of items or perks. Solo players were always more limited in options if they play to survive. If I had a huge stockpile of maps I probably would but I don't, until I dump everything into one character I can start to properly stockpile since the perks won't take up the web anymore.