Should there be map offerings?

The Game map redesign shows they aren't about to make every map favor both sides equally, so I agree. Take map offerings out, give everyone the bp back for the ones in their respective inventories, keep the maps as the one uncontrollable random in every match.

Not sure how I feel about this. There are gimmicky builds that only work on certain maps (spooky Myers) and removing map offerings would really discourage them.

Map offerings in my opinion are overall unhealthy for the game. Generally they are used for one of two reasons. One the person is a killer trying to do a meme build that works best on a certain map (Jumpscare Myers on Lery's/Hawkins for example) Or they are blatantly attempting to give themselves and advantage. I see this tactic used massively more by survivors than killers as killers don't have that many maps that heavily favor them whereas survivors have several.

Overall I can see 4 solutions.

1.) Remove map offerings entirely. This is a fairly drastic one but not something I'd be opposed to if nothing else could be enacted.

2.) Limit map offerings to only be usable by killers. For the reasons I stated above offerings tend to benefit killers less than survivors. This is something that could work but not necessarily something I'd entirely abide.

3.) Revert map offerings to how they used to be where it only added about a 10% additional chance of that map instead of it being guaranteed. This would keep offerings in but would add a risk of them not working making it so you couldn't just slap one down for an immediate massive advantage.

4.) This is the suggestion I think would be best. A combination of solution 2 and 3. Make it so survivors only have the non guaranteed offerings. But killers have the guaranteed ones. This would allow survivors to still toss an input without the immediate massive advantage, and allow killers to still be able to do fun stuff like jumpscare myers. Naturally this would be subject to change but in the current state of the game the ratio of maps that benefit survivors vs. the amount that benefit killers is so colossally skewed that I think this would be a very fair option.

Exactly, I never understood why they added those let alone keep the other trash.

I think they should be a killer offering only. <as I literally am being sent to Haddonfield as I post this>

Map offering are priamrily only a problem in the hands of SWF, becuase that gives survivors too much control over the game becuase they can control the map, what items everyone is bringing and what perks survirors have.

Map offerings should be unable to be brought to a trial if the SWF team playing together consists of more that 2 people

Pretty much. I thought about making a thread detailing how I would change it, but I doubt it would matter.

I agree, apart from the odd meme build it's just there to be abused by the sweaty SWF

Maybe change so they're not as frequent or that they don't cost as much that way they can be forgotten like the 50% bonus bloodpoint offerings

Outside of multiple different map offerings being played, I have always gone to the map that has been played. Always. 100% of the time. Zero exceptions. At this point certainly hundreds if not into the 1000s of games where a map offering has been played.

So I'm going to guess you're mistaken.

You're mistaken. In the code, the current map offerings are guaranteed to send you to that map(unless there's multiple offerings.) I remember reading somewhere that the chance is set to 999%.

The map offerings we had in the past had partial chances (10% for commons and 50% for uncommons I think), but none of them spawn in the bloodweb anymore.

The only reason a map offering wouldn't work right now is if the map is disabled by the devs.

Only found map offerings to be tolerable when it's either for some gimmick build (Mirror Myers) or adepting. Otherwise it just seems like a ploy to spite the opposing side, perpetuating more habits that make the game insufferable sometimes.

If only sacrifical wards were a yellow offering instead of a green one...

I don't think you're lying. I just know you're wrong. It's not a big deal though. We're all wrong sometimes.

Anyway to the topic at hand: I think most of the offerings are underwhelming overall, and when people see a map offering they usually just go "ugh" if they weren't the ones to play it. Not overly a fan, but not overly bothered.

I want a aint offering for killers so It is like "Yeah,no we aint going there" to overide one map choice. I also think Killer offerings should be more effective..since,you know you are the killer.

I think they should reduce the number of map offerings like getting rid of The Game, Lery, Hawkins and Midwich offerings and merge them into a single "indoor map offering" so it selects one of those 4, it would help making the green bloodweb pool smaller so green addons on Killer are not way rarer than they should.

But the problem is almost all maps are outdoors so it would be useless to burn one of those (out of 35, 31 are outdoors), I think grouping the offerings in packs of 4/5/6 maps with similar gamestyle oriented maps would make more sense, like "stealth map offering" "indoor offering" "big open map offering" etc so you could aim for a certain style that fits how you wanna play, for example Hillbilly would benefit from a "big open map offering".

We have 15 realms so we have 15 map offerings, if you group on average 5 maps per offering you would have only 7, less than half of what we have now, also I would delete the cancel map offering, right now doesnt make much sense except against SWFs and I think another solution would be far better than what we have now.

Maybe if people actually did their research instead of blindly disagreeing on anything that hasn't personally happened to them we wouldn't be here now...

Edit: A bit rude on my part, unnecessary.