Gen's need to take longer.

darktrix said:

So you want to penalize everyone who isn't optimal in doing gens just to get at the elite swf? Go ahead and make the gens take 5 minutes to complete, some killers will still ask for more.

@MasonHugsCats
I enjoy playing Wraith, but he's laughed at in rank 1 and 2, and since I play a lot that's where I end up despite not belonging there since I have no skill. I'm lucky if I can kill one person a game. My friend told me to play Doctor with a specific build, which I'm sure is great, but I still can't pull it off at all. It seems to me that the game puts huge emphasis on Killer Addons but then forces you to lose them every game while also making the path to get them filled with crap you don't want to use. So I end up using brown and yellow Addons that don't have enough of an effect and SWF's just stomp my face in lol. If gens were somehow more interactive than the occasional skill check but also took longer I feel like I might have a chance, or if I could easily get Addons that do something, but as is I'm having less and less fun every game as SWF's ruin the game with their toxicity.

@powerbats
I didn't ask to be rank 1, simply playing the game enough led me to be and now I can't play Wraith if I want to actually kill anyone. Heck I can't kill anyone most of the time anyhow without resorting to camping or tunneling, both of which I find gross to do. I may as well quit the game is what you're saying, because I don't want to play characters I don't like just because they're meta. That's one heckuva argument against balancing a broken game; Just play the ones that are broken in the other direction!

@Aerys realistically it's all about learning things in the end whether you want to hit rank one or just do better at the lower ranks. Well played Wraiths can wreak havoc at rank 1 and above, the same is true for other killers experience and knowledge are key.

@Aerys Well if you're camping at rank 1 you'll get a lot of salt and most swf are generally pretty cool although there's the toxic minority out there. If you're playing at rank reset it's brutal the 1st few days because all the higher skilled players are blasting through.

As far as getting destroyed at rank 1 that can and does happen and as you admitted experience will go a long way towards helping you. Once you get enough of it under your belt swf groups for the most part aren't that bad and you can use their altruism against them.

Increasing the generator repair timer would be really boring. I'd say make an extra objective like carrying fuel or special tools that make you slower and skillcheck get get more rapid and smaller nearing the end of a generator would make it more tense and fun.

@powerbats said:

@MasonHugsCats said:

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At rank one I literally can't play anyone other than hag or Billy otherwise the game ends before I can hook more than 2 people

I went all the way to rank 1 using Spirit and frequently aced with no gens done or just 1 or 2. It's really all about figuring out what killer works the best for your playstyle. Then maximizing them and picking the optimal perks based not only on your playstyle but what the survivors have etc.

If the game is ending before you can hook 1 or 2 survivors that just means you need to improve your gameplay, where the safe spots are and where they aren't. Who's a good looper and who's not, which gens you want to prioritize defending and which ones can be ignored.

There's so many things to improve on even if you generally do well you can always get better at it.

@Aerys

I think he has a good point.

As leatherface, I was stuck at rank 2-4 for a while, so this cycle I tried using all the crutches I could to help where I was failing, locating survivors. How bad? Rarely, 3-4 gens could pop before finding someone, normally 1-2.

Anyways, my plan was to use ruin to delay, and the crow perk + whispers + BBQ to track. Ruin showed me that I shouldn't spend too much time on one thing, like, don't camp the hex totem too long, abandon survs that try to loop around that big ass tree in the corn fields, etc.. The crow perk showed me that, as I approached, survivors run farther to hide than I thought, and whispers showed me that survivors often hide, then hang out, circling trees.

I refused to use these perks for so long because I thought they were no good, but they were good in helping me figure out where I was going wrong. Now, I can find survivors without these perks, and I'm not hit as hard by gen rushing unless it's a 4-man SWF.