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Um is this a exploit or Intentional (PH)

oh_salutations
oh_salutations Member Posts: 212
edited May 2021 in General Discussions

I was in a game against PH and they put down the wire and kept picking us up and dropping us to make us get the status effect. The status effect is supposed to make people not want to go through the barbed wire by punishing them, but what's the point in avoiding it now if the killer can make you get the effect

like is this supposed to be a thing or is this an exploit or something like that?


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  • Polishnope
    Polishnope Member Posts: 130

    No it isn't ,it is intentional feature when you drop a survivor ,survivor will get more struggle in bar and they get 5 seconds stun you can easily find a loop in that time

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    IDK if they changed it but putting people in cages disables hook perks like DS from working making it easier to tunnel, I don't run DS but it's still annoying to have hook-related perks not work by (In my Opinion) Flawed killer design. the cages should be a reward for the killers for putting barbed wire in good spots and a punishment for survivors for stepping on them but this is rewarding killers that don't know how to use their power not only by TPing survivors to cages or straight-up killing them but they also lose their ability to use some perks (DS, We're going to live forever, Well make it, I don't know if BT is still disabled but I know that one point it is so ill add that to the list but don't quote me on that)

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212
    edited May 2021

    Is this a joke...

    Wait Sorry I just got what you wrote Nvm plz... the first time I held crouch and still got the effect

  • Polishnope
    Polishnope Member Posts: 130
    edited May 2021

    You know that firstly :PH does not see cages he can only see aura when you are uncaged , in that 5 seconds you can easily escape to the another loop,and tunneling isn't bannable,if you want i think when you struggle off him you can crouch so you wont get barbed wire effect,as person above me said he was probably just doing his challange,and thats the point of Pyramid head power negate hook perks

  • WeenieDog
    WeenieDog Member Posts: 2,184
    edited May 2021

    Well, no. You can crouch to move through the lasagna without getting affected by it. I was wondering if you can do a similar thing like holding crouch when getting unhooked to stop a hag trap from triggering to avoid being tormented.

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    I thought you meant like in a chase before I got down but I did find my mistake and my apologies. but yes the first time I got downed I held it and I still got the effect + I was right in front of PH

  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    I find PH being one of the most balanced killers rn. If you get caged you wont get use of hook related perks but that goes both ways. Remember PH has a very poor synergy with hook perks too and mostly never use them. BBQ, Pop and others are not so good on him. He also cannot see cage auras and cannot camp them anymore. His add ons are a joke, only good ones are range add ons. Overall I find him fun to play against. Also everyone can play scummy even without cages

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    Your right but ig I just don't really get why is there a need to avoid the barbed wire if PH could just force you to do use it anyway

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212


    Actually, the only thing wrong with that is that killers sign up for that and like you said avoiding hook perks, but survivors don't know so their perks might not work the whole game limiting the survivors that do have those perks like I wasn't using it but my build for Yun-Jin is we are going to live forever, we'll make it, BT, and Aftercare, if i was using Yun-Jin i would have the most useless perk build in that match

  • ALostPuppy
    ALostPuppy Member Posts: 3,398
    edited May 2021

    If he's forcing the de-buff to hit you like this I don't think the PH is looking to win and just wants to get the daily out of the way so they can stop playing PH (which is totally understandable). And there is a reason to avoid it because getting caged or hit with final judgment cuts out a lot of time that the PH isn't doing anything, and you want to waste the killer's time as much as you can. The time saved by caging/killing is small but it adds up. But you shouldn't avoid it no matter what, if your options are to either get downed or make it to a pallet and get tormented, the 2nd option is always going to be the right thing to do (...until he does the epic M2 into M1 mindgame at the pallet and downs you anyway because it's a fun and interactive ability)

  • rch614
    rch614 Member Posts: 551

    I did this for rituals and the achievement. It's fine. They're wasting alot of time by doing this and even if they're doing it to negate DS later...they kinda just took one by forcing the torment.

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    I guess but Just to me I still find it annoying not enough to whine to the devs about it but enough to be like wait are PHs even allowed to do this saying I've never seen one do this and he got a lot of us pretty down killing 3/4 of us so it wasn't a "bad" stat but maybe not the most useful at rank one idk

  • katoptris
    katoptris Member Posts: 3,179

    I usually do this against hook bombers and for my daily. There is no exploit for this especially considering he wasting time on applying it.

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814

    It's extremely easy for survivors to avoid his trails, his basic counterplay does it for them as a nice little secondary bonus. It doesn't matter how good a PH is, you're not getting an average survivor to become tormented without resorting to these sorts of time-wasting, self-nerfing tactics.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    This has to be an exploit...

    "If the killer drops you then you get more wiggle time..." Wiggle progress doesn't matter if the killer can then cage or kill you right after!

    What is wrong with this community??

  • CaulDrohn
    CaulDrohn Member Posts: 1,596
    edited May 2021

    If the killer does that, he is wasting time A LOT. It would be easier and faster to just hook you. Or just leave you on the ground if there's no hook nearby. If the killer invests so much time to get you tormented (after that you can run away again, btw), he's throwing the game hard just to get you to a cage (or mini-mori you). If anything, thats a really dumb play, but sure no "exploit",

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  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    What do you mean? He could hook that survivor 5 times already while doing that, is caging it that scenario something OP and much worse than hook?

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    @CaulDrohn Oh, okay, so if I stand still as the killer for 5 minutes and then all the survivors fall to the ground when I swing my weapon at the air then that's not an exploit either because I wasted A LOT of time...

    What is wrong with this community?

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    The clip is only 23 seconds long! How could he hook a survivor 5 times over in that span of time??

    What is wrong with this community??

  • ShinobuSK
    ShinobuSK Member Posts: 5,279

    Because the hook was right there. Survivor was already downed and picked up. He would hook him in few seconds but instead dropped him and pick him up again several times. Good exploit tho, hope more killers will start "abusing" it in my games. Killer wasting their time is always welcomed

  • CaulDrohn
    CaulDrohn Member Posts: 1,596
    edited May 2021

    Nice straw man.

    Of course that would be an exploit / hack, since it's not part of the normal game. Dropping a survivor repeatedly to let them wiggle out is no exploit, but a game mechanic. If they then fall onto a trail, so what? It does not kill you right away, the killer still has to catch you again. Yes then he can cage you, but if he had just hook you he would have been faster. Yes he could kill you with his mini-mori, but again just last-hooking you would be faster. It's just a giant waste of time.

    You could argue that letting someone wiggle free only for them to run into a trappers trap would be exploity. But that still would just be wasting time and serve no purpose that you woulnd't have get from the start,

    To put it like you did:

    What is wrong with your reasoning?

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    If survivors hide in lockers all game to deny The Shape any stalk, then he should be allowed to pull them out of the locker, drop them on the ground, and then stalk them??

    The Shape's wasting a lot of time by doing this. He just needs to complete his daily for stalking survivors. This must be fair and not an exploit by your logic then.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142
    edited May 2021

    It is an exploit because normally a survivor can choose to become tormented or to avoid it by crouching. This exploit bypasses that. The survivors are being punished for something that is out of their control when the normally they wouldn't.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,414
    edited May 2021

    I think you dont understand it. They get only tormented when you wiggle free, so the killer gets stunned (like ds) and they can run away. A myers could do that, too. They could let you wiggle free and then stalk you. Its just a really dumb strategy.

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    Note: I wasn't wiggling He just picked me up and dropped me multiple times

  • GingerBeard
    GingerBeard Member Posts: 273

    Absolutely not an exploit.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,414

    Yes i know. I just call it wiggling off bc i dont know what i should say instead.

  • MrDardon
    MrDardon Member Posts: 4,033

    I get the point of doing it but it's counterproductive.

    And if they happen to have DS, they could just run into a locker anyways, regardless of Torment or not.

  • Kirkylad
    Kirkylad Member Posts: 1,927

    It's not an exploit. I had a PH do this to me the other day and I instantly hit the crouch button when I came off the shoulder and I didn't get the effect so that myn't be worth a try if you want them to at least waste even more time.

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    I tried earlier and still got the effect but if another PH does this no harm in trying again ig

  • Kirkylad
    Kirkylad Member Posts: 1,927

    I hit crouch before hitting the floor and it worked for me but I may have been lucky because I've only done it once, but it's worth a shot.

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    The problem isn't that you cant use your DS. PH picked me up multiple times so if my DS was active it would activate the problem is that DS only works when you are Hooked not caged so by PH doing this means that you basically lose that perk slot saying that it would never activate since you were caged not hooked. Hiding in a locker won't help that he could drop you put down the wire and do the same thing again its not just DS to its We're going to live forever, Well make it

  • oh_salutations
    oh_salutations Member Posts: 212

    Thanks for the advice. if it happens again ill try that

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    But Shape has to stalk for a while to gain a tier while Executioner only needs them to touch the ground while standing for a brief second to get the full effect. Imagine if Plague could fully infect a survivor by simply puking on them once while they're slugged or hooked.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142
    edited May 2021

    They should change it so that moving while standing will cause torment. Then the survivor will still have the option to stand still when wiggled free and crouch walk away.

  • CaulDrohn
    CaulDrohn Member Posts: 1,596

    Are you trolling or serious, I cannot tell. All I can say is you putting words in my mouth, constructing stupid scenarios and then claiming I would be fine with it. A shape able to stalk downed ppl is clearly exploiting, since that is NOT MEANT TO WORK. So no, I would NOT be fine with it! It is "not an exploit" by YOUR twisted imagination of what iI would consider an exploit.

    If you really want to call forcing tormented an exploit, bc they cannot avoid it, then body blocking for instadown is aswell. And forcing DS on the killer (by locker or getting grab). Or even more ridiculous, being flashlight blinded while picking someone up. "No way to avoit it" is no valid metric for something to be an exploit!

    Pls enlighten us with your definition of "exploit", I feel you have no clue what you are talking about.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142
    edited May 2021

    If the Devil (Executioner) can send me to Hell (Cage) if I sin (become tormented) and I am the one who chooses whether I sin or not, then the Devil making me sin is an exploit! I would rather die pure than sin. This unintended oversight highlighted by the OP takes that away from me.

  • MrDardon
    MrDardon Member Posts: 4,033

    No, the optimal play would be 1.hook 2.cage 3.hook.

    If he drops you on a trail trough 3 hook states, he will lose the game because he wasted so much time.

    If the PH plays optimal you can still deny the cage tunnel after 1st hook by jumping in a locker. He has to pull you out and eat your DS.

  • CaulDrohn
    CaulDrohn Member Posts: 1,596

    The devil actually deceives you so you commit sins. Not even your methaphors work. Pls just stop, you making yourself totally ridiculous here.

  • Hoodied
    Hoodied Member Posts: 13,020

    Not an exploit but he is wasting his time by doing this

  • Laluzi
    Laluzi Member Posts: 6,225

    Who cares? Torment is a very weak status effect. The only PHs I've ever seen doing this were trying to get their daily/the steam achievement for cages, because it is a profound waste of their time otherwise.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142
    edited May 2021

    The Executioner didn't trick the OP into running through his Rites of Judgement; he didn't hide it behind a corner or in the tall grass. The Executioner straight up dropped him onto it and forced it.

    It would be like the Devil forcing the apple of knowledge into Eve's mouth, not tricking her into eating it.

  • Laluzi
    Laluzi Member Posts: 6,225

    And he wasted about 30 seconds of his time to do so, and gave him a chance to run away when he could have hooked him. All this saves him is 10 seconds going to a hook at some point.

    If this strategy accomplished anything other than ticks for a daily quest, you would never see anyone do it, ever.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    It allows him to unfairly cage a survivor, disabling hook-related perks. That sounds like more than just a daily ritual to me.

    If you're that concerned over a daily ritual then recycle it or ask the devs to change it to "Hit a Survivor x time(s) with the Executioner's ranged Special Attack" (I forget the name of it)

  • CaulDrohn
    CaulDrohn Member Posts: 1,596
    edited May 2021

    So again, bc the Executioner forced the torment on the survivor against their will, it has to be an exploit, right? Then should flashlight blinding the killer when they destory a pallet or pick someone up (against their will and without anything they can do in this situation) be an exploit as well, right?

    Or what about Clown throwing a gas bottle at the ground before picking someone with active DS up, that also forces the Intoxication on the survivor, exploit as well?

  • Alice_pbg
    Alice_pbg Member Posts: 6,556

    I would say, working as intended. but with an oversight.


    I wouldn't change it honestly... he's wasting so much time doing this...

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    "Then should flashlight blinding the killer when they destory a pallet or pick someone up (against their will and without anything they can do in this situation) be an exploit as well, right?"

    Just stop. You're making yourself look ridiculous here.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,414
    edited May 2021

    But your plague example is different. The right example would be a plague which lets a survivor escape after she downs him and bc of that the survivor would get fully infected. No plague would do that.

    If i am tormented i have the problem that i have no tunnel protection. But for this the killer needs to down me twice. He could just tunnel me and take the ds and it would be the same.