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FOR GODS SAKE PLEASE REWORK HAG!!!

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  • Nathan13
    Nathan13 Member Posts: 6,721

    when I get my first hook in the basement against hag I usually accept that I'm gonna die.

  • Luciferr_2nd
    Luciferr_2nd Member Posts: 911

    Trust me i hate hag too, so boring

    But im not sure how they could rework her

  • nursewannabe
    nursewannabe Member Posts: 1,075

    What strategy? Seriously? I can recall encountering one hag in all my dbd experience that was truly good at building a bloodweb without playing like the typical hag. Yes it was a miserable experience too, but these players are even more rare than the "god nurses" we hear about.

    Hag only has one playstyle and there's no strategy or practice required in it

  • gibblywibblywoo
    gibblywibblywoo Member Posts: 3,772

    This is why Hag is the only "top tier" killer that is destroyed by SWF. Because only a swf can have one player say "she's locking down this area" and actively screw her over and annoy her.

    That isn't even remotely viable for solo players. And its why playing against her is such a pain for solos.

    My last game against Hag, 2 of the hits that downed me on 2 seperate occasions were because she'd laid a trap on a texture that literally didn't have a trap texture over it. Like the grated walkways on Hawkins.

  • ouroboros_world
    ouroboros_world Member Posts: 215

    I agree, people literally complain about any killer, hag is not even the oppressive, you can easily trigger her traps when she busy , clicking click flashlight,maps, even perks counter her. People complain when a killer take more than a brain cell to adept too just look at wraith posts lol

  • ouroboros_world
    ouroboros_world Member Posts: 215

    Hag also have consistent counter play, just because it’s not a free win it’s not op lul

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    A small objections, not many maps counter her. If she can set a web around a 3gen it doesn't matter :p

  • DBD78
    DBD78 Member Posts: 3,469

    Hag is A or B tier perhaps even worse, it's hard to know when so many have not learned how to counter her still. Quite fun to go against also. Be happy that not all killers just chase around all game. Hag is more about strategy.

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    I agree that the add-ons need to be changed. But the reason that you should crouch is simple: if you play against a killer that their traps activate only if you're sprinting, guess what you're not going to step in their traps

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    Because Freddy and demo teleport on their own will into a location. Hag traps trigger based on the survivor's mistake

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    The killer usually spawns on the other side of the map, what I do every game is running straight on where a killer is to make sure it's not a hag or trapper. If they are then I harass em.

  • Nos37
    Nos37 Member Posts: 4,142

    The traps would only be disabled near active hooks, not all hooks; and, to prevent Hags from using a loophole to place the traps under the hook before picking up the survivor to hook them, remove any traps within the same range of the hook when a survivor is unhooked.

  • UseTheValve
    UseTheValve Member Posts: 350

    You won’t need to crouch walk everywhere 🧐, if you been playing for 4 years you would know that. If you are playing against decent hag then you known she’ll web a 3 gen usually that’s where you want to crouch and that’s where you want to pop a generator ASAP.

    She has counter play, terrible hag will put 6 trap near a hook that also means there maybe only 4 trap somewhere else, it’s the equivalent of a face camping trapper just move on.

    Good hag will usually put one around the hook and somewhere that’s not super obvious.

    Also kudos on comparing Freddy and demodoggo to hag, they totally don’t play the same.

    You would need the auto camera following otherwise you would just be disoriented as ######### depending on which side the survivor popped the trap and which side you were looking.

    The only thing I would consider a Fix for hag is somehow remove the ability to use the mouse wheel as a teleport button, that feels cheap AF but I don’t know how BHVR would do that .

  • DBD78
    DBD78 Member Posts: 3,469

    I think most people understand that Hag is nowhere close to Nurse or Spirit in terms of strength, she is not that good. But as you all know there are very few Hag players so many have no clue on how to counter her.

    I play Hag from time to time and a "normal" game you have a good chance to win just like when playing most other killers that are not Trapper/Trickster weak. And sometimes you face a player that know to watch you set a trap, then run to the very edge of where trap goes off and then run away to a loop. That player does this and always just observe Hag from distans while the other do gens and trigger trap after trap. Suddenly Hag feels very weak. If you have a whole team where no one is triggering her traps on purpose then you are in trouble, this is why solos struggle.

    It's ok to say that Hag is annoying that is fine, but OP? No way!

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

    What mistake?

    It's not like the lobby says "Oh, by the way, Hag" on the screen. I don't get into a match with Hag and think to myself "darn, I forgot to bring a flashlight or Urban Evasion... Guess this mistake will cost me the game."

    "Oh, I guess I shouldn't have unhooked the survivor. Whether the Hag trapped this hook or not, I have to slowly crouch-walk in, unhook, pray the other survivor also crouches, and slowly crouch-walk 8m away just to stand back up, and-- oops, too late, the Hag's already ran back here. I made a mistake for trying to unhook a teammate while the Hag exists..."

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  • ouroboros_world
    ouroboros_world Member Posts: 215

    Well any killer can win by 3 gen except legion lol, if anything hag need qol instead of straight up nerfs. She the only killer that is actually scary and they shouldn’t take that away from her

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    Can hag activate her traps herself by default? No. If the survivor steps on them, then she can teleport.

    So I would argue that yes, unlike demo and Freddy, the only way for hag to use her power if she places her traps strategically so the survivors will step on them either by accident or on purpose.

    By the way, after the first 2 minutes of the game, you normally know what killer it is. So you can be a bit more careful

  • JimbusCrimbus
    JimbusCrimbus Member Posts: 1,116

    If we're going to talk about "fun to go against" and "fairness", perhaps we shouldn't start at the killer side.

  • Yords
    Yords Member Posts: 5,781

    Keep in mind these guys just nerfed Freddy, and somehow managed to keep his gameplay the exact same. They have also ignored spirit for years now, so I don't think Hag has even crossed their minds.

  • Aneurysm
    Aneurysm Member Posts: 5,270

    Only if you got the survivor off after she teleports. Before you could carefully approach the hook, unhook them, they sprint burst away immediately, trigger a trap and go down 0.5 seconds later so I guess that's an unsafe unhook, thanks meg

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    About your first point: I think and behave that way, but then the next thing I know is that I’ve walked and triggered a trap that was practically invisible absolutely nowhere near nothing significant or important, where it makes no sense as to why it’s there. Oh great, now I’m downed and going to be proxy camped.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    You swing into them and pop them from your radius when she's busy/animation locked.

  • Northener1907
    Northener1907 Member Posts: 3,012
  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    It's why I have no issues with Hags in all my rank 1 games. Hag has pretty easy counter play.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278
    edited May 2021

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  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    Yeah, I’ll just jump off the gen I’m currently on, at 5 gens, with Ruin still up, and Hag is at 3 or 4 hooks already, and I’m still not quite sure where traps have been set yet...

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671
    edited May 2021

    If this is the actual scenario you are in either you or your team are playing like complete potatoes. This scenario is a skill problem, not a Hag problem.

  • Akito
    Akito Member Posts: 673

    Yea but do you trust the design team anymore?

    Just look at the last 1.5 years, Every Killer has an unhealthy ability. The worst one is Trickster. Not the strongest, but unhealthy af.

    If you want them to rework hag she will be sth worse, most likely.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    As a solo, it is beyond my control what team mates I get.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    Why do I not see games like this almost ever then? Could you have carried them better?

    Even then, that admits the issue isn't Hag, it's matchmaking, ranking, and rank reset problems giving you bad teammates in solo queue. Your focus should be on fixing those, not Hag.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    I have faith. I think the team have improved fairness and balance substantially over the past year.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    I can’t even...

    So at the very least, you can’t see issue with spamming traps around a hooked survivor?!

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    Did you not read my initial post?

    I literally stated that one of the changes she needs is increased distance of placing traps near hooks to prevent the heavy hook camping.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    My apologies.

    I did see that, but forgot at the time of responding to your latest comment.

  • bowo
    bowo Member Posts: 121

    I'm certainly open to more idea for changes to Hag, but the before anything else, I'd like them to address the traps at hook. I feel the solution is simple - Hag cannot place traps within x meters of a hooked survivor. If any traps already exist within the radius when a survivor is hooked, they will disappear and be added back to the Hag's "inventory". After this hypothetical change, they should see how Hag plays before any other significant changes.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    Clarification: are you claiming I’m an entitled survivor main, or stating you are?

    I’d hate that you’re disregarding my long history advocating for fairness for BOTH sides in this game.

  • TheClownIsKing
    TheClownIsKing Member Posts: 6,278

    I can agree with this.

    Change this, then gather data.

  • hiken
    hiken Member Posts: 1,188

    the problem with survivors is that everything that is annoying usually is or means strong soo its strong=annoying, thats mostly the case. also 4 traps around? damn thats a bad hag and a half. also she is a camping killer her pwoer relys on camping because she set up a trap web and play around, or do you want her to cahse 110 survivors? she cant do that, she needs to camp in order to generate pressure because thats how her power woks, you place traps in a certain place, as i said, what you want is destroying hag, a killer that barely gets played and is mostly fine.

  • hiken
    hiken Member Posts: 1,188
    edited May 2021

    even if your comment was a joke lots of people think like you do, usrvivors just want ther tipic basic killer wich they can loop and dominate easily, otherwise is bad an toxic or "annoying" the magic word. when they get a killer who stands a chance and can put them to work they dont like it. i only agree with that statement when is Spirit, spirit is just dumb, and maybe Nurse aswell.

  • Chilli_man2400
    Chilli_man2400 Member Posts: 2,928

    if you have to camp to win then your very bad Hag is played like a spider trap every loop and window like a spider web then down everyone also just because a killers strong doesn’t mean they need nerfs they need nerfs because there not fun to go against. Blight is an excellent example of a balanced killer he’s not annoying and he’s very fun to fight Hag is not fun to verse

  • hiken
    hiken Member Posts: 1,188

    you didnt understand anything of what i said, i literally said that she sets up a trap web you just took the first half on a argument and you stayed with that, she sets up yes but she also camps not by staying around necesarily because she can camp from distance, but is also true that she needs to stay around of the 40 mts web unless addons so you can immediately go back.

  • CLAUDETTEINABUSH
    CLAUDETTEINABUSH Member Posts: 2,210

    I don't get why you see yourself as a balancing hero. What I don't understand more is that you're literally ignoring the points I made, which prove that hag is balanced. So, according to some people in this post, what you're seeking is demanding to change a character that is both balanced and fun to play (and for some to go against).

    So I imagine you either:

    A) can't win over my arguments, which I doubt that since I left a pretty good room for counterarguments, for example, since the hag can tp only in 40 meters, and since her web is usually in a small 3gen area, then there will be little to no times where a hag cannot tp.

    B) you got annoyed that I called you a survivor main, which seeing your mindset about hag, I suppose you have the same mindset about every killer you hate, balanced or not (that's a wild accusation, but I keep reading your rant and I come back to the same conclusion).

    So in conclusion, I don't really see how you're trying balance the game for both sides, when you're ignoring the one side's arguments completely and don't suggest anything. Your post is quite literally "rework hag she op and unfun". I could state that for every killer I personally don't like and we'd had the same result