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Fix chasing for killers...

lemonsway
lemonsway Member Posts: 1,169
edited August 2021 in Feedback and Suggestions

Stop messing with audio, auras and scratch marks, the delay and the gaps on scratch marks are horrible, indoor maps are a nightmare, survs can go right and left and the delay and gaps on scratchmarks make chasing near impossible, hearing no footsteps is a nightmare, Iron Will has NO COUNTER cause you gutted Stridor which was used by just 1 killer anyway but you still gutted a Perk and then even added an audio "bug" to said killer...If i was a Spirit player i'd be asking for a goddamn refund on the Chapter.

Seriously stop nerfing chases for killers, even since Oni came out you've been making scratch marks worse and worse to follow, they are more like crows now just a general area of where you should be looking for a survivor. It's dumb. Audio has been a mess since as long as i've been playing and that's over 3 years now...

The coloring on the maps is a disgrace, RPD is almost impossible to see Blendettes on the second floor. There's orange goop all over the wall blocking auras. Every turn a survivor makes i have to think twice which direction they go...Blindfields with the Orange view is absolutly horrible outside of Corn and 100x worse in corn, who tests and aproves these weird unreasonable changes? Why the delay to makes changes so that players caneven play...

I'm not even colorblind ffs. For years now every notification is the Loud Noise Bubble that muddles everything else, for years now Chase Music just annoys killers. I can go on and on about things we all complain and you give a deaf hear, a blind eye...

Playing the game is worse and worse and worse year after year. Game breaking issues happen all the time, you're having to disable maps very frequently, you make changes nobody asks for or comprehends the reasoning for those changes.

Stop. Stop putting more in the game and start doing some Game Health please. The game desperatly needs it now more than ever, you just had your second Biggest License, Resident Evil, and the launch was a complete disaster this is a clear sign things are NOT going well. You have even older players than me seeing the same issues from years ago happening today....

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Comments

  • danielmaster87
    danielmaster87 Member Posts: 9,732

    You're right. You just can't trust your senses in this game. You're blind and deaf. Scratch marks are consistently unreliable and Iron Will existing as a perk is a joke. And sound bubbles, for example, block your entire view of the survivors sometimes. And because the killer fov is so poor we can't see people who are crouching in front of us. The reason people only use gen defense perks instead of chase perks is because chase is like the weakest part of killer for all the reasons above.

  • ThiccBudhha
    ThiccBudhha Member Posts: 6,987

    I agree with everything but the chase music. I need that jam.

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    Which makes you wonder.... What will happen if we did get the changes we need

  • AgentTalon
    AgentTalon Member Posts: 331

    OK so scratch marks are different now? I stopped playing for like 1.5 years and started back up around January and it felt like scratch marks were inconsistent and harder to track. Were there actual changes made to them?

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    lotsa people complaining about how this and that MUST be nerfed or buffed would leave, cause it's not the changes they demanded

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    Yea... kinda figured

    But still.... It still needs to be fixed (for the most part)

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  • Veinslay
    Veinslay Member Posts: 1,959

    The delay on the scratch marks is just awful, it makes it so difficult to track survivors. It looks like the survivor went one way when they've actually completely left in another direction. I wish they would fix that.

    I would also be happy if they just completely changed Iron Will to do something that isn't related to sound. I think it's the source of all of the audio bugs in the game. They're having too much difficulty implementing this perk in a fair manner that doesn't break other parts of the game. Survivors with Iron Will aren't emitting any breathing noises, survivors that are in the dying state sometimes make no noise, and there are the sound bugs during Spirit's phasing.

    I don't anticipate they will change Iron Will, but there's no reason that scratch marks should not be looked at. I hope they fix that soon.

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  • Kasamsky
    Kasamsky Member Posts: 265

    Im saying the same things for weeks now. Tracking is so awful in current state. It makes me wanna play less killer than before. Aura reading perks on coldwind are such a joke right now. I never understood why they made the new coldwind daylight when it's not even compatible with the UI. Some maps are too dark and some are too bright, like ######### am i supposed to do with my monitor settings? change them for every map?

  • Rey_512
    Rey_512 Member Posts: 1,620

    Lowering Chase Music on the killer side would be a huge plus. It’s almost impossible to chase with Spirit while a chase is “active” - can’t hear ANYTHING.

  • ezrank1
    ezrank1 Member Posts: 32

    Quality of life for this game only applies to survivors. sorry better luck next game.

  • DemonDaddy
    DemonDaddy Member Posts: 4,167

    It's crazy how I get more tracking details as survivor than the person hunting me.

  • lemonsway
    lemonsway Member Posts: 1,169

    It's either weird server delay or Shadow Changes but Scratch Marks have definetly changed. I can't tell you it was a specific patch but it's things that have been happening over time, here and there. It's been happening for so long i really doubt only a few people are aware of this.

    Tracking for killers is at an all time high level of skill while escaping chases is as easy as shift W and the hit validation changes made Camping Pallets super effective. I'm sorry if any survivor main reads this but it's the truth. "Oh use killers with mobility then" yeah but killers with mobility get the weirdest collisions, the hardest curving and the longest cooldowns aswell. Remember when BHVR said Hillbilly was a Model on how to Balance killers? Guess what they did to Billy who was the role model, they made his add-ons weaker and then changed his base kit to overheat ...Where are the Billy players now? They're most likely playing Blight and Blight has collision issues.

  • RogueNOTH
    RogueNOTH Member Posts: 55

    Absolutely I agree. The game gets worse every year. Now they need to stop adding more to the game and take care of game health. The game gets more and more bugs every time and they don't make any effort to fix them. So I will not deposit money until this game is fixed.