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noob question about pinhead
what am i supposed to do when chain hunt is active and i found the box? i wasnt able to solve it because chains came left and right. is there any place where i can solve the box without getting interrupted? honestly this mechanic is so stupid and annoying...
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When you're holding the box, chains will spawn and fire at you in volleys of 3. So if you dodge 3 chains, you'll be able to solve it in peace for the next 15~ seconds without worrying about being chained during it. But they're removing that in the next patch because Pinhead was clearly too strong, and not because many solo queue survivors don't know how his power works, and thus give up and kill themselves on hook because he's "op" or "boring" and inflate his kill rate.
Much like Pig, Pinhead is not very strong, but his passive slowdown ability requires the survivors - instead of the killer - to make smart decisions and know what is going on. And as we all know, many low ranking/average solo queue survivors would rather self care with an active Reverse Bear Trap on or leave the Lament Configuration alone because they're scared of the teleport, leading to completely avoidable deaths that cause the devs to think the killer is too strong and needs nerfs.
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If you mean this from the PTB
- Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to be attacked by the Chain Hunt while they are solving the lament configuration.
That’s actually a bug fix, it wasn’t an intentional feature. They’re not making that specific change because Pinhead was too powerful. (The add-on changes they’re making, though, are because of that.)
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explain the other nerfs to pinhead
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I did in that post.
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You only talked about the bug fix to solving the cube and getting attacked by chains. Not all the other nerfs they are doing to Pinhead and his add-ons. Jeez man if all your going to do is suck BHVR's dick don't participate in discussions.
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Yknow this might be the quickest I've seen a thread start to turn ######### which wasnt attacking either side.
To answer your question though, it is being patched so in future you wont be harassed by chains when solving the bix
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And if youre going to be a dick then you shouldnt be participating in discussions either
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As a Pinhead semi-main:
- Pick up the box and run for it, dodge chains. If I'm nearby, don't try to solve it in my face (I always bring Franklin's for this reason).
- If I'm far away, run to a safe loop and solve it there. I will teleport to you maybe 50% of the time, and you'll need to be ready to run.
- If I'm nearby, either drop the box (if you can't outrun me) and then get away. Do not try to loop me while holding the box. Instead, focus on escaping. If you have no other choice, buy as much time as possible and solve the box in stages.
- One more thing: make sure to juke my chain summons if you are in the open. Far too many groups just ignore these because they aren't super impactful (especially indoors), but a good chain will let me catch up.
That said - this makes it sound harder than it is. The hunt targeting you is being changed next patch anyway. Pinhead isn't really a killer to fear and will be basically C - D tier next patch.
Except...he wasn't. His kill stats are inflated (like Pig's) because he has a unique mechanic that newer players are going to struggle with.
Even at intermediate skill levels, Pinhead is low 'B' tier at best.
The only addon that needed a nerf was Engineer's Fang - and it was barely nerfed.
Pinhead was fun, but at least I'll have Artist to learn next patch, and if all else fails I'll go back to Hag, Demo or Plague. Killers that are way more oppressive than Pinhead.
Yeah, people are understandably annoyed at his nerfs. Rather than nerfing the one problematic addon, they are blanket nerfing all the other interesting ones. Which feels extremely lame on a killer that is already on the weaker side, especially when he is still really new (and players are still learning how to play against him).
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that's a design oversight that's getting fixed in the next patch. :)
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No, I specifically said
“They’re not making that specific change because Pinhead was too powerful. (The add-on changes they’re making, though, are because of that.)”
In case you still aren’t understanding my two sentences, though, I said above that the add-on changes were made because the devs think Pinhead was too powerful. But the other change to chain hunt not interrupting fixing the box was a bug fix.
Jeez, man, if you’re going to be such a dick stop participating in discussions!
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I didn’t say Pinhead is overpowered, I just said the reason the add-ons were nerfed is because the devs think he’s overpowered according to their comment in the patch notes. I don’t have an opinion on how good or bad he is personally.
The other thing I said was that the change to chain hunt not interrupting using the box was a bug fix. If it was a balance change they’d have included it in the list of other Pinhead balance changes with those add-on nerfs, but they included it in the list bug fixes.
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Ah, I see.
The issue (and why a lot of Cenobite players are annoyed) is that the devs seem to be balancing around kill-rates, which are being thrown off by the difficulties of newer players have dealing with unique killer mechanics like Wraith or Pinhead. This seems to result in the devs nerfing them without being mindful of high level play (where these killers are mediocre at best).
This is understandable - as BHVR have said that they don't balance around high level play.
Where it gets frustrating is when BHVR also say that they won't, for instance, buff Nurse - despite her meme-worthy kill rates - with the implication being that she'd be too strong in high level play.
It comes over as a double standard, and a nasty one.
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Yeah, everyone should just play Nurse because the game is ruined for all other Kilers.
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thanks guys. i generally don't have a problem with him, it was just that i couldn't solve the box because chain hunt was already active and chains came every 2 seconds at me. He picked up the box and then some seconds later i found it and wanted to solve it. I never had this before, because most of the time i solve it before CH activates or it just ends when you pick up the box.
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