Buff Trapper Concepts. Here we go.

I would agree with most of your points here, some I think aren't necessary or some are maybe even bringing trapper to being too OP such as survivors getting status effects without addons, I love the locker idea since this stops trapper from moving across the map to get a trap and wasting precious time.

Honestly... I would not be upset at all if the anniversary killer was Trapper 2.0 and the devs spent a whole killer development cycle reinventing The Trapper's power and mori animation.

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Regarding suggestions from OP, I don't think the Trapper should have a higher carry capacity throughout the trial, but starting the trial with 1 extra trap would be nice. (Starts the trial carrying 3 traps, basekit, but cannot pick up more traps while carrying 2 or more. Trapper Bag addon starts with 4 and cannot pick up while carrying 3 or more.)

This is my idea for a trapper buff.

New Ability: Trap Recall

Allows trapper to target his traps like a Mint Rag Hag, pressing the Active Ability button will cause the targeted trap to instantly return to Trapper.  Additionally, if it was set it will snap closed causing any Survivors near the trap to scream revealing their location.

Ability Cooldown: 20 seconds. Scream Range: 16 meters

Ever had a trap so far out of the way you could never get it? Well, this fixes that without giving trapper instant access to all his trap as to semi-prevent omega basement camping. You could then use traps not just for turning loops off but as an information tool (are they still over there? etc).

I think there should be more types of traps to make playing as/against Trapper SUPER interesting.

That and - I keep hearing people upset that his traps are on the ground. But you know what, this wouldn't be a bad thing if they started the match open.

If there were at least a few traps that started primed and ready to catch a survivor off-guard, the player can begin to play around them before having to setup.

New traps could be:

Trapped pallets - when thrown, the pallet snaps back upright, failing to stun the killer, but it also disables the trap

Trapped windows - fast and slow vaults disable the trap, medium vaults injure healthy survivors and deep-wound injured ones.

Trapped Generators - there's a gate around a generator, takes a long time to set up. Survivors cannot touch the generator until they go through a 4 second animation to deconstruct.

Trapped Hooks - disables the hook, makes an obvious 'rope trap' in front of it that functions as a bear trap.

Trapped totems - just makes

When a survivor disables a trap killer instinct reveals them.

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·        5 traps placed in map, 2 in hand default. All traps begin the match open and have a bias to spawn away from the walls of the realm. Can spend time to play a 3 second animation to trap a pallet, causing it to bungie back upright after being thrown – denying a stun and placing it upright once more, which disables the trap. Hooks can be trapped with a 5s animation – disabling them from being used as a sacrificial object, but turn them into rope traps, which act as normal traps extended 1m from the hook’s face. Vaults can be trapped – causing the next medium vault through it to damage a survivor – vault traps take 3s and are broken once a survivor vaults through it. Totem remains can be trapped to cause them to seem like a hex totem after a 5s animation. They take the same time to cleanse – but do not count as a cleansed totem and have no hex cleansing audio cues. Survivors take 16 seconds to escape a bear trap and 24 to escape a trapped hook, being helped by another survivor lowers this by half, required progress to escape is reduced by your luck. Whenever a survivor disarms a trap when further than 8m away, killer instinct reveals their location for 4 seconds. Generators can be trapped – playing an 6s animation to place a cage around the generator. Survivors must spend 4 consecutive seconds to remove these cages in order to regain access to the generator. The Trapper gains 5% haste whenever a survivor triggers a trap. At The beginning of the match – 5 Bear Traps spawn open, 4 Gens are trapped in cages, 3 random Vault locations are trapped, 2 Pallets are trapped, and 1 random hook is set as a trap. Spawn with 1 Bear Trap, which functions as a ‘Trap Point’. Other traps can be disabled through their animations to collect additional trap points up to 16. Can place bear traps when looking towards the ground, but otherwise can interact with pallets, generators, hooks, and vaults to trap them – consuming a point and playing the setting animation. Duo trapper Mori animation, if he does not have traps – traditional Melee with machete with increased brutality, if he has traps – bear trap is incorporated into Mori animation as method of death. Injured survivors that are caught in a bear trap suffer from the Deep Wounds timer when they escape, regardless of attachments.

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I take it this is in reply to me.

I do play killer.

Spending 8 seconds to waste 4 seconds of survivor time and ensure that they cannot 'tap' a generator is particularly powerful in certain circumstances.

Spending 3 seconds to brute force a down at a pallet is a massively good exchange in time.

Spending a few seconds to make a survivor slow vault mid-chase or take the time and position to wind up a fast vault can place the killer in an advantageous position well worth the time.

I agree that the killer's time is important - which is why traps should already be placed in the trial and survivors should be less concerned with the killer and more concerned with spending THEIR time searching out and destroying the premade traps around the map. Gives the killer a lot more time at the beginning.

Allowing the killer to spend time setting up feints and tricking survivors into dooming themselves can be not only satisfying, but highly lucrative if played properly.

House of pain giving you grief? Trap the pallet, then the upstairs window, place a bear trap in the grass on the outside stairs. Takes 7-8 seconds total, maybe even 10.

Next time a healthy survivor loops you, they throw the pallet - you hit them. They panic and run upstairs, they are confident they can beat the window trap with a fast vault, and are completely unprepared for the bear trap they step into.

Congrats, you just outsmarted a survivor and put them from healthy to Dying in less time than it took to setup your trap.

You see, setting up traps takes time. But in the hands of a capable killer - this can net some incredible gains with a good bit of foresight and skilled gameplay.

(Edit, just to clarify)

Your idea is viable. it is not bad.

Many ideas can be good and viable at the same time. No one idea has to be better than the other.

It's just fun to make ideas and discuss their effects!

Your idea is valid, my idea is valid. Everyone here in the forums has a valid opinion on what the Trapper should be like. I just want to make sure you don't think I'm dismissing you, just wanted to add.

Here's what I'd change

* Disarming a trap takes 2 additional seconds - this would make it significantly less productive / more dangerous to disarm traps, especially nearby the Trapper. No change to the amount of time it takes to rescue a teammate in a trap.

* 2 of the 6 traps begins the trial activated - RNG, but the fun sort that could provide early game misdirection towards survivors with the added risk of some early injures.

* Increase the radius a trap activates slightly - The ability to sidestep a trap placed in the center of an average-width corridor significantly defangs the danger of traps, especially at high levels. Trappers relying on the vacuuming effect of dropping a palette in order to secure traps on survivors is a major indicator of this.

* Make the existence of some kind of "low-medium height brush" object a standard for all maps and include them on maps that currently lack it. (Piles of trash, paper waste for indoor maps?)