Reassurance is a killer perk now

Never fail to disappoint more bad changes with every patch

Alright. And the ability to extend the time that survivor spends on hook by 30-90 seconds makes the perk killer-sided? That's what I'm not getting.

It's not a strong perk...and wasn't a strong perk on ptb either. No one is going to use it except for comp teams might take it once.

It's a situational perk that benfits other players by increasing their boredom of the game. If i'm on a hook for more than a minute, i'll be watching youtube or something. I sure as hell won't remain hanging in place while everyone else gets to play a game. F--- that.

Which change? The recent one, or the initial nerf? Because survivor mains pretend the best perk in the game was trash just because it deactivated upon a conspicuous action. So I have no idea if you believe that as well, or if you are talking about the recent change than no killer is calling a well balanced, strong perk.

No my english is bad, I'm saying that after today's nerf reassurance is now joining DS in the useless tier, it's just bad except maybe for 4 man swf (like always), there is nothing else to say but of course killer main will find new reassurance "very strong and balanced" no doubt

Exactly right, which is why you never see anyone complaining about 5s BT. I knew when I saw streamers saying how fair and balanced 5s were and how powerful it can be to reach a loop that told me it was garbage, and low and behold, the devs agreed.

"if I can't literally turn the hook timer off by myself the perk is worthless!!". You get 90 * 2 = 180 seconds on one survivor if the other 3 use it on both hook stares.

Ugh.

Those dastardly solos!

Actually, If I read it correctly, The dev update says "Reassurance can only be used once per hook instance" not State/phase. Which I take to mean: If a survivor remains hooked, each other survivor gets to use Reassurance on them 1 time, until they are rescued and hooked again. So, a Survivor can hang out on the hook, have all survivors run in and pause their timer for 90 seconds during their first hook phase, but if after all of that, they haven't been rescued and reach the 2nd phase, the survivors won't be able to trigger Reassurance on them again.

Still if a survivor hasn't been rescued after 90 seconds of pausing the timer +60 seconds for their first hook phase, and goes into the struggle phase, all I can say is that either the killer is a hardcore camper, or the team just REALLY hates that guy, so I don't expect this kind of thing to happen too often.

You're kidding right now, or? Your suggestion is for people to just play with friends? Please tell me I am misunderstanding you.

Solo is literally where I have 99% of my fun, if I may be honest.

So you've got a person on hook, right, and the killer's face camping them. If the killer's smart, they're not gonna hit you until you go for the grab animation so they can hook trade. So what you do is you run up close, activate the perk, killer doesn't hit you, and you run away to do a gen. All this time, the other survivors have also been doing gens. Then when the perk finally ends and their hook meter starts going down, a second person activates it, rinse and repeat. That's how this perk is gonna kill camping. It's not a bad perk at all. Sounds like you just want something super overpowered.

this perk is literally camaraderie but for solo survivors, it is very very strong

It's not a killer perk now, it's not bad, but it's definitely not nearly as good anymore as it had been, and might well not be good enough anymore to see frequent use. And yes, given that its only real effective use case is against hard camping which should long have gotten rebalanced at a base game level to begin with and that it now won't be nearly as impactful anymore without multiple survivors running it and coordinating their use of it, the nerf is super disappointing.

In its original form, a singular survivor using the perk could single-handedly counter a hard-camping killer with it, since they could prolong each hook stage by 6 (more realistically around 4-5) * 30 = (120-)180 seconds. Those extra 2-3 minutes are too much for a killer to keep camping, they would have to commit to a chase on someone or at least try to prevent the survivor from being able to get close enough to activate Reassurance, which opens up opportunities for an unhook. And while the perk was super good against camping if even only one of the three survivors had it, that automatically meant multiple people having it was not very impactful, so SWFs would not benefit much at all from being able to stack it, while solo survivors could have a reliable tool against hard camping even without needing other survivors to happen to have it, or needing much of any coordination.

In its nerfed form, a singular survivor can only prolong a stage (or worse still, only once per hook?) for a mere 30 seconds, which is regularly just not enough for a killer to be forced to stop camping. The survivor that activates Reassurance has to spend time going to the hook and leaving it again, which can already all but nullify any time bonus that survivor will have gotten out of those 30 seconds. Not only that, but if they run away again, now in order to actually be able to attempt to unhook they would have to run to the hook again soon thereafter, spending even more time. Often that means the Reassurance survivor wants to stick around the hook and is absolutely not getting any gen time out of it. Worse still, in non-SWF groups, your fellow survivors have no clue that you are going to use Reassurance, they may very well be heading to the hook themselves, or already sitting around it, and in any case, there are a lot of scenarios where randoms just won't actually use those 30 seconds to do gens, whereas at 120+ seconds, even the most dense randoms should stop crouching around the hook at some point, even just out of pure boredom (or you know, because the killer actually has to leave and allow an unhook). And even if multiple survivors happened to have brought the perk, timing it such that one survivor after the next activates it perfectly while the others always stay on gens is just something that will basically never happen. Unless you are in an SWF of course, who now benefit from the perk much more than solos, the opposite of what should be happening. It's Kinship 2.0.

Again, I don't think the perk is bad now, but it remains to be seen how well solos will actually be able to make use of it, and whether it will have enough impact to use it at all there. I don't really think it will become a staple, whereas in its original form it most likely would have, and it would have been a (band-aid) fix for hard camping in any match it's in, while also even being a deterrent for campers in general just due to the mere threat of it potentially being in a match. Not only that, any non-camping killer player would even benefit from Reassurance being a staple, because that would mean in most matches, multiple survivors would be spending perk slots on something that does next to nothing for them.

My suggestion: Increase it to two possible activations per stage per survivor, and three activations maximum per stage. So any survivor using it can activate it up to two times per hook stage, but only up to a combined maximum of three activations per stage (e. g. 3 survivors use it once each, or one survivor uses it twice and a second survivor once). I think 1 extra minute is the absolute sweet spot for the perk to be impactful enough on its own, while the third activation means it's not a "wasted" perk if multiple people run it.

I repeat, 5 minutes on the hook.

With 3 survivors free to do gens after they paused the hook counter and the killer basically being afk. Thats more than enough time to do all gens and get out.

If it was an infinite hook time, then you know full well, that SWF bully squads would take solo teammates hostage.

An anti camping perk that gives teammates kinship is now a killer perk? Without kindred you wouldn't even know if a teammate is getting camped now you can at least pause it and go back to your gens.