Why are people angry about the reassurance change?

Probably because survivors thrived in the possibility of being hooked and having other survivors never unhooking them, instead just using Reassurance over and over again, essentially holding a player hostage in a situation they cannot even move, and dying is not an option under any circumstance. The change still does exatcly the same thing, without allowing griefing scenarios to happen. And let's be honest, how oblivious must someone be to not notice that the hook death timer of another player stopped? Because if the answer is anything close to confirming the obliviousness regarding information that the game HUD already gives, then no matter how strong a perk becomes, SoloQ will still be hell, and SwF will become more and more unbalanced.

Because In some survivor mains eyes if it's not a single perk that can completely change the flow of the game by themselves with no comms or provide a free second chance in chase ala old DH,old ds, unbreakable, CoH then it's a dumpster tier perk that's awful.

Edit: a super fun thing to point out is some of the people calling 30 seconds 'measly', or 'nothing'. Are the same people who claimed that a .2 and .3 second reduction to pallet breaking and survivor sprint from 6.1.0 were massive and huge buffs to killers.

I never named any names, nor was I addressing that comment to you. Multiple people have used that verbiage and words that mean the exact same thing since the article dropped to describe the 30 second once per survivor per hook instance timer.

The exact same scenario you described occurred with old reassurance as well, unless you continued to hang around the hook to make use of the 10 second cd window to chain multiple reassurances then you were 'wasting time' in the exact same way. If you assume the worst case scenario of you being cross map on a large map and making your way to the hook to pop reassurance and then walk back to the gen cross map, you were wasting the exact same amount of time and you were not going to be able to chain the same reassurance over and over again unless you were hanging out by the hook. And in that scenario I would argue you should be punished, you are making a bad play as a survivor resource, You are probably the furthest survivor away from the one on hook in the scenario you described, why are you the one making the reassurance play vs another teammate?

And yes, I know that you will counter this by saying but in solo queue and I'm sorry but I would argue we can't balance around that. If we are balancing assuming your teammates are awful/garbage, survivor perks would need to have their effects multiplied by 4 at least and gen times would need to be 45 seconds base as there's no guarantee you won't get 3 afk people. You can't balance around 'what if my teammates are bad/doing challenges/want to meme' because as soon as you get 4 people who are serious about winning and playing for real the killer will be squished with absolutely 0 chance of doing anything.

Action icons and seeing perks in the lobby + coms or chat or a ping wheel or something would help alleviate this problem a lot, but even with all of those tools, solo queue has no guarantees that your teammates goal will be the same as yours. I'm genuinely curious, what do you think a fair value for reassurance would be? Or do you think just reverting it to have the low cooldown + chain potential is fine?

It could hold the game hostage if 3 survivors and 1 killer chose to hold the game hostage, in which if they wanted to fix that issue they could have just kept attempting and skillchecks in struggle to allow you to end it if this was to ever happen

Both Reassurance and DS require killer compliance in order to work. These perks are not going to work in any game where the killer doesn't let it. It's not a big ask to get the perks to actually be impactful when its one and only use case comes into play.

Look at it from the other side: Yes, the killer did just double back to hook after you got unhooked and chased you down within 60 seconds of you getting unhooked and then decided to pick you up once you went down, BUT the killer STILL shouldn't be punished for refusing to use literally ANY of the perk's counters.

Yes, the killer did just decide to stick by the hook and refuse to interact with any other survivors, despite being aware that they're playing into a perk specifically designed to counter this playstyle, but should the killer really be punished for making such a gargantuan tactical blunder? Nah, let's just nerf the survivors again.

Golly gee, maybe getting 5 or 6 compounding buffs, basekit, to scenarios that are 100% applicable in literally every game you play without any extra investment isn't really comparable to a perk that requires extra investment specifically to counter one scenario.

Yes, it does. But in that case, you're not wasting 90% of the perk's value, since the perk has literally, what, 10 times as much value? Before the nerf, if you mess up and all wind up at the hook, you can then adjust and start working together to get them lined up and thus get value out of the perk, -because you have time to do so-. Now that one slip-up makes a perk that has ONE use case and is really difficult to pull off properly almost entirely useless, since it can only be used once.

But apparently we can nerf survivors around 'What if the killer wants to grief?'.

Literally yes. Because it requires spectacular misplays from the killer to actually be a hindrance. As has been mentioned dozens of times: Just give survivors a way to opt out for that once-in-a-lifetime scenario where the other three survivors and the killer are dead set on griefing one poor soul and you're done.

I do play killer. I play Hag. So trust me, multitasking and placing traps for the long game is not something I'm a stranger to, nor am I to long chases with a slow killer.

And yeah, I can talk about one minute Reassurance. Because I don't camp. Reassurance is a perk slot wasted against me. People get unhooked. Reassurance is only useful against camping killers, so I'm frankly not too concerned for it from a killer perspective.

I don't know, man. They didn't want it to be strong because then it would be "abusable", but now they don't want it to be "weak". They flip-flopped.

i've been getting a lot of reassurance value in situations where the killer isn't even camping.

mostly, it's "when i get spotted going for an unhook". i quickly run past, give my teammate a thumbs up, and keep running past them to a tile. while i'm off in chase somewhere else, my teammates are dimly aware that it's been a long time since that person got hooked, and one of them finally goes to get them off hook.

occasionally, it's "you just got hooked by a gen that's nearly finished". again, give em the ol razzle dazzle, then finish the gen without giving the killer any alerts and then grab the unhook afterwards. the killer's using the survivor to know when that gen is going to get pressed again, and i'm circumventing their alarm clock by hitting snooze.

people who are looking at reassurance and seeing "waste bubba's time" are seeing a very small piece of the whole picture that this perk affords.

p.s. i use it in solo queue. rip to yall but i'm just built different i suppose.

SWF effectively have a map wide aura reading perk on the killer, and a constant communication perk that the game was never balanced around. It's a combination of multiple very powerful survivor perks