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Blast mine buff (new mechanic)

poujh
poujh Member Posts: 170
in Feedback and Suggestions

Although the reduced requirement of 50% to activate blast mine is nice, it is nevertheless not enough as it is still quite rare for a killer to kick a gen and even rarer that he kicks a gen during the 50 sec that blast mine lasts. To remedy that i suggest adding a "remote detonate" ability that the survivor could activate at anytime once the blastmine has been placed. Detonating the blastmine remotely would have the following effects (the values i suggest could always be changed for balance) :

  • if the killer is within 5 meters of the gen , the killer gets stunned for 2 seconds (a smaller stun duration is adequate as the killer isn't right next to the gen)
  • if the killer or any survivor is looking towards the gen within 12.5 meters of it, they are blinded for 4 seconds (nothing new here, the values for the blind are from the wiki)
  • blastmine deactivates after being detonated remotely

With this change it will be easier to get value from blastmine. This creates a new synergy with wiretap which can be useful to detonate blastmine at the right time as you are able to see the killer's aura with wiretap.

Comments

  • Bran
    Bran Member Posts: 2,096

    12 meters of the killer is looking at the gen? That's very far.

    A remote stun? If a survivor can get away with it they can do the gen and then easily get away as if it was sprint burst. Add this stun with sprint and that's a lot of not catching up the killer is doing.

  • poujh
    poujh Member Posts: 170
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3187590#Comment_3187590

    Well 12 meters is the current range of the blastmine blind if you look on the wiki, I don't think that it's too big of a issue and if it is then the value can be adjusted accordingly for balance, maybe 5 meters like the stun.

    Well yes a remote stun can be useful but the range requirement i suggested is still extremely small, it's 1 meter shorter than the reassurance range which is already quite short. If the stun is too long it can always be made shorter like say 1 sec or even 0.5sec and if that's not enough then maybe the progress requirement could be increased again to 66% as the perk is a bit stronger.