Frustrating Skill Checks

I'm well aware of this, and i have pointed out the flaw with that mentality, sometimes you do not have a choice but to let go and it forces a bad situation anyway due to the mechanic. See again : sometimes skillchecks don't appear for several seconds, this can sometimes take up to 30 seconds or more without a single skillcheck. Your teammate could die on hook in this time of waiting for a skillcheck, or a friend comes by "i need a hit!" "sorry man, didnt get a skill check yet" are you seeing the problems with this? This "don't let go" does not work in every situation and it's why there needs to be a change. It only works if you and your team are completely safe and for whatever reason you want to let go of the generator, in which case, why would you do that? If you're not on a gen you are likely not contributing to the win.

"Immediately" in this example is not an implication of "as soon as they are hooked" it is implied as a "as soon as you want to". Apologies for the misunderstanding.

I never said it doesn't work, I'm saying I do this but it doesn't work in every situation, and there is a handful of situations where this mechanic on it's own can literally throw a game. I even listed examples in my original post. I don't know why you guys think I am disagreeing with you? Yes, you can wait for a skill check and you wont have this problem, but you can't wait for a skill check in every single situation, and in those situations where you cannot wait and the surprise skillcheck makes the generator instant kaboom, this mechanic can sway the outcome of a game. Even as killer there are situations where you get free grabs off 99'd gens due to the survivor trying to complete it, but getting a skill check right before they want to let go. Either the generator explodes because they let go and it loses 10% progress on a 99'd gen, or they get grabbed off of it and unless someone else was there too the gen is not finished. Ever see a 99'd gen get kicked by CoB/Overcharge, and how badly that survivor gets tilted because they want to finish it but can't?

I'm saying the mechanic punishes people for trying to make the right/optimal call in certain circumstances, with something they cannot control, and this should not be the case. It's a purely luck based mechanic that nobody has asked for.

Again, I literally do wait for skill checks in most cases, but the problem is that you cannot always wait, and the game should not punish you for those times that you cannot.

A prime example of trying to make the right play only to get destroyed by an unlucky skillcheck timing, and still these people say "just wait bro" as if that solves this glaring issue which can definitely turn the tides of games like it did for you. Could you have stayed on the gen? Sure, but the right play was to leave and prep the door, until the game decided it actually wasn't with a 7% chance. BHVR let's remove this 7% chance please.

No, I agree with you, and arguing is not my intention, I only seek to point out that I am well aware of this solution in most cases but that it does not solve the actual issue I am trying to point out, which are situations out of your control that are wildly influenced by this feature of the game, unfortunately the 1% side is unhealthy and should not be a part of the game, even if there is a "counter" for a majority of cases of the 7% curse. I appreciate your comments and do not seek any malice in my replies.

I hope we can all agree and that the devs can reconsider that this change is absolutely necessary, nobody likes a gameplay mechanic that is nothing but frustrating, there is never a point where this random explosion is a positive influence in gameplay experience for the survivor, even though it benefits the killer whenever it happens. Sometimes there's "nothing we can do" in situations, but that should never apply to skillchecks, this is the exact opposite of a "skill issue", it's a forced mechanic, but it can be forced on us in a healthier way that gives us the chance to react. I don't want to have to cope with a mechanic that is nothing but negative in every circumstance that I see it happen.

Okay, but committing to conspicuous actions is a healthy feature of the game, whether you like it or not. You as the killer can kick the generator when they let go, or wait for them to tap again before a grab. You CAN counter this as a killer, even if you don't succeed every time.

"Horrifying" is not the word I would use to describe it at all, there's nothing scary about it. The "paranoia" is not an actual fear, it's not wanting to get screwed over by something out of your control.

By asking for this to be changed due to it being *unhealthy game design* is not because we don't want to be scared, it's because we don't want to get cucked by a mechanic in situations where this is absolutely nothing we can do about it. I don't want to assume you are a killer main just based on your profile picture and how you are talking about this frustrating mechanic being intended to be "scary", but you talk as if you have never experienced this. Cancelling an interaction to benefit your team should not have an invisible risk attached to it. I'm not "scared" when i try to 99 my teammate's heal and the game makes me miss a skillcheck the exact frame that I let go, I'm just plain annoyed and frustrated that we now have to waste further time for trying to make the optimal play.

Stop defending this mechanic as if it's something positive, it is not.

The skill checks are unpredictable already. I'm not asking for them to be removed, I'm asking for you to still have the chance to pass them even if you let go of the interaction. Being forced into a 10% regression randomly is not fun, interactive, or healthy game design.

"most of the time" it is not yes, you are right about that, but the problem is that this can literally turn the tides of a game, I'm not sure how many times I have to keep saying that I am not talking about the 93% you can do something about, I'm talking about the 7% that you can't. When my gen explodes or my heal automatically regresses I am not saying "Yay this is fun dynamic chaos that makes me enjoy a horror game!" and neither are any other survivors I play with on comms. We are saying "omg i left my 80% gen after not having a single skillcheck pop up for 60 seconds before going to rescue the teammate that had 20 seconds left before second stage and it immediately exploded and now the killer kicked it with call of brine overcharge, im back at the 80d gen which is now 50 but he's patrolling the area ". This is not fun. You wait for the skillcheck and your teammate potentially loses another hook stage, you leave and it explodes. Yes I know it doesn't ALWAYS happen, but the problem is that it happens at all, this is my focus. I do not care about the times where it has no impact, I care about the times that it does, and then the impact is major.

You should be able to leave and still pass the skillcheck.

Thanks for your contribution. No, what we ask for is most certainly not ridiculous, but you are welcome to have your opinion, just like we can have ours. I play both sides constantly and can guarantee the RNG that killers face is not the same as this single feature that survivors suffer from, regardless of how out of your control it feels. See killer mains with massive win streaks for example who wont lose just because of "bad RNG". Even a competitive player can get smacked with a skillcheck at the exact time they let go. How is this healthy? Killers still have control over how they play, what killer they play, how they use their powers etc and they can bring offerings if they don't like/want to play certain maps. I'm not one to complain about most features of the game because I honestly quite enjoy it on both sides even when it can be frustrating sometimes, but there's a difference between RNG you can control and RNG you cannot. We are asking for the RNG that you cannot control to be replaced with a replacement feature that is not only already in the game, but works consistently (overcharge skillchecks). If you do not agree, you are welcome to go elsewhere instead of saying this thread is "laughable".

"Don't let go until you've completed a skill check" yeah it does, they will get grabbed, your words, not mine.

I don't have an issue with people providing solutions to the issue in a majority of cases, but as Bartlaus pointed out I am aware and do practice this solution already, whenever it is possible - my entire post is about the situations where you can't practice this solution because of how situations line up in the game. Sometimes you just have to let go, being told "just don't let go" is absolutely dismissive to the issue I am trying to point out, and if you do practice this in EVERY situation of the game, it would most certainly do more harm than good.

Again, I am not trying to argue with you here, but you and many others are constantly shifting your focus away from the issue that I have spent this entire thread trying to highlight. The solution you guys are providing is not a solution to the problem I am talking about.

I 100% agree that this solution works in most cases of any interaction involving skillchecks, but my problem is that it is only "most" cases when it should be "all" or, if my suggestion is followed through, "never", because that would solve it as a whole. And that is why I have suggested a change. I appreciate your feedback, I just wish it was more widely understood what I am actually pointing out.

Edit: or, if my suggestion is followed through, "never", because that would solve it as a whole.