Grim Embrace

when the artist was released she cam with 3 gen slow perks

• scourge hook: Pain Resonance
• hex: Pentimento
• Grim Embrace

two of those perks found there place in the game instantly, pain resonance became meta and pentimento settled in nicely with hex: plaything becoming a strong perk combo.

however grim embrace was immediately dismissed by the community most players I have asked what they know about the perk could not remember it and the ones that did were unaware that it was an obsession perk.

for those who don't know here is its description.

Grim Embrace

Your act of servitude to The Entity has not gone unnoticed.

Each time a Survivor is hooked for the first time, Grim Embrace gains a Token.

Upon reaching 4 Tokens Grim Embrace activates:

The Entity blocks all Generators for 30/35/40 seconds. The Aura of the Obsession is revealed to you for 5 seconds.

I always though that it had an interesting premiss for a perk rewarding the killer for hooking multiple survivors instead of tunnelling but it felt like it had much more potential but what with how strong regression was at the time i felt that buffing it would only make things much worse.

but know with all the meta regression perks nerfed I feel that grim embrace can finally become the perk is should have been.

but my one gripe with its design is how tacked on the obsession effect feels so i want to make a version of this perk that fits its original design but focuses more on the obsession.

Grim Embrace

Your act of servitude to The Entity has not gone unnoticed.

each time a survivor who is not the obsession is hooked for the first time grim embrace gains a token up to 3

Hooking the Obsession blocks all generators for 10 seconds plus an additional 8/9/10 seconds for each token.

a token is lost if the obsession switches to another survivor.

all tokens are consumed and the perk resets upon hooking the obsession.

with these changes Grim Embrace can activate multiple times in a match and the obsession is the main part of its power but its strength relies on the killer hooking multiple different survivors to get the most out of this perk dis-incentivising tunnelling.

and there are ways for survivors to counter this perk the main way is for the obsession to remain hidden from the killer to prevent the perk from activating.