The poor hag is so nerfed by "wipe"
A While ago they got rid of flashlight interactions with killer powers, so you could no longer make the wraith visible with the flashlight, or destroy hag traps with the flashlight. This was a buff for the wraith, because they didn't replace it with anything, but a big nerf for hag, because they replaced it with a wipe mechanic.
You could always avoid triggering hag traps by crouch walking, but now you also get a prompt to "wipe" the trap, which gets rid of it permanently, and is faster than disarming a bear trap or closing a demo portal.
And there's no counterplay.
Fortunately, so far when I've played as hag most of the survivors haven't known about wipe, but last time I played against hag I totally wrecked her by constantly wiping traps. She did the things I usually do; trapping hooked survivors and trapping the gates at the end, but by crouch walking through them I could wipe them all, and even when there were ones I couldn't see I could crouch walk where I thought they might be and stop every few feet and it would give me the prompt to wipe as long as the trap was within about a meter.
At the very least, hag now needs a bunch of her add-ons changed to deal with wiping (e.g. loud noise notification when someone starts wiping, show a survivors aura after they wipe, gain haste when a trap is wiped, etc.).
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You still have to sneak over to the trap, which still wastes a lot of time. It's quicker than disarming bear traps and demo traps because you can't even walk near them without them getting triggered.
I don't see why not for the updated add-ons, though. Maybe they could replace her lesser used add-ons, or something.
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Being able to remove her traps without triggering never should’ve been exclusive to flashlights tbh. It was a good change, though I agree there could be addons that interact with it and she should get notified like Trapper does when a trap is disarmed (this should be basekit and not an addon).
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This is an issue with Wraith, to be honest. Wiping still takes time and the traps are difficult to notice in maps e.g. swamp.
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she doesn't get notified when a trap is disarmed? didn't even know
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I honestly don't see survivors wiping her traps away that often. It's still way more efficient to just trigger her traps when she's too far away or interaction locked.
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Nah, she should not get notified.
Hag is already really good at camping from a distance (with the Traps, if they get triggered she either can get back or simply teleport). Trapper cannot do that, the Hag can spam multiple Traps around a Hook and Survivors would need to wipe all of them away to be able to get away. Buf if she gets notified, she would return immediatly, meaning that the Survivors either have to try to wipe them all away (and risking the Hag arriving at the Hook) or try to run away (which triggers the Traps).
Trapper would waste a lot of time if he wants to trap a Hook in a way Hag can do that. It only takes seconds for the Hag to do this.
(In general, I think all Traps around a Hook should be removed once an Unhook happens. This would still mean that the Survivor has to waste time to get to the Hook, but it counters her camping-playstyle)
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She only gets notified if the trap actually gets set off.
If traps around a hook disappeared upon unhooking then I don't think the notification would be an issue. And I'd actually agree with that suggestion, never liked how much she can benefit from that type of strategy.
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True, then the Survivor would not even need to wipe the Traps around a Hook and would just crouch, but every other Trap will most likely be wiped, alerting the Hag.
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burning traps would notify, interesting that they got rid of that. thank you.
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See hag so little, that I didn't even know they added the "wipe" mechanic.
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yes, but you're forgetting that trapper moves fast, while hag moves like your grandma. if she gets notified of a wipe on the other side of the map, there's 3 gens done by the time she ambles over there.
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You do realise that the difference in traversing time is really low right? Trapper moves 46m in 10 seconds and Hag moves 44 m in 10 seconds... So how exactly does she move like a Grandma if she only moves 2 m less within those 10 seconds? You could traverse most maps and Hag would take take maybe 1 second more for that than Trapper...
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