Hooks

You can force an unhook with little effort. Few killers even have the theoretic ability to stop you and when you dodge an attack or multiple survivors come, then you're guaranteed to get an exchange at least, which already counters camping. So there is no reason to change the hook times.

I've been saying this since 6.1 basically. Match the hook stage timer to gen speeds.

It's the easiest, least abusable way to do literally anything to combat tunneling and camping. It doesn't do much, admittedly, but it forces a killer to decide to actively give up gens to commit to that one survivor.

I get that 'hanging on hook longer' isn't exactly gameplay, but neither is getting hard tunneled or playing m1 simulator on a gen.

"You have barely any time to knock out gens considering the fact that hooks are still the same duration as they have been, and no changes have been made to balance the gen times around that."

I just have to quickly point out that this statement is completely false. Hooks used to be only 60 total seconds to complete a sacrifice back then way in the past and was increased up to 120 total seconds which is more time than what it takes to complete a gen which is 90 seconds. If you're all cranking gens when someone starts getting camped like that you can get 3/5 gens done before they get sacrificed and you'll typically already have some gen progress done before the first survivor even got hooked.

Also another thing that a lot of you seem to forget is about perks that go by a percentage-based system such as Monstrous Shrine. It's not a set number reduction, but actually a percentage reduction of 20% and, for anyone who doesn't know how percentages work, they have a greater effect on larger numbers so increasing the time on hook stages is just gonna indirectly buff Monstrous Shrine alone and BHVR would more than likely buff the perk directly as well to compensate for the longer hook state duration. It's the same problem with DS where BHVR stated in the past that if DS were to be buffed past a 3 second stun time again they would be making Enduring work against it again so right now it has a 3 second stun time and if it was buffed to 4 seconds than Enduring would bring that down to 2 seconds and with 5 seconds Enduring will bring it down to 2.5 seconds which means that just simply buffing the stun duration would make the situation worse than what it currently is.

The point that I'm trying to make here is don't blindly ask for something without thinking things through because that's how you make things worse for everyone.

Old ruin was pretty badly designed tho and only worked against people who couldnt hit great skill checks. Those who could barely got affected