Hook Respawns was a needed change
The entire mechanic regarding hooks being broken upon a sacrifice is very outdated and I am very thankful this is getting changed as it will make it so even if a corner of a map has only one hook that has been previously used for a sacrifice, the game does not have to be extended by 4 minutes in order to wait for the bleed out timer.
This change will also address a common point of frustration which is when multiple survivors continuously run to the same deadzone (having only broken hook in its vicinity) just to spite the killer player and waste their time.
This change will have little to no impacts regarding the meta or balance of the game, it is straight up a HUGE QOL change and that is very welcome. Although, a valid concern is that if the hook destroyed by a sacrifice was a scourge hook then it should respawn as a normal hook, this was not clarified within the Dev Update.
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Extremely nice change.
I also think that if you sacrifice a Survivor on a Scourge Hook, it should probably go back to being a regular hook instead.
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Agreed.
Dying in a corner for the rest to have a deadzone was the biggest issue to me, especially on maps with horrible hook distribution.
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6 years for such a simple change, absolutely crazy. Still good tho.
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Kinda scourge perks buff too...
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Good point. They could probably make the hook that killed a survivor be restored as a normal hook to compensate.
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I mean, is it really an issue after pain res was just nerfed? What scourge hook is so strong this would be an issue?
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Arguably Gift of Pain at best? I also think Floods of Rage could be another possibly decent one to have come back.
I can think of some scenarios where a survivor may die on one with Scourge tokens still up as well. Also, who knows, maybe future scourge hooks may be an issue with it as well.0 -
I prefer the macro skill of thinking about my final hook location, but I'm fine with this. Now though, bleedouts are 100% unjustifiable, and should be bannable if you have video proof you were hookable and bledout (like being directly under hook).
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