We need to talk about Borrowed Time.
Not only does it work as an anti-tunnel perk, but it also functions as an anti-chase-the-guy-who-did-the-unhook perk. If the unhooked survivor body-blocks to absorb a hit for someone else, the perk shouldn’t work that way. It should only protect the unhooked person, not the one who did the unhooking in an indirect manner.
There’s already a system in the game that detects protection hits, like with the 'Mettle of Man' perk. Couldn't the same logic be applied to 'Borrowed Time'? Of course, this would have to activate about 2 seconds after the unhook, so the survivors have a chance to split up. It could ignore the protection effect of Borrowed Time if the unhooked survivor decides to play as a tank instead of escaping to safety.
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BT isnt an anti-tunnel perk. It only prolongs the tunnel for a measly seconds. Its real use is to be able to prevent stupid trades or instant double-downs for obvious reasons.
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its duration too short to be anti-tunnel perk but it would be an anti-tunnel perk if the duration was longer, a lot longer.
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if in 12 seconds with acceleration you cannot reach the loop, then either the problem is with you or the killer created a dead zone, but the killer cannot create a dead zone on his own, so yes, if you don’t have enough time, then you did something wrong
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The simple reason why anti tunnel perks cannot deactivate because of protection hits, is that killers could abuse this and render them useless.
Borrowed time is fine. It only punishes the "count to 10, then down" killers.
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Barely anyone uses Borrowed Time. You want to pound a perk that's on life support to the ground completely?
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I think anti-tunnel basekit should be strengthened outside of endgame collapse. The only time I generally run back to hook as a killer is if I'm already chasing someone who was on their way to the hook. As a survivor, having the killer either camp, run back to hook, or tunnel in some way just feels like an annoying and desperate move.
And that's not meant to say "Killers are so bad" or something. But my opinion is that if a person has to engage in those tactics to get kills, then they've probably put themselves into a higher MMR than they should be in. That's just my opinion though :D
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