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8.4.0 PTB is Live NOW!
Well, I don't think anyone was expecting this!
8.4.0 | PTB Patch Notes - BHVR
8.4.0 | PTB Patch NotesThis article was created from a community discussion.
Important
- Progress & save data information has been copied from the Live game to our PTB servers on 28th October. Please note that players will be able to progress for the duration of the PTB, but none of that progress will make it back to the Live version of the game.
- Players will once again receive 12,500 Auric Cells on the PTB to explore Outfits and Characters in the Store. Both Auric Cells and purchases made on the PTB Build will not transfer to the Live Build.
Content
New Killer - The Houndmaster
Killer Power - Scent of Blood
The Houndmaster and her dog operate as one. Her commands are followed without question or delay.
Special Ability: Chase
The Chase Command sends the dog out at high speed. Pressing the Power button again redirects the Chase, pivoting the dog's path. When the dog catches a Survivor, the dog starts a Grab. The Survivor becomes Hindered and is pulled toward The Houndmaster. The Survivor can get free by stunning the dog or can be rescued by another Survivor. Grabs that end without Injury leave the Survivor Hindered. Grab duration is shorter for Survivors with the Endurance status effect.
Special Ability: Search
The Search Command sends the dog to a target location, creating a Search Path. It has its own lullaby and, as it moves, its Houndsense radius rises over distance traveled. Survivors who enter the radius are affected by Houndsense and revealed by Killer Instinct. If The Houndmaster follows the dog’s Search Path, she gains increased movement speed over time. Leaving the Search Path ends the bonus movement speed.
Special Effect: Houndsense
Healthy Survivors affected by Houndsense receive Deep Wounds when Injured. Injured Survivors affected by Houndsense suffer from louder Grunts of Pain and longer Pools of Blood when put into the Dying state.
Perks:
All-Shaking Thunder
- After you fall from a height, your lunge attack distance is increased by 75/75/75% for 8/12/16 seconds.
- This perk has a 5/5/5-second cooldown.
Scourge Hook: Jagged Compass
- At the start of the trial, up to 4 random hooks are changed into scourge hooks. You see their auras in white.
- When a Survivor is unhooked from a non-scourge hook, it becomes a scourge hook. When you hook a Survivor on a Scourge Hook, the aura of the generator with the most progress is revealed in yellow for 6/8/10 seconds.
No Quarter
- When a Survivor reaches 75/75/75% of a self-heal, they are faced with continuous skill checks.
- If one of these skill checks is missed or the heal is interrupted, the Survivor becomes broken for 20/25/30 seconds.
New Survivor - Taurie Cain
Perks
- Invocation: Treacherous Crows
- When in the Basement near the circle, press the ability button 2 to begin the Invocation. Invocations take 60/60/60 seconds. Other Survivors will see your aura during this and can join an ongoing interaction. Once the Invocation is completed: Completing the Invocation disables that perk for all Survivors.
- You become injured and broken for the rest of the trial.
- When a Survivor is in the Terror Radius and the Killer scares a crow, their aura is revealed to all Survivors for 1/1.5/2 seconds.
- Clean Break
- After you finish healing another Survivor, while being healed by another Survivor, press the ability button 1 to become Broken.
- After 80/70/60 seconds, you become healthy.
This perk does not activate if you are already broken. The effect is cancelled if you go in the dying state.
- Shoulder the Burden
- Once per trial, as long as you are not on death hook, press the ability button 2 in front of a hooked Survivor to unhook them. When they are unhooked, they lose 1 hook state and you gain 1 hook state. You also scream and become Exposed for 30/25/20 seconds.
New Map
- A new map on the other side of Mount Ormond is here for testing on the PTB only! Explore The Ormond Lake Mine. (this map will not be part of the Chapter release)
Features
Survivor Activity HUD Improvements
- All activities will now surface their progress on the activity HUD (previously was just Generators and Recovery)
- A new activity was created to differentiate when a Survivor is Mending or Healing themselves
- A new activity was created to differentiate when a Survivor is Blessing a totem
- Some Killer power interactions which were previously missing are now included on the activity HUD
Perk's HUD improvement
- Visual differentiation between a Perk being temporally unavailable from being disabled completely. First time implementation for new Invocation Perk.
Characters' Bio Pages
- Re-added Power and Perks previews on Bio page
Store
- Featured Page main carousel can also display Bundles.
- Featured Page bundle widget is now a carousel that shows Bundles and Collections.
Killer Updates
The Dark Lord - Basekit
- Increase shapeshift cooldown to 3.5 seconds (was 2.5)
- Vampire Form: Increase Hellfire cooldown to 10 seconds (was 7)
- Wolf Form: Increase the spawn rate of Scent Orbs to 1 every 5 seconds (was 1 every 6 seconds)
- Wolf Form: Decrease Wolf's pounce charge time to 0.85 seconds (was 1)
The Demogorgon - Basekit
- Decrease Portal setting time to 0.85 seconds (was 1)
- Decrease Portal entry time to 1.35 seconds (was 1.5)
- Increase Upside Down travel speed to 28 m/s (was 20)
The Demogorgon - Addons
- Viscous Webbing:
Increases the Sealing time of Portals by 10% (was 16%) - Thorny Vines:
Increases the Area of Effect of Active Portals by 1 meter
Increases the Sealing time of Portals by 8% (was 11%) - Upside Down Resin:
Increases the Sealing time or Portals by 20% (was 28%) - Lifeguard Whistle:
Reveal Survivors near active portals without charging Of The Abyss (REMOVED)
Increases the number of Portals by 2 (NEW)
The Ghost Face - Basekit
- Decrease Night Shroud's cooldown to 17 seconds (was 20)
- Decrease the time to Mark Survivors to 4.5 seconds (was 5)
The Ghost Face - Addons
- "Philly":
Decreases the time to Marek Survivors by 10% (was 20%) - Walleye's Matchbook:
Decrease Night Shroud's recovery time by 3 seconds (was 6)
The Good Guy - Basekit
- Decrease the Scamper time to 1 second (was 1.3)
- Increase Hidey-Ho Mode's cooldown to 12 seconds (was 10)
The Good Guy - Addons
- Rat Poison:
Decreased range to 6 meters (was 12)
Decreased duration to 2.5 seconds (was 5)
The Lich - Basekit
- Decreased Dispelling Sphere's cooldown to 35 seconds (was 38)
- Decreased Flight of the Damned's cooldown to 35 seconds (was 38)
- Decreased Fly's cooldown to 25 seconds (was 38)
- Increased Mage Hand's cooldown to 40 seconds (was 38)
- Increased the cooldown after cancelling a spell to 1.25 seconds (was 1)
- Decreased the time Dispelling Sphere disables magic items to 45 seconds (was 60)
The Lich - Addons
- Pearl of Power:
Decreases the cooldown of all Spells by 3 seconds after a successful Basic Attack (was 5) - Ring of Spell Storing:
Decreases the cooldown of all Spells by 2 seconds (was 4)
The Mastermind - Basekit
- Decreased Virulent Bound's cooldown to 5.5 seconds (was 6 seconds)
The Mastermind - Addons
- Leather Gloves:
Decreases Virulent Bound's cooldown by 8% (was 10%)
The Shape - Basekit
- Increased Evil Within I movement speed to 4.4 m/s (was 4.2 m/s)
- Increased maximum stalk per Survivor to 20 points (was 10)
- Decreased the amount of Evil Within required to reach Evil Within II to 3 (was 5)
- Increased the Evil Within gain multiplier when stalking from afar to 1 (was 0.1)
- Decreased the Evil Within gain multiplier when stalking from up close to 0.4 (was 1)
The Shape - Addons
- Fragrant Tuft of Hair:
Increased the Evil Within III requirement to 20 (was 10) - Lock of Hair:
Decreased the Evil Within III requirement to 50% (was 100%) - Judith's Tombstone:
Increased the Evil Within III requirement to 20 (was 10) - Tombstone Piece:
Increased the Evil Within III requirement to 15 (was 7.5) - Scratched Mirror:
Decreases Evil Within I movement speed to 4.2 m/s (NEW)
Killer Perk Updates
- Dominance:
The first time each totem and each chest is interacted with by a Survivor, that totem or chest is blocked by the Entity for 8/12/16 seconds. (was 4/6/8) - Human Greed:
You see Unopened Chests auras and Survivor auras are revealed for 3/3/3 seconds when they enter a 8/8/8-meter range.
You also gain the ability to kick chests to close them. This ability has a 30/25/20-second cooldown. (was 60/45/30 seconds) - Languid Touch:
When a Survivor within 36 meters of you scares a crow, they gain the Exhausted status effect for 6/8/10 seconds.
This perk has a 5-second cooldown. (was 20 seconds) - Weave Attunement:
When any item becomes depleted for the first time each match, it is dropped. You see the auras of dropped items.
Survivors within 8 meters of dropped items have their auras revealed to you. (was 12 meters)
Affected Survivors see the item's aura. (NEW)
When a Survivor picks up a Survivor item, they suffer the Oblivious status effect for 20/25/30 seconds.
Survivor Updates
General
- Decreased the time it takes to unlock chests to 8 seconds (10 seconds)
Survivor Perk Updates
- Ace in the Hole:
When retrieving an item from a chest, there is a 100% chance that a Ultra Rare (or lower) add-on will be attached to it. (was Very Rare or lower)
50/75/100% chance to finding an add-on of Uncommon rarity or lower. (was 10/25/50%)
When escaping, keep any add-ons your item has. - Buckle Up:
Updated the perk's description for clarity. - Invocation: Weaving Spiders:
Description was updated to match the new invocation (Treacherous Crows), but no gameplay change otherwise. - Pharmacy:
When injured, Pharmacy activates (REMOVED)
Unlocking chests is 70/85/100% faster. (was 40/60/80% faster)
The hearing distance for noises from unlocking chests are reduced by 20 meters. (was 8 meters)
Pharmacy guarantees an Emergency Med-Kit upon completing the interaction. - Plunderer's Instinct:
The auras of unopened chests and items in the environment are revealed to you when standing within a 32/48/64 meters range. (was 16/24/32 meters)
Increases the odds of finding higher rarity items from chests by 50%. (was 14/24/46%) - Scene Partner:
Scene Partner activates when you are in the Killer's Terror Radius.
Whenever you look at the Killer, scream, then see the Killer's aura for 4/5/6 seconds. (was 3/4/5 seconds)
There is a chance you will scream again, if you do, you will see the Killer's aura for an additional 2 seconds.
Scene Partner then goes on cool-down for 40 seconds. (was 60 seconds)
Bug Fixes
Bots
- Improved Survivor bot locomotion.
Environment/Maps
- Fixed missing cracks during the End Game Collapse
- Fixing floating assets on multiple maps.
- Fixed brief bright light when returning to the Main Menu from the Store.
- Fixed sudden brief burst of bright light when viewing a Mori.
- Fixed occurrences of exit tiles not matching themed maps.
- Fixed a visible seam at the Exit Gates on Ormond Lake Mine.
- Fixed pools of blood that failed to appear in multiple places on the Ormond Lake Mine
- Fixed missing textures on multiple tiles of the Ormond Lake Mine
- Fixed a clipping issue the bridge in Ormond Lake Mine
- Fixed collision issues on tunnel stairs, tower scaffold ground, and tower tile collisions, on Ormond Lake Mine
- Reworked complex collisions preventing Killer projectile to pass through on the top floor of the Ormond Lake Mine Building
- Fixed issues of Camera Fade exclusion for the Mori Update feature
- Fixed an issue in Lery's Hospital where the Killer could not grab a survivor from one side of a generator
- Fixed an issue with collision on Ironworks of Misery
- Fixed an issue with collision on The Underground Complex
- Fixed an issue with collision on The Nostromo Wreckage
Perks
- Fixed an issue that caused the Hex: Thrill of the Hunt interaction speed values to be incorrect if cleansed before Hex: Undying.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Deathbound perk not to be disabled when grabbed by the Killer.
- Fixed an issue that caused Hex: Devour Hope to gain a token when a Survivor self unhooks with the Deliverance perk.
UI
- Fixed an issue where cinematics can be skipped by L-stick or R-stick on the controller.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using the virtual keyboard.
- Fixed an issue where the Beginner Tooltip text can be seen overflowing in certain languages.
- Fixed an issue where the prestige button's progress bar isn't reacting accordingly to the bloodpoints balance.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when equipping and unequipping the banner and badge.
- Fixed an issue where the survivor action icon on the player status is missing after spectating the killer in a custom game.
- Fixed an issue where the blood splatter effect on the player status is missing in various states.
- Fixed an issue where unnecessary lines appear when opening the event popup.
Misc
- Fixed an issue where platform exclusive outfits cannot be seen by other platform players
- Fixed an issue that caused Aestri Yazar, Lara Croft, Trevor Belmont, The Lich and The Dark Lord prestige outfits unlock in wrong order.
- The Wraith is now correctly able to move and attack after doing certain interactions when using the "The Serpent - Soot" Add-on
- Fixed an issue that caused Killers to be able to spam the Mori interaction.
Known Issues
The Houndmaster
- The Search Path can appear above the ground when Search Command sends the dog to a different elevation.
- While running on the Search Path, The Houndmaster very rarely does not earn the movement speed bonus.
- Survivors performing the Grab Rescue interaction on another Survivor will play the corresponding animation after rescued Survivor is freed from the dog, instead of during the ongoing interaction.
- Survivors involved in a Grab display the Broken status effect symbol instead of the Incapacitated status effect symbol.
- The Houndmaster is missing her dog during the Match Result Screen.
- The Houndmaster's dog position is desynced with the Survivor during the Mori when performing multiple actions.
- The collision on the Houndmaster's dog prevents the Killer from being blinded by flashlights.
- The Houndmaster's dog visually does not always complete the vault animation, but still continues the path.
- Frequently, the Clean Break perk does not trigger whilst being healed by another Survivor that also has the Clean Break perk equipped.
THE NIGHTMARE AND THE SKULL MERCHANT ARE DISABLED FOR THE COURSE OF THIS PTB
Comments
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Shoulder the Burden is game breaking and omega buff to SWF.
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Man ######### a dev update we just going straight to the good stuff huh
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Thought Wesker would get some Infection buffs.
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I Like that they added perks that the community asked, like the one that you trade a hook stage with your teammate, but unfortunately for me I kinda disliked the idea when I saw it the first time
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Shoulder the Burden will be useful, I like this one.
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we like to keep you on your toes :)
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Isn’t it a perk people have consistently asked for? It’s one I’ve seen killer mains ask for (for survivors) as well as an anti-tunneling perk. Now, suddenly, it’s a problem huh?
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So now with Myers it's better to stalk from afar rather than close up? Or am I tripping
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Yes, stalk from afar gives you more points, but for some reason looks like we still have to 99 our power instead of having an option to activate the tier 3, I think I'll post it in the ptb feedback section
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It's also an anti-tunnel perk that doesn't involve Endurance. Endurance has been complained about alot too since it can be used offensively.
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It discourages tunneling and that's it. It's a very healthy perk. If anything, it should lose the exposed status effect downside.
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They also seem to have been listening to the complaints about survivors lingering in the exit gate area because if the dog grabs you there's a decent mini-blood warden
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Slugging is a seperate problem that needs to be adressed, but I doubt this will make slugging worse. If anything it's just another excuse for killers to slug that were already going to slug anyways.
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Shoulder the burden kinda blatantly overpowering but i love the fact that it one big middle finger to tunnelers. obviously the perks shouldn't go live though 🤣🤣
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so the map is not coming with chapter release?
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Please do. I would love a tier 3 activation prompt.
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Why?
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Honestly?
This looks like a pretty good update so far.2 -
######### the devs thinking creating this perk:
Once per trial, as long as you are not on death hook, press the ability button 2 in front of a hooked Survivor to unhook them. When they are unhooked, they lose 1 hook state and you gain 1 hook state.
This perk will hurt SoloQ even more. When someone tries to suicide and you unhook them, this peroson may use this perk on you in revenge. Another example baby meg use for fun this perk on you and the killer tunnel you. Damn if I see this perk is used in game it's another reason to go next on hook.
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Can you keep us on our toes, I mean fingers with a toggle sprint option pretty please? 🙏❤
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I hope it goes live. Maybe even buffed a little bit replacing exposed with endurance.
Oh my god can you imagine how funny it will be when the Killer finally thinks they killed the best looper 🤣🤣🤣🙂↔️🙂↔️
Is it just me or is it a little bit warm in here?
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First of all, the irony of complaining about people who want to go next while saying that you will go next when you see this Perk.
Second, if someone wants to leave the game, they will do it regardless. If they do it as you describe (by giving their Hook Stages to you), you actually get something from it. At least it would be better than them running to the Killer to get hooked so that they can suicide.
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It comes with a heavy toll.
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I agree 💯 W update!
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So Ghostface (one of the weakest killers in the game) basically got no buffs if you already were using those 2 brown addons. Meanwhile, Chucky gets a slap on the wrist and Vecna somehow gets more nerfs than buffs. Yet another classic BHVR moment right here.
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Puppies!
Nothing else matters now we'll happily take back half the bad things we've ever said about the game
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I don't think the game balance enough to go for 8 hooks before a kill. As killer who don't tunnel much i still need someone dead around 6 hooks
This perk will easily be meta so every game u will be going through nearly max hook states before a kill. someone dead when the killer have 3 hooks total is terrible and i love the fax this perk combat tunneling. i would personally like to see this perk change in a way that it still strong against tunnelers but less effective against those who spreading hooks. Maybe deactivating if the killer reach 5 unique hooks or something?
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How is the new killer? Is she fun? Balanced?
What do we know so far.
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🤣🤣🤣
i could see tru3ta1ent blowing his mind in such a situation. "Is it just me or is it a little bit warm in here?" it just you....bloodlust demon!!
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The nerf to hellfire is uneeded
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She's kinda like an automatic deathslinger fused with pinhead's gate, it's very cool
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I think the initial reaction to this perk is that you're drastically overrating it's effectiveness.
Maybe if the perk didn't announce itself, then spreading hooks would actually be beneficial since you'd always want to be in chase.
As it is, this perk heavily incentivizes following the hook stages. Since the unhooker will scream and become exposed, you know who it is that has that hook stage now. So technically you aren't tunneling because you switch survivors, but it's not that hard to figure out that Ace is the one with the hook stage and is the new best target.
With the barest amount of game knowledge (knowing survivor screams) you can still get someone out in 3 hooks, especially since this can't be used on death hook.
But since many killers struggle with game knowledge and game sense, they'll just continue to camp and down the unhooker in one shot, then probably still tunnel off hook.
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Hes finally after 8 long years lore accurate in terms of stalking.
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Dog is beyond buggy. We in the council of Pig mains had a really good laugh.
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The Ghostface buffs are underwhelming in my opinion.
Can we get some some kind of reveal immunity from hooked survivors or at least reduce the range they can reveal you? What about giving a 50% recharge for downing a marked survivor? How about nerfing survivor disconnect BOTs so they can't constantly reveal you at max range?Like seriously, I can think of so many more QOL changes and buffs that would be more useful than making two addons partially basekit.
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can't u just run calm spirit. i could be overreacting but idon't think so
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Oooh. I'm really excited about Shoulder the Burden… it might end up going unused the same way Reassurance initially was, despite the hype, but the anti-tunneling potential feels really promising. It also allows an interesting option in, say, you're not a good looper and there's better loopers on your team, but you do need to take hook states to keep the 4v1 going as long as possible. This perk allows you to basically outsource your contributions to team health and I'm curious if we'll see gen jockeys and hiders bringing it. Well. Maybe not the latter, with the Exposed.
Interested to check out the Myers changes too. His basekit sounds a lot healthier and it's all stuff we've been asking for for years, though without playtesting I suspect that Tombstone Piece is still busted (still way too much value for too little effort, plus stalking from afar is easiest at the start of the game and cancels out some of the penalty) and Judith's is now harder to pull off/easier to counter despite already being the weaker addon of the two. I wonder if there's a licensing issue that's keeping those two addons unchanged, because they really don't belong in modern DBD (even if Tombstone Piece is the only one that's an actual power issue, Judith's is just boring.)
Honestly, while I think the nerf was healthy and this was the exact change I wanted… I kind of wish the item aura reveal was attached to Franklins and not Weave Attunement, as Franklins is a better perk on its own. I run Weave without Franklins on a weird Hoarder build and the perk sometimes functions on its own because survivors just don't notice their item fell off. I doubt that's happening anymore. Meanwhile, with Franklins, survivors seeing where dropped items is is not a strict nerf to the killer because it makes it likelier survivors go back after the chase is over, which is a timewaster that doesn't factor with Weave (you just pick it right back up), when you can slap it back down to take advantage of this multiple times, and where you can more reliably ambush them a la "I know the survivor is about to go here."
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"Oh my god can you imagine how funny it will be when the Killer finally thinks they killed the best looper"
That gave me a laugh. Honestly, there's been games where someone has kept the killer occupied for most of the game and I feel bad having escaped while they've died. I'd happily give them another chance. It's probably a death sentence perk when it comes to endgame saves though.
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It may or may not be too powerful, but I do think that regardless of that it’s a step in the right direction. Once tunnelling is dealt with then BHVR can focus on making playing around 12 hooks more manageable for killers. And this seems like a really good way to combat tunnelling without it being able to be abused offensively like the previous anti-tunnelling perks.
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The dog's animations look extremely unpolished, which is expected from a PTB. But I really hope it's getting looked at before release.
Because Knight too is still an incredibly ugly mess at times (completely disappearing for a split second when finishing a path and taking his terror radius with him). It just looks unfinished and he's been in the game for quite some time now.1 -
I also hope that they will get fixed.
The dog's animations look way too silly.
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It would be foolish to try to implement a Shoulder the Burden.
The catch is taken away, the number of times the generator can be destroyed is limited, and next it seems they won't even be allowed to dig a tunnel
Maybe the practice of downing a survivor and then leaving him there out of animosity for the survivors will catch on,
at least that's what I plan to do.
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It's probably a death sentence perk when it comes to endgame saves though.
I know! I wish it had endurance instead of exposed since a hook state is just being transferred not erased. Which in some cases may still even hurt the team!
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"And this seems like a really good way to combat tunnelling without it being able to be abused offensively like the previous anti-tunnelling perks." True! no crazy amount enduranceto to body block with. I'm just gonna be quiet and see how it play out.
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Wow, those Ghost Face changes are really underwhelming. Basically just making two add-ons base but only….half? And nerfing said addons to go along with it. Well…..okay.
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Too funny lol….Do you think they will be able to fix it before ptb goes live?
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I hope so. A buggy looking killer is never good.
On the other side, I'd have tons of clips to laugh about.
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Does the scourge hook perk transfer scourge hooks or just create more? Seems like it’ll be pretty abusable when combined with regression perks of virtually every hook can be transformed into a scourge hook.
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It creates more. Though remember, Pain Res can only be activated once per survivor.
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