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Revert Thrill of the Hunt as soon as you can

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  • CautionaryMary
    CautionaryMary Member Posts: 184

    If this is the case moving forward, I would like to see a QOL improvement where solo-queue can see one another's builds.

    People like to say that survivors bring 16 perks to counter the 4 perks that killers bring, without recognizing how powerful these builds that YouTubers such as Hens and Otzdarva produces.

    At least with the addition of allowing survivors to see one another's builds, it would allow people to know what type of playstyle each other has (a survivor with Deliverance and Off The Record/Decisive Strike) - one of the reasons why I don't use Deliverance in solo-queue as it doesn't allow people to know that I have it and I like to wait until the last second to deliverance off to buy my team time.

    At least with this single addition that mobile DBD users have, it would actually allow solo-queue to synergize a bit better even without the lack of comms that regular 3-4 man SWFs have. 😊

  • SidneysBane1996
    SidneysBane1996 Member Posts: 896

    There are similar qualifiers for Survivor teams in comp, crogers.

    Many. Similar. Qualifiers.

    Your point. What is it?

  • THE_Crazy_Hyena
    THE_Crazy_Hyena Member Posts: 374

    Well, you do have a very valid point.
    Personally, I think they would need to revert the change to Thrill, or introduce a general survivor perk that has totem cleansing in mind.

  • CautionaryMary
    CautionaryMary Member Posts: 184

    Counterplay to Off The Record - simply hit the survivor off of the hook to delete Off The Record off of the newly unhooked survivor or hit the survivor unhooking the survivor with Off The Record.

    Counterplay to Shoulder The Burden - the survivor that normally does it typically will unhook the survivor — they literally scream and become exposed, which I believe Otzdarva came up with said perk and didn't have the proposed downsides that Behavior slapped onto the perk anyways. The only way that I could see this perk being problematic is in a coordinated SWF team where one person takes the burden and another unhooks said survivor allowing the trade to be more easier and seamless... something that you will not come across in many of your games as most people normally play solo-queue anyways.

    The perk has too many downsides, as least for me personally to fit into my build so I don't see any problems with it. The only people I see complaining about said perk are people who easily want to tunnel off rip causing a 3v1 early into the game.

  • SidneysBane1996
    SidneysBane1996 Member Posts: 896

    Still getting needless angry bait posts from people mad I pointed out the perk's counters should be buffed instead of nerfing a perk that actually makes hexes viable.

    Please don't respond to my posts again. You will not change my mind. The perk probably does need a slight reduction but it having synergy with hexes is fine, intended gameplay.

  • CautionaryMary
    CautionaryMary Member Posts: 184

    Also, Hens I believe has thousands of hours and streams(?)/does active content on YouTube for the game as its pretty much his livelihood.

    With that being said, of course he will have a higher percentage of escaping with solo-queue than the average player does. People who play this game and load into a lobby, more often than not are casual players unless you get into the higher MMR calibers where people start running meta builds or builds that efficiently progress the game forward.

    The people you see complaining about their teammates not touching a generator, urban evading everywhere, or whatever other stereotypical thing that people get mad over when spectating is the casual base in which these stats are taken from.

    Hens and his experiment of solo-queue escapes are much different than the average player, as most people play quite altruistic in regular games whether playing solo or with friends.

    When a person, such as Hens makes it a goal to escape as many games as possible with whatever build he chose (I didn't watch it) /=/ the regular casual playerbase that plays only a selected amount of hours per week.

  • GlamourousLeviathan
    GlamourousLeviathan Member Posts: 1,093

    The counterplay to Off the Record feels like: Pop Goes the Weasel now does 50% gen regression - Just repair the gen.

  • Yggleif
    Yggleif Member Posts: 270
    edited December 1

    I don't think it's bad for hexes to be meta but new thrill with buffed dominance and undying is kinda rough lol. It kinda flips the script and puts the survivors on a time limit instead of the killer because unless you're bad at chases or camping you should get at least 1 mori every game with it. I'd put Thrill to 12% first and see how that is otherwise a revert might be reasonable actually with how much bone defense we have now.

    EDIT: Meant to mention devour would always be the 4th perk lol.

  • Devil_hit11
    Devil_hit11 Member Posts: 9,133

    your post has nothing to do with what i am talking about. he claims that the stat is the best you can do. If i provide counter-arguement of someone doing better than what stat says than his claim that it is cieling is wrong. I am also certain that 4 man swf could easily provide a counter-arguement of say 30 games that is higher then 50% escape rate. I'd wager you can get like 60% escape-rate in swf by everyone randomize perks in like first try.

  • Autharia
    Autharia Member Posts: 460
    edited December 1

    50% is 2% above of top MMR 4man SWF survive rate, and 8% above all MMR level 4 man SWF survive rates. As per the stats BHVR put out and said are the same over the year.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,455
    edited December 1

    That's missing the point of the complaints though. Nothing in a PVP game should be so strong that it essentially reduces the match to a game of Uno. You either have the counterpick perk or you don't. That's simply bad game design in this context. It reduces the game to guessing at perk counterpicks. The actual gameplay becomes secondary.

    Beyond that, long totem cleanse times aren't healthy from a mechanical perspective. These aren't gens. The progress resets if you're interrupted. You either cleanse the full totem or you've made zero progress.

  • CautionaryMary
    CautionaryMary Member Posts: 184

    Yes, even with many of my games of getting Pain Resonance and Pop Goes The Weasel, once you know what the killer has - it's very easy to work around it.

    Letting go of the generator when a person gets downed to prevent further regression of the gen.

    PGTW is easy to counteract as the killer can only pop one gen at a time unless a snowball is in effect. There's a lot of counterplay in this game, yet people act like there's genuinely no counterplay.

    My other post of allowing other survivors to see each other's builds would help in situations such as the Thrill Of The Hunt buff, as it would allow survivors to see if someone actually brings Counterforce, which undoubtedly will increase in pick rate once the Hex builds become more prominent - similar to when the slugging Singularity builds came and people started bringing Unbreakable.

    People are just so used to playing one certain way without needing to adapt to things in the game and that's an issue in and of itself.

  • SidneysBane1996
    SidneysBane1996 Member Posts: 896

    Huh. And do you lie to yourself often?

    And I agree with this. The numbers are too high by a little bit, but my fear is all the fearmongering over how "OMG BUSTED OP!" this is now will get hexes nerfed to near uselessness again. We just got them back, I want to be able to experiment with hex builds without them being cleansed in five seconds, I want MORE perks to be viable not less. But I agree if it's affecting things this bad, it does need a slight reduction, and that's probably something that will be fixed in a hotfix later.

  • drag27
    drag27 Member Posts: 1
  • RFSa09
    RFSa09 Member Posts: 892

    you don't know what counterforce is? the only perk in the game that actually hard counters totens? the Jill perk? I dislike new TofTH but you asked for a perk that counters it, and I mentioned a perk that counters it…

  • crogers271
    crogers271 Member Posts: 1,934

    Huh. And do you lie to yourself often?

    It's literally your scenario.

  • Prometheus1092
    Prometheus1092 Member Posts: 591

    That's what killers have to do with lightborn... Use a perk to counter survivors but there is no guarantee that it ever gets used in the match if people don't have flash bangs or don't pick up flashlight. So ye use anti totem perk and hope you get a use out of it

  • Ayodam
    Ayodam Member Posts: 3,222
    edited December 2

    Technically killers can avoid blinds without lightborn and lightborn doesn’t prevent the deafening from flashbang; just the blinding (possibly the stun? Not sure if that’s linked to the blinding or the deafening)… that can also be avoided without actually using lightborn.

  • Ayodam
    Ayodam Member Posts: 3,222

    I thought you meant going for a pick up. In that case you can reliably (sometimes I think it bugs but rarely) avoid being blinded by facing walls. You can’t avoid being blinded during a pallet break though but at least most pallets are kind of mid so you can usually get away without breaking them

  • Autharia
    Autharia Member Posts: 460

    killers can also see survivors items before the match start so they can at lest get the chance to counter play.

  • Prometheus1092
    Prometheus1092 Member Posts: 591

    Ye walls help avoid it but in open maps like cold wind farm where there are no walls around then it's a case of eating the blind or don't pick up unless lightborn is used. That's why I use lightborn very often and if I don't then I slug because I know what's coming if I attempt the pick up lol. I have even been blinded when grabbing someone out of a locker and caused them to get free, again unavoidable due to the animation of grabbing them.

  • Autharia
    Autharia Member Posts: 460
    edited December 2

    Hence why i said items. You see 4 flashlight its always a take light born to counter. As where survivors get nothing but a lobby that 99% of the time is no talking for the time its up.

  • AmpersandUnderscore
    AmpersandUnderscore Member Posts: 1,898

    Even so, we're talking about a couple seconds of blindness, which in the case of either flashbangs or flashlights requires the survivor to give up distance at a pallet, or gen progress to lurk for a pickup, for the survivor to even attempt.

    The killer perk that deals with this grants full immunity to blindness with no restrictions: there's no ramp up tokens, no charges, no "earning it", just equip the perk at full value all match. And at least this is a PVP interaction: the killer and survivor are interacting, and the killer has methods of counter play base kit as well (just look up, listen for survivors, etc).

    Most survivor perks are to counter base kit abilities for killer. Camping, tunneling, and slugging all take no perks on the killer side, and require perks for survivors to deal with them. And even then it's not immunity, it's "partially, but not even fully mitigate the damage" and sometimes only exactly once per game with heavy restrictions.

    In this case, something like counterforce doesn't even come close to breaking even with thrill. The numbers don't add up here, and even at max stacks thrill is overpowering the "counter perk". It's just mitigating the damage, barely at first.

    And this isn't even pvp. The killer just equipped the broken, overtuned thing in the lobby and now survivors have to deal with the frustration of PvE objects. We had basically the same thing with gen kick meta, only now killers are incentivized to "defend totems" instead of "defend gens".

    The survivors are the objective, one perk should never be giving this much value, let alone changing the core gameplay away from PVP to this degree.

  • vBlossom_
    vBlossom_ Member Posts: 519

    So how long would it take to destroy first, second, third and fourth totem? I think you've missed crucial information in your comment :)

  • RFSa09
    RFSa09 Member Posts: 892

    You can do it by yourself if you wanna prove a point lol

    I'm not very good with maths, but you start the match with a 46 speed (5 tokens which is 14%•5 or depending on the way the game calculates it simply 70%, but I'm not sure if it adds extra 14% over the base number or over the next number) then you remove -20% (counterforce) which is next to 9 seconds in this case, the next totem have less 14% penalty and you get extra 20% speed (40% in total) 🤷‍♂️

  • LordGlint
    LordGlint Member Posts: 8,695

    Just throwing this out there... it really depends on which of the totems cleansed is TOTH. You COULD cleanse it first. If you don't find it until you've already cleansed 3, there's no reason to waste time cleansing the 4th totem now.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,455
    edited December 2

    Which I think highlights how truly asinine this all is. You could guess correctly and bring a counterpick to reduce the first totem cleanse to 39 seconds(!). And it's still RNG as to whether you have an additional cleanse debuff after that. This is not a mechanic you put in a PVP game.

    Post edited by edgarpoop on
  • HansLollos2
    HansLollos2 Member Posts: 221

    14% is way to high in my Opinion. 12% per Totem would be a good Number. But overall i actually like it that it makes Hex Perks more viable and useful.