Revert Thrill of the Hunt as soon as you can

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.

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.

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.

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

Counterforce: 😐

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Huh. And do you lie to yourself often?

It's literally your scenario.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.