Global hook stages to solve tunneling

I think i have a pretty good idea how to change the game in order to adress tunneling. Here's what I think we should do:

How would it work:

• Instead of hook stages being counted for each survivor individually, they are counted globally for all survivors in match
• What happens to survivor put on hook depends on global counter of hook stages before that occures:
  • 0-3 hook stages: hooked survivor goes into Summoning Phase (one where you don't need to struggle and can attempt to self-unhook)
  • 4-7 hook stages: hooked survivor goes into Struggle Phase (one with skillchecks)
  • 8-11 hook stages: hooked survivor is sacrificed
  • hook stage progress (timer) of survivor hooked works as it does now
• What happens when hook stage duration runs out (due to timer, self-unhook attempts or failing skillchecks):
  • another hook stage is added to counter
  • hook stage progress is halted and survivor is given option for automatic self-unhook regardles of phase – similar to anti-camp mechanic (this is made so a single survivor won't burn through all available hook stages on a single hook)
  • if current hook stage counter (after adding one) is greater than 7, then survivor is sacrificed instead

Pros of this mechanic:

• killers will be unable to eliminate one survivor early by tunneling (targeting a weaker link in a team is still possible and viable, but would have much lesser impact on the team of survivors)
• camping also takes a hit, as survivor can stay on hook for longer and eventually have certain self-unhook option at the cost of extra hook-stage, allowing team to focus on gens if they figured out killer is camping heavily
• slugging somewhat takes a hit, as even if you slug 4 survivors, at least some of them can be given self-unhook option at cost of extra hook-stage
• this mechanic should help solo queue and low to mid mmr survivors propotionally more than swf and high mmr, as it requires less coordination than protecting survivor on death hook
• rather easy to implement for devs

Things to consider:

• this mechanic would be a big buff for survivors, so killers might need to be buffed accordingly to keep balance
• new Taurie Cain perk – Shoulder the Burden would need to be completly reworked, but other perks and mechanics should work as they do now
• killers might be more likely to try to bleed out survivors as it would be the only way left to eliminate them early from Trial, so BHVR might need to think of someway to nerf this strategy
• troll survivor might „farm” hook stages, but it should still have less impact than troll survivor killing himself on hook early
• might need some mechanic to limit the time a survivor can willingly linger on a hook

That's my proposition. I think it would be fun and healthy change to DBD, as tunneling would be pretty much solved, swf would have more fun as teammates would not need to wait so long for their friend that was sacrificed early. Killer would probably be more fun too, as instead of trying to bully one survivor, you can focus on chases and maximalizing hooks.

The idea of hooks becoming deadlier the more hooks already happened can be explained as The Entity becoming more powerfull/hungry/greedy with each hook. As for UI, we can just give survivors the hook counter that killers currently have. Maybe slap some colors on it to indicate which hook stages do what - for example yellow for early 1-4 Summoning hooks, orange for mid 5-8 Struggle hooks and red for late 9-12 Sacrifice hooks.