The Executioner Related Question (Rescue From Cage)
So I read part of the latest patch notes and I noticed in-game that when survivor is rescued from the cage, you are not getting audio or visual notification anymore. Does anyone know if it's supposed to be this way? I didn't read from any older patch notes that they nerfed PH like that.
Patch notes say:
- Fixed an issue where a loud noise notification would trigger when a Survivor was rescued from The Executioner's Cage of Atonement.
Or is this some other loud noise notification they're talking about?
I was gonna write bug report, but I am not sure if this is bug or intended.
If it's intended, it doesn't make sense to me, although I know talk about anti-tunnel stuff and updates.
I mean, normal hook rescues give you notification, so why cage wouldn't, because survivors already get 10 seconds Endurance and Haste when rescued from the cage.
Anyways, I'm confused here.
Thanks you!
Answers
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I don’t know why they considered this as an issue, because it always triggered audio notifications. As much as I main him, it was also a thing on Fiuyr records 3 years ago. And I’m agree - this just unreasonable thing and turns killer with tunneling mechanic having the best anti tunnel possible in his base kit. Cool story, like current hook stages bs, xd, on this point either revert it or let cages trigger hook related perks as well, or give him teleport or mobility slop.
However on his patch it was an issue that cages was triggering killer instinct for no reason. It wasn’t consistent, it was just a random stuff happening sometimes. As well as lethal pursuer + misty days provided aura read after uncaging for no reason. I don’t know why they didn’t address that issue, because killer instinct provided scream with info of specific survivor voice and aura showing are people changing directions or healing on spot. And they were pretty unstable
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Okay, so I'm taking this as making the killer more unplayable. Time is very valuable in this game and when I cannot get info about survivor locations, I'm lost. I've played several matches now and this killer feels so uncomfortable to play right now, because it feels like you are not rewarded for catching a survivor. Yeah you can cage them. What next? Search for other survivors and/or wait for someone to free survivor from the cage and get no notification at all unlike you'd get when survivors are unhooking normally.
It's not always about tunneling survivor from the cage, it's about finding someone, rescued or rescuer.
It's just stupid to go check every single generator now, because you have to find someone.
Welp, I hope this isn't permanent change.
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I understand this.
At least because well, his main would likely tunnel anyway. And his main already would likely know position of the cage. At least for me, I winning more 50/50 and can detect cage before rescue, so if I don’t like location, I usually just go close to resend it to more proper space, further from survivors to make them waste more time. This is probably my second usage of them rather than tunneling — just force people go to the end of the map no one need and I can focus on other survivor.
This killer already pretty niche, many people don’t want to learn his power because it’s clunky, doesn’t really work with height, too easy to dodge, relatively hard to pull. People also don’t really like playing without mobility and 0 control of the map aside from pure chase. He doesn’t have stealth, he doesn’t have anything that makes him attractive for majority, now it’s even more harder to play because you don’t even have advantage of your main power, while killers more simple provide you everything.
Now it feels they made this killer playing on hardmode just for using his power :/ I mean… I can take this challenge because I already survived era of his broken flicks and other broken stuff, but what for others?
I also using cages for the info a lot… the only thing I can advise either start to run broken pursuer and misty combo or add-on that reveal saviour position after uncaging. I don’t know will devs respond on this or not. His mains will find solution anyway, if not starting to tunnel even more on principle, thinking the next thing will be cages perks deactivation. For average person who have other main or play several killers he became less available. Not for tunneling. Just for using power
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BhVR temporarily disabled the hook stage for survivors in PTB, making the hooked state invisible for a period after hooking. They must genuinely believe removing rescue notifications from cages won't affect gameplay.
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Such changes just encouraged proxycamp from killer even more on PTB
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