With all these new buffs to survivors: Bring back hook grabs
Pretty self explanatory with the title. With all these recent changes mainly serving to make killer gameplay more frustrating with giving survivors yet more chances after being downed with the Resolve feature, the "anti-slugging" (Which I am for just for the record) and of course the new unhooking protections.
Like some of this is good but a lot of this teeters on just caving to survivors who are "mad cuz bad" and killers should have some sort of mechanic buffs. One being is if gonna have all these methods for countering tunneling and slugging (which are basically part of killer strategies) than killers should at least have the ability to grab survivors unhooking others again. It was removed a few years ago as a form of anti-tunneling and stopping hook camping when there are plenty of other mechanics to prevent those issues now. Survivors already have increased chances to unhook themselves and now have more unhook protections. So rescuing a hooked survivor should at least still have some risk to it. Removing hook grabs was entirely unnecessary to begin with.
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…why not just axe the anticamp measures that won't address the underlying problems with camping instead?
"we've added anticamp measures but also let every killer in the game hard camp by entirely preventing unhooks whilst they're there as long as a survivor's trying for it" is an awfully overcomplicated solution. stand at the anticamp max range → move in when a survivor shows up → they cant unhook bc of the grab so they have to leave → go back to max range.
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And then lose because you're lurking @ hook too long.
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Camping has always been the 2k strat. Before during and after the addition of antifacecamp changed literally nothing about that. That doesn't make it fun nor does it make it a healthy addition to the game.
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No thanks. Having to deal with hook grabs was extremely annoying especially when the killer had high ping and made unhooking near them pretty much a death sentence even if you cancel the unhook action.
Hook grabs can stay a part of the past, killers should get something else that keeps the playing field even but at the same time nothing that will make things unfair.
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Nah Hook Grabs were cringe it's good they're gone. They just need to revert the Pallet Density update.
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Oof, no thanks. I'm really glad those are gone. Very outdated mechanic that deserved to be entirely removed. I am 100% certain that I have never lost a match that managed a hook grab. Every single match that it happened I 4k'd from that insane pressure. There should never be a single mechanic that can single handedly determine a match.
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