I have to ask.

There's not even that manybpeople using fast track. Having tried it myself it is kinda busted if all 4 players run it but during my games as surv and killer I've hardly seen anybody using it.

I would say bloodpoints but for some reason the game still gives the killer over 30k bp just for running around till everyone is fully slugged. If hooks were the greater bulk of a killers bloodpoints at the end of a round, itd probably be more incentivised.

It’’s not a mediocre, low-value perk in its current state and pretending that it is is disingenuous, IMO. I use it in every single survivor match and it’s a great perk. Think about all those times when you get chased off a nearly-completed gen. Fast Track has allowed me to get those gens finished in nearly all of those close-call situations. Saving tokens to help break 3-gen setups that killer is closely guarding is also a very powerful use. Killers have a very valid complaint about this perk, especially when multiple survivors bring it and are using toolboxes/BNPs with it.

Personally, I don't aggressively slug the whole team partially because it's a dick move but mostly because it's a pretty big gamble.

Don't get me wrong, it's one that in the current state of the game is likely to pay off, but that's just because - despite what some might say here on the forums - it's still quite uncommon so not many people think to prepare themselves for it at the loadout screen.
A generic decent build often includes one anti-tunnel perk, and several common perks that can be filtered in to any specific build activate off the hook for other purposes like Resurgence and Dead Hard and the like. If everyone swapped those two perk slots out for Unbreakable and then another slug-related perk (Tenacity, WGLF, Conviction, etc) then aggressively slugging the whole team becomes far weaker than how people portray hooking right now.

(There's also a secret reason hidden in here, which is that what I'm describing is a strategy that often requires specific perks to beat, which is something BHVR have been trying to move away from over the years- I also try not to rely on strategies I think will get nerfed where I can)

Plus, honestly, people exaggerate the weakness of hooking right now. It still fundamentally progresses your objective efficiently and slows down the survivor objective, and it does those things well enough for skilled players to compete with appropriate opponents. That's good enough for me.

Honestly I’m not a fan of full team slugging, as I think it goes against the entire structure of the game and bypasses main mechanics. The fact that you can bypass multiple perks from ever even activating is not a good thing. The fact you can keep someone incapacitated on the ground for 4 minutes until death is also not a good thing. The fact that there are no repercussions for full team slugging is not a good thing. However, that’s not on the killer player it’s on the devs. So truly, even though I strongly don’t support that kind of playstyle, if it happens enough, maybe it will shine a light to the devs about how abusable it can be, and changes to slugging will be made. If you’re gonna do it, do it. I would just say don’t be surprised if it has consequences that result in another kind of anti-slug being implemented in the main game, just like it had to be for 2v8.

Pain res is bad now? Pop is bad now? Bbq is bad? Someone better tell the meta jockies then cause that seems all they running. Surprising they still win if they're good isn't it?

If it is so much more advantageful to hook why you'd say slugging is so commun?

Just trolls?

Your beefing with slugging is no different from people beefing with Fast Track, dude

Getting multiple knockdowns has always generated more pressure.

If the survivors are clueless enough to allow the opportunity (knock —> knock —> knock —> knock) is the most pressuring play you can make.

It's more likely that you only get the opportunity to (knock —> knock —> stop —> pickup —> hook —> continue rampage).

The least pressuring way to play killer at this point is (knock —> stop —> pickup —> hook —> repeat) especially with all the bullshit that activates from being hooked as well as the short amount of time you have to create a threatening scenario.

There's a lot of manipulation and shaming within the community to get as many killers as possible to adopt the least efficient way to play the role. Listening to feedback from survivors about your gameplay is like a cat taking hunting advice from mice, it's dumb. It doesn't become your problem if a bunch of misguided fools insist on seeking a single player experience in a pvp game.

The current meta is a reason. Seeing a lot more gen rush perks to the point where using the time to hook isn't worth it if you aren't a killer that has map mobility.

Personally, I haven't noticed gens flying either way.

Though to be fair, I've not played consistently in a short while, so it's possible something's changed either way.

To the point about perks that activate from being hooked, what makes those evidence exactly? Most of them don't actually affect the basic value of hooking (take something like Dead Hard, which only buffs survivors for well after you've gotten full value from hooking them, or something like Decisive Strike that only buffs survivors if you choose to target them after an unhook), and while there are a few that do, I don't really buy they're so dramatically overpowered that they make hooking actively not worth it.

Sure, Resurgence is too good and lowers your pressure after the unhook, but you're still gaining more than the survivors do by a huge margin- and that's the best current hook-activation perk survivors have.

So first off you asked the benefits of hooking, not whether or not they benefit fast track.

Second we're talking about ACTUALLY killing the survivor. What happens after the 3rd time you hook a survivor? They gone. Tada you completed part of your objective 🎉

Third monstrous shrine is part of "perks that activate on hook". Didn't even reference it directly.

Fourth you've said nothing that disproves that these are benefits to hooking a survivor.

Fifth smartbutt remarks only work if they're smart or funny.