New Status hud's for Whenever a Survivor is Doing a Specific Action

I dont think its suitable for killer, cause its way too powerful. But then, disable it for SWF. Why? Cause they have all of these info, even without voice comms.

Info like that is why SWFs have an unfair advantage. I thought you just meant making a gen progress meter appear over the gens without directly touching them, and even then, I would say only give Survivors that info if they were near it when it was last interacted with (lost on Killer kick).

You know what???? I was thinking... maybe if they add this. They can totally give Left Behind the buff it needs!

If you're the last survivor, and you have LB your HUD doesnt show what youre doing!.

Literally if they add something like this when someone's in chase I'll be happy.

@RaginRendon I guess.... uugh they should just make it so it shows you the aura of the hatch when you're 36 meters away (Tier 3).

Yes, this idea would be a good, quick way to make the game a little bit more friendly and accessible.

@Peanits sorry to bother you again.... but what do you think about this?

Wait? OP intended for killers to see this too?

Thats certainly outside my expectations and honestly cant foresee how'd it affect the game.

Personally, at most I'd like to see this implemented as a training wheel for anyone between ranks 20-15, when everyone is still learning how the game works or getting back into it after not playing for a while, similarly to how the loading screen tends to give away who the killer is with a tip when you're at lower ranks. At rank 15 and higher, the status HUD shows as it does now.

Even though SWF groups have the benefit of communication via voice chat, I really feel like knowing what your team is doing at any given moment from anywhere on the map takes away from the suspense that this game is supposed to carry with it. I think the solution should be something along the lines of letting killers opt-out of SWF matches.

Hunty... im in rank 6 & when i get downed I see the survivors running around, crouching (while being on the complete opposite side of the map) or they leave gens to come unhook me the SECOND I get hooked... mind you they're also in purple ranks/red/green ranks. WITHOUT Ruin being active/existent.

Like.....

I beg to differ. The suspense comes from uncertainty of knowing exactly what anyone else that you can't see is doing, and in certain contexts the detailed information can give either side an unfair edge over a situation.

The game starts, and within the first 20 seconds, you see your teammate is already in a chase.

Well, now you know that you can just do whatever and there's a good chance that if you hear the killer's terror radius, you don't have to worry about dropping your action and evading the killer because the odds that the killer is going to come investigate where you are are slim to none. This makes it all the more easier to gen rush, given that the chased survivor is good at routing and positioning and can survive for longer than 15 seconds, and makes perks like Spine Chill even more powerful than they currently are.

A killer approaches a generator. The generator is partially repaired, but nobody's status indicates that they stopped working on anything. They move on to another one, this time two peoples' statuses flick off from objectives to idle, and the killer knows almost for certain that they hit a jackpot and will search the area thoroughly. This takes risk out of a killer's decision to search a generator that has progress and isn't in regression. Also, this renders Whispers and Urban Evasion almost pointless, as Whispers now relays less useful information than the status HUD does, and the odds of successfully hiding from a searching killer by matching their movements with Urban Evasion around an obstacle decreases significantly.

Let's be real, survivors with that much lack of game sense won't benefit from a detailed status HUD.

Yeah, every single game I'm in with my pals, we say who's going to save guy from the hook. (We don't talk about every detail, but this is discussed 95% of the time)

If we have an icon that shows that 2 buddies are working on gens, I will know as a solo player, that I should go to save the player on the hook.

Just the same, if nobody is on a gen or healing, I can deduce that they are likely trying to save the friend on the hook.

I really like your idea, hope it gets added.

Between kindred not being added into a base mechanic for survivors (also being completely shutdown from devs to not be added) and nothing else being done to close the gap with solos and swf.

This is great and everything I've seen opposed to adding this are terrible excuses and not good reasons to not have it implemented

Regarding a generator indicator.

It would actually have a psychological effect, specifically that "oh ######### I don't want to look useless to my fellow survivors so I should get on a generator".

Thus having the indicator motivates you to help the other Survivors by doing gens.

It also means if someone is hooked it's (usually) clear if someone is about to go for an unhook by the fact that they'd suddenly stop doing gens but not enter a chase.

One thing I'd like to add, Survivors should have an indicator when a Survivor is in the Killer's terror radius (the Killer shouldn't obviously). This most importantly would include a Survivor on the hook.

This could just be highlighting the body portion of their portrait in something like orange with it getting more intense the closer they are.

This isn't anything SWF don't regularly communicate. "He's on me"

Wouldnt SWF also benefit because they do not have to ask for information as much as before? freeing more time for actual strategies than just asking for status.