Camping nerf idea.

Disclaimer: Lol. Calm down first of all. I've been camped hundreds of times (usually to secure a kill). I sacrifice myself a lot to save my teammates for BP during end game. It doesn't make me angry. I always safety pip anyway. If I get camped in the beginning I just laugh. I've played DBD killers, and survivors none stop for a long time. After some of the crazy stupid crap i've seen playing killer I just can't get mad at camping killers. I feel their pain. I feel the same way about tunnelling. Borrowed time completely destroys tunnelling. If you can't lose the killer that's on you. borrowed time gives you an entire second chance. But people hate camping, because how dare the killer act like a killer. Whatever. Nerf Leatherface #########, LOL. Whatever. It's not an argument I want to have. Also "git gud, killer main, survivor main" or similar comments will be ignored because you're probably ten years old. No hostility towards ten year olds. It's just toxic, and doesn't add anything. My apologies for the long read. Please excuse any spelling errors.

My idea: After a survivor gets hooked if the killer is within 28 meters of the hook an invisible timer starts counting down from 70 seconds. The Timer is cumulative. Killers Leaving the zone stops the timer only if a survivor isn't inside the 28 meter radius. Killers Returning Starts it back up. When the timer hits zero the survivors health (entity progression) drops at a 80% reduction, and stays at 80% reduction speed as long as the killer is in the radius. Otherwise It goes back to normal.

The salty hooked survivor then gets a prompt when the timer hits zero. By pressing a button the survivor will swing of the hook kicking the killer in the face stunning him for 10 full seconds (Punishment for camping). This ability is only available if the killer is within 15 meters of the hook, and the 28 meter timer has depleted.

Any survivor entering the 28 meter radius without the killer being present will make the timer tick up.

If both killer, and a survivor are (Not including the hooked survivor) inside the 28 meter radius, but not in a chase the timer counts down at half speed. If they are in a chase the timer counts up at half speed.

If the killer is in a chase within a 10 meter radius the hook escape prompt will not appear. However both the rescuer, and the hooked survivor get a 4 second 5% speed boost, are invincible after the save for 5 seconds, and borrowed time activates after that 5 seconds if the perk is being used by the rescuer. The rescuing animation cannot be stoped. (punishment for camping). This can only happen if the timer hits zero.

The timer can't count up after getting below 30 seconds. It will count down regardless of what the players do at that point.

The hooked survivors aura turns red only for the killer. So the killer knows if he's too close. For quality of life. Constantly measuring out meters would get old fast. And getting punished for camping without knowing you where camping would destroy many future keyboards, controlers, and screens. It will turn red even if a survivor is inside the radius.

None of this applies if the entity is fighting a hooked survivor.

My reasoning: This would make for awesome mind games. The timer is invisible. The camping killer doesn't know what the timer would be at, because a survivor might be in the radius. It also allows the "fair" killers to do a few hook inspections without worry of a de-pip. Killers can safely spend 40 seconds looking for survivors hidden around the hook. Killers would be forced to leave, and come back never knowing where the timer is. Two twenty second hook investigations, a ten second then thirty second hook inspection, or four 10 second buzzes would give survivors tones of different windows for the rescue. And it would keep things fair for the killer. Killers would still be able to stop rescues, and do normal patrols.

Survivors can't abuse this system. Or at least I can't think of a way they could. Killers might abuse it by camping outside the 28 meter radius, but I wouldn't necessarily call that camping. If a killer can successfully camp at 28 meters away give them a gold star. Hillbilly maybe if there weren't any obstacles. Maybe nurse? Can nurse jump that far? I've never judged her distance with 3 blinks. The radius might need adjusting for those killers.

Thanks for reading this far. I don't care how many details in my idea get changed, or even ignored. I did this mainly to give angry camped survivors something to read, and maybe something the devs could consider. I don't actually want this nerf. I feel camping is a legit way to control the game in certain situations. Even rarely necessary in some situations. If you think the penalties are too harsh, or the seconds are off, etc that's just fine. Let it evolve.