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How to make the portals of the demogorgon useful
It is now ascertained that the portals of the demogorgon are completely useless, nobody uses them because basically you don't have time to place them, and even if you did, the survivors will remove them away a moment later because it takes very little time to remove them, besides the fact that it is too intricate to use them, not only do you always have to have one available, but then you have to put yourself on the portal, look in the direction of the portal where you want to go out and then use it, really a slow/intricate/complex mechanics that is not convenient to anyone, I met so many demogorgons since from the ptb and even now with the official release, NO ONE has used the portals, only the shred.
I have an idea to make this mechanics useful:
The portals are used to give map control to the demogorgon, they work more or less like those of the hag, but those of the hag are designed to attack, in fact the hag has immediate teleportation and possibility of immediate attack. Those of demogorgon need ONLY to give to the demogorgon the map control, so why make them destructible by survivors? Shred is his power to do damage, portals instead only serve to give him mobility on the map, but if the survivors can break them what are they for then? So my idea is to make PERMANENT portals on the map, maybe even reduce the number if necessary, but make them permanent, in order to make them much more useful and above all entice the killer to position them, because for now nobody uses them because it is really easy to remove them and it is really difficult to use them, but above all, in the case in which all of them are positioned, if the survivors do not remove someone, you will not have any more, because it's not possible replace like the traps of the hag. In short, it is a poorly designed mechanics that does not work.
What do you think?
PS: I'm main surv, and I don't have demogorgon, I only have steve and nancy, so I'm not a main killer, I simply love the game and I'm sorry to see the demogorgon that is a beautiful killer aesthetically but with a power that is really too weak.. (useless portals and shreds that really dodge too easily from a survivor)
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You should be able to at least manually destroy your portals, even if it takes a couple seconds
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Yes even this, absolutely
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You're wrong, I've been going up against a lot of Demos and they are all using their portals and some to great effect. I have even been caught by one who hid a portal on the second floor of a house in Haddonfield, he got around my watch on the stairs.
Making the portals permanent is bad move.
That will result in the "2 Gate Strategy" meaning survivors will never escape. Period.
Lastly, you don't even have Demogorgon and you don't even play Killer (or at least are a Survivor Main or so you claim) so how exactly do you know that Demogorgon is bad and his portals are useless?
Unless you're just regurgitating the tripe some streamer is spewing I don't see any way that you could possible say Demogorgon is bad, unless you've been curb stomping every Demogorgon you came across and he never got to use his portals at all against you.
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One putted it in the balcony, also getting around my watch on the stairs..XD
But he was a bit late, I got the gen
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Im not god tier or anything but if say portals are horrible youre definitally wrong. I can only imagine youve been facing nothing but rank 20 demos if your thought on that killer you dont even play is bad, that or youre juat hopping on the band wagon for some reason even though youre a surv main.
Ive gotten plenty on jumps on survivors with portals. People place them right next to gens for some reason and they get cleansed instantly after 1st use. I hide them around the corner if possible but close enough to catch survivors off guard.
If im not seeing anyone or any gen progress on the side of the map im on I crawl away to the other side of the map instantly to continue the patrol. Uhm anyways no, portals arent bad. The only thing wrong with them is you have to get survivors to destroy them if you want more. Demo should be able to close and open his own portals at will.
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What I want is for the Demogorgan to be able to turn while traveling through the portals. Teleporting towards the edges of the map is annoying, because you come up facing the wall, giving survivors free time to run away without you being able to track them. Also the leprose lichen is worthless for this reason as well. Unless they can injured survivor happens to be in the direction you're traveling, you won't see the aura.
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I think the portals are probably best used by being placed near a generator but not close enough that they can see or hear you emerging from it, and using them to get stealthy hits. You won't get the surveillance but you really don't need it anyway. They also can't destroy the portal until you use it, which means you don't waste time activating portals only for them to be destroyed before you can get any value out of them.
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It doesn’t matter what anybody says. No power in this entire game is useless. Plus, it’s a bit early to have that kind of judgement, since most people playing the Demogorgon right now ought to be pretty new at it if they didn’t play the PTB.
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This is exactly like when new Freddy was released and everyone said his traps were useless and pallets should be basekit.
Learn to use them. Learn to stop with the kneejerk reactions.
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I find his portals to be really good honestly.
If survivors destroy those portals, they are wasting time tey could use doing gens. It's like a second objective for survivors at that point.
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Dude I play the Demo as my favorite killer. Very rarely do even 1 survivor get away, and I use the portals all the time. The only drawback for me on the portals is I cant remove them myself. I used all six one match and got screwed at the end when I needed another and almost let my last guy get away.
I dont mind that survivors can remove them. I like it as 1 I know where they are now, 2 it gives me back another to be able to place. I usually wait until they pop the first 2 or 3 generators before I even start placing portals and I do it in areas back from gens but close enough I can run up on them after I appear.
You just gotta know how to work the characters, and if all you mainly use is survival characters then you wouldn't know how to use him. I flip between the two playing surv with friends and killer when they aren't on, plus doing the challenges in the rift for both.
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