Ghostface NerfBuffs

Over the past 3 weeks of playing, I've gone up against 20 Ghostfaces ranging from Green rank to Red rank, and my record against him is 18-2 where both wins were in green rank and for obvious reasons. I win more often against Nurse, a character that can never be balanced. Solo play, btw.

The fact that he can sprint across the map without a terror radius already makes him a superior Pig, since she has to crouch and lose both movespeed and the ability to attack until after a charge time. He loses no mobility and retains the ability to attack while gaining something like a superior Spine Chill of his own. Remember when they tried to make The Pig's charge attack a one hit down in the PTB? Well, this guy got it, since he can charge his debuff in the blink of an eye, without an audio indicator like Pig, even when being spotted by the survivor he's marking. THEN, his ability is like Meyers' in that he can "hold it" (the debuff build-up on a survivor doesn't decrease over time) and use it last-second to get a free one-hit-down— something that shouldn't happen since getting spotted should pause his debuff from accumulating AND the stalk rate should be 0 for two seconds but has definitely happened to me mid chase multiple times.

While he's crossing the map in full-sprint and no terror radius, he gets told the direction of someone spotting him, prompting the player to quickly duck around a corner and pop his face out at the direction and know within 95% confidence the location of the survivor that just happened to see a sliver of him. All those times survivors walk around a corner and watch carefully the movement of the killer are now detrimental, prompting the survivor to necessarily lose movement information on him if they don't want to end up in a chase. Or even just crossing the map themselves, if Ghostface happens to walk through the room over yon and you see him for a brief second, you're now being stalked/chased.

Also, the debuff duration is entirely too long. I haven't found a single other player to survive the full duration of it if they were his primary target.

Here's what I think would balance him out:

• Reduce Exposed duration from 45 seconds to 30 seconds. (If he's chasing this long anyways he's losing). Increase Add-Ons that add time by same percent— 33%.
• Reduce move speed while under the effects of Night Shroud while not crouching by 20%— he walks same as The Pig's crouch speed. (Crouching has no additional reduced speed.)
• No longer gets a directional indicator when being revealed by a survivor. (Keeps sound notification.)
• Look at the code and make sure the 2 second rule for stalking to work actually works in every instance, cause it definitely does not at this time.
• Make survivors regain stalk points faster. The current rate of 5 points per minute is entirely stupid. Should be 5 points per second immediately upon not being stalked and 20 points per seconds after 10 seconds of not being stalked.
• Survivors Exposed from being stalked continue to hear the killer's terror radius the entire duration as if in a chase. This should give him a mind-game edge as survivors with the mark may opt to hide by pallets until the duration is up rather than risk it and working on a generator or other action.
• Increase reveal time to 2 seconds, and make the hidden Revealed counter tick down at a fast pace rather than restart the process every time. If revealed at 50 per second (to 100) then remove 50 per second while out of view. This prevents sidestepping of sightlines to reset the counter and cheese survivors.
• Increase Stalking move speed slightly (to make up for the loss of "silent sprinting" movespeed).

And maybe (aka, for PTB),

• Give a stack of {Fervor} to him for each exposed survivor, increasing all action speeds by 2%. This makes him better at chasing, pallet/generator destroying, window jumping, and so on, especially when marking a 3- or 4-man generator being worked on, while increasing the power/allure of the Add-Ons that grant longer exposed time.

Consider.