Why are survivors not crouching on the hag's traps?

Yes, but just realize that getting to rank 1 isn't THAT hard, especially with good teammates, luck, and time. So... you will still get bad rank 1 players, just less of them.

@Fengminni said:
Something that really triggers me when playing against the hag are those awful survivors that still at rank 6 do not understand that you have to crouch on her traps when rescuing someone.. seriously at this point I just want to dc when playing against the hag, because of all of these idiots. Wish I could enjoy just one game playing against her, but no, I always end up with a ######### team. Does it get better at rank 1 and 2? 

People aren't used to her since her buff.

Hags a lot stronger traps are everywhere now. Traps used to be in predictable locations but now random traps aren't a waste of time on the hags part due to the new speed.

You move really slow if you're just base crouching across the map mixed with the new unpredictability of traps...

Running up to the hook is stupid though.

I had a game today against the hag, she hooked another survivor and that Claudette decides to full-sprint to the hook to unhook her teammate and after doing it one more time I got found by the Hag and that freaking Claudette ran to me (the third time she ran even though she knew that the hag placed her traps) to unhook me.

I wish we had an option to kick survivor who try to unhook you when it isn't safe!

I think it's also an issue with the visibility of her traps. Unlike the trapper's bear traps, her traps are barely visible triangles on the ground. I unlocked her recently via shards and after playing a few games with her I think it's safe to say that in my experience, next to nobody ever gets past the traps.

It's 4k in every game with the Hag now, even at higher ranks. I love how good she is now. She can play mindgames in loop, without losing the sight of the survivor. But I still believe, high ranks will adapt to her new changes. It's just that many players don't realise how good she is now, mostly survivor mains. 

I've seen survivors use it as a way to get hatch. Unhook last person, set off trap, run over to hatch. If your playing solo and it's the hag be ready for folks to Sabo you on purpose. 

Where in the game is her power explained in such a way that a survivor should be aware of mechanics that I consider hidden, and non intuitive?

Egonic said:

Where in the game is her power explained in such a way that a survivor should be aware of mechanics that I consider hidden, and non intuitive?

While I believe it is mentioned in the tips you get the first few times you face a given killer, you can also learn this intuitively by observing other survivors.

The simplest way is when you're hooked, you watched the Hag place a trap, and you see a smart survivor crouch-walking to the hook without setting off the trap. Or you run past a crouching survivor and set off the trap they're trying to avoid. OR you run past a crouching survivor to beat them to the unhook and set off the trap they were crouching to avoid. OOOR you run to a gen another survivor is already on and set off the trap they crouched to avoid.

There's a pattern there, I just can't put my finger on it...

@Master said:
Since piping is so easy as survivor this also means that a lot  bs reach high ranks. I've noticed though that red ranks aren't that ######### anymore even though there are exceptions too

Adding to this: Survivor is so easy, a streamer literally did it with one hand.

@Esheon said:
Egonic said:

Where in the game is her power explained in such a way that a survivor should be aware of mechanics that I consider hidden, and non intuitive?

While I believe it is mentioned in the tips you get the first few times you face a given killer, you can also learn this intuitively by observing other survivors.

The simplest way is when you're hooked, you watched the Hag place a trap, and you see a smart survivor crouch-walking to the hook without setting off the trap. Or you run past a crouching survivor and set off the trap they're trying to avoid. OR you run past a crouching survivor to beat them to the unhook and set off the trap they were crouching to avoid. OOOR you run to a gen another survivor is already on and set off the trap they crouched to avoid.

There's a pattern there, I just can't put my finger on it...

I don't remember seeing those tips, got an example?

As for the rest of your post, I definitely don't consider painting up possible scenarios where a player who pay attention might have had the opportunity to draw parallels between their actions and actions of their teammates as very good reasoning to explain why survivors don't know about a mechanic, or actually it's a very good way to explain why some survivors don't know about it.

I disagree with you calling that intuitive as well.

Egonic said:

@Esheon said:
Egonic said:

Where in the game is her power explained in such a way that a survivor should be aware of mechanics that I consider hidden, and non intuitive?

While I believe it is mentioned in the tips you get the first few times you face a given killer, you can also learn this intuitively by observing other survivors.

The simplest way is when you're hooked, you watched the Hag place a trap, and you see a smart survivor crouch-walking to the hook without setting off the trap. Or you run past a crouching survivor and set off the trap they're trying to avoid. OR you run past a crouching survivor to beat them to the unhook and set off the trap they were crouching to avoid. OOOR you run to a gen another survivor is already on and set off the trap they crouched to avoid.

There's a pattern there, I just can't put my finger on it...

I don't remember seeing those tips, got an example?

As for the rest of your post, I definitely don't consider painting up possible scenarios where a player who pay attention might have had the opportunity to draw parallels between their actions and actions of their teammates as very good reasoning to explain why survivors don't know about a mechanic, or actually it's a very good way to explain why some survivors don't know about it.

I disagree with you calling that intuitive as well.

Apologies for the snarkiness, I was very tired when I wrote that.

I don't know of any site that has those pre-game tips collected. You only see them the first few times you face a given killer. There are posts complaining about them on Reddit and the Steam forums from August of last year when they were first introduced. I tried to link a Reddit post and it threw out my entire post here, sorry.

You're right, intuitively was not the correct word there. Perhaps observationally would be better. 

Unfortunately, with more and more games being distributed primarily through digital download we don't often get a manual. The information is out there, though. Wikis have essentially replaced the old game manuals these days. Besides, a manual wouldn't have included the information in question, as the initial version of Hag traps would still trigger if you crouched over them.

I suppose they could create a tutorial for going against each killer. Honestly though, I think that would be a huge waste of time that they'd have to repeat every time they reworked anything mentioned in the tutorial. We actually had people complaining in the forums about doing the current tutorial even though it gives a BP reward. 

That pretty much leaves putting it into in the written tutorial section in-game. I don't know if the devs have stats on how many people have read what's already there, but I doubt the number is very high. If people want to know, they probably just Google it these days. If they're unwilling to do an online search, I don't think they'd bother to read the in-game tips.

I guess the best bet would be to just put a hyperlink to the wiki on the bottom bar of the main menu.