BHVR killed Hex: Ruin

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  • Adeloo
    Adeloo Member Posts: 1,448

    But that is assuming Ruin isn't gone in the first 30 sec. I'm fine with the changes if Ruin become a normal perk instead os staying a hex

  • FogLurker
    FogLurker Member Posts: 337

    Maybe on top of being an active normal perk having nothing to do with totems, the new ruin could also make it so gens regress on their own if no one is on them. If killer is now to put pressure on the entirety of the map in the early game, gens should regress if a survivor isn't currently repairing them. Also so kicking gens doesn't become useless, maybe kicking the gen increases the regression speed a tiny bit more.

  • NMCKE
    NMCKE Member Posts: 8,243

    I'm not saying this change is perfect, but I do believe this perk needs to have a Haunted Grounds effect when cleansed since survivors can go the entire game without seeing the effects of Ruin. 😁

  • silverwolf4455
    silverwolf4455 Member Posts: 496

    They stated in other posts that's that how it works. If a survivor isn't on the gen it starts regressing. But that means you cant kick it, so no pop + ruin combos

  • FogLurker
    FogLurker Member Posts: 337

    Oh really? Hmm so kicking isn't required while the totem is still up. I see, thanks for the info.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    I can express my opinion all I want. If you’re too much of a child to take it, then maybe stay off of a “discussion.” Too many of you whining about a perk change.

  • OhSkipper
    OhSkipper Member Posts: 17

    all they had to do was make it a non hex perk for it to be mid tier.. but lets butcher it and still make it a totem perk whew. ruin went from the strongest to the weakest perk so fast

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    Lmao no, I’m expressing my experience without Ruin. If I can do it, and I’m not even close to an amazing killer, anyone can do it. I literally matchmaker with reds as a Rank 5-6 Killer. I finish most games with at least 3 kills.

    actually go and play a few games without it, see how you fare then come provide feedback or complaints. Most of everyone is bitching before even giving it a chance.

    “OMG I JUST SAW WHERE THEY ######### UP RUIN” Keyword - SAW

    let’s get some constructive feedback through gameplay instead of figuratively speaking on the matter.

    “It’s going to make gen rushing that much faster”

  • DoomsdayDame
    DoomsdayDame Member Posts: 62

    This may be a distant and INCREDIBLY unlikely positive to this happening.. but, unfortunately, with the way games are done so quickly... they're either gonna have to add a second objective for survivors to get out or nerf gens by adding more time, or making it impossible for more than 1-2 survivors to work on gens.

  • MiktheSpik
    MiktheSpik Member Posts: 75

    70 percent of red ranks killers dont even use ruin cause survivors usually hit the skill checks anyways. Ranting about ruin being not good enough. Sounds like OP is a hardstuck purple rank that doesnt get why hes not climbing despite running ruin every game. "Im running ruin why am i not being handed free wins?" You know people can just hit the skill checks and not care right? "But i have ruin and im not winning" yeah people are just hitting the skill check. "So let me get this straight, if i run ruin, i dont automatically win?" Correct. "Huh thats weird. Never thought about that" try corrupt intervention, blocking the furthest gens forces survivors to walk to you which on bigger maps, like Ormond, a good swf can literally complete a gen through ruin before you even arrive. Corrupt and whispers man. Really stronk. Forces them to walk to you and then you can catch a hint when you get close. Will literally force a chase within 30 seconds most games. Use a legit strat instead of camping ruin half the game and wondering why you cant climb.

  • Financial_Stability
    Financial_Stability Member Posts: 466

    Lemme just pull out that pool chair for the survivors and hand them a pina colada while I'm at it.

    What? You wanted pineapple in it? I'm so sorry. lemme just nerf myself real quick.

  • Simulated_Hobo
    Simulated_Hobo Member Posts: 17

    Freddy just got nerfed. Before that he needed a rework because they beat him to death with the nerf hammer. So fixing a terrible design choice isn't being killer sided. Just saying.

  • cipherbay_
    cipherbay_ Member Posts: 379

    It's not like maps or perks that help find totems don't exist to find ruin right? RIGHT?!

  • BlueFang
    BlueFang Member Posts: 1,379

    Dread it. Run From it. The Ruin Replacement build arrives all the same

  • ArrowTheGreat11
    ArrowTheGreat11 Member Posts: 306

    Y’all realize Corrupt Intervention, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Thanataphobia still exist, right?

  • Snow_Lep
    Snow_Lep Member Posts: 305

    Honestly.

    It didn't need a buff, but it didn't need THAT rough of a nerf. Totem smashers will just steamroll the perk right out of the game, but they could always do that. The only thing this does is just give more time before they have to find that SPECIFIC totem.

    As said, late game it would hold a lot of power, buuutttt the totem staying up all game to be useful then is wishful thinking.


    I want to see a stat that they haven't given yet. @Peanits , wanna convice them to give us a stat showing what percentage of games a LIT totem makes it through without being cleansed?

    Be honest, if thats untrackable it's fine. Yet I think that stat should influence the idea of basing a Hex perk around being beneficial in the Late Game.




    Plus side... NOED got buffed.

  • Black_Fence
    Black_Fence Member Posts: 308

    Funny I play both to red ranks but you say how would survivors feel if Dead Hard or Adrenaline got nerfed... Let me remind you that the meta perks that have been nerfed are the following:

    SB (Exhaustion nerf)

    Balanced landing (recent stager being taken away)

    Dead Hard (Exhaustion nerf and change to make it so can only proc when sprinting)

    DS (we all know the DS rework which like ruin reword is a giant nerf)

    Borrowed Time (used to give borrowed time to unhooked and unhooker)

    Adrenaline (this is a really old one but I am only mentioning it because you did but it never used to cause exhaustion)

    Self Care (it used to be used as much as ruin is now, but was nerfed into the ground multiple times with both a debuff on the speed and a nerf to heal speed in total. Now it is rarely used at red ranks, just as I imagine ruin won't be.)

    Mettle of Man (this one needed a nerf but then again Ruin needed to be looked at)


    Hopefully ruin being nerfed will mean that killer kill rates plummet and gen times will be made longer or a mandatory secondary objective will be added. Nerfs aren't a bad thing all the time. If a nerf doesn't lead to a balance then something else will be buffed. Ruin being nerfed means that complaints will happen about gen times, eventually the Devs will give and do something about gen times. Survivors hated it when the healing nerf happened but they managed to live with it, we can live without ruin until the next buff.

  • Black_Fence
    Black_Fence Member Posts: 308

    Yes because every new person to the game was going against ruin and was not hitting any skill checks, ruin only really effected low ranks, red ranks can consistently hit greats and no totem spawns, tier 3 ruin against a rank 20 team is an easy win for anyone.

  • Maelstrom10
    Maelstrom10 Member Posts: 1,922

    Im only hoping that they change this to be a non-hex perk

    i actually absolutely love this change to ruin. don't usually run it on any killers anymore unless im doing a super gen slowdown build. this will be interesting to see. i just see it as a problem that it can be cleansed.

    newer ruin rewards the killer for applying pressure, whilst old ruin gave free map pressure for absolutely no reason. it was ******** on both sides but with this change its actually interactive, so even if it is kept as a hex perk (Which i disagree with but eh) it will be way more interactive then the old style of ruin.

    @MandyTalk @Peanits if newer gen speeds become such a problem without ruin however, would a system where gens at the start of the match/game are done slower to prevent early game pressure from being lost be added? something like a passive behind the scenes debuff until a killers first interaction with a survivor (chase or hit?) or a slight behind the scenes debuff for all gens remaining in order to make them slower, and later gens slightly faster to make it easier on killers with early game difficulty such as the trapper with his set up time.

  • Simulated_Hobo
    Simulated_Hobo Member Posts: 17

    It isn't a rework its a nerf to an already weak killer.

  • konchok
    konchok Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 1,719

    I agree with you 100 percent. I love the changes, but when attached to a hex perk they seem a bit weak.

    Hex perks need to be ridiculously strong to be worth using. Now I have no doubts in my mind that Hex ruin was absolutely cancerous at lower ranks and was pretty balanced at high ranks. But why should BHVR balance for just red ranks?

    I think that removing notifications about hex perks would be a good change to make hex perks better in general. You need to realize that a perk is active without being told that, "hey you're under the affect of huntress lullaby, maybe you should be on the lookout for a hex totem"

  • Quiet_Observer
    Quiet_Observer Member Posts: 68

    Okay put it this way, nerfed those perks to the point of uselessness.

    Those perks got adjusted/balanced

    Ruin got butchered for no reason. And end game perk tied to a totem thats going to be cleansed in the beginning of the game. Survivors get nerfs/adjustments, killers get butchered

  • TwinCrow
    TwinCrow Member Posts: 6

    I don't understand the change for ruin as to why the change according to the reasons.

    Ruin was to good against new players and bad players but Ruin was used no more than 45% of the games across all ranks while 80% in red ranks.

    But new players is the 1st issue despite its not really an issue considering the use of it. I think matchmaking is more of an issue having to wait 5+ minutes for games cause all the low level survivors 15-20 are playing swf with their rank 1-10 friends. Which hurts killer ques at 15-20 and survivor que times who aren't playing swf.

    But lets stay on Ruin discussion. The entire reason people use ruin is to prevent horrible punishing gatekeeper emblems. I can kill 4 survivors and either de pip or saftey pip simply because as a Plague I didn't M1 enough cause they never cleansed and they were able to do enough gens but still die.

    Pipping itself is horrible for killers. Not every killer functions the same. Even a trapper will get screwed with their own traps. You are also not very clear on the gatekeeper pipping change either.

    Currently, Gatekeeper's underlying points are scored as a number of points per generator remaining to be repaired multiplied by which minute the match is in. Additional points are scored for any remaining generators at the end of the Trial.

    that was the old way. You needed a lot of gens up for the 1st 9 minutes as possible and what ever you had left gave a nice boost buuuuuuuuuuuut. Devs...you say the wanted results is 2 survivors escape and 2 dead to be a balanced game but for 2 survivors to escape they have to do the gens. The old way PUNISHED killers hard if survivors blew through them gens even if all 4 didn't even escape.

    How does the new way impact it?

    If survivors are able to get all 5 gens and 1 or 2 gates up whats the worst possible outcome for a killer in gatekeeping and the best in pipping if 2 survivors die and 2 escape in red ranks for example?

    The new version of Gatekeeper is simpler: one point is scored per generator remaining to be repaired per minute for the first nine minutes. At the end of the Trial, if both Exit Gates remain closed, additional points are scored. With less focus on keeping seven generators up...

    But I need as many gens up as possible correct for the 1st 9 minutes (isn't that the same?) and my bonus after 5 gens are doing is assuming if both exit gates are closed where in a "balanced" game, 2 survivors should escape and 2 die but a gate has to be open for 2 to leave unless a key gets in the mix.

  • Konnor24
    Konnor24 Member Posts: 184

    If you agree with them and think changes made are for the "better health of the game" then im in awe. The total outcry against this (your player base) among other things proves how out of touch they are.

    Freddy got a really huge rework which is great, while Legion, Nurse and (apparently Doctor) get a big nerf. Balanced landing was fairly balanced imo, it was slightly better than using sprint burst at the cost of actually needing to fall from somewhere for it to work. Balanced landing is now pointless to use. In all my killer games since it got nerfed the only person ive seen use it was someone who didnt realise it had been nerfed. Im sorry but nerfing a perk so its no longer viable isnt good for the health of the game, for BL and same goes for Ruin.

    I play killer and survivor. Im red ranks for both. Red ranked games are so very boring and you know why? Because its so easy to rank up in this game that whenever im a killer im getting put with survivors who tbh should be green ranked, or when im surviving with friends everyone gets out easily with less than 18k BP. They're dull.

    Instead of actually addressing issues, devs are continually adding to them. From a neutral standpoint they do seem to favour survivors, probably due to the 4v1 aspect.

    I've seen lots say they wont play killer anymore, more will join that when they experience it on te PTB. And i personally know 17 people who have told me they will just stick to SWF now.

    I understand its hard to balance the game for everyone, but because newer players cant land hex skill checks? Really? What about the millions of us that had to learn the hard way and are still here? It didnt traumatize us that much and this is a problem of the devs own design. Why on earth was all the perks changed to make every rank do the same thing? Hex:Ruin at rank 1 was fine. It affected 2 people at random. It meant killers had to actually put effort into getting rank 3 and games at lower ranks wernt always constant fights with ruin. Two could do gens, two run round looking.

    Everyone should be worried about these changes because killers have stopped playing as much before and waiting times as a survivor was ****** unbearable. Looks like this will be the new norm eh.

    Gl to "the health of the game" If you believe devs are doing that im shocked at your ignorance or i can only assume you're a shill. The health of the game is terrible as it is, I dont know how making it worse and slapping players in the face is good for its health. If you want a comparison, use Game Of Thrones. Yes some people saw nothing wrong with it the whole way through but die hards stuck with it even when they saw the quality of story telling was going downhill in the hopes that it got better again and back to the level that made them fall in love with it. Thats why people stick by the game. But push them too far and the player base will decline heavily

  • konchok
    konchok Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 1,719

    You really should only be pipping if you did better than average. I feel that pipping is actually fine for killers, but it's a bit too easy for survivors. When a survivor hits red ranks the difficulty goes up for pipping but that difficulty spike should be at the purple ranks rather than red ranks. If that were to be done we would have pretty accurate ranks and better matchmaking.

  • Spooky13
    Spooky13 Member Posts: 1,471

    I don't care about the Ruin nerfs, but I care about the idea behind it. Devs are reworking things that are annoying for survivors, such as Doc, Lery's and Ruin, but this leaves killers feeling like they are just being nerfed non stop while survivors aren't being brought down in a similar way.

    Survivors complain about seeing Ruin every game, Devs nerf it. Killers are complaining about seeing Adrenaline, Dead Hard, and DS but nothing gets changed for them. Lery's is one of the best killer maps and it gets nerfed, whereas there are maps like Mother's Dwelling and Haddonfield that are terrible for killers but they don't get changed.

  • xChrisx
    xChrisx Member Posts: 917

    They are tired to see ruin in every build/killer. I think their intent is to change the meta and maybe change the repair speed based on which killer u are playing.

    For example, im playing billy= 80sec to complete a gen (as it is right now)

    And then still as example, im playing clown= 100s for a gen.

    I hope thats what they are aiming with this update in a near future

  • MrsPiggyIsSoSneaky
    MrsPiggyIsSoSneaky Member Posts: 571

    Don't be surprised when survivors cry saying they can't find a match on PTB cause no killers want to test this stupid change to ruin

  • TwinCrow
    TwinCrow Member Posts: 6
    edited January 2020

    The issue is the difficulty in pipping with gate keeper. its a bs emblem because even if 2 survivors escape all gens have to be done and there are cases where all gens are done and none escape but gatekeeper says even though you did really good getting that 4k which is above balanced results it says no. Its one of the emblems you just can't rely on to gain a pip for a killer. Its way to against it. While the other emblems can straight screw over certain killers such as the Plague but favors the Legion Heavily.

    Too good as the Hillbilly or Bubba? risk not pipping cause of the sacrifice emblem but you may do well in gatekeeper. Gatekepper right now imo is the worst emblem though for pipping. I do not think the change will be that significant especially with the ruin change for red ranks. Now nothing is holding those red ranks from doing gens. Beforehand some survivors could get carried by an early totem cleanse or someone able to do a gen when they couldn't until ruin was gone. I expect more survivors to hit red rank or at least stay in the red more so than ever. Imo they should make it harder for red rank survivors to pip in accordingly since I bet the stats will change in favor with survivors. those 80% of games that had ruin won't be affected by it now, meaning games will even be shorter unless survivors decide to stay well after trying to pip.

  • aerafield
    aerafield Member Posts: 47

    welp, I saw it coming. Im already waiting for cancerous slugging and 3-gen builds to take over the meta now. Let's see how the community is gonna like that meta

  • AshleyWB
    AshleyWB Member Posts: 4,061

    I mean he's signed it so you'll have to revert it back.

  • KingMyers
    KingMyers Member Posts: 57

    Why you baiting with troll, killers can do fine without ruin just like survivors can do fine without old balanced landing, insta heals, good brand new parts, vacuum pallets, old flash blinds, old hatch. Them trying to work on ruin shows that maybe we can get some actual needed balancing from every aspect of this game. So let's see where this goes before you break down and need a safe place

  • Butcher_Pete
    Butcher_Pete Member Posts: 29

    Reworking Freddy was not doing killers a favor. We were entitled to that rework because, last time I checked, we’re the ones giving you money. If we’re gonna pay, you’re gonna give us decent content. As for Balanced Landing, that wasn’t buffing killers. That was attempting to remove a cheesy exploit, being infinite loops. So no, you really haven’t been doing killers any favors as of late. Only doing things you simply had to do. Apologies if that sounded rude or harsh in any way, but that’s just the truth.

  • immortalls96
    immortalls96 Member Posts: 4,652

    Yet freddy already got his addons slashed so there were always strings attached

  • Star99er
    Star99er Member Posts: 1,447

    It was already pretty easy for Survivors at Red ranks this’ll make it all the more easier to gen rush killers. Should’ve nerfed gen rush since it’s the main reason why 80% of the killers have to run ruin at red ranks.