Remove "HEX:" from Ruin?

Ngl the fake spots suggestion helps killers and survivors

But I got a question/idea what if some fake spots injure you to keep people on their toes. Would it be fair?

like a hex last till late game and the bullshit surveilance excuse is just pathetic, survivors are allowed to stack all the movement speed perks they, be it active or passive. look we know some of the dev team got their feelis hurt and now vent on your customer base, go ahead throw all the sjw participation trophy balance at us, bhvr is beyond repair. all that drives them is the easy money from skins and their arrogance of "knowing" what the customer wants

Not really, I once had an idea where Hex totems would ''defend'' themselves and would injure the Survivor who broke it, it was received very negatively.

I would suggest maybe inflict a random status effect like Broken or make them scream but then it might feel too much like ''Last Year'' where Fiends trap boxes that explode with gas.

Peanits is not a bad killer or survivor. He's by far the best dev player I've seen on the game.

Spine Chill always amuses me about that, because there is legit another perk that does the same thing but has more limitations to it. The only reason people use spine chill is an unintended purpose: its supposed to be giving them a bonus WHILE they're being looked at, but instead people use it as a detection perk that doesn't come with a long cooldown like Premonition. Literally just missing the audio queue in exchange for not having any cooldown. absolutely as intended.

Have the killer activate a dull totem when he thinks the time is right. He walks up to it and gets a prompt. Hitting the prompt activates the totem and the effect is applied to the match.

This makes it a middle-of-the-road hex that’s viable for late-game. Not OP because the effect isn’t active all match and dull totems can be cleansed early. Not a vulnerable hex all game either as it’s safe until activated.

The ability to choose a safe totem is pretty revolutionary as well.

Don't you know? Survivor perks don't have to have a counter.

BHVR's entire balance philosophy is "killers rely on survivor mistakes", then give survivors a million non-counterable perks that fix their mistakes.

Give me Hex: Adrenaline plz

No offense but this just doesn't feel like a good reason. If this is the big 'problem' that's making you reluctant from prying Ruin off of a Totem ability and making it reliable then the solution becomes pretty simple; Nerf Surveillance. It wouldn't even feel like a nerf in the first place because as it is no one currently regresses generators without kicking in the first place unless they use Surge; an already barely used perk from a fairly unpopular killer on top of it. Not to mention that this Ruin/Surveillance synergy is already potentially making Surge an even worse pick on top of it since it doesn't work.

Ruin is used as early game pressure. But now its being toted as a late game pressure tool when Totem's are usually pretty awful at it. Devour Hope most of the time is a pipe dream than a reality, and even in those games they still often use Ruin on top of it.

This? https://clips.twitch.tv/CautiousPluckyNostrilPunchTrees

This is not an end game perk. This is not something that will reliably help pressure. Even worse, with Surveillance by the devs being mentioned repeatedly you're now stuck in a build that when totem explodes consists of a perk you might not have cared otherwise about without said synergy. Its not like this is just a cherry picked clip either; last game I was in was a Bedham where I went into Shack with a generator and the guy's ruin was illuminating god-pallet. That's hardly a hiding place. I hadn't even touched a gen yet to know if ruin was even going before I cleansed it.

As an fyi, skill disparity is the big problem with ruin. It destroys new people who likely wouldn't even need ruin to win against, and it barely gives enough time against skilled people who can 'power through it'. These people power through it because they hit greats reliably. 44-80 second gens subtracting 2 seconds repeatedly from 1-2 survivors on a gen makes these things pop lightning fast. If you don't want to add time to generator's (and who does, really? M1 simulator is boring) Great's really need to go. Then at least objective times will be sort of similar.

Survivors don't have a notification for Ruin, but they can find out that you have it if they let go of gen and see it sparking.

What rank do you play at? Because all these changes seem to be for like rank 12 and below.

I agree if this is about the old ruin yes. The new ruin is easier to skillcheck and easier to progress with. I've just done gens with the new ruin by basically just progressing on to them without cleansing. Comes down to is strength between the new and old ruin and depends on what's happening with ruin when it comes out to the live version.

Surveillance does work really well with the new ruin if anyone hasn't tried it yet you should. Still I don't think new ruin shouldn't be a hex totem since its weaker now.

Kinda figured . The way he was talking seemed like he never played red rank killer think this the only game I played where they balance around low level players instead of the high ranking ones makes 0 sense

Nay.

It would make a Surveillance Ruin Combo super OP.

You would always know where Survivors are. Even if you made it not work with Surveillance, Pop would not work either, because it would be even more OP.

Hilarious. Like I said, he is the best dev player that I've personally seen on the game. Funny how without having even really watched him you just assume he's low rank though because he has a different opinion and view of this situation. Gotta love this community.

So your answer to "hex totems can be disabled far too quickly, especially given that most killers have poor map pressure in their kit" to be "Just use up another perk slot bro, what, do you actually NEED 3 perks? Why not just git gud?"

....No