Hex: Ruin why you are not seeing this straight
You are creating problem where there is none and here is my opinion why.
I am playing your game since last summer so i am fairly new to it but i have years of experience on a countless other games and thats why i think that my opinion is somehow valid since i fit in the category that you are trying to "help" with this change.
I mostly play killer but have been playing a lot of survivor too which i believe is key to have a fair opinion on this matter.
Getting to the point, ruin is more frustating for the killer than it is for survivor to resume it on one phrase. Now here is why.
Its fixed on a totem which most of the time survivors start close to it meaning killer plays the whole match with 3 perks. Its the ONLY perk you have on the game which slows the gen progress passively and that is not bad. To be sincere i thought when Oni was released that you would give a new alternative to it but i see now you are pointing in the exact opposite way.
Survivors dont need anything to counter ruin after minimum experience on the game making them running any perk build they want without even consider ruin. I use Small Game sometimes since i am not an expert but there is actually no need for it and with changes like this you are making perks which might be rarely used completly obsolete.
After "some" grinding for example i unlocked spirit because i was tired to see ruin destroyed on the first 2 minutes even if i checked it. I thought Haunted Grounds would be a good way to counter this since in theory they would have 33% chance to choose correctly. Right? Wrong. After some games running both perks i simply gave up because they destroyed ruin on their first attempt leaving haunted grounds there so instead of running a game with 3 perks i was playing with 2. Even with ruin up you can do generators so its not a deal breaker. To some killers you have to run ruin and other slowing perk even to be competetive like pop goes the weasel with clown.
On your game to a lobby to start you need one killer and even nowadays the queues time on survivor is alarming sometimes. I dont think you are seeing the big picture here because you are worried about the survivor newbies, but, what about the new killers? I found it quite frustrating in the beginning just to learn the basics of the game and thanks to your community i learned how to play and be better killer with guys like not_otzdarva, tru3ta1ent, fungoose and constantly learn more about the game on other subjects throught the king and paulie esther. My point being i learned more with your community than with your tutorials. Its a constructive critic if you ever read this. Please reconsider this and i wont say more because this ended longer than what i wanted and there is many more things i could say so i will end with this. Doctor was fine in my opinion and the changes you are presenting seem to leave him a M1 killer with a lot of struggles to catch up with survivors. For now i am going back to the fog.
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