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Freddy partial rework

NuclearBurrito NuclearBurrito
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The goal here is to sidegrade Freddy such that he is harder to play and less focused on gen control, without making him overall weaker.

Here are the changes:

  • Dream snares hindered fades gradually over the duration (aka: average of 7.5% hindered). Consecutive snares will refresh the duration and hindered but won't stack. (thus at any given moment the effect will never exceed 15%)
  • Dream snares take an additional 1 second to arm
  • Dream pallets are always accessible using the E key to place a fake pallet
  • Interacting with a trap reveals the Survivors aura for 4 seconds. This aura reveal stacks with consecutive traps.
  • Start the trial with 6 Dream Tokens. Dream tokens are not restored automatically when a trap is consumed or replaced (more on that).
  • Gain 1 Dream token whenever a Survivor spends 30 consecutive seconds in the dream world, the UI will show when a token will be given to all players. You can never have more than 10 tokens at once. You also gain a token when a Survivor enters the dream world.
  • Snapping a Survivor out of it increases the time required to do so by a flat 2 seconds instead of doubling and caps at 8 seconds instead of 16
  • Teleporting to gens starts off cooldown and works on completed generators. However, asleep Survivors only decreases the cooldown by 10% and does so by increasing the speed the power bar fills, rather than making the power bar start partially filled on teleport.
  • Canceling the power puts it on a 20 second cooldown instead of 10 seconds
  • Teleporting to a generator is faster or slower depending on it's distance from you. Gens within 32 meters take 4 second to teleport to and gens further than 32 meters take 6 seconds to teleport to. The icon above the gen when selecting it should reflect if you are getting the faster teleport or not.

Addon Changes:

  • Wool Shirt/Outdoor Rope/Jump rope - Survivors interacting with Alarm clocks takes 100%/150%/200% more time. Increases the wake up action maximum duration by 0/2/4 seconds.
  • Swinging Chains - When a Survivor enters or exits the dream world reveal their aura for 2 seconds
  • Sheep Block/Cat block/Unicorn block - Survivors enter the dream world 5/10/15 seconds faster
  • Z block - Asleep Survivors give dream tokens 10 seconds faster
  • Garden Rake - Start the trial with 2 additional dream tokens
  • Prototype Claws/Paint Thinner - Survivors interacting with a dream trap have their aura revealed for an additional 2/4 seconds

Comments

  • NuclearBurrito NuclearBurrito

    Here's the idea:

    Dream Snares are currently freddies bread and butter in a chase. But the thing about them is that because you can easily set them up for free and they are so effective, there is basically no decision making during a chase. You just place snares down willy nilly and win.

    That said, a slowdown effect means a self-slow defeats the point, and without his snares he sucks.

    So, instead of giving some kind of self-slowdown when placing the snares, I gave him simultaneous access to dream pallets so that I could take power out of the snares. And then make traps in general a semi-limited resource so you can't just throw them around willy nilly.

    The teleport changes mean he teleports less often but buffs it's usage as a chase mixup tool, and nerfing it as a gen pressure tool. Not that it's now weak as a gen pressure tool, because you can totally still use it like that.

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