Question about Scourge Hook: Gift of Pain
This seems a perk to incentivate getting first hooks instead of camping someone who is your first hook which is super nice but i'm interested in the penalty. Does the penalty remain if Survivors get 1 shotted and skip the injured process straight to the dying state? I doubt BHVR would allow this but ...
Gift of Pain at least in the bare minimum has some synergy with Dying Light, get 4 first hooks, get 9% + 6% from DL stacks on 3 survs and the Obsession only gets the 9% from Gift of Pain cause DL doesn't affect Obsession. This seems nice if you can get 4 first hooks early. That's 3 people on 15% penalty plus Obsession on 9%. Please correct me if it's not additive but multiplicative, that changes things a bit and makes it slightly weaker i suppose but the concept is still sound and it's still something. You could then simply not hit the Obsession and have them keep the 9% penalty through the whole match as they'd be the last kill.
I suppose the way to counter it to just stay injured after unhooking and you'd only get the DL penalty but then you're still with a minor penalty and injured, that benefits any killer. But there's also Lucky Break, Iron Will, No Mither, Resilience that help the Survivors when injured so cathing these Survivors might not be that easy afterall.
Overall i gotta say i like the Perk, it has a good design philosophy behind it, a decent effect, a decent counter, some synergy and counters We'll Make It.
Comments
Seeing how you can't repair or heal while on the ground and there is no way to go from downed to healthy it doesn't really matter.
No matter what they will reach injured state before the slowdown matters