Why do i think removing notification from pain resonance is a bad idea.
I can believe the change is motivated only to remove pain res and DMS combo.
However completely removing the notification is a terrible idea here's why:
I really hope the devs will someday understand that killers need and INSTENTVIE and REWARD for not staying under the hook and enjoying marshmallows. The notification is a very healthy thing in this perk because it gives you the information and the instinctive to don't camp.
What's going to happen after the nerf is that killers will just simply stay under the hook and camp the survivor because they will be no information to work with.
So please remove the scream so it doesn't work with Dead man's switch anymore but let the notification stay since its a healthy thing.
Devs cannot complain about killers camping and AT THE SAME TIME make changes like that.
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A single perk aint the cure to campin
The nerf was justified, it was a perk that did literally everything
If the intent was purely to deal with DMS + Pain Resonance, they could instead highlight the gen's aura for a few seconds.
I wouldn't mind if it didn't explode (aka no dead man's combo) would still like to know if a survivor is on a gen tho. Still scream but no forcing them off
Your incentive and reward for not staying under hook is more power in chase and immediate regression on gens you kick - go get em, tiger!
Yeah but you had to get a down in the first place, I will say combined with dead man's it's alot but by itself it's very balanced.
If a killer really needs information of knowing where to go next to not camp, then why not use an actual information perk like BBQ? Pain Res had too much going for it that avoided the need for other perks. Now at least we can still see more variety while Pain Res still has a good strong effect. I assume that if a killer was going to camp for the slightest reason as this then they were probably going to camp anyway.
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Yeah killers are getting a lot of buffs to incentivise them to not camp and tunnel already.
Now what the game needs is to decentivise camping and tunneling by properly nerfing those strategies. Pain Resonance alone won't do anything in that regard.
You clearly don't play killer if you think being a Scourge Hook wasn't a big enough downside already.
It wouldn't matter about notifications, if a killer wants to camp they will. Killers like Artist used this to camp and guard gens.
I think the fact it kept the gen regression makes the perk still good enough to use.
Or they could just not be boring a go play the game and look for other people??? The explosion isn't what causes people to leave the hook. People who want to camp will camp regardless of what information they have
The only way to lessen camping is to give survivors tools to play optimally around it. The nerf to Pain Res addresses the no-win situation the perk put survivors in: stand next to the gen until the killer hooks or continue on the gen, scream to reveal your location, and possibly proc DMS.
They should definitely change the name of the perk if the survivor working on the gen isn't going to scream. A generator giving off sparks after a hook doesn't bring to mind pain passing from one survivor to another.
Wrong, I just dont see myself as a victim :)
A single down netted you:
Instant Regression
Further Regression if no one was on the gen
Info on which Gen was getting attention
Info if some one was on the gen or not
Pairing it with DMS was just the cherry on top. Im not saying the perk was OP, Im just saying for a single perk it does too much
To one single gen. We have plenty of perks that "do everything" but limited to one instance. Rancor for example is Bitter Murmer and NOED plus a Mori for one survivor.
Any perk that drives the killer away from the hook is a healthy perk. All this will do is ensure decent killers still need to run BBQ in every build. And by decent I mean the non-camping kind.
Then highlight the aura of the gen instead?
If you don't know which gen Pes Res has affected, it's a virtually worthless perk. If a survivor is on it the regression will be countered in about 5 seconds of repairs anyway, and you have no recourse to pressure that gen, because you don't know which one it is.
I guess Thrilling Tremors will becone the new meta perk, until that gets nerfed to impotency too.
Thing is Rancor's information is out of your control and could happen at any time, it also only lasts for 3 seconds while also giving your obsession information.
People who camp will continue to camp and those who don't will continue to not camp, I don't know why people think a singular perk changing is gonna make a difference.
"Virtually a worthless perk"
You are buying yourself 14 seconds for simply getting a single hook. Its not like you were weren't going for hooks without Pain Res.
The whole point of this upcoming patch is to change the meta, not just the meta of the opposing side
Because it makes camping less rewarding than not camping.
There's more than two types of killers. Yes there are those that will camp regardless, and those who refuse to camp regardless. There's also a massive middle ground of people who camp when it's most viable to do so, or because they feel it's their only recourse.
Killers camp because the hook is a beacon for survivors. It's the one survivor objective you know has to be dealt with, and your main priority is finding other survivors.
If you have any other indication of where a survivor could be, then you have a viable alternative to camping.
Pain Res isn't even a year old yet. Guess I'm going back to my old meta of Thrilling Tremors.
Sure does shake things up... /s
You're not buying yourself 14s if that gen is going to be completed anyway because you don't know which one it is.
So if you fall within that middle ground, run Surveillance
Devs want the Killers to Stay camping and tunnel is not that obvious ?! XD
Drinking while reworking on perks is not a good combo xD