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Grim Embrace needs a Rework!

Clockwork_Enigma Clockwork_Enigma
in Feedback and Suggestions

Current Grim Embrace

  • Each time a Survivor has been hooked for the first time, Grim Embrace gains a token.
  • Upon reaching 4 Tokens, Grim Embrace activates:
    • The Entity blocks all Generators for 30/35/40 seconds.
    • The Aura of the Obsession is revealed to you for 5 seconds.

The Problems

  • Grim Embrace does not account for whenever a Survivor disconnects from the match, rendering the perk completely useless if this event occurs before the Survivor is hooked for the first time.
  • Grim Embrace's duration for the Entity Blocking is too little for how much work is required to get it to activate.
  • Grim Embrace also has a lackluster aura reading duration and activation effect.

The Solution: Grim Embrace (New)

  • Upon hooking or caging all four Survivors for the first time, or achieving 6 total hook stages, Grim Embrace activates and the following effects are applied:
    • The Entity blocks all Generators for 50/55/60 seconds.
    • The Aura of any Survivor within 16 meters of a blocked Generator are revealed to you.

This rework of Grim Embrace changes the perk so that it no longer just requires you to hook all four Survivors for the first time. Instead, the alternative activation method is that you gain a total of 6 individual hook states to activate the Perk's effects.

Additionally, since the aura reading is far too lackluster as it currently is, it was changed, in concept, to be range-based rather than duration based on one Survivor (the Obsession). The Obsession aura reading is just completely unnecessary and unrewarding.

The last change I've made to Grim Embrace is just the increase to the duration of the Perk, since even that was also a little lackluster given the work required to achieve it, and the fact Survivors might be able to get multiple Generators done by the time you get to use it.

Comments

  • Onyx Onyx

    No, caging should not count for any hook related perk. If survivors can't get hook related perks to work with cages, then neither should killer perks. I am okay with increasing the blocked time to 60s and the new aura reading part, but it shouldn't be 16m, it should be 8m from a blocked gen and the aura revealing part should last for 10s.

    Also, it should not count with hook states. The whole point of the perk is to get you to go and hook everybody. If it's based on hook states, then that just encourages people to camp and tunnel.

  • Zeidoktor Zeidoktor

    Yeah. The Executioner's cages are explicitly designed to not work with hook-based perks, so it shouldn't get included with Grim Embrace.

    What I might suggest to make Grim Embrace more powerful:

    * Each time a token is gained, any generators not being worked on are blocked for a few seconds. Gives it a combination Thrilling Tremors / Barbecue and Chili tracking element. Shouldn't be very long, just enough for an observant killer to get an idea where to go.

    * Retain the 4- token effect of blocking all generators once every survivor has been hooked once.

    * If the fourth token is gained by hooking the obsession, the obsession randomly changes to another Survivor, give or take any perks or addons in play that affect becoming the obsession.

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