Slight Buff to Hexes: different colors
Hello everyone,
we all know that Hexes are in a very bad spot right now. A lot of achievments depend on hexes being not that rare, but many killers dont see the value of Hexes these days, with survivors knowing all/most of the spots from the top of their head and the "high risk, high reward" tagline is borderline misleading advertisement.
I offered quite some solutions to the problem, but this time I will just ask for a very simple change: give each hex totem a different color!
One of the real headaches with Hexes is that you don`t know which is which. You might have Devour Hope and an Undying out there to protect it and an Hunted Grounds as a nasty surprise, but you have no way of knowing which is the juicy one that you want to protect. So here is a solution: give the Hex totems different colors or hues depending on which is slotted first on the load out. BAM! Killers can now make meaningful and tactical decisions depending their hexes without going on a Sherlock Holmes-style deduction session, while chasing some survivors.
This wouldn't even be that big of a buff, but it would allow you to know from the start which totem you might invest to protect and not to leave too far behind.
Here is a possible color code: 1st Hex - red, as the standart, 2nd Hex - yellow as most secondary aura readings are, 3rd Hex - now it gets tricky, as white is already taken by Pentimento, but the glyphs are here to help BLUE or PURPLE, same as for a 4th Hex if you would want to go for a full Hex build.
I know that this might overload a Killer with all kind of colors, but very few builds would require 3 or 4 different colors, most have one main Hex and another one as a backup/support.
What do you think? Or any other colors that I am missing? We could also give the first Hex a big black border, so that it might stand out a bit more. OR we could give each Hex a little checkmark-style box in the loadout that you can tap until you get the color your want. And then you can sell killers the "Hex totem color pack" for 50 aurics and call it a day :)
Comments
I like this idea.
It has an interesting counterplay. Survivors can observe the killer and notice they are protecting one totem in particular and know that they have to get that totem cleansed or have their hope devoured.
Colored coded Hexes is an interesting idea.
On a tangent I also think Boon perks should have unique HUD icons so survivors can tell which effect they're benefiting from when they're in range of a Boon.