Elusive on unhooks, Babysitter/OTR powercreep?
Babysitter is still a strong anti tunnel perk often brought alongside of Deli, while I will say that OTR is not as meta as it was, removing scratch marks, grunts of pain, blood pools and aura read off the hook basically makes these picks worthless, just like Borrowed Time. Borrowed Time never got a rework, so will these perks just stay as is?
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Bhvr said that elusive will be added for now just to see how well it helps against tunneling and if it works well then they will probably consider those perks after that.
Its a pretty big change, so I'm glad they are just looking into it before changing other perks first.
I hope they collect data all the way until the next chapter even.
Because who knows it could end up horribly and skyrocket kill rates. (Probably not tbh but who knows) And then they would have changed those perks for nothing
Realistically, its a buff, the idea is to make tunneling harder, you come back to hook, theres only one set of scratch marks. Assuming the unhooked survivor isn't stupid and immediately walzts to mid map they can stealth and get a full reset (especially paired with Resurgence). I do not know how it will go, but I feel like it just further kicks lower tiers in the nuts. Tunneling can be necessary for pressure, a blight or billy has no problem spending some time using their power to rotate around and attempt to find the elusive survivor but a trapper or ghostface simply cannot spare wasting precious seconds for a patrol that might not even find them the survivor and start a chase.
I strongly disagree that 10 seconds of elusive makes babysitter even noticeably weaker as an option. You still get strong information to make decisions on your end from the aura read, it still functions well as anti-tunnel if the killer is returning to hook and manages to spot them with the intent to take that chase, and the base duration of the scratch mark/pools of blood hiding is 3 times longer than the new basekit effect.
I think once they "solve" tunneling or at least the root of the problem they will likely take another look at these perks, or they could get changed with the upcoming perk overhaul.
Elusive power creep is a mistake and should not happen.
The level of hand holding has become obscene.
honestly Elusive is an interesting idea for unhook
Now we need a perk that makes unhooking silent. They tired it basekit in the anti tunnel PTB a year ago
Ok ill happily trade it for the extra 5 seconds of endurance back
Babysitter lost a niche but it was 2 perks in 1, don't forget. its not merely Elusive, Babysitter solves the heal dilemma after unhook with the aura.