The Pig's Add ons Reworked/Improved
Some of Pig's add ons are good and some are just bad and uninteresting, so i just decided to show you my opinion on what they should be like, so let's start:
Leather straps that hold fabric in place for nimbler movement.
Slightly increases crouch movement speed.
Symbol of a broken way of life. Reminiscing about her past-self hardens her determination.
Slightly increases ambush attack range.
Slightly increases ambush charge time.
The medical file of a cancerous man. Fills the reader with dread and recklessness.
Slightly reduces ambush charge time. (Unchanged)
A modification to the Jigsaw Box: the lubricated parts make the search a more delicate exercise.
The Jigsaw Box's Skill Check has a 25% chance to be Counter Clockwise.
Slightly Increases the Jigsaw Box's Skill Check Speed.
Stacks
A recording of Jigsaw, explaining the game's rules to Amanda. Reminiscing about her past-self hardens her determination.
Moderately Increases Ambush attack range
Slightly increases ambush attack charge time.
A modification to the Reverse Bear Trap: sharp blades attached to the Trap's interior lacerate the victim with every movement.
Survivors Caught in a Reverse Bear Trap Suffer from the Haemorrhage and Mangled Status Effect, If the trap is removed the effects remain for 120 Seconds or until they heal.
A modification to the Jigsaw Box: the addition of razor sharp wires makes it extra difficult and potentially painful to search them.
The Jigsaw Box's Skill Check has a 50% chance to be Counter Clockwise.
Slightly Increases The Jigsaw Box's Skill Check Speed.
Stacks
A latched wooden box with a satin lining, offered as part of a last will.
Increases Available Reverse bear traps by 1 (Unchanged)
Survivor's Caught in a Reverse bear trap suffer from the Blindness status effect.
Survivors Cannot see jigsaw boxes aura until they are 32m away or less.
A modification to the Reverse Bear Trap: a poison that is not fatal, but weakens the body and makes it nearly impossible to recover fully from any effort.
Survivors Caught in a reverse bear trap suffer from the Exhausted and Hindered status effect.
(Hindered is just gonna be 3% or 4% reduced walkspeed so they can reach the boxes, nothing too crazy like clown's bottle hindrances)
A modification to the Reverse Bear Trap: mouth spikes, covered with crusty and volatile rust spots that make injuries particularly difficult to heal.
Survivors suffer from the broken status effect for 120 seconds if they remove the reverse bear trap
A disturbing, yet brilliant, Trap design laid down on paper and annotated by Jigsaw.
Increases Available Jigsaw Boxes by 1.
Slightly Increases The Reverse bear trap death timer.
(+10 seconds)
A modification to the Jigsaw Box: the addition of interlocking razor blades makes it impossible to move suddenly in the Jigsaw Box without slitting one's wrists.
Tremendously Increases the Penalty of failed jigsaw box skill checks.
Skill check success zone reduces by 50%
Great Skill Checks Cannot be performed while interacting with a jigsaw box.
(this will be amazing with razor wires)
A few mechanical parts that allow the creation of challenging Jigsaw Boxes and easier to install Reverse Bear Traps.
Moderately increases the time it takes to search a jigsaw box.
(+2 seconds) used to be 1.68 seconds.
Slightly Reduces time it takes to place a reverse bear trap.
A timer that has been fiddled with. A spring in the mechanism forces the gears to turn faster.
Moderately reduces the reverse bear trap death timer.
Survivors cannot see jigsaw boxes aura until their trap is activated.
A disturbing, yet brilliant, Trap design sketched in detail on a sheet of paper.
Increases Available Jigsaw boxes by 1. (Unchanged).
This collection of mechanical parts allows the creation of extra-challenging Jigsaw Boxes and Reverse Bear Traps that are easier to install.
Tremendously Increases the time it takes to search a jigsaw box. (+4 seconds). was 3.6 seconds.
Moderately reduces the time it takes to put a reverse bear trap.
A black metal box containing a knife and various medical supplies, such as bandages and compresses. Deep cuts reduce stress and awaken the senses.
All survivor auras are revealed to you for 10 seconds when a survivor removes a Reverse bear trap
The Ambush Attack is silenced.
Not all games need to have the same rules.
The Reverse bear trap will activate without the need of activating a generator
The aura of jigsaw boxes will only appear once for 5 seconds.
Slightly increases the reverse bear trap death timer
(+10 seconds)
"Listen, there are rules." — Jigsaw
A blackmailing Letter for the attention of Amanda. Fills the reader with rage and focus.
While crouched, see outlines of survivors within 20m
Moderately Increases ambush attack range.
Moderately Increases ambush attack charge time.
"Amanda, you were with Cecil the night Jill lost Gideon. You killed their child. You know it and I know it." — Amanda's Letter
This list was super fun to make and i'm more than eager to hear your opinions, are they good or too op or still bad?
Comments
Everything here is a lowly rando's opinion and nothing more.
Combat Straps - Fine
Shattered Syringe - Fine
Workshop Grease - Assuming I am understanding it correctly, still not good IMO.
Video Tape - Fine
Razor Blades - Not a fan, though a part of that has to do with Sloppy Butcher still invalidating every single add-on that inflicts Hemorrhage and/or Mangled. Another part has to do with Hemorrhage being trash.
Razor Wire - Same as Workshop Grease.
Face Mask - Interesting idea...I actually like it.
Slow-Release Toxin - Hindered is a good idea on paper, but in practice is a dangerous line to tread when it comes to the Reverse Bear Traps. The way I had personally designed a Hindered add-on for Pig gave it a larger Hindered penalty that did not apply while in a chase and also was at a higher rarity. This isn't me saying your idea is the wrong way to go about it (mine could easily be the wrong way to do it), but I'd say an idea such as this could easily end up being either too weak if played safe or too OP if trying to make it viable.
Rusty Attachments - This has the same problem as most of the current "RBT penalty" add-ons, which is that it does not play into the strength of the RBT (stalling for time). It promotes tunneling pretty badly, especially if combined with your Slow-Release Toxin idea or your Amanda's Secret idea.
Jigsaw's Annotated Plan - Fine
Interlocking Razors - This seems like it would be not very useful on higher-ranked Survivors and back-breaking on lower-ranked Survivors, especially when combined with Razor Wire and Unnerving Presence.
Bag of Gears - I've always felt weird about this one because it never seemed terribly useful without Crate of Gears, but I'm not sure if buffing it is the right way to go about it (especially when combining it with Crate of Gears). I'll say that I am unsure of this one.
Tampered Timer - Also an interesting idea. Tampered Timer is an add-on that does absolutely nothing unless it kills, but figuring out if it needs to be buffed or not (and if so, how) is a tricky issue for me personally. My concern with this idea specifically that I really feel like RSN2 should be base kit. I might be okay with this if something else was done at the base kit level to improve the RBT's consistency in stalling. Of course, considering you are also planning on buffing Crate of Gears (even if it is a small buff), maybe this change could be a little more problematic than initially thought? Idk. This one is hard to say for me.
Crate of Gears - I'm not sure this one needs to be buffed.
Amanda's Secret - I would make it only reveal the location of Survivors not searching through a Jigsaw Box. Revealing the location of the Survivor doing the boxes means you can eventually figure out which box you need to camp to ensure the kill, which is not something that should be encouraged. Not to mention the aforementioned synergy with your Rusty Attachments idea. Not a bad idea otherwise.
Rules Set No. 2 - I think this idea has the same problem as the current Tampered Timer, which is that it does nothing at all unless it secures a kill. Given that Survivors can already be put into a situation where they can't start searching boxes until their timer starts, which is not really much of an issue for them, I don't believe this will make for a very good add-on as is. That being said, I admittedly would still use it if it were an add-on.
Amanda's Letter - Fine, I think?
For Amanda's Letter is better to just remove the reductions of RBTs and Boxes.
"But that would be too OP"
and? there are more OP pink addons (Iridiscent Heads, Judith's tombstone, Redhead's pinky finger, etc.), it's an ultra rare addon and won't be new to see another OP pink addon.
@IamFran
The downsides of Amanda's letter of fine it's just that the benefits that it gives are far outweighed by it.
I would say 24 m would be a lot better and boosting the ambush speed is actually pretty decent way to go it turns Amanda from more of a trap Focus killer to an ambush Focus killer
appreciate the well detailed feedback, for workshop grease and razor wires it means that the red arrow in the skill check will turn from the opposite direction, this needs some heavy testing to see if it makes skill checks hard. tbh i don't know how i can make workshop,razor wires and interlocking razor decent since skill checks are pretty easy in general, also you made a good point in rules set no.2 since it's pretty useless if it doesn't give a kill. imma think of something else. as for amanda's secret it only activates if a survivor finishes searching a box, meaning if it activates no one is searching boxes (unless 2 ppl r trapped i guess)
Edit: actually i have a better idea for amanda's secret
edit 2: changed amanda's secret, rules set no.2, rusty attachments