CoolAKn

It gets very boring having several rounds in a row facing killers that can one hit down (Michael, Hillbilly, Leatherface, or a few others with perks that allows for one hit down).

in Does Any Else Hate Playing Survivor Comment by CoolAKn October 11, 2018

Give me a couple of weeks, and I will be maining Jake until I get him to Level 41. I recently got Dwight to Level 41, and I am in the process of using up all of his offerings, and using the points to level up Meg. The process will repeat with Meg: get her to Level 41, use up all her offerings, then move on to Claudette, etc.

in Lack of Jakes Annoys me Comment by CoolAKn October 11, 2018

Sometimes, it's just very poor RNG. I spawned near a generator, and started working on it, revealing Ruin was in play. Leatherface came to patrol the generators, so I backed away, and I found Ruin in a spot that's actually pretty easy to miss, unless you are coming from a specific angle. Further into the match, I was being chased, and I saw a dull totem inside a "U" wall of tires (I had gotten into the habit of cleansing dull totems), but I got caught and hooked. After I was rescued, I went back to the dull totem (it was near where I was hooked), and this time, it was lit, and someone else just became NOED's first (and last) victim. Both hexes were in pretty good spots, but then, there are other games where the Hex is just sitting there out in the open, literally like a beacon. People (killers primarily) ought to screen shot totem spawns, and let the devs know which spots are garbage (so garbage I feel bad finding it almost immediately).

@Baklavah said:
The way I see it, you have 2 options, 4 if you want to be brave. Yeah, I've made this kind of a post before, but it's been long since buried. The reason this post is being made is because all of the hex perks are pretty much useless except for NOED at this point. R1 survivors ignore Ruin, and the remainder of the time Ruin is removed from play within 30s of the match starting. It's not fun to use such decent perks if you're going to be running 3 perks for the entire match instead of the 4 you start with. You're gimping yourself. So, my suggestions are as follows:

Option 1: Make the totems harder to find. Less obvious. DO NOT PUT SURVIVOR SPAWNS IN FRONT OF THEM!

Option 2: Remove the light, and allow the unused hex totems to act as decoys. This makes the real totems harder to find, and makes survivors waste time hunting for them.

Option 3: When hex totems are destroyed, the survivors that destroyed them should receive a curse. This curse can stack up to 4 times, reducing their action speeds by 15/20/25/30 %.

Option 4: When hex totems are destroyed, a mini-effect of the perk that was disabled remains in play for 180s.

These options are MORE than fair considering the ridiculous amounts of perks survivors have that counter everything the killers do.

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Wrote "patch" instead of "match". Corrected this.

As a survivor main:
*Option 1: Yes. Make them less obvious to find. There are some excellent totem spawn locations, and some garbage ones. They need to be better hidden especially given how fragile they are. Remove all garbage spawn locations.

Option 2: No, but some hexes are revealed too soon, such as Huntress Lullaby is revealed when you start working on a gen, before it's even gotten a token. It should be after the first hook. If they make hexes harder to find, Option 2 is unnecessary.
Option 3: Kind of, just have that survivor suffer from the effects of the hex for maybe 60 seconds.
Option 4: Alternate (or in addition) to Option 3, give the Hex about 30 seconds to fully dissipate.

in Hex Perk totems need a rework. Comment by CoolAKn October 10, 2018

I had my first experience being part of a SWF, and it didn't feel very special. No outside communication, so really it was just like any other match, except I felt a bit more obligated to save the person I was with (I met them the match before when they were playing killer and I was the obsession facing Rancor and NOED; I was so close to escaping).

in Does Any Else Hate Playing Survivor Comment by CoolAKn October 10, 2018

@AshleyWB said:
Always doing something is what determines a good survivor from bad survivor. Too many bad survivors are at high ranks, they shouldn't be there.

Emblems should consider how much of the match you were actively doing something during a match.
I'm tired of being the one doing gens or whatever and getting hooked only for the rest of the survivors to be scared to even move a muscle. I always end up dying in most of these matches.

I completely agree. Had a match last night, where I had to be afk for half of it. I mostly repaired a generator, and was being chased by the Doctor, when my mom demanded food (she doesn't care if I'm in the middle of a game), so I led the Doctor into the basement, and I pointed at the hook, but he just hit me once, and left. I went to make her food, and I came back to the game (the Doctor came back, downed me, and carried me to hook by a corner of the map, someone rescued and healed me at some point, so I was just standing in front of a hook). I then helped repair the final generator, and escaped, which granted me a pip. It's rather sad I can be afk for more than half the match and still pip,

in Penalize teammates for not doing anything Comment by CoolAKn October 9, 2018

KILLERS (part 2 of 2)

Trapper
Unnerving Presence - hides notification for 5 seconds
Brutal Strength - generators regress an additional 1%
Agitation - grants the ability to bump survivors out of the way while carrying a survivor.

Wraith
Predator - scratch marks linger 2 seconds longer
Blood Hound - fresh blood stains are extremely discernible
Shadowborn - grants 10% resistance to blinding

Hillbilly
Enduring - grants 10% resistance to being stunned
Lightborn - 10% recovery from blinding
Tinkerer - 5% speed boost when triggered for 3 seconds

Nurse
Stridor - grunts of pain happen 10% more often inside terror radius
Thanatophobia - penalty applies when a survivor dies
Nurse's Calling - reduce terror radius by 25% when survivors are healing

Shape
Save The Best For Last - tokens can be granted after obsession dies
Play With Your Food - gain tokens from losing any survivor
Dying Light - other survivors receive penalty while obsession is in the dying state or on the hook

Hag
Hex: The Third Seal - each affected survivor grants the killer a 3 meter bonus to aura reading
Hex: Ruin - Hex Totem becomes 50% darker
Hex: Devour Hope - Hex Totem becomes 50% darker

Doctor
Overwhelming Presence - hides notification for 5 seconds
Monitor and Abuse - additional FoV increase
Overcharge - successful skill check will still regress generator

Huntress
Beast of Prey - Takes 5 seconds longer to lose bloodlust
Territorial Imperative - reduces range to 28 meters
Hex: Huntress Lullaby - Hex Totem becomes 50% darker

Cannibal
Knock Out - while in the dying state, survivors suffer from blurred vision and 25% reduced crawling speed
Barbecue and Chili - auras revealed for 6 seconds
Franklin's Demise - destroys one add-on per item

Nightmare
Fire Up - grants bonus for EACH repaired generator
Remember Me - obsession becomes affected by Remember Me
Blood Warden - triggers once an Exit Gate is opened

Pig
Hangman's Trick - sabotage action becomes 50% louder
Surveillance - effect lasts 24 seconds
Make Your Choice - cooldown reduced to 45 seconds

Clown
Bamboozle - ability to block a second vault location for 50% of the time
Coulrophobia - hides notification for 5 seconds
Pop Goes The Weasel - time extended to 45 seconds

Spirit
Spirit Fury - stun effect reduced by 50%
Hex: Haunted Ground - reveals all survivor locations for 3 seconds when cleansed
Rancour - Interactions with the obsession trigger when the hatch is opened.

Generic Perks
Bitter Murmur - range extended to 24 meters
Deerstalker - reveals crouched survivors auras within 8 meters of the dying survivor
Distressing - bonus 2% terror radius
Insidious - no terror radius for 5 seconds when starting to move.
Iron Grasp - stuns will not free survivors
Hex: No One Escapes Death - Dull Totems become 25% darker; when triggered, the Hex Totem gains an additional 25% darkness
Hex: Thrill of the Hunt - effects no longer tied to a totem
Monstrous Shrine - 5% reduced unhooking and healing speed while in the basement
Sloppy Butcher - adds a second stack of Mangled
Spies from the Shadows - stillness crows show up 50% sooner
Unrelenting - increases lunge range by 10%
Whispers - Entity's voice becomes louder when facing in the direction of a survivor, 45 second cooldown

in What if Prestige... Comment by CoolAKn October 9, 2018

SURVIVORS (Part 1 of 2)

Dwight
Bond - survivors revealed by Bond can see your aura when within 8 meters
Prove Thyself - range extended to 12 meters
Leader - range extended to 12 meters

Meg
Quick and Quiet - all slow actions have no noise
Sprint Burst - speed boost lasts 4 seconds
Adrenaline - speed boost lasts 4 seconds

Claudette
Empathy - survivors revealed by Empathy can see your aura when within 8 meters
Botany Knowledge - healing debuffs become 75% effective
Self Care - reduces self heal noise by 25%

Jake
Iron Will - dying state grunts of pain reduced by 25%
Calm Spirit - disturbed crows will not caw
Saboteur - reduces sabotage noise by 25%

Nea
Balanced Landing - speed boost lasts 4 seconds
Urban Evasion - walking speed increased by 25%
Streetwise - range extended to 12 meters

Laurie
Sole Survivor - location not revealed if outside terror radius
Object of Obsession - slows killer movement speed by 2% when revealed
Decisive Strike - 1% wiggle speed increase

Ace
Open Handed - range extended 1 additional meter
Up The Ante - 1% luck for all survivors
Ace In The Hole - chest search 10% faster

Bill
Left Behind - 2% repair speed for the whole trial
Borrowed Time - survivors put in the dying state gain 10% recover
Unbreakable - reduces dying state noise by 25%

Min
Technician - 2% repair speed
Lithe - speed boost lasts 4 seconds
Alert - give 2% speed increase while active (crawling, crouching, walking, and running)

David King
We're Gonna Live Forever - healing rescued survivor grants a token
Dead Hard - dash forward lasts a bit longer
No Mither - 10 second bleed out timer when hit

Quentin
Wake Up - other survivors can see Exit Gate auras when within 16 meters
Pharmacy - found items have 10% more charges (in-trial only)
Vigil - range extended to 12 meters

David Tapp
Tenacity - reduces dying grunts by 25%
Detective's Hunch - gain a 5% interaction speed bonus for revealed items for 15 seconds
Stake Out - time to gain tokens reduced to 12 seconds

Kate
Dance With Me - no scratch marks for 4 seconds
Windows of Opportunity - range increased to 24 meters
Boil Over - 1% wiggle speed increase

Adam
Diversion - thrown rocks also produce scratch marks in the direction thrown
Deliverance - while Broken, heal others 10% faster
Autodidact - +10% skill check chance

Generic Perks
Dark Sense - killer's aura is revealed for 3 seconds when a generator is repaired
Deja Vu - grants 2% repair speed for revealed generators.
Hope - lasts 135 seconds
Kindred - range extended to 12 meters
Lightweight - scratch marks are 25% wider
No One Left Behind - 1% speed boost when Exit Gates are powered, rescued survivors gain 1% speed boost for 15 seconds
Plunderer's Instinct - reveals auras of items left on the ground
Premonition - cone increased to 55 degrees
Resilience - 1% bonus interaction speed
Slippery Meat - 1% wiggle speed increase
Small Game - cone increased to 55 degrees
Spine Chill - skill check chance increased to 15%, success zone size reduction to 5%
This Is Not Happening - skill checks trigger 10% more often
We'll Make It - triggers whenever a survivor is rescued at 50% speed

in What if Prestige... Comment by CoolAKn October 9, 2018

I very much like the idea of gaining a 5th perk slot when you prestige, and gives people a reason to. I'd like it a bit better if it was available to both killer and survivor though. You have a very similar idea I had, where getting to Prestige I made the 5th perk a Tier I perk regardless of its current tier, and the ability to gain a tier when you prestige more. The 5th perk could initially be locked to one of that character's unique perks, with the option to expand and include generic perks (but never teachable perks).

Perhaps instead of having a boosted T3 perk when you get to Prestige III, each time you reach Level 50, the 5th perk becomes boosted (something like half a tier), so getting to Prestige III, Level 50, grants you a boosted T3 perk.

Alternately, just have the 5th perk be boosted when you reach Prestige III-50. For your Devour Hope example, it could have varying effects, such as require 1 less token to mori survivors, extend the cleanse time by 25%, make the totem blend in better with its surroundings, etc. I think the boosted aspect should just be a slightly enhanced perk, not just an additional tier. I can make several suggestions for boosted perks.

in What if Prestige... Comment by CoolAKn October 9, 2018

@michaelmyers87 said:
SenzuDuck said:

No you don't.

I bet you don't have a screenshot within the last month of playing a match like that.

So, to show you face 4 DS and 4 BNP, you post a screenshot of 1 DS and 0 BNP?

in Survivors areop. Comment by CoolAKn October 9, 2018

@MrMyers said:

@kate_best_girl said:

@MrMyers said:
There's already something exactly like this that exists: teachable / unique character perks. Unless you mean adding a 5th perk slot, or just buffing survivors outright, this idea wouldn't do much good for killers. Now, even if it was for killers too, killers already have their own unique abilities, so it would be much more useful for survivors. This would anger those who play killer even more, and in my opinion this idea is destructive and quite dangerous.

Exactly teachable perks which can be taught to everyone and I did talk about various debuffs which would come to certain survivors with the passives like for example Feng vaulting 10% quicker but her exhaustion recovery speed is reduced by 10%. This would make it so Feng can easier survive killers like the Huntress or The Nurse while also being weaker towards killers like Wraith, Trapper, And Doctor. It would make an actual Meta and provide actual reason to play new survivors other then "They have a nice coat."

So you just want to add an extra teachable perk for survivors?

I imagine they would do something similar for the killers for the sake of balance.

in Can we have passive survivor differences? Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

I'd be fine if you (as a survivor) had to play the character you loaded in with, and only with whatever item you selected beforehand. Survivors would still be able to change their clothes, perks, add-ons, and offerings when necessary.

in Killer lobby change Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

@kate_best_girl said:
But you see thats the problem is that there isn't any reason to even add new survivors to the game because they have no purpose

Variety of appearance. I pick who I main based on appearance, and I would not like it if my character is given a crappy trait, and I am made to choose a survivor I don't like, because their trait is better. That's one of the issues I have with killers, some of them just look better than others, but their powers force you to choose based on your play style, and you end up playing a killer who you are good with their power, but you don't like their appearance. If killers can pick and choose their powers like survivors can pick and choose items, that would be a very interesting change.

in Can we have passive survivor differences? Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

@Dabrownman1812 said:
With passive gains comes passive losses to balance them out. This also creates a meta and you'll see a character tier list so it encourages variety to a point. Anyone who vaults faster or has any extra performance in chase will be picked due to them having a higher rate of survival.

Agreed. I like just being able to pick a survivor that I like based on how they look, instead of having to grind for a survivor I don't care for, just to have a bonus trait. F13 was a mixed bag because everyone had different stats, and it can be difficult finding one that suits your play style. The character that I mained was good at repairs, but terrible at stealth. Survivors are very balanced between one another because there aren't any significant differences between them (aside from females being smaller than the males). Killers are unbalanced because they do have specific traits (powers) with their character, so you don't really get to "pick one" like you would with survivors. We already have meta perks, I don't want to see meta survivors (Claudette is already a bit of a meta survivor).

in Can we have passive survivor differences? Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

Just...don't use it if you think it's unfair. There are a lot of killer add-ons I probably will not use because I don't think they would be fair, but I won't advocate they be removed from the game.

in Wraith nurf needed immediately Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

I've always thought the Basement was the Entity's room, and (s)he probably doesn't care for decor.

in Different sorts of basements Comment by CoolAKn October 8, 2018

@DemonDaddy said:
I run Technician , self-care, sabotage and leader. I don't have many of the meta perks, but technician has allowed me to go unnoticed more times than I can count

Technician is one I would like to eventually get in my build, for the same reason.