Abot Hangman’s Trick change

[￭ Yuri ￭]

In fact the perk was one of the least used perk for nightlight stats and needed a rework/adjustment

The perk initially had the concept of revealing a survivor practically glued to the hooks as a way to tell for the killer if the hooks were being sabotaged or not.

My regret was seeing the perk changing its niche and becoming a scourge one, which does not favor the pig kit at all, since it has no synergy and more niche

That is, with the change, the killer ends up losing track of when a hook is being sabotaged and is only useful in niched scourge hook builds, which in practice makes the perk completely lose the initial anti-sabotage concept

It was much simpler to have just reworked it to make the hook closest to the killer always visible in yellow and protected by the entity when picking/carrying a survivor, so it couldn't be sabotaged, maintaining the original concept as anti sabotage perk.

ps: I could be wrong, but the changes will make the perk go from bad to practically useless, making its use even lower, since there are better perks to reveal aura, especially close to hooks that are useful to the killer when hooking, like wesker's one.

[Richard Roe]

Yeah the whole problem for the original change to hangman's is 16 meters was too wide 6 meters is often too small and the fact you have to look around while carrying a survivor means you can sometimes risk an escape for tighter pathing to a hook

I say the perk would be fine if it was 8 meters from hooks to revel survivors, if they simply MUST have this scourge hook effect make it so all none scourge hooks get their auras shown while someone is hooked giving great active usable feedback for a limited resource that encourages chases instead of SH defending and trades

[￭ Yuri ￭]

my concern is just the perk losing its original concept around anti sabotage, becoming a generic perk of revealing survivor around scourge hooks, which has nothing to do with the killer (pig) kit itself, in short, a meaningless change, making a bad perk at useless

[SirMisterDredge]

the aura reading should work on any hook imo

[AsianGirlLover]

It’s still a dead perk. If it made your scourge hooks unable to be sabotaged, even then it would be pretty niche and mostly useless.

You’ve only got 4 perk slots to work with, and there’s not enough justification to waste 1 for that.

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

It’s still a dead perk. If it made your scourge hooks unable to be sabotaged, even then it would be pretty niche and mostly useless.

You’ve only got 4 perk slots to work with, and there’s not enough justification to waste 1 for that.

But I don't think the perk should be a scourge hook one, that doesn't match the pig's kit at all, it is only useful on high mobility killers to track survivors in a generic way, not even in a niche way is it useful, as undying protects hex totems and is even better at it

It should be a perk to protect the closest hook from being sabotaged, regardless of whether it's scourge or normal. So, it would be a very useful perk as it was at the time that hooks were perma sabotaged, especially now against boil over squads