My first post here! Had no idea this sub existed! And I hear it's the best DbD sub!
(Sorry for the long post)
I decided to try out Pig in the event, running my standard build on her. (Monstrous Shrine, Third Seal, PWYF, Blood Warden with Crate and Rule Set 2) the idea is "let's play a game" and have them make choices... keep them busy with armed bear traps, punishing altruism with deep wounds, blindness, and getting survivors off gens or boxes or the team dies faster on hook. Usually in normal queue I fair a few head pops or I slow the game down enough to snowball them.
I know basic killers struggle in this event, I have been doing well enough with Houndmaster, Knight, Bubba, and Trapper as my regulars (I been playing a wide variety of killers though)
I was not expecting a 3k or 4k but I was going to play for them, of course. I don't slug for 4k either so the last survivor has a chance.
But these back to back Pig games last night were brutal. Coordinated teams, good players, constant table resets, portal+invisibility buffs in both matches, no pressure with the bear traps, etc I was powerless and frustrated
Game 1: Temple of Purgation, I was struggling and managed a, 1K ending on a score of about 35k, but all 4 survivors scored over 40k. Constant table resets, poor RNG for me, coordinated altruism, Sabo hooks, beamers, stacked second chance perks to tank hits plus the constant invisibility. I tried for the Blood Warden play and I thought I could get away with it, but we were too close to the exit, they broke my nearest hook so I dropped my slug away from the door and pressured the Sabo player until she was down but I think they could read the play and left their teammate before getting locked in.
Game 2: made me want to crash out. Pig at Freddy Fazbear's, I have had Trapper games like this where I'm getting "bullied" with flashlights, table resets, etc. But with Trapper, if I push through they usually fall apart as I start moving my traps into the focused areas with the remaining couple gens and hooked survivors. But this Pig game had me losing my mind, mostly because it was back-to-back portals and table "spamming"
I felt like I was going to be on someone's bully or shame reel. I couldn't keep pressure. I had 1 early hook and then the rest of the match was constant table resets, invisibility morsals plus the portals so you can't follow anyone. I'm constantly back at square 1. I had swapped out PWYF for Sloppy but of course it doesn't do anything when tables are set. It felt like a repeat of the previous game.
I only started getting some pressure back during dessert course where they can't set the table settings. I finally got 4 total hooks! I got a 4k because I finally got the obvious 3-man SWF in the corner with me and their slug, everyone injured, waiting out the EGC timer before picking up their teammate and getting to the hook not broken behind the tile, locking everyone with Blood Warden. 35k points.
The lowest scoring survivor was live on TTV so I jumped in to say GGWP, complimented the coordination and how frustrating it was and GL next. She had somehow not figured out the context clue and went off about how that was not frustrating at all, that it was such an easy game, and that they were a solo too, and the Pig was bad and couldn't do anything, etc, and "she only got lucky" with the one perk therefore it "wasn't a loss" for the survivors. I revealed that I was the Pig, she back-peddled slightly, yelling out "OHH!" and calling me "Pig" with an obvious inflection. She said that she could understand why it would be frustrating, that she would never play killer in this mode, continued on about being solo and the team all played very good and she doesn't count it as a loss cus I only "got lucky" lol (her team carried her and she had the lowest score at 25k, I was playing FOR BOTH and baiting them so I would've call it luck. She also could have left. She was injured so it's not like she could do anything to help, and she's the one who opened the gate allowing me to make the Blood Warden play, so hanging out in the exit for awhile and then running deep into the map to watch the corner T+L I had them at and then getting locked in was all on her)
I then switched to Knight and Freddy, 2 games each, before bed and had much easier time with them.
Pig has become one of my most fun and favorite killers to play as since she received her buffs and I love going in with her using a gameplay style that feels like something from Saw. According to the DbD stats page, I do have over 60% kill rate with her, which I was surprised to see that high.
But I might just bench her for the rest of the event. My playstyle as Pig doesn't seem to work here and I'm at a loss how to enjoy her while getting completely destroyed. Regular games don't feel like this.
How is everyone else playing around the event with her? I'm curious to try other styles or builds
Thank you!