increase battery consumption or add a time limit to the duration of the Magician's shhh ability

[patent bloom]

It gets really obnoxious real fast when you play against a magician that's just holding this ability constantly for more than a minute every times he uses it. My ideas are to increase the battery consumption when using it, add a max set duration or leave the ability as it is but increase the cooldown considerably.
This would help so that some Magicians that like to hold this ability for as much as possible cannot steal + 8 mns of the game where bunnies are just playing dead getting bored.

[steady rose]

you know you don't have to play dead for the entire time right? all it does is show your outline to the magician while he is holding it, the moment he stops he doesn't know where you are anymore so it is really easy to just hide or just move to another room in the time he gets there. Plus if you stay with atleast one other bunny and a rocket or marbles each it doesn't matter if he teleports to you cause you or your teammate will be protected

it's not like the active imposters are tied to the listening and will track you down or like you will loose charge quicker if you move while the listening is on, the majority of my matches at level 12, 2100 mmr, the bunnies never stop for the listening cause all it does is show an outline and when you are opening 2 doors and hitting a sticker at the same time it does not matter

[patent bloom]

This is mostly a stealth assymetrical not a chase assymetrical , information of where every bunnie is and what they are doing is extremilyyy useful, i've been in many scenarios where i managed to sneak up to the 3rd or even 4th floor, letting the magi notice you its not an option since you need the stealth factor to set up the gears for the doors which is even more importan in hard games where most of your teammates are trapped in 2nd or 3rd, and there are more scenarios where you really dont want him to know where you are, maybe you dont have good items, you are low on battery-gears or really close to him, maybe you are trying to do a different objective that's not the one he is patrolling, You are forced to play dead for the entire duration, if its late game already and you get sent to the 1st floor and he is in 4th then yeah you dont care at all, but there a more scenarios where you care about him not knowing where you are and what you are doing than the scenarios where you dont, specially in this game where if you dont have good loot and the magi finds you are almost always getting caught really fast unless you happen to be close to a good loop.

[steady rose]

it is meant to be a stealth game but as it is now it doesn't play like that, there is no real penalty for not being stealthy as a bunny, if you are having difficulties then either you haven't gotten a good handle on the game yet or you are not looting enough or you are separating yourself from your team.

I mainly play killer and when there is just even only two bunnies together I cannot grab either of them cause I will get rampaged by rockets and marbles, and when I do play bunny I stick to at least one bunny and give them any extra tools I find and we are well off.

give the game some more time, play more matches with some skilled bunnies and you will see that the listening is not that much of an issue. I used to think that a lot of the cards weren't functional until i learned thanks to another player that in the hud next to the bunnies pfp the bunny with a card has a number to activate the card, same with mousetraps on the boxes, I used to think it was over powered till i learned that if you hold e you can bypass the mouse trap, now it is just really powerful not overpowered like I initially thought.

the game has a lot of mechanics that aren't explicitly said in the tutorial, play some matches, try somethings and you'll better see what is and what is not an issue and is really more of just a nuisance

[slim flame]

Yeah atm its more of a stun fest for the magi than anything, if the bunny play together the magi cant do sh/t if they have firework or marbles.

[patent bloom]

pretty sure i've played enough, probably like +100 bunny games, staying together after the 3rd floor becomes really complex in hard games, letting the killer know my exact position has always felt really bad and like i said i happen to find more scenarios where i really dont want him to know where i am than when i dont care, and of course i agree with the marble fireworks stun fest should be adressed but honestly that has nothing do with this post, My point is: Information matters a super mega lot, you'll play dead every time you hear the Shhh more than the times you wont, and in the vast cases where i dont want to be revealed i have to play dead for 2mns against some annoying magis that hold the ability for way too long over and over to the point that it becomes really annoying.

[slim flame]

Its not like bunny are hardly punished for getting caught in this meta anyway, 2 ropes and you are already at floor 3.

Listening ability is useless in high mmr for a reason, like you see the bunny but they wont stop just for that, since if they force they can do any objo in front of the magi.

[patent bloom]

Objs in front of the magi? The would need like what 3-4 perfectly timed stuns which is definetly possible but thats just a niche scenario no? Idk but i've really played a bunch of games and the magis presence in an objective almost always means giving up on that objective for now, and brute forcing an objective literally in front of the magi is something that doesnt really happen unless you have like 3 bunnies with a lot of stuns which again something not really likely to happen specially in higher floors, objectives like exit doors take too long and if you add impostors to the equation even less likely, i think you are right about ropes being OP tho.

[slim flame]

No they just spam stun item and they can do whatever they want.