Neighbor Needs More Ways to Split up Kids

[dusk hare]

Kids can stick together the entire round sometimes making it unreasonably hard for neighbors to win or even catch just one kid. The neighbor needs to have more tools at his disposal to separate groups of kids.

I had an idea for another button next to the radar in the neighbor room and next to other radars in the map which only the neighbor can use that when activated reverses the state of all neighbor gates in the house... this way you could use the radar to see where kids are and close gates on them from in the neighbor room and separate people then go and hunt them (you should also be able to see the outline of gates with the radar like in older versions). Or maybe there could be a way to choose which gates you want to shut opposed to activating all of them

The neighbor should not breath heavily when running unless he is really low on stamina and the sound of him using bookshelf doors should be quieter so that it is easier to surprise split off kids. It would also be a good idea to add more gates on maps 2 - 5 as there aren't many gates like in map 1, and some vents should be removed (or maybe randomly bricked off) as some of them allow kids to easily bypass neighbor gates.

Another good thing to do would be to make emotes have a view distance limit. What I mean is make emote icons only appear to other players who are close by, this way the kids can't give away the neighbor's location to players that are on the other side off the map, allowing the neighbor to get the kid without the other kids rushing to his location when they aren't near him. (this should not effect the icon that appears when a kid is downed or trapped; only effect Help, You're The Neighbor, and other contextual emote icons)

There should be even more ways to get the kids split up as well, but that is a few ways that I thought would be cool

[late walrus]

Maybe the fuse box's function could return to help split up players? Here's my idea:

The neighbor can flip the fuse box off 4 times per game, the cooldown increasing with each time the lever is pulled. This cooldown increases in increments of 30s each time it is pulled, (1:30 --> 2:00, etc.) and cannot be pulled until 1:30 into the game. When the lever is pulled, the power to the house shuts off and the kids are left shrouded in darkness, more so than they would be if all the lights in the room were turned off by hand. This triggers a The power is out! pop up and places a marker on the fuse box. In order to bring power back to the house, 2 players must interact with the fuse box by holding E. Unless 1-2 kid(s) are left in the game, in which it cannot be powered off at all. (Flashlights and lamps still work during this off period, but will occasionally flicker)

[dusk hare]

I had a similar idea except the neighbor can use it any time but has a cooldown of 2 minutes to pull it down and a cooldown of 45 seconds before kids are able to unrigg the electric board and restore power

And it would give a pop up saying "power sabotaged"

Only problem with the ideas is that the whole reason they removed it is because it buffs ghost a lot

I think what if instead of fully turning off the electrical circuit you pull it halfway down to "rigg" it

[dusk hare]

When its rigged lights flicker and sometimes go out for about 5 seconds and then blink on for a couple of seconds and then flicker out

ALso while rigged you wouldn't be able to use gates or use any levers

[late walrus]

There isn't really a way around that, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. Ghost certainly isn't overpowered.

[dusk hare]

He is annoying but yeah he's not op

Me personally I like your idea I just know holo removed it because of ghost

[late walrus]

that definitely was the reason it was removed, but the fuse box was so odd anyways

like, why did it only function as a fuse box in map 2?

[dusk hare]

It would be nice on all maps

[dusk hare]

I think it should only take 1 kid

[late walrus]

yea now that I think about it there isn't any reason for it to require multiple players

I was thinking it would be more effective at splitting up larger groups but eh

[dusk hare]

I think adding back the power fuse back is it allows neighbors to slow down the kids mission

They have to take a break to go and restore power

[late walrus]

yes

[dusk hare]

This would make the game have more horror aspect

[loud solar]

amazing idea this would change the game play

[dusk hare]

Thanks :D

Oh I just realized you can frame other kids with this feature... if you close gates from in the neighbor room but you close a gate that a bunch of kids are around they will think that one of the kids in the group is the one who shut the gate

[shut lagoon]

I actually disagree. It's sometimes so easy to win as the neighbor if you know the map well enough. I wouldn't mind of they added more doors. I feel like it would be a mistake to make any other changes

[dusk hare]

I see your point, but kids can know the map just as well. What made the alphas so good was the neighbor could cut off kids. This wouldn't necessarily make neighbors have an easier win but simply just to split kids up as well as stall more time

[shut lagoon]

Fair enough. I guess im just worried they will make a big change again and ruin the game

[dusk hare]

I think the neighbor is pretty underpowered anyway so even if this made him stronger it would be a good change

[dusk hare]

Yeah

Thats a fair thing to think

[night pine]

this is a pretty underrated idea

[night pine]

yeah there are so many ways the neighbor could use strategy with new tools

get more thumbsup, at least 20

[frozen folio]

This reminded me of the alpha where the neighbor had a portable radar and could close gates with it

[dusk hare]

Yeah

[copper plank]

yes

[copper plank]

I totally agree

this post needs more thumbsup and hopefully itll get a lot of attention

[verbal cypress]

There's traps coming up in the update so that can maybe help

Plus I'm making traps of my own in the maps like falling glue when someone grabs something

[dusk hare]

That's pretty creative

Place the glue in a way so it can fall when you interact with something

Hopefully they'll add the traps to the LE

[verbal cypress]

How I get my traps to work is to stack 3 boxes then a chair on top. Place this trap outside a door then place the glue onto the chair, the glue will go through the chair buy that's how you want it. Now if a player wants to get pass they grab the boxes causing the glue to smash everywhere and making a noise to alert you.

This is my common one above.

[potent harbor]

once their was a concept of making gates automatically\ open or close sometimes to split kids up

[dusk hare]

That would be cool

Like a motion detected gate or something

[copper plank]

bro cmon 1 like away to 30 thumbsup

then the devs will have to see and consider it

[verbal cypress]

The devs won't check it.

[copper plank]

why

[verbal cypress]

Cus they won't, they most of the time just don't add anything that the players like

If you go through feedback and check everything, what one did they add??

But hopefully the up coming update does stuff.

[copper plank]

oh

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yeah Ive seen some of the stuff they will be adding and it does look promising

and tbf some poeple have suggested random boarded or blocked doors like the alpha and beta and a use for the crowbar

so they are adding that

[dusk hare]

31.... now just gotta get to 43 and be tied with Dr Mystery's post

[tender rover]

make it like among us, sabotage events

[dusk hare]

I think sabotaging electricity would be cool

[tender rover]

add fake kids voice speakers to lure them

[potent harbor]

maybe they could use a thing like in this game scp secret lab where they sample players voice chat voices and you can play them as neighbor to sound like them

you would play recordings of their voice

[floral hinge]

That would be nice if people actually used mics

[floral hinge]

couldn't you turn off the power off in like 2020? I swear I remember someone doing it.

[late walrus]

You could turn off the power exclusively in map 2, the function was removed in the paranormal update so ghost wouldn't be able to abuse it.

[floral hinge]

damn

[dusk hare]

I wonder if any of the other neighbors have new buffs that can split up kids, like ghost will have

[night pine]

hopefully

[copper plank]

get this to 50 likes like mystery's feedback post

[thick maple]

Yes

[night pine]

Ooh

I ahd an idea

what if butchers can hook vents to dent them for 15 seconds

so another way to split off kids

[dusk hare]

That would be nice

And another buff to his hook

[dusk hare]

Revive

[night pine]

indeed

[potent harbor]

I want that saucepan buff to only apply to the flashlight pan so it's not as annoying for butcher

[dusk hare]

yes!

that would actually be so nice

[dusk hare]

40 likes finally

[potent harbor]

Well done

[verbal cypress]

Because its a very good idea 😉

[dusk hare]

Now devs have to see

[verbal cypress]

When I made one that got high same as others, (about this many likes). Nothing happens

[dusk hare]

Well it shows that a lot of people like the idea

[night pine]

[dusk hare]

Now that the summer update is here it might be a good idea to remove some of the vents

Some of them just bypass the neighbor gates

In map 1 for example, there's one in the big dinning room/kitchen that has a gate and a vent to the other level 2 area. It makes the gate pointless if kids can just walk a few feet away and get in the room anyway

And also the one in the foyer, the one that connects to the library completely undermines the gate that is there

[dusk hare]

Almost 50

[solemn hollow]

its at 50

[dusk hare]

!

[dawn ridge]

yes

[solemn hollow]

wrong chat

#level-editor-help

[floral hinge]

mb

[supple compass]

Remember the old portable radar? Oh and there's a post that talks cameras but it turned into portable radar.

[verbal cypress]

Its a good thing that the got rid of the portable radar

It will to be OP

[dusk hare]

Ok but what if they added it back but it wasn't a radar, they just made it so you could see and close gates through walls but you can't see kids unless you press the normal radar

So you could easily split kids up from anywhere

Just can't see where they are unless they are infront of you or you are using the radar button

[supple compass]

Camp at radar and be very annoying.

Speaking about radar, they removed the colours on doors.

(Magnetics doors)

[dusk hare]

Can you believe it guys, just a like away . Just in one like. Just a like away, oh wow. I cannot believe this information

[frozen folio]

what?

[remote root]

What about one of the leaders ability’s where you need to stick together?

[dusk hare]

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I think these would go hand in hand

Kid reworks and then the neighbor splitting them up

[dusk hare]

Neighbor Needs More Ways to Split up Kids

[frail plank]

This post has a lot of likes i hope it get into the game.

[lavish laurel]

maybe add these holes to all of the gates so you can grab people through gates if they're too close? this would prevent people from waiting infront of the gates too

[dusk hare]

Hmm

That actually might be cool

[night rapids]

Maybe different types of traps that could send ppl falling like in the test pilot

[lavish laurel]

holy shit 70 likes

only for the suggestions to not get added

[dusk hare]

[dusk hare]

[dusk hare]

Maybe not all the gates but would be useful for some of them

[night rapids]

Yea

Like they did with barricades

[lavish laurel]

i think only the gates that you can't get to on the other sides quickly should have holes

[dusk hare]

I edited in more

[dusk hare]

Remember this?
They gave the neighbor a portable sonar, but only the taxidermist neighbor