Description
"Born to be a disciple. Ready to submit to a greater cause. This is your calling."
"It's not your time yet. Now go on!" — Taurie Cain
Once per Trial, and while you are not on Death Hook, press the Active Ability button while standing in front of a Hooked Survivor to unhook them and trigger the following effects:
- Trade 1 Hook Stage with the other Survivor to their benefit.
- Causes you to scream, become injured if healthy and suffer from the Broken Status Effect for 160/140/120 seconds.
"It's not your time yet. Now go on!" — Taurie Cain
Related perks
Other perks from Taurie Cain or survivor pool
Meta & origin
- Tier
- A30 of 182 survivor perks share this tier
- Introduced
- Doomed Course2024 · $7.99
Patch history
- Patch 10.2.1 (2026-10-14) — Surrender and End Trial; Survivor Condition - When there are no other human survivors, and at least one bot, the remaining player gets the option to Surrender. (was Abandon); Survivor is considered Surrendered; Killer Condition - When all remaining Survivors are bots the Killer gains the option to End Trial. (Removed the "in the Dying State condition")
- Patch 10.2.0 (2026-10-05) — With the release of 10.2.0 just around the corner, we wanted to take some time to talk to you about a handful of the many changes that will be happening from PTB to the Live release - and a few changes that won’t. We...; A look at some changes; Removed the deactivation condition for other Survivors.; Dev note: We understand your concerns around the impact of the condition of this perk deactivating after one use for all Survivors for solo players who cannot communicate. Therefore, we have removed this limitation.
FAQ
Shoulder the Burden — common questions
How to unlock it and how it ranks this patch.
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Unlock Shoulder the Burden via Taurie Cain — it is a survivor perk tied to Taurie Cain. Add it to a loadout in the Build Creator with Shoulder the Burden pre-filled or see how it ranks on the survivor perks tier list.