Whispers is a good perk - run it or don't spend too much time searching
So I'm playing Neon Bright Yui and starting on the corner of Crotus Asylum just now as survivor (large map) - starting hitting the gen immediately then noticed there was a generator like 40m away closer to the middle so I let go of my gen at like 10% and saw the killer go running by towards the gen I was just on.
Get to M1 the generator about 40m away watching the killer doing loops around looking for this "phantom survivor" that 10%'d this generator until I finished the gen I was working on. Since someone came to join me at my gen eventually it was roughly 60seconds before the killer even began a chase with anyone - that is entirely too long of a time to be wasting in an area with ZERO survivors at the start of a match... He promptly rage quit when he had 0 downs by 1 generator left.
How this TTV superstar was a Rank 1 blows my mind because I went to his stream to watch from his point of view and he's just rambling about "Immersed BS... probably a Blendette."
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was there even a Blendette in the match?
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Rank really doesn't mean #@$% in this game. When someone reaches rank 1 killer you have to ask "What were the quality of survivors they were facing?"
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I never understood the hardon the community has for whispers. It's good twice. Once at the start of the match to work out where survivors are, and once in the end game when you want to know which gate a survivor is near.
All the rest of the match it might as well just say "yes, there are still survivors in the match."
There's so many better detection perks that work more often, more clearly, and more consistently.
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You can spend a lot of time searching an area for survivors when Whispers is lit up and come up empty handed. On the other hand, it can tell you when there's no one in the area so you wont search an area you may think someone is.
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I think you're underestimating how strong it is when you are actually aware of it's ingame distance visually - it's pointless to be near a hook with it or in the center of many tilesets but depending on the angle you're approaching generators/areas from - you can pretty much guess where the most likely places a survivor would be as soon as it lights up and find survivors very quickly. Obviously it's not foolproof and VERY experienced survivors can stalk near you after noting your behavior by dancing to invalidate the perk but it rarely ever happens like that. There's also Heartbound's point that if you weren't running it and lost even 5~10s searching a place that had no one nearby a couple times over a match then Whispers has already gained it's value as a tracking perk especially if you combine it with another to run 2 chase perks 2 tracking on certain killers who benefit highly from it.
Even still it's something I would run every single time but if you're having trouble with this specific aspect of the game... then use it to cover that weakness.
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I think you're overestimating the value of Whispers. It's a good tracking perk, it helps you avoid situations like that... And it doesn't do anything for you when you really need it, because throughout the mid/late game you're pretty much always going to have people within 32m keeping the perk lit and ruining your radar. It doesn't even help you find stealthing survivors, because even if you narrow it down to the specific rock they're behind you wasted all that time.
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It helps mid-game. There is often situations you find warm gen and looking for someone who worked on it. Then you notice whispers is off and you know you can kick gen without risk being immediately tapped because there is no one around.
But the whole thing is that whisper doesn't help to find immersive blendettes. It helps you not waste time searching is huge areas. You don't need to sniff every corner of jungle gym or shack because you know there is no one here. It saves a lot of time.
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