Blights "broken add-on"
I've been having a blast with the blight lately. Especially while using his compound 21 add-on. This is the add-on that shows the auras of survivors after a slam. I heard that it is supposedly getting changed, and I hope this won't happen. I think the perk is a fun way to play the blight. Instead of changing it, I think they should make it an ultra rare add-on and swap out the blight tag to a green add-on. Thoughts?
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McLean said they won't change the rarity.
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I hope they switch it's effect with the soul chemical.
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I'm A-OK with it being a green but they either lower the range by 4 meters or so or lower the time the auras show up. Doing both would really hurt the viability of the addon.
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I hope they change the aura read to two seconds, but my guess is that they brutally overnerf it.
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Compound 21 + Alchemist ring. There’s literally no getting away from that unless you are at a decent tile.
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Why exactly is this considered OP?
Many killers have aura reading add ons, and none of those are considered OP.
Blight still needs to hit the revealed survivors for it to be of any use.
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I believe it's because of the distance of the aura-reading itself, along with the rarity and his speed. For example, Oni has to hit someone in his strike, and then his is only 12 meters with Family Crest, and it's an ultra rare. Wraith's is also only 12 meters, and he can only use it while in cloak, and it's a Very Rare add-on. Huntress's only lasts for 5 seconds, requires you to have hit the survivor with your hatchet first, and is also a Very Rare add-on.
Compound 21 lasts for 6 seconds, has a 16 meter radius, is activated by just slamming into the wall (which can be cancelled and put you into a short fatigue, or you can use you sprint to then close the distance), and is currently un-counterable via lockers, as a survivor with their aura hidden to you by a locker will still cause the scoring event to happen.
So yes, for it's rarity it's pretty nasty. I don't think it's OP, but when you pair it with a good build, on a good Blight, on a decent map with something like Canker Horn, Vigo's Journal, or Compound 33, it can get nasty.
Post edited by unluckycombo on5 -
I think it is considered OP because at the moment the main "counterplay" to Blight is that he simply loses track of survivors pretty often due to his low camera position. This addon counters that and makes his power extremely strong, also countering a bit his low maneuverability as you have enough time to read and predict survivor movement with the aura.
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The amount of free info you get from this addon is insane.
16m aura reading for 6 seconds whenever you slam into someting + using anything to counter the aura reading (using certain perks or hiding in the locker) is useless because the scoring event will still tell you when someone is around,even if you can't see any auras.
This addon is pretty much like having a waaaaay much better I'm All Ears without a cooldown.It really isn't ok in it's current form.
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It's funny how people call aura reading addon OP when in actuality it doesn't make a huge impact if you can juke blight in the first place, but completely ignore an addon 7 that makes chaining rushes instant
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I don't know why some people consider this addon OP. Aura reading addons on Bubba, Wraith and Pig ain't OP and neither is this. Maybe reduce the range to 12 meters (same as the Wraith's all seeing has) and duration to 4 seconds. Problem solved.
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But Myers has 16m and 32m aura reading range.
Heck there are even perks any killer can equip for aura reading.
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Survivors can equip items and perks to see the killer's aura.
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There is no other aura reading addon than can proc so easily like this one. The blight always has ot bounce around, so he doesn'T even have to get out of his way to use it. And it activates everytime. He can even easily use it for searching: A worked on gen without a surv. to be seen, let me smash into the wall and use the aura. There's really not much of an effort to get the effect, with no limitations for using it and next to no counterplay for survivors, so I can totally see that it's problematic
The other killer aura addons are either not as powerful with similar rarity (Hag, Doctor), comparably powerful with higher rarity (Clown, Wraith), or considerably more powerful with (heavy) restrictions/side conditions (Myers, Pig). So I wouldn't be to surprised if the effect gets weakened somehow, be it lesser duration or range, or both.
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If they changed it so that it would apply on a rush attack rather than a slam and increase the radius by 4 meters, I think that would be perfect. It'd become a really good snow ball add-on.
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Wait, what?!
Wraith just needs to be cloaked, and Myers only needs to be stalking to use their aura reading add ons.
They can theoretically have it switched on for 100% of the match.
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Doctors is kinda easy lol and you have wraiths aswell or plagues or pigs and oni ..I mean cmon it’s not really OP it’s just strong ..what about survivors perks to see killers ? Or there key addons to see the killer? I don’t see people complaining about those
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Are you really comparing slam to a cloaked Wraith which can't hit you until you do that slow uncloak animation and a T1 Myers that essentially needs a whole map offering and 3 perks in order to even get the full benefits of that add-on. Compound 21 us just to strong for green or Iridescent value. Maybe if they cut the reading to 8 meters instead of 16 and the time from 6 to 3 it can be classified as a purple or Iri.
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Lol na it’s ok right now it’s not op maybe really strong but not OP
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It’s just that it’s only aura reading. It tells you where survivors are. Unless you can hit them it doesn’t mean anything.
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I explicitely put wraith addon as an example for similar utitlty, but higher rarity. It also has a shorter range and the wraith has to uncloak, which will alert survs (except wraith has silent bell, of course). So it's a little bit harder to use than blights offering, with a higher rarity.
For Myers, sure his wallhack is superior to the blights, but this comes with a heavy price, ether being EW1 the whole game (being slow, no lunge, no bloodlust) or being EW2 the whole match with decreased walking speed. Myers wallhack does only work properly in indoor maps, with many los blockers, just because you are slower than normal and need to catch them unaware, otherwise they can just run away from you. Blight does not have this imitations, he can use his aura addons on every map and get use out of it. Overall, mirrors are much more powerful, but come with restrictions, and they are still a higher rarity.
Let me point out, I'm not arguing that the blights aura addon is the most powerful, it is not, but it's really strong without any restrictions and easy to trigger. On top of that, it's easy to get, since only rare, so you can get many of it in bloodwebs. There's no other killer addon combining this utility, ease of use and availability.
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Doctors is easy to use yeah, but blast goes on cooldown and if you shock someone thats hiding, you found him due to the shock and not due to the aura. Wraith is comparable, although a little bit "harder" to use (you have got to uncloack, which will alert survs. Blight can just pinball around and hit or go into fatigue and then hit, without surv expecting it). Plagues addon is busted and borderline strong, maybe op, but you first have to get them sick, and it does not give you any utitlity to find healthy survivors hding in a bush. Pig has to crouch and thus is slow, its also only 12 meters. Onis is really strong, but can be avoided by the survs. All three of the last are ultra rares, where the blights is only green (rare).
I did not argue that it's op, but it's really strong, and possibly to strong for it's rarity. Let me copy form my response above:
"Let me point out, I'm not arguing that the blights aura addon is the most powerful, it is not, but it's really strong without any restrictions and easy to trigger. On top of that, it's easy to get, since only rare, so you can get many of it in bloodwebs. There's no other killer addon combining this utility, ease of use and availability."
Lastly, this has nothing to do with survivor auras, so please avoid this whataboutism. Even if we go there, the ring addon is heavily limited, since the keys power will run out fast. Survivor perks always have conditions to trigger the killer aura, but they are usually limited to some seconds and the killer not being near you so the aura can only used for repositioning, but not in a chase. The only equally powerfull surv perk combination would be OoO with Sole survivor, when you see the killer but he does not see you. This would allow you to constantly avoid the killer by playing stealthy, were the Blights addon can totally deny the stealth play.
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I actually agree with you, that compund 21 seems to strong. I was just responding to the claim that other aura addons exists, so it couldn't be so strong. I wanted to point out that this addon has way to much utility and ease of use to warant a mere rare category.
Edit: Ah sorry, you didn't actually respond to me, my bad.
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