Is spine chill nessacary?
I am wondering weather or not I should be using spine chill. I want spine chill to help against stealth killers like Wraith, Ghostface, Pig, ect. But I don't wanna relay to much on it. Should I use it or replace it with something else?
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It's difficult to move away from it once you start using it and become dependant on it. It's more like dead hard in that regard.
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No perk for survivors are necessary.
It's a really good meta level perk if you ask most people though, yes.
As for growing to rely on it, yeah that's a possibility, you answered your own question if that is your concern. The only thing you should not do is freak out and hide every time it lights up, so long as you are being attentive in combination with it, then you're golden.
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Got me personally, I only ever run Spine Chill with the window vault build, but rarely pay attention to it.
If you're going to use it for stealth killers, just make sure you are looking around the map more than at the little cat in the bottom corner. The moment you start relying on the glowing cat to know the killer is coming at you is when you're too dependent on something telling you information instead of looking for it as well.
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Nothing wrong with using it, although I personally prefer Premonition.
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Spine Chill is so good, and so annoying to play around as killer...
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I sorta do as well, but the cooldown on it is way to long.
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I say go for it.
I love Spine Chill, there really is no downside to it.
You basically get an early warning that the Killer is headed in your general direction.
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Ofcourse use it for vault speeds. And plus you will get alert about killer, you will know killer coming for you
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As good of a perk it is, it is a crutch perk (I don't mean this as in it's OP). Once you've used it for awhile it's hard to play without it. It does help alot against those stealth killers, but against good stealth killers who only walk sideways its poor.
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nothing is necesary
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I don't use it and then I get grabbed by a pig. Plus the speed boost is nice.
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Took me awhile to ween myself off of this perk.
It was too powerful in my hands and I could break chase and disappear or never be found to begin with. I later realized by not sharing the burden with the team, I was essentially killing my team and was too self satisfied about being the last to die or being the only escape.
I had to give it up and learn to be chased. Great perk, very strong, easy to get addicted to. I’d recommend using it for a month and the not touching it for awhile and see if you have withdraw symptoms lol.
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It is super hard to stop using once you start it's in all my builds now because if it's not there I'm always on edge and also I just don't feel whole without it. I used to hate it the way you don't know where the killer is coming from but in the end I just ended getting used to it and learning.
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It's pretty damn useful, especially with tinkerer basically being meta right now.
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I had spine chill all the time, I got to hooked to it and relyed all the time. Barely run it now if I'm honest with you. I found it at first a massive confidence change too. But it all depends on how confident you are as a survivor. I run Kindred alot so pretty much easy to establish roughly where the killer is. And if he has bbq you can sort of see if he's coming towards you. I'd run Kindred or find a perk when a gen blows up you can also see them.
Also, treat all killers as if they have bbq and jump in a locker for 5 seconds. If they have iron maiden on they'll only see you for 4 secs and by the time they get your side of the map you've already chipped else where.
As I said , remove spine chill if you're absolutely confident.
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Can confirm that I use spine chill as one heck of a crutch. Going without probably will have me die a lot faster or run straight into the killer like a chicken with its head cut off lol.
A lot of pros can do without. It's amazing what a good ear can do. But I take it with me if I don't hate myself and wanna have a chance at building distance between me and whoever wants to chase me.
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Run what you want - I prefer Alert for my sensory perk.
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Spine Chill isn't necessary. You have a 360 degree swivelable camera, and eyes. Spine Chill isn't a bad perk, but it makes you lazy. Much like Dead Hard, or exhaustion in general (aside from Head On and Adrenaline - since Head on requires planning, and Adrenaline has an earning requirement), you'll be a better survivor if you can learn to survivor without them. You'll think more about situational awareness without Spine Chill, and pay more attention to your surroundings. Just like you'll pay more attention to loops and mind games without Dead Hard, instead of just greeding a pallet with a dead hard for distance.
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I started using it again recently with Fixated, and it was great for stealth jukes and wasting the killers time at gens. However, once I took it off I felt way more vulnerable than usual. It becomes very easy to rely on.
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Fantastic perk, and can really help not just against stealth killers, but also killers with high chase potential such as Deathslinger.
If you aren't going to be finishing a gen before the killer arrives when it goes off, the head start it can give you can be absolutely crippling to their chase.
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