Wiretap and open-handed
I just read that open-handed doesn't work on wiretap? Is this true? And if so, why is that? Shouldn't open-handed affect all aura reading abilities? Why wouldn't it work with wiretap? That makes no sense. Open handed is already a pretty niche perk and if it doesn't even work with all aura perks, what's the point? It works with kindred so why wouldn't it work with wiretap??
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Everyone can see Wiretap's aura. Let's say that everyone has Wiretap and Open handed, they can see the killer forever and that's not fair for the killer since they can't see you. Imagine that every gen has Wiretap on. We don't want that to happen, do we?
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Correct, they do not work together because it would be too strong to have wallhacks on the killer within 30 meters of the gen especially when the killer doesn't even have a clue that it's happening. Imagine playing on midwich with 4 wiretaps and open-handed; you'd basically see the killer everywhere on the map and they have no idea that they need to kick gens to remove it.
Unlike Kindred, there is no real downside to having that aura reading. The price of Kindred is the loss of a hook state. That's a big deal, and is why Kindred + Open-Handed is balanced but Wiretap + Open-Handed wouldn't be, along with the fact that the killer knows exactly when Kindred could be active (not whether it necessarily is or not, but they know it's not doing anything to them if they're not near a hook, or if no one is on the hook), but has no such information for Wiretap.
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I've been using Wiretap a lot as a survivor, and I do agree that it would be broken if it worked with Open-Handed. Even as it is now, wiretap often provides a lot of value, especially on Midwich, RPD, and The Game.
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it is inconsistent with the perk's details though. one perk affects the perk's aura reading while another perk does not. Personally I have been experimenting with repressed alliance+wiretap. its like my new favourite combo. you activate wiretap on generator then you block generator preventing killer from kicking it. so you get wallhack's on a loop while killer is unable to kick the generator to disable the perk. this is amazing for extending chases.... its almost doing more for chases then exhaustion perks. Wiretap+repressed alliance is such a blast to play. I hope there is no negative changes on that.
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Yeah, I can see how that would be really broken but it's weird that there's no indication in game that they don't work together
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That’s a combo I was thinking about too! I should try that out sometime.
I do agree it should be made more clear in-game.
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