Object of Obsession
Continuing a series of threads on the least picked perks according to Nightlight, next up is Laurie’s perk Object of Obsession (0.32% usage)
Object of Obsession - Whenever your aura is revealed to the Killer, the Killer's aura becomes visible to you and you gain a 2/4/6% bonus to healing, repairing and cleansing speed. If you are the Obsession, your aura is revealed to the Killer for 3 seconds once every 30 seconds. Increases your chances of being the Obsession.
This one is interesting because it used to be one of the most popular perks in the game years ago when it worked differently. It used to simply show your auras to each other whenever the survivor looked at the killer which made it broken for swfs on comms because it meant one person could constantly relay everything the killer did to the rest of the team with wall hacks.
The current version is a lot more intermittent, but does have a small speed bonus to some actions too. Obviously seeing the killer’s aura is a nice ability generally speaking. The main downside here, and why the perk probably doesn’t see much use any more, is that showing your aura to the killer is a pretty big negative as well. Sure the old version did that too, but it was also a lot more powerful in terms of how often the survivor could see the killer.
The tricky part with this perk is, if the devs wanted to buff it to make it see more use, they wouldn’t want to just make the auras appear more often because that would just lead it back to the way it used to be where it was ok in solo queue but broken in swfs. So I think if it were to be buffed it might have to be on that action speed bonus side. They could either make those speed bonuses more persistent, so you have them while you are the Obsession but it’s not tied to the auras, and/or they could add either gen repair or vault speed to the list since those actions are ones a lot of survivors really like getting speed boosts in.
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I think it should increase every action speed that Resilience/Spine Chill does. Perhaps vaulting speed could be increased too, but only if you're the obsession.
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Repair speed is already included
But yeah i think the bonuses should be made constant to make it actually worthwhile having, especially if they added vault speed
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I thought about this perk a lot too. As a former Freddy main, I hated it after his rework, because once in the dream, the survivor had perma wallhack up till they could bite your nose. But now, it's just not good enough. Alert is much better for any killer related aura reading.
I think the biggest issues with the perk are 1) that it is pretty much automated. You can't chose when you get the information, you get it, if you want or not and 2) that it is completely useless if the killer has no aura reading and the obsession switches (which can still happen even with DS not as commonly used now).
My idea (changes are marked in bold letters):
Whenever your aura is revealed to the Killer, the Killer's aura becomes visible to you and you gain a 3/6/9% bonus to healing, repairing and cleansing speed. When looking in the Killer's direction, your aura is revealed to the Killer for 3 seconds. This perk has a cooldown of 30 seconds if you are the Obsession. If you are not the Obsession, this perk has a cooldown of 60 seconds. Increases your chances of being the Obsession.
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