Now that Eruption is added to the ranks of aura reading.
With Eruption having aura reading now, totaling 20 killer perks that give survivor aura reading. When does Distortion get nerfed? Seems kind of scuffed then if 1 perk could beat 20 perks consistently (add add-ons).
This comes from a match where a whole team had distortion and I was told my 1 aura reading perk. (nowhere to hide my beloved) was a crutch that I should quit running.
(I'm just venting about a bad wraith match)
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Gonna point out the same thing as with the old Stridor vs Iron Will: it's not one perk disabling it, it's four.
All survivors must have distortion to block aura reading in full. Aura perks still function even if one survivor is immune.
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I mean, I could argue the same thing about eruption only incapacitating 1 survivor and not all 4. But it still needed to get gutted I guess?
But to be perfectly honest. I don't even mind distortion as it is, like I said this was a vent post.
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No it needed the status effect removed and then it would of been fine.....what we got was scorched earth protocol.
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Never thought I'd see the day Distortion is being called for a nerf. My boy finally made it, almost brings a tear to my eye.
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People really underestimate how strong distortion is. It's so easy to gain tokens back that only killers/powers/addons that can easily eat through them gain advantage (and as of now I can only think of two killers with this advantage: full aura reading huntress thanks also to her short TR, or plague with black incense, maybe there's some more but otherwise when facing killers with full aura build I still have zero problems gaining back my tokens before they all expired).
I still can't understand why gaining tokens in chase is allowed, or why they don't change it to gen progress % instead of TR.
I'm saying this as someone who's been steadily using Distortion for a couple of months now. It's really that good
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I mean, if you want everyone to stick to the same 4 perks of DH/UB/AD/BT with maybe 1 or 2 PT and COH then we can nerf Distortion. Sure.
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Playing Devils Advocate here:
Survivors can also Use Boon: Shadow Step, and Off the Record to prevent Aura Reading. Of the Aura Reading Prevention Perks, Distortion is Decent, consistent, but often only Temporary. Whereas Off the Record is stronger, but you lose the effect the moment you heal someone or touch a gen after being rescued, and while Shadow Step is the strongest and most consistent, it relies on Zoning yourselves, and isn't that practical unless at least 2+ survivors bring it in and boon multiple totems around the map.
There's also Sole Survivor, but yeah... that ones conditions are just too stupid to consider wasting a perk slot over.
Personally I prefer shadow step, but convincing your teammates to take it up so you can cover the map in Scratch mark-Free, Aura Blocking fields, whose effect lasts for and additional 15 seconds (or 60m if running forward) after you leave the fields range, is a real pain unless you're in a SWF. I honestly think it's really slept on, as my Easiest survivor games happened when the whole team used it to great effect. Seriously, the killer never knew where we were, even after snuffing them a couple of times.
Distortion though is still a very good Aura Blocker that also gives you info on what perks the killer has, but unless you find yourself consistently in the killers TR to recharge it, it's only gonna last until 1 or 2 gens pop, or less if the killer brought more than 1 aura reading perk/add-on. Distortions greatest weakness is a Stealth killer with Aura Reading perks/add-ons, which I find to be a doubly bad situation for anyone running it. Overall, because of Distortions Temp nature, I don't feel it really needs a nerf.
Lets also not forget that Survivors have multiple Killer Aura reading perks as well, and an Item + Add-on that basically give them wall hacks. Again its all defeated by stealth killers/stealth perks, but tbh and not sure if it's just me, I run into Stealth Killers more Rarely than I do the others. Like maybe 1 out of every 20+ games or so I'll run into a Wraith, GF, Onryo or a killer running a Stealth Perk like Trail of Torment, so I find that using at least 1 Aura Reading perk is more consistent and beneficial than not.
IDK, I guess what I'm trying to say is Survivors have more options for defeating those 20 killer perks, and even aura reading perks of their own that are more consistent and useful than most of the killers aura perks, and if If any of them deserve a Nerf, it'd be Shadow Step, but because hardly anyone runs it, the devs do not care.
As someone who plays Survivor and Killer, I'd say I'm actually very grateful that Shadow step is slept on so much, because that perk would make playing killer a living hell when not only is any aura reading disabled, but so is basic game mechanic tracking (scratch marks). They can pretty much make the whole map a Tracking Free zone, and If I was playing killer against that, It'd drive me nuts.
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Only nerf it needs imo is for the tokens to not build up if in chase
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I use it from time to time too, and while strong in the games that matter, I get just as many games where I get zero value from it and it's a wasted perk slot
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Hang on, more Aura perks for killers mean Distortion should be nerfed.
Does that mean less Gen perks for killers mean Prove thyself, Hyper focus, Resilient should be buffed?
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When is Fearmonger getting nerfed? Seems odd that I don't get value out of Fogwise now that so many killers are running it? Obviously I'm being facetious. But, my point is: not everything needs to be nerfed to match something else otherwise it becomes pointless. It's just the luck of the draw. Also, oblivious is easy to live without provided you understand the killers actions. Killer has BBQ? Hide in as soon as you see someone has been picked up, wait in the locker for 4 seconds and bam. Killer gets no value out of BBQ for me - no oblivious needed. Its not often a perk you see imo.
ironically you've come from a match as the wraith, who automatically negates any survivor aura reading perks for a good chunk of the match. No perk necessary.
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You don't get zero value. You know an aura reading perk *isn't in play* too. It's still information, even though less strong
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Distortion is probably one of the more balanced survivor perks. It gives a strong effect that can be regained but doesn’t feel oppressive to the killer
Nerf distortion and we’ll just see more of the same survivor perks which is not good for the meta
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With multiple ways for killers to have aura reading, that helps burn distortion stacks faster than they regenerate. Not to mention, you were playing Wraith who can spend most the match undetectable thus limiting a survivor's ability to gain stacks back.
I don't see a need for distortion to be nerf since it's finally in a decent spot where it's worth running, but not to a degree that you see everyone bringing it.
Also I don't think new Eruption is great aura reading perk. SWF on comms can still negate the aura reading which brings it back to the same issue of a perk being much weaker against swf.
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I think it’d be fine if it just didn’t recharge in chase, and only while you were in the terror radius outside of chase. As it is, it’s too easy to never run out of tokens against most killers.
That’s all it needs.
Yep I agree with everything you just said. And I use it a lot too.
I actually went against Black Incense Plague the other night with Distortion and while it did use up my tokens quickly I still gained enough back throughout the match that it proved to be very useful especially at one point when she didn’t come back to defend an important gen that was almost done because she didn’t see me and assumed no one was on it.
While this is true, even just one Distortion is incredibly strong compared to zero. Even if your SWF friends aren’t running it, they can use the knowledge the one Distortion user gains to play around the killer’s aura reading more effectively, especially if you are knowledgeable on the addons for any given killer and what they are. For example, a Distortion user can immediately figure out whether a Dredge has the Worry Stone addon or not by locking a locker. You play around what you know is there, and you ignore everything else that you know ISN’T there, too. Even if a killer has zero aura reading, that is still useful information to have.
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And thats how it works, no?
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When the word "SWF" is mentioned you know the point is already lost
The game should never be balanced around SWF
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It shouldn’t be balanced exclusively around SWF, no.
Doesn’t change how strong the perk is in SWF.
You can get tokens in chase right now as long as there’s a terror radius.
Stake Out and Diversion have an out of chase requirement, but Distortion doesn’t.
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The fact that there is 20 or so aura reading perks is exactly why Distortion needs to exist as it is. You have to use a whole perk slot to do it, it's rechargeable but not on a cooldown, and aura reading would just run rampant since it's so powerful on some of those perks. It's a fair perk, aura reading is never something you should be relying on. Same goes for Windows of Opportunity users.
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It builds up in chase, you're thinking of stake out
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As a killer main who likes their info perks, Distortion is completely fine. It's really easy to tell when someone is running it. That just means I need to not rely on the easy info.
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I think some people are misunderstanding something here. I don't actually want to nerf distortion I'm just venting about a swf game where my 1 aura reading perk was made useless.
But I guess I should say that with aura reading covering a larger and larger range and gen perks being dialed back on killer, (Were entering a jolt meta now). The importance of aura reading is growing to the point of almost being required so that a killer can constantly be chasing.
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Lol give me a break
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I never noticed that
That's kinda dumb
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Without Distortion, what counterplay does aura reading have? Hiding in a locker I guess? The fact is aura reading perks are everywhere nowadays, so there should be a counter. Distortion is fine.
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