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so we are nerfing sadako again? :(

After the tiny handful of Onryo mains were positive about the changes, they have decided to nerf her again. I cannot believe they have given her a power cooldown basically making her condemn unviable. Just adding cooldowns is absolutely ridiculous, its overheat for onryo. All the survivors need to do is take a tape if they are working on a gen, its not difficult honestly. They also added the ability to see the aura of TVs, so survivors can find tapes easier which gives them no excuse to just sit on a gen right next to a powered TV. If people sit on gens without taking the tape and don't know why condemn is building is this a problem with the killer design or with survivors not bothering to understand how to interact with the killers power?

The cooldown on power also completely removes the ability to build condemn during chase, without making the chase last a ridiculous amount of time. She is now in a weaker state than she was to begin with, as TVs have auras, and it only takes 1 second to put a tape away - these new changes bring back the old problem that survivors have no incentive to take tapes again.

Also the whole point of adding lock in mechanic was encourage hooking over slugging, now slugging them is more viable again which is ridiculous. It seems BHVR don't want any onryo mains to utilise her power effectively, might as well remove condemn completely at this point. She is literally less powerful than she has ever been, and I now can't go back to playing her after all this wait. So so sad honestly.