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PLEAAASE fix object of obsession

MachineDrayMon
MachineDrayMon Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 2
in Feedback and Suggestions

This perk may as well not exist, I love running it when I'm bored of my usual perk combos because it's a fun high risk high reward perk (on paper), but it just does not work. The biggest issue with this perk is that it REQUIRES you to be the obsession to get pretty much any value. This is not a killer aura read perk meta, especially with how much distortion is used, the ability to see the killer's aura only works when the perk is showing your aura to the killer, WHICH ONLY happens if you're the obsession. In reality, every survivor under the sun is running DS and you end up having a perk that only does anything AT ALL in those 25% of matches where god blesses you with obsession. In those 75% of matches, you are running a perk that MAYBE does something during the killer's lethal pursuer, and then NEVER DOES ANYTHING FOR THE REST OF THE MATCH??? Even when you do get obsession in that magic 25%, eight(?) killers have undetectable built into their kit, and practically every killer has addons to get undetectable/give blindness. This isn't including a bunch of strong meta killer perks like tinkerer and fearmonger that can also be used to make this perk completely worthless. So if you do get obsession and the killer has a bunch of blindness/undetectable, you are now running 3 perks while giving the killer you constant aura. This means you can't do gens pretty much at all, since if your revealed aura shows you working on the gen, the killer is absolutely making you their top priority. You can't do them solo, and doing them with other people is practically just griefing since the killer will find them when they come to interrupt you. Why are there so many counters to this perk that can just happen incidentally by your teammates running a strong perk, or the killer just being the wrong killer or bringing an addon/perk? Why does this perk go out of its way to make your time harder when it isn't even working? Even when it does work, you're seeing the killer's aura once every 30 seconds while they also see yours, that could literally be the perk with no other prereqs and it'd still never see play. Please fix.

TLDR: Object's value is minimal even in the 10% of games where the stars align, it requires way too many prerequisits, its ability is entirely negated if another survivor is running DS (at least 2 in every lobby will be doing this), and is actively taking away one of your perk slots, giving that slot to the killer if they're one that can stay undetectable the entire match through their power/perks/addons.

Comments

  • UndeddJester
    UndeddJester Member Posts: 3,596
    edited May 2024

    Hear what you are saying, although to be fair, when you're not the obsession it's a very useful info perk. The fact you know when you are, and more importantly are not seen by an aura perk is pretty useful.

    Maybe if OOO a mechanism where it was easier to acquire the obsession back... such as unhooking the obsession makes you the obsession or something?