Distortion Buff
This one is really simple, just grant 4 total tokens to use instead of 3, the odd number really bothers me but having another stack would just make it that little bit more helpful. Plus every killer perk that an aura can be seen has more than just 4 uses so it wouldn't completely negate their perks.
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There is a huge thread about Distortion possible buffs: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/32740/distortion-is-unreasonably-too-weak Please, give there your contribution!
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Distortion is highway BS and shouldn't even exist in the first place.0
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You can just go in a locker and have a similar effect, and distortion is underpowered in comparison because you can only do it 3 times. On top of that there are various gen protecting perks (surveillance, discordance, overcharge, etc.) as well as whispers to tell you where a survivor is without needed to see their aura. Yet you complain about Distortion like it’s the next Decisive Strike, you still have eyes and ears to see/hear a survivor if they’re healing and whispers can help easily locate them if the BBQ or Bitter Murmer get obscured. Basically adding 1 more stack of that wouldn’t make any of those methods unable to be done, other than the easiest one (that being aura reading). I understand if you’re new to the game or don’t have a lot of experience with killer it can be frustrating to have to change up how you play when you’re used to one track way of playing; but trust me, now that you can hear survivors from across the map it’s much easier to locate them strictly on audio.Acromio said:Distortion is highway BS and shouldn't even exist in the first place.2 -
here is my PoV regarding distortion:
you are not saving yourself from the killer, you are screwing your team.
when i run BBQ & Billy (or any other killer, but billy is the best example for this), i will aim for a snowball effect. by running distortion, you will make me chase your other teammates who, at some point, will already have been hooked. this leads to a faster death of your team, as you wont take a hook status for them, allowing me to eliminate a survivor quicker at the beginning, due to the "tunneling" that has occured. the more players run distortion, the more the others will suffer.
if you all run distortion though, i will be forced to stay at the hook, as i have to guess that you are nearby. with other words: i will probaply go ahead and camp your mate on the hook, until i eigther find someone, or he hits the second hook stage and i will leave on my own.
EDIT: oh, and i will have to return to the hook once the survivor has been rescued. obviously.so: run distortion and screw the other survivors, or dont do it and take some hits.
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@Mister_xD said:
here is my PoV regarding distortion:
you are not saving yourself from the killer, you are screwing your team.
when i run BBQ & Billy (or any other killer, but billy is the best example for this), i will aim for a snowball effect. by running distortion, you will make me chase your other teammates who, at some point, will already have been hooked. this leads to a faster death of your team, as you wont take a hook status for them, allowing me to eliminate a survivor quicker at the beginning, due to the "tunneling" that has occured. the more players run distortion, the more the others will suffer.
if you all run distortion though, i will be forced to stay at the hook, as i have to guess that you are nearby. with other words: i will probaply go ahead and camp your mate on the hook, until i eigther find someone, or he hits the second hook stage and i will leave on my own.
EDIT: oh, and i will have to return to the hook once the survivor has been rescued. obviously.so: run distortion and screw the other survivors, or dont do it and take some hits.
its your decision.Um what? Are you not aware that lockers block auras now? If I don't see all 3 survivors with BBQ&C I don't assume that they're around, I assume that they're in a locker so I patrol around the gens or go to the survivors I DID see until I find one. Your "excuse" to camp a survivor is not a good one, nor will it ever improve how you play killer, simply leaving to put map pressure is a big part of it and running back because someone got an unhook crushes that unless you walked 2 steps and someone is already dive bombing for it. This whole scenario you laid out is both unrealistic and seems like it would only come from people who are VERY new to the game who do not know the mechanics. It would in no way (and hasn't) screw over my team because I assume know that they know strategies like hiding behind a gen aura or getting into a locker to counter BBQ&C. Basically what I got out of this conversation is that you camp when you don't see the most obvious tracking tactic and you then justify it by saying "well if I saw no one they MUST be here" and you then proceed to drop everything to run back to the hook because you just have to get that kill on the person you hooked rather than get gens regressed and down other survivors. Or you just wait till phase 2 because that's a really fun gameplay tactic that won't waste an immense amount of your time. Besides what point are you trying to make here? This thread is why this perk should be buffed slightly, not the logistics of the effect that the perk has on bad players.
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@Mister_xD said:
here is my PoV regarding distortion:
you are not saving yourself from the killer, you are screwing your team.
when i run BBQ & Billy (or any other killer, but billy is the best example for this), i will aim for a snowball effect. by running distortion, you will make me chase your other teammates who, at some point, will already have been hooked. this leads to a faster death of your team, as you wont take a hook status for them, allowing me to eliminate a survivor quicker at the beginning, due to the "tunneling" that has occured. the more players run distortion, the more the others will suffer.
if you all run distortion though, i will be forced to stay at the hook, as i have to guess that you are nearby. with other words: i will probaply go ahead and camp your mate on the hook, until i eigther find someone, or he hits the second hook stage and i will leave on my own.
EDIT: oh, and i will have to return to the hook once the survivor has been rescued. obviously.so: run distortion and screw the other survivors, or dont do it and take some hits.
its your decision.So in other words, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Really nice offer there killer. How about we nerf BBQ so that Survivors don't get killrushed by BBQ Billy in 5 minutes.
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@Mochan said:
@Mister_xD said:
here is my PoV regarding distortion:
you are not saving yourself from the killer, you are screwing your team.
when i run BBQ & Billy (or any other killer, but billy is the best example for this), i will aim for a snowball effect. by running distortion, you will make me chase your other teammates who, at some point, will already have been hooked. this leads to a faster death of your team, as you wont take a hook status for them, allowing me to eliminate a survivor quicker at the beginning, due to the "tunneling" that has occured. the more players run distortion, the more the others will suffer.
if you all run distortion though, i will be forced to stay at the hook, as i have to guess that you are nearby. with other words: i will probaply go ahead and camp your mate on the hook, until i eigther find someone, or he hits the second hook stage and i will leave on my own.
EDIT: oh, and i will have to return to the hook once the survivor has been rescued. obviously.so: run distortion and screw the other survivors, or dont do it and take some hits.
its your decision.So in other words, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Really nice offer there killer. How about we nerf BBQ so that Survivors don't get killrushed by BBQ Billy in 5 minutes.
No, just no BBQ does NOT need a nerf, its a very balanced perk with a ton of counterplay and you're taking this guys bad playstyle as why Distortion is bad for your team? Are you mad?
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You are a very new survivor so I'll spell this out for you: B B Q i s a b a l a n c e d p e r k t h a t d o e s n ' t n e e d c h a n g i n g. If you read my previous reply you would have known that GOING IN A LOCKER hides your aura and this isnt a thread about BBQ at all, its about why Distortion needs a minor buff. Please learn more about the game before claiming that a balanced perk that has plenty of counterplay is "OP"
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I know the counterplay to BBQ. Like Mr. Hillbilly here said, if you counterplay BBQ you are screwing your team, which means you are screwing yourself. In other words, he is saying don't counterplay it or you die, or counterplay it and you die.
So I am telling him maybe the problem is his BBQ, not Distortion or Lockers. Try to get a sense of context please, Mr. Veteran Oldman Survivor. I know you're a new at posting in forums, but try to read between the lines.
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@Mochan said:
I know the counterplay to BBQ. Like Mr. Hillbilly here said, if you counterplay BBQ you are screwing your team, which means you are screwing yourself. In other words, he is saying don't counterplay it or you die, or counterplay it and you die.So I am telling him maybe the problem is his BBQ, not Distortion or Lockers. Try to get a sense of context please, Mr. Veteran Oldman Survivor. I know you're a new at posting in forums, but try to read between the lines.
But it doesn't screw the team over, any killer who knows what they're doing are aware that the survivors know of ways to counter BBQ. Even if I don't know if the killer has BBQ, ill still go in a locker to avoid it, and most survivors know this as well. A killer who also knows this will go to a location regardless if they saw the survivor or not, and even if they do see the survivor its not any different from a normal game. So basically, the result of using Distortion is not screwing the team over because they most likely expect BBQ or they can handle themselves even if the killer finds them, any smart survivor will try to outplay it in some way. There is no "reading between the lines" with the guys post, all he means by it is "Oh I don't see a survivor, guess that means I have to camp the guy because I don't see nobody with my perk. Oop he's second phase now, time to leave so that it seems like I was looking for someone." The claim that it ######### your team is just incorrect so there is nothing of substance besides his play-style in what he's describing. Also, how were you trying to tell him that the problem was with his perk in the previous two posts; literally all you said was, "No BBQ shouldn't exist in the game." (which could be taken as sarcasm but its unfortunate that a lot of intent is lost behind text so that was unclear) and "Damned no matter what we do, BBQ should be nerfed, it's too strong". Your point still is that it should be nerfed, which it doesn't need to be, he's just a bad killer who doesn't know how to play the game properly yet. On top of all of that, your two posts gave the impression that you had no idea what the counters to BBQ were seeing as you never mentioned them and instead said that BBQ needs to be nerfed. This context problem is all on you bud, what you said was pretty cut and dry without elaboration. Besides this is not supposed to be about BBQ because as I previously stated, it's fine; it's supposed to be about distortion, which that guy was talking about how he thought it was bad for the survivors because of the limiting way he plays.
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