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New Spies is Butt

GT_Legend2
GT_Legend2 Member Posts: 845
in General Discussions

The pre 2.6.0 Spies was great! I could know where people were and what path they were taking, the only thing is the audio notification was a little obnoxious.

Now, it has a cool down. This cooldown

a) Prevents the obnoxious noises when it went off

b) made it impossible to determine the path of the survivor

c) sometimes doesn’t even show the location at all, I just see a cool down in the bottom right and not bird location.


It would have been great to only have the audio notification have a cool down, that way we hear a notification, look in the direction, and see the birds pop up in the direction, without each pop up exploding in my eardrum.

Spies had so much potential, now it’s pretty much back on par with small Game :(

Comments

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    If it was map wide it would be competitive with similar perks. However currently it's just underwhelming.

  • NMCKE
    NMCKE Member Posts: 8,243
    edited March 2019
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/53235/new-spies-is-butt

    I feel like Spies should show auras instead of a location indicator and buff crows where they will always fly off, regardless if you're crouching or walking.

  • thesuicidefox
    thesuicidefox Member Posts: 8,223

    Also yes, the cooldown should only apply to the explosion sound and not to the actual crow aura. The constant explosion sound was what was annoying about the perk.

  • slingshotsurvivor
    slingshotsurvivor Member Posts: 943
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/379350#Comment_379350

    Made me chuckle 😂😂😂👌👌👌

  • HazeHound
    HazeHound Member Posts: 814

    I agree, cooldown should be only on noise. Notifications should still pop out. They made this perk viable (not good - just usable) and now dumpstered it again.

  • fluffybunny
    fluffybunny Member Posts: 2,161

    I've also noticed the birds don't always go off. I'll see it go on cool down and get no notification whatsoever. Couldn't they just turn it into a blip without noise and revert it?

  • Wolf74
    Wolf74 Member Posts: 2,959

    Spies was trash before the change and it is trash now.

    The old/original Spies was great, but since they trashed it with the nerfhammer, you should just ignore it.

  • NoShinyPony
    NoShinyPony Member Posts: 4,570

    Totally agreed with op. Unnerf Spies!

  • White_Owl
    White_Owl Member Posts: 3,786

    SftS won't be good until 70% of maps are lacking crows except on some remote corners, no matter what numbers are tweaked. Even before the last nerf it rarely procced

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773
    edited March 2019

    The cooldown is good for the rapid noise notifications, it's just too long.

    1 second should work.

  • Wolf74
    Wolf74 Member Posts: 2,959

    I remember the old SFTS. It was so strong that survivor had been afraid to even get close to any crows, because the killer might have SFTS.