Give Spies of Shadows Aura reading

bendermac
bendermac Member Posts: 772
in Feedback and Suggestions

Currently you get an explosion with a crow icon, if a SV runs past a crow. This is very annyoing, due to constant explosion spam. The perk should do an aura reveal for 1 second per crow, at max 3 seconds. Distance should be 30/35/40 meters. If a SV triggers a crow within the distance, the perk icon lights up and you as Killer can quickly check where it was. No explosions anymore and remove the cooldown.

Comments

  • WaffleFalafel
    WaffleFalafel Member Posts: 384

    Okay, no. That's not going to happen. The reason that Spies From the Shadows was garbage for so long was because at one point it was one of the best perks for killer. There was no counter play to the perk besides Calm Spirit. This proposed change is essentially the same thing. Think of it this way: Nurse's Calling requires a survivor to be within an average killer's terror radius AND be healing at the same time. Barbecue and Chili requires the killer to be skilled enough to get a hook. What is the requirement for this new SFTS? Walk, run, do a gen, and vault. That is everything that a survivor needs to do in order to survive and the killer does nothing to deserve it.

    All in all, if there was to be even one change to SFTS, just change it to the Alert sound effect and shorten the cooldown to 3/4 seconds. Its fine as it is right now though and doesn't need to spoon feed the killer information. This is why audio and scratch marks exist: so the killer has to actually use their brain to find survivors.

  • Kind_Lemon
    Kind_Lemon Member Posts: 2,559

    I don't think the explosions are annoying. This is a completely subjective thing, so your annoyance should not be a reason for a balance change.

    Too many more visual things annoy me, so even if this annoyed me, it would be at the bottom of my list after making corn, bamboo, etc. more see-through on low res.

  • wisdom
    wisdom Member Posts: 216

    On a tangent: anyone else not getting he notifications but the perk is constantly being put in cooldown?


    i am currently under the assumption the cooldown triggers off the killer, which makes the perk literally worthless at the moment. Before the implemented the cooldown it wasn’t even that strong, since there aren’t really to many crows in the map and the killer usually triggers them anyway.