Survivors should not seen gen auras when trail of torment is used.

BHVR doesn't know how to do stealth. PTB Ghostface is a highlight of this. Sure it was creepy but it's not stealthy to let survivors know that you're in spooky mode. The same thing with Demo's portals. They don't want stealth, they want jumpscare twitch highlights.

Because then the perk would be too strong and can basically ensure a free hit or a down every 60 seconds, especially in maps that have many buildings. Does every new perk released have to be gamebreaking and meta-defining?

It's probably because giving every killer the ability to stealth without a tell is too strong. But the highlighted gen can be used to your advantage, most survivors will look towards the gen that was kicked so you can sneak around them or they assume you'll stick around the highlighted gen and won't expect you to relocate.

The highlighted gen can be used for various mind games so I don't think it's all bad that survivors can see it.

I get the idea of it trying to trick survivors into thinking it's the Nancy perk Better Together to try and draw them closer but that perk is so rarely run and it doesn't take long even solo to know no one is running it. If they wanted to trick people they should've made the aura white like when Cheryl's Repressed Aliance is used - that one would be easier to fool survivors that aren't swf. Do agree they should just remove the aura though because not only do you know to be more aware that the killer has no terror radius but you just need to keep an eye on the aura to know when it finally runs out. Survivors manage just fine when killers run Insidious and that doesn't give any notifications it's been activated.

Considering how soul guard is just that, yes. Were not asking for trail of torment to be busted, trail of torment is in contention for one of the worst perks rn.

Soul Guard is meta? Cool, I guess I have slipped into a different game, because in my DBD-games I dont see Soul Guard ever.

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If the Devs really want to have an indicator that the Perk is used, it should be a map-wide sound. Then Survivors would know that the Killer is undetectable, but they would not know where he is.

I think the point is that now EVERY killer can have readily available stealth. If you're just getting one shot by Billy and Bubba out of nowhere, or have a Myers in T3 down half your team with no real warning as to whether he's even nearby, then it's gonna feel a little #########, especially with how often it can activate.

Stealth is a heavily regulated thing on killers who have it in their kit, there's drawbacks, warning noises, speed penalties, or channels to come out of stealth, so having EVERY killer be able to activate stealth has to come with some form of heads up to the survivors.

Interesting idea. I like it

Hexes are already used. I see Ruin in like 1/3 of my games. And no, not at all. Because basically no Hex will be left uncleansed just for Soul Guard to be used for the rare occasion that the Killer is actually slugging. I mean, Unbreakable does rarely get its use, and Soul Guard is even more situational and has a slower Recovery.