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New Auras are fine
I actually like the new auras better than the old, because they seem more appropriate. Immersive, too. I play on High graphics and I can see them just fine, and they're not as jarring as the super brightly-colored old auras. I like to use Windows of Opportunity a lot, so I'll have to see how they look with that, but judging by the generator aura I'm sure they'll be fine as well.
I think people will be fine with the new auras once they get used to them (and quit complaining about them, just enjoy the game).
EDIT: I'm all for brightening the auras and adding colorblind options, of course. Hopefully they'll do something about that soon. I personally just enjoy the look of the new auras!
Another EDIT: I am NOT a Survivor main, and am actually a red-rank-on-both-sides gamer. I was giving my initial impressions based on the first couple of games I played after the patch. I played Killer afterwards, and I still personally prefer them--however, I do agree that they could be a little brighter, and the devs even stated they are working on them.
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now try them on a killer with a red stain, first person and overall darker point of view.
then you will see the issue.
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Aura reading perks for survivor are not meta and you only need to see hooked survivor, what is easy, because it is the only red stain in the whole map. Killers ain't see the gens, bbq does not work, exit gates are dark as hell.
Uninstall game is the best solution if this stays this bad.
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The problem isn't how they look, its how hard they are to see. Try looking for your traps as a Trapper, or looking at anything in Ormond. I like the new style but it needs to be much brighter and a colorblind option is long overdue.
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I don't like the new auras at all.
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Try killer and hope for an OoO on ormond, come back then say the same.
Had a match where I couldn't see the OoO even when she was staring at me.
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Yeah auras are absolute shiat as killer. BBQ just lost 50% of its benefit.
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If i play as killer with any hex and i look from far to my totem aura, the aura is thiner than me in real life. ( Like this -> l
:(
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I actually consider Kindred meta for Survivors, helps my teammates avoid camping Killers and actually cooperate to take me off the hook. And I personally don't use aura-reading perks even as a red-rank Killer, so I don't think that will be a problem. I will check it out on Killer side tonight, though!
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I love the new aura style as well but here others are having issues for as being colorblind. Hopefully, there's a way to meet everyone standard so we can enjoy it.
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I can see that, them being a bit brighter wouldn't hurt at all, especially for darker maps. And I do agree, colorblind option should be a priority!
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They are nicer then the old ones but need to be brighter because on some maps they are invisible.
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Many of the people complaining are having issues seeing them and may be harder for people on consoles or low end devices. I actually lost a teammate due to them being slugged and couldn't find their non existing aura. You're ignorant if you want people to brush it off and "enjoy the game"
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not sure if trolling or incredibly lucky.
the only times i use kindred is to avoid teammates who are actively handing the killer free hooks.
if im on the hook and the killer is nearby that doesnt stop potatoes coming into try farm some free points from me even when they can literally see the killer because of kindred.
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I am playing on low settings, and auras are incredible hard to see how. They are tiny and undersaturated. I don't wanna imagine how it looks for colourblind people now.
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My eyesight is not particularly bad, but once I saw these auras I was pretty disgusted.
They're barely visible in the first place in most of the places you can be at, there's no doubt they plan on doing something about these auras eventually but as of right now most of us hate it.
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Nah these auras are much much worse. I'll take visibility over immersion any day of the week. It's much better to have information presented to you in a clear and easy-to-see way, and this is much worse than what we had before. I strain my eyes enough looking at this game when playing killer because of the camera and now I'm gonna have to be straining them even more if I want to see auras? No thanks.
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NO!!!!!! If you plkayed it, its like auras like in greece! #########!
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I was saying it more towards the people who are just endlessly flaming the new auras without reason. I just wonder how people who complain here all the time actually enjoy the game...
No offense to console users, low-end PC gamers or colorblind individuals of course. I'm all for brightening the auras and adding colorblind options!
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It might have to do with rank, I'm in red-rank and I use Kindred nearly every game with good results!
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They need to either change the gen aura color or the survivor aura color, it is extremely hard now, if not out right impossible to tell if a survivor is on a gen with aura reading now, these is even more frustrating with perks like OoO (which shouldn't even exist tbh.)
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I absolutely hate the new change. I always run bbq on my killers and kindred on survivors and I cannot see anything. Its so much time wasted just to look for the aura and barely seeing it. Im not enjoying this new change at all. Im playing on console. They should change the name of the aura reading to xray instead of aura. It really isnt aura at all.
I really hope that they bring the old auras back. Why "fix "something that was working well? and in the end they didnt fix it. They just made it so much worse.
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Auras are bad on Ormond, as per usual.
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Agree to disagree.
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Killers wondering where the totem spawned will be interrupted by the totem being busted. Shadow Nerf.
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they are auras. they are supposed to be easy to see.
now, unless you play on a beast PC, you can't see #########.
This is terrible game design.
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I struggle to see these auras and I have no issues with my sight, I can only imagine how difficult it must be for people who are colourblind. They definitely need to increase the saturation of the new auras at the absolute minimum.
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The look and outline is cool, but specially the red ones are way too dark, as you pointed out in your edit.
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They are fine for survivor. But for killers it's awful. BBQ is almost useless right now and everything is hard to see (survivors, hooks, gens, exit gates...). Another problem for killers after countless nerfs
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Try being colorblind and still saying that these are okay.
literally blind to everything
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I have a terrible feeling these new auras were put in so it would be harder to spot survivors using BBQ. I just played a round as trapper and it was hard as hell to see my traps.
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The new aura's are not my cup of tea in practice. Seeing a survivor in the distance or a totem I'm not on top of is a pain. I haven't even tried it with killer yet, but I just know it's going to be worse.
Stylistically I don't mind the auras. Reminds me of something from an 80's movie, like Terminator or Predator. I just think they need to make them more pronounced.
Plus, other than having to wear glasses, my eyesight is fine. I don't have an issue with detecting certain colors. So I feel for people who do.
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No. No they aren’t. I don’t know which color blind ppl Have hurt you in the past, but it wasn’t me. These are not even remotely acceptable and need to be reverted to what they were like yesterday.
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I personally don't like this new look either.
To the characters, it looks like retro-futuristic holograms. It's pretty, but it's not the vibe of DBD at all.
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Yeah, the point is that all killers aura readings (perk, addon, power) are almost useless. This cant be...
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this nerf to killer or something?
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Nah the auras are very bad
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I play on console, earlier i had a match on ormond, i could barely see survivors with bbq and chili.
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Saw what they were doing with Franklin’s and was all ‘Sweet, now I can keep track of dropped keys and stuff’. The punchline to that joke hit me hard today. It’s bad enough that frame rates on the Xbox are now more horrendous, even when the game lets me see anything, auras aren’t on the list. This feels like several steps backwards, especially for console.
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better question; why were they changed?
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Someone up top clearly has a major hate-on for red green color blind people, this is just one of three or so features that specifically screw them. I don’t know what sparked the conspiracy but I swear it’s there. Maybe they‘lol give us a band aid perk like bloodhound but for auras idk.
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See, the new tome features Ace, and Ace likes to gamble. He is said to have a lucky aura.
Because of that, bringing aura perks is now a gamble.
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The new auras are not killer-friendly and headache-inducing after a few matches. You made them hollow and almost impossible to see anything as killer. It's like the original aura on Ormond Resort where no one could tell where the gens and totems were. It's the same feeling all over again.
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well i don't like this update that for sure.
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This was a terrible change for killer. Haven't run survivor yet. I can't even find hooks lol.
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Aura reading perks are absolutely meta, they just aren't the lazy option.
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I can see the cracks in the ground from EGC better than the aura of a downed teammate. I used Aftercare and Alert, and map-wide auras are trash.
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They're awful for survivor. I was running Kindred and could barely make out the auras of everyone.
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It's honestly a nerf to both sides. But yeah, killers got it worse from this move.
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So they even nerfed auras? Insane! It's so hard to see anything now, just pointless using aura perks after this.
Next nerf will probably be sound. Less sound makes it harder too, and I guess that is what they are after with this.
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I like the style of the new auras. I can agree it looks les gamey and more immersive. However they are way harder to see i more situations, they also are worse to see for peope with vision issues. I think they have a good thing going with the style but they should make them easier to see IMO.
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