New aura system

(Cries in Freddy Main) Yeah. All auras are ######### in Freddy's World. Even for survivor. Worst on Ormond and Coldwind Farm.

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Agreed, why the developers went through with this change without looking at feedback is concerning. They need a middle ground or revert it to how it looked before.

Pretty good auras so far.

do you mean people cried about Hillbilly and now it's nerfed to the ground? rofl.

I don't usually comment on posts on these forums, but I had to make an account, just to leave this comment.

It's a disgrace really. The console version has had ongoing issues for years with framerate issues, and because of this new aura system, you can't see the generators very clearly, and don't get me started on BBQ & Chilli.

But the issue that affects console players, or at least on Xbox right now, is the fact that the whole game lags due to the new aura system. Seriously, if you play on a map like Coldwind Farm. GOOD LUCK playing as the killer, because that framerate is the worst I've seen it since playing the game. It's not fun chasing survivors while your whole game is lagging. But when I play as survivor, its fine.

It's extremely clear this was never really tested on console, and I have to say it is extremely dissapointing and it's sad. I just can't play the game on Xbox anymore. Honestly, I wish I was exaggerating, but the framerate is actually horrific and it's sad.

Dead By Daylight Logic:

If it's not broke, break it.

Literally no one likes new auras.

Horrible. Some times I can't even see where a teammate is hooked. Not sure how this was ever tested and okayed

Yes I noticed it this morning too. Much MUCH harder to distinguish. I'd say turn the intensity back up by 25% minimum.

Trapper is a super fun experience when you can't see you traps to set them up. I love that the devs have further solidified his place as default m1 killer with actually no power. : )

Yup as i main huntress i can't see anything with BBQ or Nurses or anything that show auras and when i play survivor in solo i ALWAYS bring Kindred or Bound to get a good team work but now it's useless i was 5ft away from a dwight and i wans't seeing his aura...

For the love of god, please put it back! This has killed all the fun of the game. If I’m not looking in their direction exactly when they are hooked - then I won’t see them at ALL. Slugged survivors are invisible.

This is bad for people’s eyesight even - I’m squinting the entire game. Colour blind people see nothing. Half the perks are destroyed. Rainbow maps are useless. What’s with the inaccurate size?

This is AWFUL. At least make them the correct size and a BIT brighter. This is HORRIBLE.

The auras are terrible for survivors too lol. This isn't some "devs hate killers!!" conspiracy, this has been criticized all across the board.

If anything confirms the devs don't actually PLAY the game, it's this change.

You can barely see Trapper/Hag trap auras. This makes it more difficult to chase survivors into traps, because you can't see exactly where you've placed them without squinting at the screen. That's ridiculous.

From a distance, you can barely see ANY auras. Colourblind players are especially screwed here.

Ormond is now unplayable as killer. It's hard to see scratch marks outside to begin with, but the aura changes make it next to impossible to see anything at a distance. The map needs removing from the rotation until scratch marks and auras are fixed on it.

I would happily take bugs (lame excuse tbh - I've only seen a couple of aura bugs, and they were related to the character models themselves rather than the aura system) over this horrible aura change. It is universally hated by the community. Will the devs change it? Probably not. It was fine before. This is awful.

Oh, and what on EARTH is with the Entity aura from the killer's perspective?

Seriously? Why is this a thing? It is 100% unnecessary.

They're really bad. I can hardly see gens. I mean, they're just SUPER dim and are definitely harder to use than the old auras. Was that the intention?

I only played survivor last night and the aura readings (with the Aura reading perks I use, namely Bond and Alert) was ridiculous, and even worse when someone got downed, it was near impossible to tell where they were exactly.. no need to run Knockout since survivors won't even be able to see where you're downed anyway!

And today I tried a killer game... Generators are super hard to see, and Barbecue reading is near useless now.

Seriously who thought this was a good change? Did this even get tested anywhere? We just came out of a PTB, that would have been the place to test this out before releasing it onto the live server! The hell dude?!

The new changes are a good idea but bad execution. I’ve played as survivor and killer with the new changes. These changes are very frustrating. As some one who uses kindred a lot i have found that it is very hard to see the killer. You almost have squint to see him. The yellow auras suck but the red auras are much worse. I’ve played with bond. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t great either. Half of the time the survivor will only glow partly as they walk past stuff. Plus the farther away it’s almost impossible to see any thing on the large map. I think idea is great. I think that you guys just went a bit to strong.

As someone who'll rarely chime in publicly on something, this is a problem that warrants it.

The new auras are TERRIBLE. And that's from playing both sides. I play half my games as a survivor (with one friend as a 2-man SWF), and the other half as killer. I'm not color-blind -- and I feel awful for the players of the game who are with this "improvement" -- but I might as well be blind with the new aura change. I run Empathy on a lot of my survivor builds, and seeing injured teammates was a nightmare for almost four hours of gameplay last night. People on hooks? Even that was a challenge, depending on their distance from me. Killer auras if someone was running Kindred? Worthless.

Playing as Killer wasn't much better. Tried a round as the Trapper, and as others have said, that was a new definition of "fun". Running Nurse's on most of my builds? Yep -- more "fun". BBQ? Not everyone is hiding close to me every hook, are they? Even my generators and hooks were difficult to see, and that's supposed to be one of the killer's advantages.

I'm an older player, and I'm not the target audience for the game age-wise, I'm guessing. I don't have the eyesight I did as a teenager. For me, the auras look like every survivor is some version of Slender Man, and it makes the game far less playable than it was prior. As other people have said in this thread already, with ALL of the problems, bugs, and issues the game has, that the developers decided THIS was something that needed their time and attention to work on -- only to turn something that seemingly no one had issues with into something that now so many people do -- is a mind-boggling miscalculation and waste of their resources, when, as the saying goes, there are far bigger fish they should have been frying.

My two cents only. Your experience may vary, though by the looks here, I'm not alone in thinking this way. And as someone who rarely speaks up, I wonder how many other people who don't post on here but play the game -- and my assumption would be that they would represent the majority of players -- dislike this as well, and how many of them will throw their hands up and say "I'll find another game to play" when new issues like this are created for players instead of the constantly broken issues (some having existed for months or longer) being fixed instead.

information and thus aura's are important in this game, in they're current state aura's are mostly useless making many aspects of the game (ranging from perks to addon's to killer ability's) unusable or at the very least heavily nerfed

The title is loud and it needs to be. If devs reading this, which I hope you do. I am throwing this thread in there just so it's obvious just how bad this change is.

Forget about balance, forget about swf complains, tunneling, camping, ds, lag, matchmaking, forget about literally everything because this is by far the biggest issue with a game right now. The auras are not just a change that people are unwilling to adapt to or accept, it's one of the worst things I ever seen come as update anywhere.

You literally can't see auras on some cloudier maps or in dream world against freddy. This is the type of thing that can cost player base, it has to be reverted or reworked.

I don't even know why they changed them, it it aint broke dont fix it.