What are your opinions on Spine Chill?

36 metres only gives you about 8 seconds to creep off a gen which would therefore be a maximum of 16 metres until the killer reaches the gen you were on. In turn, this only gives you about 4 extra seconds in chase seeing as the majority of the time, 16 metres isn't enough space to lose a killer in.

You get Spine Chill's notification less than a second before the TR becomes audible on the majority of killers.

It already decreases skillcheck success zones and increases the chance of getting skillchecks (these aren't really big drawbacks though) however it doesn't offer that much other than information against stealth killers. A killer could be looking in your direction for the entirety of a gen and you would save less than 5 seconds doing said gen.

From my experience in solo queue red ranks, it turns people into terrible survivors. They'll miss skill checks when it triggers, run away from the gen at the sight of it lighting up, and more than often end up running into the killer for a free hit or down because they have no sense of direction of where the killer is.

It’s the strongest perk in the game and people don’t realize it because they don’t know how to use it.

I hope they never change it, it’s my guilty pleasure.

Think it's fine. Just tells you when killer is looking in your direction, not the direction they are coming from, though most of the time you can make a good guess. It's just useful for putting yourself on high alert. It's really only effective against 4-5 killers out of currently 22, the rest you know they are coming just by the heartbeat. Like Calm Spirit against a Doc, you are glad to have it when he's played, but otherwise it is nominal value.

It's equivalent to Whispers in my opinion - which can be used to triangulate a survivor's position. There's no real drawbacks for Whispers and there shouldn't be for perks - then they aren't really perks in my opinion (No Mither, MoM).

Its fine how it is IMO, I personally run this perk when I play solo for the info it gives. Being chased isn't my favorite thing in the game so having an alert for me is nice. It's not a guaranteed chance that you'll be safe tho as the killer may have a chance to see you leaving the gen or managed to walk right into you as you were heading out. It's a strong perk that does it's job well. 4/5 stars for me.

I'd love to see it nerfed in some way, because all it does is teaches you bad habits.

When you play Survivor, you can tell who on your team has spine chill, cos they'll start walking away the moment it lights up to go hide somewhere instead of commit to a 95% generator. I've even had a guy who had Spine Chill and BT, not save me because his Spine Chill was lit up and 'he wanted to wait for the perfect moment'

When you play Killer, you can tell which survivors have spine chill because, yeah half the time you'll see them on bbq and they'll be gone from the gen when you get there, but when you DO find them, they don't know how to run the killer and get downed way too fast.

Not to mention playing Killer against multiple immersed players is boring as hell, because all it does is drags the game on way longer than it needs to be as they refuse to do anything unless they can safely do it and never be noticed. bleh.

My bad, thank you for correcting me about the skill checks.

No problem, easy mistake to make.

I don't ever feel bothered by it as killer since you can just counter it by crab-walking towards gens or hooks. People just seem to forget it exists and don't play around it like they do with DS and Unbreakable. It's a pretty common perk too!

I'd say spine chills greatest strength is the ability to waste the killers time exponentially, if you can avoid a chase all together while the killer waste time checking lockers and spinning around trees you've saved far more time for your team then wasting pallets and getting hooked. Killer doesn't find anyone they have to run off, I hop back on the gen, rinse and repeat when he comes, throw on fixated and you can walk away from any gen safely and far beyond where the killer would ever expect you to be.

I stopped using it so I would get jump scares! Myers matches are my favorites.

As a Killer, It helps some people..But If people cling to It they end up being a chicken and even If I am not near them hiding..So,It can be used against people as much as for them.

As a Survior, I do run It on some builds..Because, the extra knowledge is helpful..But, around higher ranks Killers will figure out you are lurking around somewhere

I've run spine chill in 80 to 90 percent of my matches over the past 2 years for 2 reasons: the killer never does anything that counters it and I don't have to rely on exhaustion perks to maintain a safe distance from all the killers.

It pairs very well with adrenaline at the end of the game and the fast vaults get that little extra at the end to shrug off the phantom hits.

Not a perk for everybody seeing as the info spine chill provides requires a bit of experience against alot of different killers in regards to what choices you have in a chase but once you've used it for awhile you'll never want to play without it.

If there was a killer counterpart it would be whispers just because there is so little the opposing party can do to avoid the plays and actions the perk provides.

So, your idea of making a perk weaker against stealth killers is to delete all functionality of the perk?

Most stealth killers can play around it by looking slightly to the side.

Really sucks for Myers and Ghostface though.

My idea is niching it for use against Stealth Killers (predominantly Stalking Killers). Players use this Perk against all Killers, and it hard-counters Stealth Killers due to it’s range and effectiveness. It needs to be restricted in use and allow suitable counter-play for those it counters. If need be, it can be compensated in other areas to balance it out (alter the speed-up numbers, skill check chances, etc).