Distortion buff or barbecue and chili nerf

Killer works for bbq and is an incentive to start a new chase.

Survivors have distortion to delay detection from a # of perks

The two do not equate or solely in direct opposition

Distortion could always use more volume

There's absolutely no reason to nerf Bbq. Distortion could definitely use a buff though. Give it some way to regain tokens.

Yes. Doing this would massively increase camping rates as people would be deincentivised from leaving the hook. The current BBQ is fine, easily countered through lockers, proximity, faking one direction then going the other and hiding your aura behind a generator. Nerfing it is not something you want to do, and thankfully, BHVR seems to agree.

Because that would shut off so many perks and add-ons.

Because Iron Will doesn't trump perks (which can in fact be negated by a few perks anyways) and Calm Spirit is a generally underpowered perk that counters a single killer's ability and only counters a few perks, such as Dragon's Grip and Deathbound, while being able to avoid Infectious.

Nerf BBQ's BP? If they tried something like that... If thought this community was whiny before...

"buff the amount of BP people get normally"

I've been seeing a lot of people mention that name a lot. Who is "Sluzzy"?

Ah I see. Will have to remember that name then.

I'm not sure about just being near other survivors, but it definitely should block both survivor's aura's if you are healing someone. And if both people are running distortion, the person healing will consume the token, and not the one being healed.

Hmmm this could be kinda interesting. Despite being a SoloQ survivor 90% of the time, I' ve gotten pretty familiar with most aura reading perks (as I play both killer and survivor) so I generally don't need the game to tell me what perk it was that ate my token, (at least most of the time). However, I could see this being somewhat useful for newer players and/or other SoloQ players.

Wouldn't be too much different than how Technician is geared towards newer players getting the hang of skill checks, IMO.

The irritating thing about that is that the perk would no longer serve a purpose beyond bloodpoints. It'd be great bloodpoints, but it'd be a meme perk in and of itself.

Like, as a survivor, I typically don't use WGLF even though it gets bonus boints, because its effect in a match isn't worth a perk slot (and its bloodpoint bonus is less reliable, which doesn't help either.) I use BBQ because it provides a good function and nets me a sweet endgame bonus. I would rather see WGLF buffed than BBQ nerfed in this regard, but that's a bit besides the point.

When killers say they use BBQ for the bloodpoints... killers use BBQ because it's both bloodpoints and an info perk. If it was just an info perk, you would see many more people running different info perks - Discordance, Nurse's Calling, Thrilling Tremors, Bitter Murmur, etc. If it was just a bloodpoints perk, you would likely see less use of it overall, because it no longer fits into builds for players that are playing competitively even if most everyone wants bloodpoints.

I never really understood the problem with BBQ because it's so easy to tell when a killer has it and it's so counterable compared to other info perks; you always have warning before it triggers, so you can dodge it or fool it, or prepare for a chase by scoping your nearby exit points and watching the direction the killer's going to come from, or just hope the killer decides another player is a juicier target. Earlier today I got hatch specifically because the killer had BBQ; I made it look like I was parking myself on a mostly-finished gen, then bolted once the aura read was up. My scratchmarks/blood trails were gone before the killer reached the spot he thought I'd be in, and he stayed in that area for a while trying to figure out where I'd hidden, giving me time to search the map and find hatch. I would not have escaped had we both started searching for the hatch immediately, because it was much, much closer to his initial location than mine.

Honestly I think distortion could use a rework of sorts. Instead of it completely preventing the killer from seeing your aura, your aura specifically is obscured making it harder to see. Imagine like back when the new auras were first put into the game and everyone had a hard time making them out, that's what distortion could do.

I mean if both sides got a bp basekit I would 100% prefer to run thrilling tremors over bbq since it does something, if you think the aura is "op" the problem lies on you.

Now on the other thing, distortion does need a buff since it's a great perk but the very limited tokens make it not so good, maybe do a totem to replenish 1 token or do 50% of a gen who knows but it does need a major buff.

I was thinking with distortion Is to add 1 token per level leave the no scratch marks at 6 seconds

That's not a bad idea.