Revert STRIDOR

I would rather them rework the perk into something interesting. a perk that's only worth running on one character needs to be changed

Honestly I would rather the perk be reworked all it does if you ask me is make tracking survivors confusing

Originally Stridor was the only counter to Iron Will, as while it didn't reduce IW's effect, It still raised the Pained grunting to 50% from IW's -100%(IW = -100 to Pained grunting sounds, Stridor = +150% to Pained Grunting = -100%+150%= 50% to Pained grunting sounds. Otherwise Stridor raises Normal/Healthy Breathing sound by 25%, but Pained grunting and Healthy Breathing are 2 different states). Then came a Bug around the time Pig was released wherein Stridor no longer affected IW at all, and IW was an absolute counter to all killers, Stridor or not... this "Bug" Lasted until late 2019, and Stridor was again at least back to its former glory as a counter to IW, but people also realized how powerful it was on a Certain Killer who can't see survivors while using her power: Spirit. Then around a year ago now, The devs changed how IW and Stridor work against each other, and again reworked them in a way that made Stridor useless against IW users, in an effort to curb Spirits advantage, But then, only a few patches later, they Nerfed the Spirit anyways, In a way to make her audibly easier to predict for survivors, and now we have a perk that has been nerfed for no reason... and remains nerfed despite its previous utility on the 1 killer who could actually use it effectively.

I once proposed a change wherein, If a surivor is using IW, then they don't lose normal breathing audio, and instead replace their Pained grunting with 25% louder normal breathing sounds, which would make Stridor users hear IW Survivors normal breathing noises 50% louder to compensate, since atm, Pained grunting sound is completely nullified, making survivors breathing/grunting noise of any injured survivors entirely inaudible to killer whether they have Stridor or not.

If they don't make the change OP is suggesting and just Revert Stridor/IW to compensate for the current game, I believe it would only be fair that they could at the LEAST consider the change I suggested so long ago.

Alas, this idea was ignored, and Iron Will reigns supreme.

Nah, thanks though.

Reverted Stridor won't make Spirit any easier. In fact, It'll make her even easier to track for the survivors because if she's going off of their sound alone, and they can hear her phasing around them, but because stridor amplifies their noises and makes them sound closer than they actually are, while Spirits phasing sound makes her sound as close to survivors as she actually is... Survivor obviously ends up with more accurate information on her whereabouts don't they?

I don't see how you guys think this change/reversion to Stridor would make Spirit "Easy" mode given her current changes. If anything, while it may be great for tracking in open areas, it won't do much against IW or standard survivors around loops other than give them the advantage.

Imo there is no way to really fix stridor without reworking it/giving it a new effect.

I'd rather have Stridor be reworked into something more useful than have it reverted back to its previous version.

You don’t need thousands of hours. It’s about making the reads harder for her and if you’d take the time to learn how it works, it’s really not that bad to go against, especially now with directional audio.

Thats the thing many people want DCB to be reworked but until IW or Stridor get reworked that won't happen. I believe making IW max be 90% would be enough to allow Stridor to work without it being too powerful on Spirit and then they can rework how DCB is or even remove it and bring back Father's Glasses

You can still get close to them phasing since you move much faster especially with Mother Daughter Ring which Dried Cherry Blossom is almost always paired with.

You still need to have some semblance of tracking and prediction skills but DCB negates a lot of the possible mind gaming you can pull against a Spirit. For example trying to move towards her while she's phasing will trigger killer instinct and they'll just come right out of it and hit you.

I believe the old form was bad enough. It should never, EVER be sent back to where it was.

Gotham deserves a new breed of criminal - and we're going to give it to them.

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Grunts of pain and breathing sounds of healthy, injured, and dying survivors are increased by 30/40/50%.

Your breathing and vocal sounds are decreased by 30/40/50%

Survivors within your terror radius do not recover from Exhaustion or Broken status effects.

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By making the perk directly better than before, it becomes much more attractive for those who benefit from audio cues to find survivors - especially in chase. The secondary benefit is the cherry on top. The ability to have lower breathing and vocal sounds greatly boosts the stealth aspects of many ambush killers, and can throw off many veteran survivors that rely on such contextual audio to pinpoint the killer’s location. But the creme dela creme that makes the perk attractive is the ability to juggle and float debuff timers on exhaustion and broken - making it much more difficult for survivors to make plays without recourse. Limiting the use of powerful perks and keeping survivors unable to recover from brokenness makes this perk incredibly strong to quell perks that would otherwise punctuate chases in the survivor’s favor. Survivors themselves do not necessarily rely on the recovery of these statuses to continue in the game, which means that broken and exhausted players will be forced to retreat far and away from your sphere of influence if they wish for reprieve. The discovery of this perk will make survivors think twice about using their perks - as the recovery on choice selections will grow quite punitive in nature.

I thought you were the one who made this post lol