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Is Spies from the Shadows Good Now?

ThatDidact
ThatDidact Member Posts: 33
in General Discussions

After its pretty significant buff in the recent patch, is SFTS a decent tracking perk now?

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  • TrAiNwReCk
    TrAiNwReCk Member Posts: 246
    Answer ✓

    The buff is indeed a huge, but the effectiveness of the perk will be affected by what map you play. As some maps have crows galore and others have very scarce crow placements.

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  • DS_Gets_FaceCamped
    DS_Gets_FaceCamped Member Posts: 19

    I'd say so. Considering, sometimes, killers will not think twice if a crow in their immediate area is tripped because they assume it's them (this is what I've seen, of course), then I'd say it's a significant change to the perk, making it far more viable.

    But that's just me.

  • TigerKirby215
    TigerKirby215 Member Posts: 604

    @SpaceCoconut said:
    Spies is better, but crow placement makes it less effective.

    Hey it's the Hag streamer person! :D

    Anyways: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/294471
    Crow spawns are wildly inconsistent based on map. It's much, much better now but the strength varies from "perfectly tracking a Survivor across the map" to "never activating once throughout the entire match."

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671
    edited January 2019

    Its range of effect needs to be global or much larger. With its limited range it's still just outclasses by other perks that do similar things.

  • NurseMainBTW
    NurseMainBTW Member Posts: 531
    edited January 2019
    It's not rewarding enough to be considered. I've opened a thread about this perk if you want to check it out.

    The perk itself is actually great on the way it works... but the problem is that it's "okay-ish" in basically 20% of the maps, rendering it too much niche.