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Does any other survivor use premonition?

dspaceman20
dspaceman20 Member Posts: 4,699
edited June 2022 in General Discussions

Am I the only survivor that uses premonition over spine chil?? Cause in all my time of playing I have never seen any other survivor use premonition.

I really wish it would get a buff bhvr!!!!

Comments

  • OneGoodBoyDemo
    OneGoodBoyDemo Member Posts: 473

    Even after 4 years playing DBD, l still don't know how premonition works.

  • ThatOneDemoPlayer
    ThatOneDemoPlayer Member Posts: 5,623

    Why do you use Premonition over Spine Chill?

  • WaveyTrey
    WaveyTrey Member Posts: 668
    edited June 2022

    Yes. I’ve used it, and I prefer it more. It’s highly ineffective on maps with multiple floors though like Midwich. It shoots a degree cone from where you aim your camera, and not where your body is facing. So you aim your camera left to right like a security cam (Haha). It works in the sense that you know which angle a killer is actually coming. This works incredibly well with Fixated. Once you know what direction a killer is surely coming from you can position yourself away from the killers camera line of sight. During cooldown you can play like you regularly would.

    Spine Chill is good for the passive buffs it gives, but I hate that it procs whenever a killer is facing you. Why? When killers realize you have it they will actually begin to moonwalk in your direction so that it doesn’t activate as quick.

    I’ve seen them do this with Premonition as they think I have Spine Chill. Nope. I see you coming every time, and from the general direction too.

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,587

    I used to love Premonition when I first started playing, but as the need to speed the game along grew over time, I had to drop it.

  • dspaceman20
    dspaceman20 Member Posts: 4,699

    How it works is that when your camra is facing the killer within a certain range you get a noise notification. It helps determine the direction the killer is.

  • dspaceman20
    dspaceman20 Member Posts: 4,699

    Yep you sumed up the reason I use premonition over spine chill.

  • dspaceman20
    dspaceman20 Member Posts: 4,699

    Premonition has certain things going for it the benefits me and my playstyle. While the buffs that spine chill gives is good I often times find myself running into the killer then away because all it does is say that the killer is looking at you not where they are looking from

    It's also really good for stalling and stealth. I have been able to delay and even avoid chases because I was able to run in the complete opposite direction from the killer.

  • Murgleïs
    Murgleïs Member Posts: 1,107

    Premonition is a cool perk in theory but very bad in practice. Another exemple of bad perk balance.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 7,846

    No, and I never use spine chill either

  • Wampirita
    Wampirita Member Posts: 809

    Not a single sane person would give up Spine chill over premonition.

    Premonition has a cooldown, and it's only good thing is telling you the direction, Which isn't accurate anyway, cuz of it's wide af range.

    Spine chill maybe doesn't give you directions, but you have eyes to look around. And no cooldown + speeding up actions just wins over Premonition

  • Sally_S_gay_son
    Sally_S_gay_son Member Posts: 285

    I used it once when me and my friends were using perk randomizer and it was one of my favourite matches of all time against blight on midwitch, we managed to 4e but it was super close, we were playing super well since we had the shittiest of perks.


    Other than that since chill is just superior

  • Deathstroke
    Deathstroke Member Posts: 3,709

    I used it few times trying to do the rift challenge but I failed and gave up. Spine chill is just much better but I don't use them as I don't want to hide while match and chases are most fun as survivor unless it's good nurse so then hiding is only option.

  • WaveyTrey
    WaveyTrey Member Posts: 668
    edited June 2022

    The killer is in control of the perk, and wise killers can use it against you. I just can’t sit well with that.

    Usually when I have Premonition it’s to find the killer for a reason. When I use Premonition to find the killer I’ll break all the hooks in the area without notifications. Find injured/carried survivors so I can body block to activate MoM.

    It’s a very good Solo Q perk imo. Maybe because I solo most of the time it works for what I intend on doing. Spine Chill is literally remote viewing with SWFs though. 😂