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Alert VS Any Means Necessary

Iron_Cutlass
Iron_Cutlass Member Posts: 3,464
in General Discussions

While not exact the same perk, I really feel like this an underlooked competition between two perks; Any Means Necessary and Alert. Both perks can provide information and utility when having a proper understanding of the game.

Alert reveals the aura of the killer when they perform break actions, while you do get the occasional value on generators or a breakable wall, it is mostly used to see where the killer is by them breaking pallets (mostly to tell if someone is in a chase or just general information of where the killer is). If an Undetectable killer breaks an object, you get a notification but do not get the aura reading.

Any Means Necessary shows you the aura of dropped pallets, allowing you to pick them back up. However, you can tell where the killer is based on the aura of the pallets disappearing, which really cuts off the primary usage of Alert. Any Means Necessary, since it isnt an aura reading perk, can still provide information against Undetectable killers, since it shows the aura of dropped pallets and not the aura of the killer directly.

To sum this up. Any Means Necessary and Alert compete with similar functions, but still have differences that make one better than the other seeing the situations suits it.

Aggressive in chase players might pick up Alert, but people wanting passive information, might pick up Any Means Necessary.

Comments

  • Anara
    Anara Member Posts: 1,297
    edited August 2022

    Interresting comparison, I love both of them.

    I think Any Means Necessary is better in swf because you can use the same pallets a second time. And your teammates can already provide you informations in vocal.

    But I think Alert is better for soloQ. It provides you very good informations. And I cant wait for the devs to finish all map reworks with breakable walls so Alert will be better.