Empathy is amazing.

It used to not have any range restrictions, but its current ones are extremely generous like you mentioned. It covers the vast majority of most maps, and usually only loses range in "end-to-end" situations where the distance is as far as it can be: if you're working on a gen somewhere on the map, it might as well not have a max range basically. I'm also glad you see the value in the secondary information it gives, I honestly think thats the best part about the perk. Being able to track an injured survivors movements across the map that clearly show them in a chase lets you basically follow along from a distance without needing to even actually see the killer. The stuff like finding people to heal is nice little bonuses compared to the other information it gives.

I think people undervalue it because they literally use it just to find people to heal, while ignoring all of its strongest applications in the process. Just like the other two similar perks Kindred and Windows. I usually run one or the other, but kindred and empathy are extremely strong solo perks when used correctly, and i consider running at least 1 of the 2 more important than even OTR.

Empathy is still unlimited Range. Because no Map is big enough at any point to not see the other Survivor with Empathy. They just made the Range consistent at some point with other Perks, because they all display the exact meters.

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Personally, I think that Empathy is not that good. It is way better than many other Perks in the game, but I dont really see the reason to use it when Bond exists. Yes, Bond is a lower Range, but do you really need map-wide Range?

I'm pretty sure you can go past its range on maps like Eyrie of Crows that both long and are not square by design. Granted you pretty much have to do it on purpose, but its absolutely possible. As for Empathy vs Bond, both OP and I have discussed exactly why that range is important, it gives you information on what is happening that you can use to rule out other information at the same time. Its basically the same effect as clown bottle screams being global: If you hear more than one without a survivor being injured, the liklihood of pinky finger being in play increases. Then you can either see an instadown or a relatively long chase with no downs but plenty of screams and start to figure out whether its in play and you've got your answer (rather than having to be in chase and get instadowned to find out.) There is a slew of info in this game that can be predicted with deductive reasoning, which is arguibly the biggest strength of a lot of aura reading perks.

Its not even to downplay bond, I think thats a great perk as well. But there is absolutely value to be found in empathy comparatively, even if it seems like its trading a distance limitation for its injury conditions.

You just have to change your self-heal strategy to account for the efficiency penalty, it's by no means a deal-breaker. If you wanna use a medkit, either bring extra charges or run Streetwise with it. Otherwise, pick another healing source; it plays very nicely with CoH, for instance, and then you have two perks dedicated both to healing yourself and healing your teammates.

It's really solid if you just put a little thought into it.

Assuming your actual healing source is a medkit, you can still bring a medkit stacked with a ton of extra charges. You only really need a handful of self-heals in solo queue anyway, you're not gonna be healing every single injury yourself, so you can easily get a good few heals out of medkits with BK.

Or, y'know, just don't bring BK. If you only cared about the efficiency, bring Streetwise instead. One perk.

Great perk but I am more of a Open Handed + Bond enjoyer.

I always run Empathy if I am using autodidact getting stacks can be hard if you don't have empathy in your build.

You don't see alot of survivors using aura reading perks which is understandable with all the tunneling and camping rn you're gonna have to run others perks if you want to have any chance especially in SoloQ.

Whats with this new trend of using people's post histories to dismiss them? You don't have to agree with someone to learn something from them, the entire point of discussion is supposed to be exposing yourself to different perspectives on a topic. Like even if you're going to do it, at least keep it to yourself and just leave the conversation quietly lmao

I mean you're not wrong, but you're also implying you're too important to care and proving you're too ignorant to get insight from opinions you disagree with. It's taking your ball and going home in conversation form.

Even people who rant about the most biased perspective in the universe can accidentally give you good insight unintentionally, this game is pretty much designed around it. Its very easy to lose the forest for the trees if you just echochamber yourself.

Empathy has basically become a mainstay for my survivor builds.

Don't swap out Empathetic Connection for Empathy. Try running them simultaneously for really good two-way comms

This is a very fair point. But you don't exactly have to lose out on the kickass healing! Pair Autodidact with the double Empathy combo. In fact, finishing it with Solidarity is one of my favorite builds ever.