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Should distortion recharge while in chase?

AverageAshEnjoyer
AverageAshEnjoyer Member Posts: 427
edited December 2022 in Feedback and Suggestions

Currently distortion recharges while the killer is chasing you. Should it work like this or is it too cheesy?

Post edited by Rizzo on

Comments

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,382
    edited December 2022

    Considering Distortion is something you don't really use in chase and is made for avoiding chases to begin with, I'd say it's fine.

    It would be a bit of a clunky design to have to run up to the killer, hide within their terror radius, while you potentially have no Distortion and therefore no protection from aura reading, in order to charge it up for later.

    I wouldn't mind it pausing in chase if it charged a bit quicker out of it though.

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  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 6,893
    edited December 2022

    No it shouldn’t. I love Distortion and love using it but it feels way too easy to get tokens now. Unless I’m against a stealth killer or one with a small terror radius it feels like I NEVER run out. It should just be while in the terror radius without being chased like how Diversion works.

  • Rulebreaker
    Rulebreaker Member Posts: 2,007

    Should? Probably not, but at the end of the day, it doesn't harm too much (off hand all we can think of is wraith and t2 wall hack Myers)

  • OrangeBear
    OrangeBear Member Posts: 2,755

    I don't think they should change it cause it's not like it's meta or anything. If it ain't fixed don't broke it

  • bm33
    bm33 Member Posts: 8,204

    Distortion is a decent perk as is and doesn't need a nerf.

  • feechima
    feechima Member Posts: 914

    I think the way it works right now is fine. Considering it gets burned away in seconds with several aura revealing perks and add ons. I still find myself in games where I have no tokens for a while. Then when I have tokens again I"m in chase so its of no use unless the killer has I'm all Ears.

  • Sava18
    Sava18 Member Posts: 2,439

    Personally I don't like it because it denies chases. It's like would you rather me run slow down instead of aura reading? In terms of power level it's really not deserving of a nerf. If it ever becomes used often/meta killers will just stack slow down more than they do now. I use slow down rarely and if I do it's pain res about 1 in 4 games, that will change to 100% of games if I start seeing 2 plus distortions every match.

  • Ciabe
    Ciabe Member Posts: 119

    It's already so weak as is. I like to run it, but 85% of my games it never activates even once. If anything it needs a buff. Make it work against screams and gen pings (things that show your gen while you are working on it).

  • egg_
    egg_ Member Posts: 1,933
    edited December 2022

    I didn't want to open a thread myself because distortion is truly a hidden gem and it's really on the limit of 'too strong's because of all the information it gives for free and its a ability to negate entire killer builds

    I wouldn't say it's broken, not at all, but consider that distortion gives information even when it's not working. Start the trial, 3 full tokens, ok no LP. Killer kicks gen, still 3 tokens, no Nowhere to hide. And so on. It's not a gamble taking this perk into the trial because it is helpful even while not getting actual use out of it.

    It's really too easy to recharge tokens against some killers, while with others it's very difficult, making it also uneven. If i were to change it, I'd make tokens recharge based on how much a survivor worked on gens.

  • DBDVulture
    DBDVulture Member Posts: 2,437

    No joke. I don't even use aura detection and I see a lot of people using the perk.


    It seems very dumb that distortion charges mid chase. Anyone who remembers sprint burst with a 20 second cooldown that recharged before exhaustion was put into the game will surely agree.

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773
    edited December 2022

    I honestly prefer it to more push for stealth so no