It's a shame Zanshin Tactics is so bad compared to Windows of Opportunity.

it needs a complete rework cuz its useless, same with premonition and this is not happening etc etc.

Third Seal is tied to a hex.

Zanshin Tactics showing you nearby vaults and pallets and applying Blindness to an injured survivor you're in chase with (or a survivor, etc.) and for a few seconds after would be... well, it wouldn't be great, it's mostly just a negation of WoO, but it's at least something.

Yeah.

Since Survivors typically lead the chase, it's important to know what tile resources you have available in front of you.

Since Killers follow in chase, it's much less important.

Could call it "Pocket Sand" and Afflict Survivors with Blindness for 30s at the start of a Chase. (lol)

This isn't true at all. As a killer you can attempt to head off a survivor sure, and there's a few killers who can teleport ahead(typically to fixed locations...tvs, lockers, gens), dash forward quickly in a straight line, or have some other way of moving faster but there's exactly one killer who can truly cut off survivors at will and that's nurse. Everyone else the survivor 100% leads the chase as the TR + red stain gives a huge head start to the survivor. The tradeoff is due to the killers naturally higher move speed the killer will eventually catch up and some killers get to use their power to attempt to head off a survivor but the chasing is always the survivor leading(defined as picking a direction and moving in it - typically to a tile to begin looping or some other structure)

If we assume your statement is true that killers are the leaders I'd have to ask you to explain why zanshin isn't as popular as windows by a huge margin. If killers "lead" the chase then zanshin would be just as useful as windows is for survivors since you can lead them better. However this isn't the case as evidenced by perk useage rights in the past as well as third party tracking sites and the majority of people in this thread who all agree zanshin is bad.

precisely. why would they give you a hex perk effect in a normal perk?

Noted by @Carth , that’s elaborating on what I mean by typically Survivors lead the chase.

If you’re not a mobile Killer, typically in chase the Survivors run, and you approach them over time, though they can choose where to run.

Yes, for some stealthy insta-down Killers like Ghostface or a 99% Myers I can see it being useful for approaching a generator from the pallet side to prevent Survivors from using the pallet as a means of distancing themselves from your insta-down. However knowledge of tiles can usually replace that, as well as you knowing if you broke a Pallet there before or not.

For long range teleport Killers it’s still kind of hit or miss as the 32m range is a bit short to understand the pallet density of other locations that you haven’t been at yet at the start of the Trial to corral Survivors into RNG dead zones and of course availability of those teleports.

It can probably help some setup Killers like Trapper or Hag to understand where to place their traps quickly, but is a niche use and likely overshadowed by other Perks, especially as the player becomes more knowledgeable about tile types.

In all seriousness if you wanted to make the perk thematic to its description for how the game currently plays “You are mentally alert and aware of key points on the battlefield”

I’d do something like this:

“Damaging the Health State of a Survivor shows you the Aura of the Generator with the Most amount of Repair progress for 4/5/6s, the repair progress can be determined by the intensity of its Aura.”

Edit: Or to be similar to its current incarnation “You see the repair progress of generators within 32m by the intensity of their Auras”

What if it had a really strange effect to pallets - once per pallet. So if the killer m1's a pallet that's still upright, it respawns at the next closest pallet tile. Could be used to move the location of strong pallets and could be used in chases.

May encourage pre-dropping though - although that's less time wasted looping - a bit like spirit fury + enduring. Also, could be useful, but also detrimental sometimes so the killer would need to be careful. Could also be too beneficial for killers if they try to 3 gen in areas that already have very few pallet spawns. Just a random thought/idea.

Edit: If it's too good - make it so survivors see the aura of the new pallet spawn for a few seconds and/or increase the recovery time when the killer m1's - this would also be unaffected by unrelenting.

i mean WoO is a non-issue perk to start with. so i don't really care at all if the killer WoO is bad. WoO just shows where pallets are, it doesn't magically make survivors good at looping. Complain about the fact that these maps can spawn set ups can spawn in the first place rather than complaining about a perk that lets you see them.