Did they just nerf Scream Perks?

Behavior, have you ever heard of the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?". Nobody asked for this feature. It will just make everything more confusing as killer and you've wasted valuable dev time that could have been spent on say, perk or character balancing.

This change alone makes me no longer want to even play killer. It's that bad. Stop messing with things that actually work instead of just loading a random asset of the game and suddenly go "Hey, we'll work on this thing today! Dunno what we'll do, but let's do!"

And then next update they'll somehow just have an update saying they changed the pig ambush noise to make it louder or something.

Please stop.

Every time this kind of thing happens, I try to see things from the dev's perspective. Try to understand their rationale, even if I disagree with it.

This one...I just cannot grasp.

How does this fix an inconsistency? Where was it? Surely the other way round would've made more sense, whatever it was.

Why 19 meters? That's so specific. It's weirdly small, at that. Just...why?? I'm just utterly perplexed by this. Why not just the within the regular 32m.

All those perks and add-ons... well over half of them have been made so situational they're not worth running at all. Surely, surely they thought of this?

If only you'd done that before making an unannounced change that wasn't put through the PTB.

I'm very glad to hear this. I was pretty dismayed to hear about this change, because I use Iron Maiden on a couple of weird builds and I would be near-unable to tell if the perk had had any effect if the notification was changed to a generic loud noise bubble (not to mention I just find it charming when survivors get cheeky with the perk and start creating choirs with spam locker hopping.) There's a big difference on my decisionmaking on "someone did a fast action in that random, non-gen spot" and "someone is Exposed over there." And as a survivor, hearing long-distance screams helped me identify the killer's perks, or who the killer was if it was early in the match. Screams really do help differentiate information from the generic pool, both in identifying individual survivors and how many people were affected by a perk. A killer only has time to turn around and look at loud noise notifications if they're not in chase or carrying someone, but you'll never mistake the audio cue of a scream (unless you're running my joke Doctor build... Infectious, Iron Maiden, Deathbound, and Face the Darkness. Say "Aaah.")