Should Blindness Be Reworked?

Blindness exists to counter certain survivor perks. It's already one of the weakest status effects in the game, the fact it's sometimes capable of functioning as intended is not a bad thing.

it is actually insanely cringe on indoor maps. Play against a killer using knockout and 3rd seal on rpd and you will quickly realize that blindness should be outright reworked

Sort of. I think it should be adjusted in a way that doesn’t make it as punishing for solo players (honestly I just don't want it to affect slugs and hooked survivors) and then it could probably get an additional effect in return. Knockout should also be changed for similar reasons.

But its ability to counter other aura-reading such as WoO or Alert is fine and shouldn’t be touched.

I honestly feel blindness is very underrated.

Take a moment in your next couple of games to see how many aura perks the survivors are using. Especially windows addicts get screwed by blindness.

Also helps with slugging which is the key to pressure

The thing with blindness is that you don't really see the affect yourself.

When you down a survivor that could have made it to a pallet if they saw it with windows you typically won't know it.

Blindness don't really do much and most killers don't even use perks or addons that cause blindness so I am not sure how it is hurts soloq players. Especially considering from my experience as soloq even when you encounter it, it isn't particularly noticeable. Then again I'm also not new to the game and not super dependent on Aura reading perks beyond bond. Like all the super important things like hooked survivors or downed survivors are pretty noisy which is enough to find them unless you're hard of hearing.

Yes for the reasons OP stated. I'm not screaming from the roof tops for it to be nerfed but it just makes sense that it should be.

Blindness is weird.

It's meant to counter aura perks, and it does do that. The problem is that auras, by their very nature, are merely sources of information. With some exceptions (such as Windows in some cases), information is a resource SWFs typically have for free and is one of the major aspects that makes them stand out compared to solos. Why run Kindred when my teammates can simply tell me the killer is camping or who is where?

I wouldn't mind if this was a function of Blindness, but not the sole function. Similar to hemorrhage's buff some time back, give it a secondary effect. A popular suggestion is that a survivor suffering from Blindness cannot see the Red Stain. Believe it or not, the technology for this does exist; if a Doctor with Discipline chases you, he does not have a red stain. Other survivors will see it just fine, but you? You will not see it on him (you'll see it on your back due to how the add-on works, but Doc himself lacks it).

Hiding the Red Stain sounds like a great addition to Blindness, but it should still continue to block aura-reading.

Nerf blindness i've heard it all now.

Could have it apply that darkening effect Deep Wounds has, but not worsening over time.

I too am in favor of it playing around with the Red Stain. If not eliminating it perhaps it becomes a circle around the killer instead. And as a consoler it would lessen the lack of filters peeps use to get the stain visible from Mars.

But that just makes Blindness turn into worse version of Undetectable.

So we go from a status that isn't used cause it is mostly useless to a status that isn't used because there better version of it.

Not that much easier. There are 5 perks that give Blindness and 5 perks that give Undetectable.

Pretty much all of the perks for Undetectable just give you the status passively in relation to a very common situation the most difficult one to use is Dark Devotion as it requires the obsession.

Blindness doesn't even benefit killers outside of chase in the vast majority of situations. It's just not a good status effect and honestly could be replaced entirely with something new and actually useful.