Help me understand the Onryo changes?

That was a change from PTB to live, so that holding a tape is more risky. You don't want to be hit while carrying a tape.

When a tape is destroyed that survivor gets 2 stacks of condemned, no effect on other TVs, but of course they no longer have a tape in their possession so they will now need to find two TVs to remove those stacks.

Having the tape be destroyed was intended, otherwise you could just smack someone twice and give them four stacks. To my knowledge this does not turn off a TV; it just leaves you with two more condemned stacks and no tape.

The downside (from the surv perspective) is that this means the Onryo can deprive you of your tape and then immediately start applying condemned to you by TPing.

No TVs ever permanently turn off, but they never did. The ones that do have a much shorter cooldown (45s, down from 100s), though.

Basically, if an Onryo wants to condemn everyone, they'll most often run the iri tape (which limits you to being able to return a tape to one particular TV) and Mother's Comb (which creates a loud noise notification whenever a tape is taken). The allows them to find you, hit you (adding two stacks and removing your tape), and then immediately start TP'ing (often to another surv who has taken a tape), applying condemned the entire time.

It's not hard to execute, and can be absolutely devastating if you don't find a tape immediately (and often even if you do). If the player is any good at all (even just decent) and is out to condemn everyone, you'll spend the match running around trying to find tapes and getting very little else done.

If you are playing as the Onryo and want to get easy wins, that's how you do it. If the team isn't coordinated, they're gonna have a bad time, and unlike the old method where you had to slug and rely on survs to spread stacks by healing, you can just snowball condemned on everyone, and you can do it quickly.

Playing that way is not very nice, though, and will not earn you any friends.

Did you play Feng on Eyrie of Crows by any chance?

Then again this is probably quite common right now...

Yeah, even if you do exactly what is prescribed to counter it, you're still largely at the mercy of RNG. If the Onryo is aggressively trying to condemn your team and you all don't find tapes immediately (which can be hard if you all spawn together), you're in trouble.

I'm an Onryo player who never really tried using condemnation as my main tactic, but after being on the receiving end of a few of those matches, I decided to try a few to see if it was in fact that easy (spoiler alert - it was that easy, even when the survs did exactly what they should have done).

I expect some changes. I wanted Onryo to be buffed, but not like this.

It's completely opposite. Holding a tape is the BEST thing to do now; unless you want to be mori'ed without being hooked once; I have video proof of it.

Every match I've had against her now is resulting in me being slugged cause she mori'ed my entire team but can't do it to me so I'm slugged till she get them and then I'm the only one hooked.

For sure. Though as an Onryo enjoyer, my fear is that they'll hard nerf her and then be like "well, we tried" and leave her on the garbage pile.