The Irony here

Distortion isn't op, it's good, but not op. It's solid, you can depend on it to do it's job, which for me is aura blocking against an omnipresent build. I feel like would killers also like a perk that stops your aura from being read, that has conditional regens...bc you can ask for that, a counter perk for a counter perk. Then you can counter 1-16 perks as killer.

You still get value out of your build against the 3 other survivors, so killer aura build isn't completely useless, bc the odds of 4 ppl running distortion isn't that high. It doesn't take out your eyeballs and ears, so even if they were all running distortion you can still see and hear them if you decided to look for them. The survivor doesn't blink out of existence for having it. It also has a fundamental downside to it being other survivors, perk doesn't do that much if you have injured joe right beside you, input survivor anywhere near you doing literally anything. Wasted token, killers right there anyways, countered by my own teammate smdh.

I don't need distortion to know if the killer is running bbq or nurse's or whatever else they're using aura related. If you play enough, in game knowledge will tell you if killer does x that means they probably have x. You can't wipe knowledge. You can not have distortion and gather that information based off experience very quickly, or if your on comms two heads gathering information works faster than distortion.

If I equip a full heal build with my best medkit and addons to pair with and get matched against legion or plague, is it my fault for not doing a well rounded build, or should their basekits be nerfed bc it can counter an entire loadout for multiple survivors...so like where is the line?Respectfully.

addendum: it doesn’t even work that well against killers creating map pressure. No amount of aura blocking will protect me against a killer checking gens. I’m just saying.

I see it and I like it.

Lightborn??

If you cant find survivors because of distortion, then you really need to practice your killer play.

Also, its really rare that i see it, and with the current level of tunneling i think its more than a fair perk.

Meanwhile Lightborn dosnt require any tokens and can counter both perks and items, for a whole game.

So it would only be fair that Lightborn had tokens 3, and after each "blind counter" it would loose one, and only regain counters if the killer got people hooked??

But that's not quite equivalent is it? One objectively bad killer perk that can counter one to four survivors item vs 1 survivor perk that can counter an entire class of killer perks(only a couple of them could even be considered meta at that).

The 4 vs 16 perk thing doesn't make sense a lot of the time because that's not how the game functions, but in this instance it does make sense. It's also why I said exhaustion in my comment because that would be extremely good (likely broken), lightborn is extremely bad.

It's actually pretty common to see distortion these days. Definitely doesn't fall into the rarely see it category.

Your comparison to lightborn is wrong. It would be more similar to the killer getting a stack every time they stay in chase for X amount of seconds, which basically means the whole match do it's pointless having any stacks (which is why Distortion might as well say it blocks all aura perks for whole match).

Now if distortion had other requirements such as healing another survivor fir x amount or gain a stack in unhook etc then having stacks would actually make it work in manner that at least gives the killer value from his perks at some point in the game. Currently even running 2 aura perks and lethal pursuer the stacks never drop to 0.

Alternatively put a timer on distortion that counts down as your aura is shown and charges back to set amount. That way at least certain perks might be stronger against it when combined with stuff like lethal pursuer.

I don’t need distortion to know what aura perks you’re using, that requires my brain to know why it procs, also when I don’t run distortion I know what aura perks you’re using bc brain. Some big red flashing sign doesn’t pop up that says killer has this perk it does this. That’s just exposure to the same killer perks and add ons over and over again. Hey though if you’re looking for tips to get better, if you realize the survivor is using distortion because you can’t get an aura read try checking the gens, or the hook area. If you genuinely just can’t be bothered to adapt to a perk that’s very easy to adapt to bc it’s really no mystery where survivors will be, then idk what to tell you. I can think of a pretty decent size list of things killers have other than lightborn that counter a huge chunk of survivor perks. Play 20 games using distortion and write down how many times it’s rendered absolutely useless token after token due to just circumstance or something that gives your location away anyways; how many times even if you had it killer knew where you were, how many times you don’t get value bc you can’t control other survivors being near you or else you would have to go out of your way costing precious time and progress to not have that happen or they follow you anyways, how many times it just burns out of tokens and you have to go out of your way to get in the killers TR for objectives bc they’re holding down a 3 gen and refuse to leave that very specific area, how many times it wouldn’t of mattered if you had it or not bc the killer was chasing unhooks only anyways and not checking gens or just straight up doesn’t care about anything going on outside of specific area despite your efforts, or how many times you were using it but it didn’t matter bc the killer patrols gens. It doesn’t stop you from being found, it doesn’t make you untouchable or unfindable and it certainly doesn’t alter killer playstyle in a critical way or anything not massively going on anyways and would still continue if this perk was just completely deleted.

To the killers that think the singular distortion user is why you’re chasing unhooks, to that I say you’re doing that whether I use it or not. Stop blaming survivors for how you play, bc you can’t be bothered to patrol a gen, I’m not hiding in an obscure corner or locker when using it. I help my teammates in all ways. I go for saves, I do gens, I give heals, all of which usually lands me in a chase you can’t avoid being chased in this game if you’re doing objectives and killer is doing objectives. If you can’t be bothered to leave your safe space you’re trying to hold down, why should I be when I’m just working on a gen you can’t be bothered to check? We’re both doing our objectives.

Distortion?Really? It’s not even guaranteed value there’s a list of variables that passively nerf it’s usefulness. Have you used it consecutively, surely if you did you would see what I see. It’s good but not op, to the point I barely even incorporate it anymore unless I just am going up against stacked aura after stacked aura just to make any progression towards survivor objective bc some of the loadouts are very overbearing especially when I’m solo, and forces cycles where the survivors make little to no progress, and distortion is one of few ways to catch the tiniest bit of a break for your team sometimes to safely get a save without killer interrupting your pathing, or make gen progress. The counter other survivors and literally patrolling gens. Isn’t one of your objectives to kick them and make sure they’re aren’t progressing? Like this perk can literally be countered by your own teammates just being in the same general area as you, if the feng needs a heal they need a heal. I’m not getting off my generator bc Kate ran up and wants to work on it too.Like distortion alone doesn’t pip you and it has a lot of weak spots , and if the Dwight wants to hide in a locker and not do anything then that’s what Dwight’s going to do distortion equipped or not, there’s no fixing that.

I firmly believe nothing will stop “tunneling” unless the option to do so is removed mechanically, or survivors are stuck standing still and can’t do anything that progresses their emblems in any way, bc then and only then can killers 4k without any inconvenience with 0 adversity. Sounds fun to Q up as survivor right? You get no downsides to your perks as killer, but as survivor nope can’t have a perk that gives value unless it comes with a very sketchy downside that killers benefit from and approve of bc SURVIVOR perks should benefit the killer, sounds good right? Solid plan, survivors are going to love that they’ll be lining up at the door for masochism.

Just a smoll interjection: when Distortion uses up a token, because the killer used some aura reading on you, Distortion also suppresses your scratch marks for 6/7/8s. Really sneeeeeaky.

Because something is useful doesn't make it OP.

Distortion: Is good, has a lot of reasons all those tokens getting burned that give no value though needs regen, scratch marks show them idc, you have to play with this perk in a very specific way so you don't shoot your team in the foot, this is a high risk, high reward perk. This perk basically nerfs itself most the time. When it works though, it works really well though, as it should.

DS: This is one of the biggest wastes of a perk slot, since it was nerfed this perk is basically WASTING A SLOT AN ENORMOUSLY LARGE AMOUNT OF THE TIME AND FROM WHAT IVE NOTICED A VERY LITTLE PAY OFF. THIS IS NOT A GO BIG PERK.

OTR: I think this perk sucks.I personally wouldn't run it. I'll just take my tunnel for a better perk slot. My friend says it doesn't work half the time. Must be doing something for him though bc he runs it with DS.

Sprint Burst: This is one of the worst exhaustion perks in the game. This one has one of the biggest drawbacks if you're trying to be smart as far as exhaustion goes.

Idk what to tell if you think these guys right here are your biggest enemies. You should be kind of grateful ppl pick these little gimmick perks in mass bc there's much stronger stuff that if they used in mass would be such a huge issue, and every time you nerf one of those you're risking that, idk though you could probably nerf each of these to the ground(they aren't far from it) and there would still be ppl that use them out of whatever reason.

I think a solution to this that both sides wouldnt mind is perhaps a reduce in the rate tokens are received. Could possibly offset it by telling you when you are out of tokens that your aura was read or something as to not weaken the perk, giving both sides some interesting counter play. I will say though, there are absolutely killer perks that do this. I dont think they are particularly strong, but franklins and light born counter entire perks and items of survivors. Someone could come into a game running 4 perks related to flashbang saves and get it countered by one perk. Franklins pretty much makes med kits completely useless unless you use them to heal other people which defeats the point of having them at all anyway. Theres other examples as well that I am sure you can think of if you spend more time on it.

I mean if you’re not using it right you’ve basically sentenced your team, I’d say that’s pretty high risk, but what do I know. If you’re in a locker while having distortion you’re using it wrong.

If there’s a survivor reading this you should know that:

Do not hide with this perk, you’re costing your entire team, make progress on gens, get safe saves, and if their lives start talling up take some chases, if you haven’t been in one. If you don’t you’re not helping, you’re hurting your team MASSIVELY.

Idk if I’d go as far as calling it OP, I don’t really mind it that much. It might be a little over tuned though, maybe just slow down the rate of tokens a bit. Rather than lessening aura reads you get tokens so fast that it’s basically permanent aura read immunity. Just give it a slight tweak.