Question for Distortion/ WoO Users

I use woo and distortion(sometimes when I notice heavy auras are being used in opposition).

My most honest opinion is,

i personally don’t think you using auras are a crutch. If you don’t know how to gen patrol when it doesn’t proc and it costs you the game, you should look into that, you don’t need aura perks but they are very useful. I think they give you a significant advantage a very very good chunk of the time against survivors bc distortion isn’t a high picked perk, and I can definitely see how much you’re capitalizing off that when I use it as solo and see my teammates getting absolutely wrecked bc they can’t fart without someone using heavy aura knowing where they’re at, and almost absolutely close to no progress gets made in those matches against heavy aura, the advantage is very hard to deny. Anyways pop those on an anti loop high tier killer and it’s almost a guaranteed 4k with little adversity. I’m in no way complaining about you using what you want to use we’ve both got our own struggles on each side, I want you to have fun. I would also like to have fun so don’t get mad when I use distortion, come look for me. I’m not hiding, you don’t have to hide with distortion and I like it that way.

woo is very useful as solo, I absolutely like to know if I’m in a dead zone or not. I’m not on comms. It doesn’t make you better while being chased though, that’s a skill. I won’t get to that pallet any sooner by using it. They generally spawn in the same places unless there’s updates. There’s a lot of anti loop killers out there building around their weaknesses in their perks. You can nerf it, but that would probably mean nerfing killers across the board to adjust for the difference bc your advantages would be too great.

if they nerf distortion it mostly likely means surely your aura perks will be up next on that block bc the advantages.

So like don’t let them get to you is my best advice. If you want them nerfed just know that comes with a price of your perks as well bc balance. Now we both don’t have nice useful things that are a shell of a perk. I personally would prefer not to go down that road.

like I said I want to have fun, I’m sure you like to have fun. I’d rather not go down nerf alley, and create more unnecessary work for them, bc I’ll just start picking something else that would be a pain in your bottom, and vise versa.

I’m not mad at you, and don’t pay any attention to distortion woo users that are, they’re being biased.

Windows is basically essential for any survivor who isn't a 10k hour never-took-a-break-for-even-a-single-chapter survivor main to last more than 20 seconds in a chase these days. Meanwhile aura reading perks are very oppressive and the only counter is a perk that not everyone even has.

I don't think your perks are crutches. But in MY opinion it's always better to run just 1-2 aura perks, so you don't rely entirely on your build. And it also leaves room for other perks so if your build gets countered (which is totally fine), you only get countered for 1-2 perks instead of your whole build.

The same can be said about running 4 gen perks.

But you can play however you want, as long it's not a bannable offense.

I get the stereotype exists for a reason, I can only speak for myself but I tend to run Distortion, Kindred, We'll Make it and Windows or some other perk to help with chases. I will take aggro away from team mates and will take hook states to prevent a death hook team mate going down.

A lot of the issues that come from Distortion come from team mates who would not take hook states either way and when they escape through hatch after not being found they brag how they never got hooked and still escaped lol.

I am fine with the perk (obviously), especially with so much aura reading in the game now I think it is a necessary evil

Indeed. I've said many times that perks are good to help make up for percieved weaknesses, hence why I'm not bothered if team mates use stealth perks etc. Having said that, my weakness is chase but I acknowledge I won't get better at chase if I always use chase perks. So I choose not to.

Regardless of all that, I'm not the one who coined the term in gaming nor do I use it as an insult because I don't care if they choose to crutch on perks or not.

I'm fine with players running full aura builds. As long as they aren't telling BHVR to nerf it's counterplay, that being Distortion.

100% agreed.

Just whiney, salty players. Ignore them, because they will have an excuse or retort no matter what happens.

Anyway, nearly every perk could be seen as a crutch, but what's wrong with that when it's an option? I feel those players need to focus on their own abilities than shift blame on to others.

They don't understand the game if they make a comment like that.

Serious huntresses who practice sniping across the map with their hatchets will always run full aura reading builds so they know where to throw.

And even if it's not a huntress, a full aura reading build is still a legitimate strategy and they just don't want to have to counterplay it. (Such as running to a locker when a survivor is downed so BBQ and Chilli doesn't detect you.)

And lots of aura perks tells you which gens are being worked bc survivor ping without you having to walk over there and check, what’s your point? Sure I could be jumping into a locker every 5 secs against a full aura build but that’s not a lot of fun is it, and not even feasible. Distortion is fine, woo is also fine.

It makes sense to bring 4 aura perks because you're playing Huntress, a killer who can act on the info very quickly. Killers who can either shoot, dash, or teleport to survivors they have located with aura reading naturally benefit the most from aura reading perks.

Killers who use aura reading perks as "crutches" are the killers who can't find survivors without them. I'd say that more experienced killers who use info perks are basically using their perks to shrink the area of the map where they have to apply their game sense too. Normally, killer have to go through the process of splitting up the map, shrinking the search area down to a few places, then searching one of those areas. I'd say that aura perks, and info perks in general, cut out that first part and give the killer an area to search. More experienced killers are still going to be able to use their game sense to find survivors in those areas very quickly, as opposed to the killers who are using aura perks as a substitute for game sense.

As for WoO, I can only say that I feel like it would become a crutch, so I don't use it. Even when the pallet is gone, I try to improvise to keep the killer busy for as long as possible. Everyone's different though. I say WoO makes chases easier by showing survivors where the pallets are, so they can try to guarantee that they have a pallet available during a chase. What they do when they get there is up to them.

In the case of Survivors bringing Distortion, there's always Discordance and Tinkerer. Survivors can't counter Discordance because even when it's not on, it's giving you information. Discordance is unironically my favorite info perk for Xenomorph. Tinkerer is always good because survivors are loathe to leave a gen when it's almost done, so they'll hold on until the last second.

If I were the devs or their knowledge/data operations team I would take a look at how many gens are getting done in these heavy aura build matches on average excluding high mmr 4 mans(i mean consider them) and consider that information, and then beg them to reconsider nerfing distortion and woo at a time like this. Time is really precious resource now for survivors now like it used to be for killers before shifting to be more killer sided. Like if you see a drastic increase in escape rate bc a lot more ppl are picking distortion and getting out repeatedly I get it, do what you have to do, I’ll understand. From my experience getting paired with duos and triples that’s not what’s going on though, with one person carrying it, it’s not giving that much of an advantage, just lessening how oppressive some of these builds are, and they can be very oppressive to face off against.

Im not asking for you to nerf their stuff, put please take a look at the data.