Ultimate Weapon is now Darkness Revealed 2.0
Why did you make it aura related? You could have just nerfed the cooldown and seen what happened to it's pick rate. Now all you've done is make it a more consistent version of Darkness Revealed. You made a niche perk pointless with this gutting of an actually good perk.
Does it even still apply Blindness? And how long is the aura duration? None of this was mentioned in the patch notes.
This patch actually seems very good on paper, overall. But this change to Ultimate Weapon is just bizarre, Devs.
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Not to mention Ultimate Weapon was countered by Calm Spirit, now it's just "yet another reason to run Distortion".
At least make it a Killer Instinct or Loud Noise notification, instead of being dumb and throwing in the aura bucket.
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Darkness Revealed, ignoring issues with some maps and locker spawns, doesn't require a TR to work meaning stealth killers may get more value from it.
However, the same argument could really be made with current Ultimate Weapon and Darkness Revealed, because Ultimate Weapon was always better at finding survivors than Darkness revealed since it didn't care about locker spawns.
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15 seconds of aura reading in your TR every 60 seconds by just opening a locker sounds good to me. I don't know if they pretended to nerf the perk, but in my opinion they transformed a perk with a 7.38% pickrate (according to Nightlight) that was mostly useful to high mobility killers into a good aura perk that is useful for everybody.
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Yep, it screams laziness on the Devs part. Whether that was from feeling rushed because of the complaints about it or what. But they really haven't shown us the creativity we know they have on this one. Calm Spirit being the counter to it was so good, because it meant players being tempted to mix up their meta build if they wanted to use it. Now, ain't gotta worry about that 4th slot, just continue using your gen perks and second chances. No need to worry anymore.
Darkness Revealed is better for locker reload killers due to them having a smaller Terror Radius than the rest of the roster, so they couldn't get value out of Ultimate Weapon properly. But what makes it niche, with people not really opting for it atm even as those two killers, is the locker spawn sparsity like you mentioned. Ultimate Weapon is just such a good perk as it is that it can be used by the whole roster (minus Huntress and Trickster, maybe minus Myers too) and you get guaranteed value out of it.
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Let's just stop and examine what Ultimate Weapon now plays like:
If Distortion is in play, the Killer now doesn't get any detection on that Survivor, ie not knowing they're in that area for certain. But on top of that, the Survivor not only counters it by being hidden from them, but they start to immediately get their immunity from Ultimate Weapon back again due to both being Terror Radius related. So most likely you will never get value from Ultimate Weapon if Distortion remains pseudo-meta like it currently is. So, just like in my post, Ultimate Weapon has been gutted. It's an atrocious nerf. And you'll probably never see Ultimate Weapon used outside of weak gimmick/theme build.
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15s is the activation duration it only gives 3s of aura reading & reveals your aura is being read with the blindness effect.
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That's it confirmed then. They gutted the perk and made yet another Killer perk useless and not comparatively worth using over others that you are guaranteed value from.
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Well, that's less amazing. It should be 5 seconds, at least.
Still, I see myself using this version more than the old. The only killers that I have it slotted at the moment are Blight and Pig for the interrupt build.
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Honestly they could keep ultimate weapon the way it is, but remove the lingering keeping it to the locker only, boom, it now has to compete with darkness revealed, and other tracking perks
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They mentioned the changes, so if it is not mentioned, it is not changed.
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