LMAO Distortion. I almost played a game as Perkless Huntress.

Yes part of her strength is turning healing off. Now she doesn't have to worry about for the people and buckle up, now she doesn't have to run chase perks and can run 4 slowdown for free because her chases are only half the time because of the broken status effect. I wouldn't mind if plague got buffs if she was nerfed in other aspects. At the end of the day, I don't consider plague's current design healthy for the game in its current state.

Yes I am, although I was hardly implying, rather explicitly stating that. They balance perks for D tier killers like Freddy and Myers to try and give them a boost, and then wonder why 4 slowdown is the meta on blight/nurse/wesker/spirit/oni/etc, killers that don't need chase perks to succeed, so they're free to run all slowdown.

The only change distortion needs is that token should only be able to be regained while being chased by the killer. That way, you don't just earn token just buy existing, you have to earn them. You get 3 by default. After that, whether or not you get any more is up to you

I do think distortion should just give 5 tokens and when they're gone, they're gone but maybe if you want a build to find survivors you should mix in Discordance or Tinkerer as those cant be blocked by Distortion.

I'm not saying that being chased at the start is tunneling, but rather I'm just trying to explain why Survivors don't want to be the 1st one found, despite that being the optimal time to be found because the whole map is your oyster.

Take your average Wesker game, for example. You being hooked firstgives the Pop+Pain Res to obliterate a Generator, then you get inevitably proxy camped because a Survivor will have to go there. Then you may as well put the unhooked Survivor on death hook for pressure. Then you may as well just tunnel them out.

I call out Lethal specifically because there's no chance to really prepare, there's no "search" phase its just immediate target. Lethal paired with strong regression or gen block is sometimes just way too much.

BaBack When face camp was allowed, the camp meta specifically was Lethal+Deadlock+NOED and that build was the easiest 2k a killer could ever ask for. Your only option as a solo is literally don't be found first.

Gearhead is pretty good!

However…

I went against it a few times and it really dosen't bother me that much due to the fact I hit Greats 99%. When I go against Gearhead, I pretend that its old Ruin and it works for me haha.

Not saying Gearhead is bad thou! Its a really good counter to Distortion.

Kinda waiting on a reply tbh. Got me invested lol

I often run 3 aura perks and it's safe to say after hundreds of games that distortion will block & refresh charges at a faster rate than I can burn through. Its very common to go the whole match and not see the person running distortion.

I'm not sure if there's another perk in the game that can effectively shut down 3 perks for a single slot for the entire match.

A perk turning off another perk has nothing to do with skill.

Knowing how to loop well, is a skill.

You're turning this into an us vs them when these two are completely not comparable.

Because being skilled can prevent those gen perks from activating. Being skilled on killer doesn't prevent Distortion from blocking the aura perks.

You can be skilled on killer and not need those aura perks, but being skilled enough to need them is not the same as being skilled enough to counter the perk itself. Those are two very different things.

Like I generally never run aura perks because as we're talking about, you can become skilled enough to where they seem redundant as you have good situational awareness to generally know where survivors are. But the point is turning perks off, not being skilled enough to not need them.

If we’re gonna play semantics to that degree then we can stretch that every single thing in the game is just a skill issue and it devalues the point of any of these conversations.

Ah yes, so I'm punished for RNG because I don't know who will be in my team and how would they play.

So we can also say that some matches are lost even before they started - and you think that is completely fine?

Yes you are punished for RNG and yes some matches are lost before they start. These apply for killer as well.

I never said this was fine at all, it’s not. I’d like this fixed. I’m just saying what the reality is, I don’t like it either.

You don't get tunneled every single game so let's stop pretending you do. Even if you did tunneling isn't a perk, it's a strategy that inexperienced or weak killers use because they don't know how to apply pressure correctly or are weak at chasing.

I could pretend also that I get gen rushed every single game and it makes my 4 gen regression/blocking perks meaningless.

I personally don't care if people are running distortion it generally means I'll focus on people I can actually see first before going out my way to find the person using distortion, which is probably bad for the rest of the team. Doesn't change the fact that distortion is one perk that has the ability to completely nullify 3 information perks for the entire game.

I dont find any problem with Distortion on killer side. I dont need aura perk to find survivors, and using aura perk shows aura of 1-2 survivors who dont use Distortion lead to tunneling which is strong against survivors, even if you dont want to tunnel. Even if all 4 survivor use Distortion, its one perk against their 4.

On survivor side, it punishes survivors who dont use Distortion real hard. The image OP posted showed it, they had the lowest score. Distortion doesnt need a nerf on its strength, but rather how it works. It can simply gain token in chase, or only hide aura if you have the most hook count.

Again, it blocks aura reading so long as it has stacks. It is absolutely not "total immunity". I played a Huntress last night who ate all my stacks immediately and I couldn't get them back because she had a perk setup where she was almost constantly triggering it regardless of where we were in relation to each other, and capitalized when they were gone. And that's wasn't a terribly uncommon experience.

A lot of killers run aura reading setups that ate redundant, or give too much time to recover stacks. If you can trigger the surv's Distortion repeatedly from distance and then again when you get close and they are out of stacks and then capitalize, it really makes distortion pretty low value. But you can't just load up on aura perks and then expect them to give you constant value. They're not supposed to be that powerful.

Against good killers, I am not getting constant value from them perk, and sometimes next to none. If you chew up a surv's Distortion stacks and they can keep close enough to keep replenishing them without you noticing they are there, that's pretty much a red flag that you probably rely on your aura perks too much and not enough on actually looking and listening.

And I play a lot of killer, and sometimes I don't get any value from my aura perks, but it doesn't ruin the match for me.

And there are many meta perks in the game that aren't crutches. But if your go-to build being countered means you can't compete, then that means those perks are have become crutches for you. It's like when old DH (which was the mother of all crutches) was nerfed and a lot of players instantly became very mid, while better players simply adapted.

DBD is set up where any build can largely be hard countered by another. And it's all down to chance, so everyone should be prepared to play with little or no perk value.