Does Trail of Torment negate Object of Obsession?
Does Trail of Torment or any perk make Object of Obsession useless for survivors, but allows the killer to see you? I played against The Executioner on Hawkins Laboratory. His perks were heavy aura reading/undetectable: Lethal Pursuer, I'm all Ears, Eruption and Trail of Torment.
Saw each other at start, but for a whopping 40 seconds without interruption, which is very problematic. He chased me until he got a hook. Then Objective of Obsession then didn't work for 90% of the game, until he downed me a second time with 2 generators left. (There was no red timer - just entirely greyed out.) However, I had a really strong sense that he saw me quite often, coming straight for me (even bypassing gens in progress). Trail of Torment wasn't always active, but was quite a bit. It is possible that when Object of Obsession was triggered it was always at a time when Trail of Torment was active, but unlikely since the timer didn't even trigger.
Curious of anyone knows?
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Yes.
Any form of undetectable, Trail of Torment included, makes the killer immune to aura reading. So what will happen is that your perk will periodically reveal your aura to the killer without you seeing where they are.
This means Unforeseen, Dark Devotion, Furtive Chase, Machine Learning, and any other killer perk or add-on that grants undetectable will make OoO a detriment to run. Also killer abilities like Wraith cloak, Pig stealth, Ghostface stealth, etc.
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Worth noting is that you can still see the killer's aura through oblivious with Object of Obsession, since the killer only benefits from aura reading immunity when undetectable, which is not related to a survivors oblivious status.
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Yes. If the killer is Undetectable (which Trail makes then), Object will reveal your aura to them but you won’t see their aura.
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Do not use Object bro, this perk is useless, use distortion, it's better.
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That’s not true at all. Distortion is definitely insane and overpowered but Object can be better if you are at least decent at the game
Anytime the killer sees your aura you see theirs? That means if they are running Weave attunement and Franklins you’ll have wall hacks on each other and they’ll never catch you.
If they see you with BBQ you can run one way and then when the aura read ends you can double back and fool them completely. It’s an absolute insane perk if the killer has one Aura perk and it gives a Gen speed boost.
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I don’t think so, is way better to hide my aura than see the killer’s aura with the cost that he also can ser me.
How can object help me? If a nurse for example sees my aura I’m just dead, it doesn’t matter if I can se her as well, there is no reason to use object than distortion in the current version of the perks.
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Agreed. I absolutely hated getting OoO when Chaos Shuffle was live. Why would anyone willingly run a perk that revealed their aura to the Killer at regular intervals for what, a negligible boost in repairing, healing and cleansing? No thanks!
Might have some utility against aura perks but even so, has got to be a candidate for one of the worst Survivor perks in the game. Each to their own, I guess.
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OoO does have the advantage that it encourages the killer to chase you so if you want the killer to chase you and not your teammates then OoO is probably better than Distortion in that case. Pretty useful when your teammates can't last longer than 10 seconds in chase, whereas Distortion would harm you because the killer would chase them instead.
But there's still WAY too many downsides to justify it in that one scenario. So yeah, either run Distortion or neither.
Unless you want to have fun, then go for it!
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Nurse is the only exception honestly and all distortion does against her is delay the inevitable. You will run out of token very quick against her and still die.
OoO tells you what aura perks the killer has, how long they are seeing you (which distortion doesn’t) and its unlimited. OoO is better in almost every single way if you use a little bit of common sense.
But Distortion is ultimately king if you like a; brain off, don’t want to try play style. Since it does all of the work for you and requires zero input or skill to use.
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