Do you struggle tracking survivors with Bat?

Yea, it's really hard to track properly mainly because the bats make so much noise themselves. They're also not the greatest traversal tool either because survivors have to actively be making scratch marks or doing gens. It's actually easier for them to hide, especially if they have a perk to hide scratch marks since you'd have to exit bat form to see them.

I'm bad Spirit, so maybe i'm not the best example, but yeah, I struggle. I use Bat only for mobility and very rare for chasing injured survivor without IW. Also agree with your points.

Yes the bats are waaaaayy too loud, survivors might as well have iron will unless they are a naturally loud survivor to begin with.

Yeah, I don't use bat form basically at all unless I have a specific area I know I need to get to - and fast. Basically covering generators, exit gates, or cutting off escapes/windows.

I'm in the camp that thinks the utilization of equalizer and reshade is cheating so I won't be using that, but I also think the utility of bat form is good enough since the other forms meet my needs so it doesn't matter that much. I use wolf form pretty much all game, while switching to Vampire for loops, and bat only in the above niche scenarios.

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If anyone's curious about how to make wolf work, I recommend trying the following:

With the common add-on to increase scent orb detection by 100%, paired with the -4 terror radius + Monitor and Abuse, you become a 20m terror radius low-standing dark wolf with information where anyone in roughly ~32m of your position is. You can forgo information perks, reduce the importance of terror radius reduction perks, and focus on utility or gen blocking/regression, since the rest is built into the kit already. Just be aware that (I believe) survivors do not leave scent orbs if they are walking or crouched, which is why low terror radius is helpful here so you can catch them off-guard more.

Alternatively you could do a scent orb add-on build. Although scent orbs bring your movement speed up to 4.8m/s, its duration is only 2.5s with a 6s spawn time. That means, on average in a chase, at base, wolf form goes 4.68m/s. With +50% scent orb duration + 17% reduced spawn time, you can raise average chase speeds to 4.75m/s. Helps for chasing in general and catching people off-guard on loops with low line of sight.

EDIT: Removed the last paragraph since I think it's inaccurate in hindsight, and I don't like basing on personal estimates.

i don't have trouble tracking. you hear the footsteps of survivors. it is just that it takes too long to come close to the survivor. by time you transform into vampire or wolf, survivor is at a loop.

Why didn't they give bats wraith's windstorm add-on. instead we have these crap traveller items with +8 range and 25% teleport speed. why not just put these tp add-on base-kit and give us 10% and 5% haste in bat form like wraith windstorm.

Also those grey add-on that reduce penalty for transform should also be base-kit…. i don't know why there are mechanics that punish for changing forms. isn't that entire point of the killer? to shapeshift? Just BVHR doing BVHR things.

There's no reason at all for survivors to be invisible while you're bats. You can see the map, for crying out loud. It's a "lore trumps common sense" kind of mechanic that I expect to be patched out soon.

they did say that every 2-3 months, they will sometimes revisit a newly released killer. I imagine that Dracula will get revisited in November.

I'd like to use it more, but that thing wobbles more than carrying a survivor equiped with Boil Over. You waste an immense amount of time trying to get through a simple door. In its current state it's nothing more than a teleportation tool, which is dependent on an addon to have a decent range.

I generally keep to bat form only for the teleport aspect. That being said my only problem with bat form is the momentum on it is a bit funny and I find myself slipping and bumping into things when I shouldn't.