Aura reading will get out of hand after the distortion nerf
Just my prediction. Distortion is the only reason why aura reading isn‘t ran all the time and aura reading can be pretty unfair, because you don‘t know when your aura is revealed
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I’ve said this repeatedly. Now killers are already running 3 aura perks with Iron Maiden so you can’t even use a locker to counter it. With distortion going into the trash, it’s only gonna get worse now.
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No shot they are 4-keing with 0 gen regression against decent survivor players. The gens will fly out of control.
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It's for both sides, not just killers.
Like half the perks reworked in notes are now aura readings as well.
Like half the perks in this game will be aura reading by this point, it's getting overbloadet.
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idk I like the nerf
discourages those teammates that spend little time progressing the objectives because they hide at the first sign of a terror radius and just play very scared-like all match, especially if they get injured; I've had teammates who rat at 3 survivors left, rare, but they almost always have this self healing-distortion build
now you can't do that without relieving some of the pressure from the rest of your team
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I kinda wish they would’ve added that aura revealed status effect from 2v8 into the game since distortion was basically the only consistent way to tell if it was being read
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No this just means that everyone will be seen and not just 2 people who get tunneled out of the game while the distortion people keep hiding. Theres way too many games where distortion users have 0 hooks while their teammates are dying.
I would say this is fair. If you want to hide you have to earn it. Also i don't think many killers use 4 aura perks. Huntress is the only one that comes to mind…or nurse. Most killers use at least 2 gen defense and maybe 1 chase perk. Most common is 4 gen defense or 3 gen defense.
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Aura Reading is hardly a real issue imo. The better player will still win and facing killers that are utilizing tracker perks beats having games go on forever because you have to burn through all their defense perks first.
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indeed
in my exp, it's never more than 1 teammate running distortion so this person forces the rest of us into unnecessary chases at times where it may not make sense and we have to abandon a gen, a heal, a save, etc while they're just unbothered playing gen simulator
don't get me wrong, I always appreciate a teammate who understands the objective but sometimes they have to take the killer's focus to progress the match from a macro pov
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oh no!
It’s not like there’s a certain boon that hides BOTH your aura and scratch marks! How can I survive without my automatic avoid playing the game and sit in the corner for hatch perk while I watch my teammate die!
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I‘m not playing distortion since I think it is a wasted perk slot, but it being like it was, was the only reason why you don‘t see aura reading perks every match. Also I‘m not complaining it‘s just my prediction.
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Damn. It used to be "killers only ever run slowdown perks and it's ruining the game!" Or "it's pointless running anything but 4 slowdown perks if you want to win'", while I always argued that info perks are actually more useful and less problematic because you can use info to inform your tactics and be more efficient at direct pressure rather than passive/automatic slowdown.
Now info perks are considered toxic.
"What's left?" They say.
The answer is that everything is fine in moderation and the problem is stacking things can make those things too strong. One slowdown perk is fine, one aura perk is fine, after all these perks are generally balanced in a vacuum so are fine by themselves. Mirror Myers is fine, because you're trading strong info for no real chase/looping ability with limoted lethality.
The problem with Distortion is that it's too good of a counter to that one aura perk that's 'fine on its own' but can be overwhelmed by, you guesed it, stacking 4 aura perks. (It's also mildly problematic for survivors too, if you don't run Distortion and the others do, you're likely to get tunneled)
Distortion should be nerfed a little I think, but in conjunction to some buffs to other aura defence perks. This way survivors have more options besides "you have to run Distortion to survive" and if they want to be completely immune to auras then they have to invest in more than one single perk.
Meanwhile the killer perks that reveal auras the most frequently could also do with a bit of a nerf, so that no single perk can burn through the new nerfed Distortion too quickly. Gear Head and Weave Attunement being the worst offenders I think.
Roll the arms race back a little.
How should Distortion be nerfed?
Change the token recharge condition from "within the terror radius" to "when in chase". This not only means you have to engage with the killer to regain tokens, but it means it serves as a pseudo tunnel counter similar to Off The Record, and it also means you can regain tokens against stealth killers with no terror radius, such as Mirror Myers. This makes it less problematic for both sides; survivors can't hide indefinitely meaning other survivors don't get tunneled, and while you can be more efficient at revealing survivors with Distortion, they regain their stealth after you've engaged with them, allowing you to swap between survivors and avoid tunneling.
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aura read means no gen regression so it is a trade off . Better chase for no slowdown
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Amazing, the killer is not using slowdown, easy 3 man escape if its not blight/nurse/billy then.
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Yes they are. I’ve faced this exact loadout literally 18 times in the last 3 days.
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Depends on the killer ofc… But If I even think of going into a match without any gen regression - I'm gonna have the most quickest 3-4 man out of my life. :D
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It'll mean an eventual nerf to aura reading when things get out of hand.
I miss the pre 6.1.0 days, where the main thing you had to worry about was BBQ, and there was actually counter play by getting in a locker because the trigger was telegraphed.
Now, aura reading is triggered by basically anything, and most of those triggers have zero telegraph for the survivor. The only "counter play" to those perks is "just bring distortion", and now even that is being deleted.
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So, now we see what happens when everyone insists they all just wanna chase, "chase me chase me chase me" versus "please stop hiding and let me chase you". Only chase. Nothing else.
Now people are complaining there will be only chase, because you can't hide and because doing gens in five minutes then leaving is gonna be super boring, despite the fact everyone thought doing gens was boring anyway?
What do you people want? Genuinely what does this community want anymore?
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Gutting Distortion is a slight buff to weaker killers but a huge buff to Nurse, Blight and Huntress. It’s also barely a nerf to SWF but a huge nerf to solo survivors.
Bhvr does not know how to balance this game. They churn out perks that 90% of them you will never touch again after getting your trophy and the ones that you do want to use the other side will complain about until months or years down the line Bhvr will gut those perks that have become a must equip for a lot of players (usually for good reason).
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Your Distortion change makes too much sense. That’s why it won’t happen.
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People run aura perks all the time, just not a bunch of them all together. If you're suggesting that the only reason you don't see 2+ aura reading perks every match is due to Distortion, my answer is that game sense and the willingness to return to hook when people are playing immersed trumps knowing exactly where people are after a hook/gen kick/whatever.
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I mean, I typed this before I saw the changes we're getting, and it's honestly not too different. It's probably a bit more of a nerf than my suggestion, but at least the 'reactivates in chase' aspect is more consistent and less reliant on the length of chase, which means it's not disproportionately more powerful on higher skilled survivors.
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This is it. Gamesense is the secret fifth perk.
It's also why "tunnelling is whenever a Killer returns to the hook" is a nonsense argument. The game DIRECTLY NOTIFIES YOU ON UNHOOKS, it's a game feature not a cheese tactic. You are MEANT to be able to do this.
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I honestly think this change is balanced. I've encountered too many times where I had to tunnel out the non distortion users simply cause they're easier to find when I run aura reading perks. Most of the time, the distortion users just stay hidden the whole match, legit letting their teammates die without ANY hook states.
If anything, it'll at least even out the hook states between the survivors if the killer isn't intentionally tunneling. I've always felt distortion is too strong, and it needs to be earned. Love that BHVR listened to the community by establishing that in order to reactivate distortion, you need to have chase with the killer. Essentially, evening out the hook states amongst the survivors so you can have your distortion back.
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