Distortion change is awful

So 3 tokens requiring a whopping 3 aura perks, 75% of the killers entire loadout, just to counter this one perk effectively is somehow balanced? The killer is only left with one slot in that scenario, meanwhile the distortion user has 3 more.

If they have OTR, then they are completely immune to even that setup. OTR provides 160s of total aura block in total (if you get hooked twice), while distortion recharges stacks while OTR is active. Then when it ends, you have 3 more aura instances you can block+however many tokens you end up recharging before your next hook. These two perks make you completely immune to anything but a 4 aura including gearhead+lethal, and if the killer does that they will get gen rushed on anything but nurse. And it's not like you are completely dedicating two perk slots to aura, OTR is a meta anti-tunnel perk with high pick rate that just happens to block aura as well. I speak from experience here; I'm a former distortion user who also uses OTR, I was literally never scanned.

Not to mention that the killer has no way of knowing if the survivors will even have distortion or how many. This leaves the killer bringing 3 entire aura perks to counter one of the survivors perk slots; and if they don't have distortion, the info goes crazy but without enough slowdown you can't act on it.

3 token distortion is in no way balanced. One perk should not require 3 perks to counter it plus having synergy with one of the current best perks for survivor providing complete aura immunity in 99% of matches. A balanced distortion should provide plenty of protection if the kill only brings one aura, but struggle a lot more with 2 and be almost useless at 3. Distortion on the ptb barely counters even one aura perk. I think they should make it so that distortion caps at 2 tokens with the ptb accumulation mechanic, or functions how it does on live but tied to gen progress instead of chase.

Almost every single kill aura perk in the game is either earned, has clear effective counterplay, or does not counter stealth. BBQ, floods of rage, friends til the end, alien instinct, and more all require a hook or some other skillful activation condition. In exchange for this difficult condition, they give large ranged, no cooldown information that can be quite effective in the right hands.

Other aura perks have much much much less skilled activations however are either easily countered, have glaring weaknesses, or limitations to cap them. NWH, which is commonly complained about, can be countered by pre-running if you believe the killer to be approaching. It's designed to catch stealthy survivors around gens off guard, so just dont stealth around the gen and its worthless. The range is less than the average killer's TR anyway. Weave-Franklins? Probably getting gutted (good riddance), but in the meantime just move the items to the corner of a map. Darkness revealed is map dependent, new zanshin is a chase perk, human greed is countered by opening the chests, etc etc.

The only real offender I can think of is lethal pursuer, and even that's just an early game perk that does almost nothing for the rest of the match (with the gearhead+lethal exception) and is only problematic on blight. Plus, if someone really hates lethal that much, new distortion still counters it completely. This all without mentioning lockers, which can completely counter the high telegraphed aura perks. If you think the killer has bbq, get in a locker for like 5 seconds until their hooked. Same goes for any aura that gives you some kind of warning. Survivors do have a built-in aura counter to a solid amount of aura perks, BBQ being one of the most used and effectively countered by it.

I would rather get gen rushed every match than play a walking sim until I finally find the distortion users. Stealth is almost never the better chose over doing generators with few exceptions. Also, I hardly find stealth skillful when distortion is involved. Calling aura perks noob perks is such a self-report. Just because you can't play around them doesn't mean distortion is fair.

Without auras, the killer has no way of knowing where the survivors have repositioned themselves after a chase, if it all. You say "tracking" as if killers have some kind of basekit information that tells them the survivors exact location. The killer only gets to know where the generators are. Of which there are 8 across maps of varying sizes, playing killers of various mobility, of various nooks and crannies for the survivors to maneuver around the map through to avoid you. You can really only guess; "Feng was working on a halfed gen earlier, so she probably went back" is a good way of thinking but is unreliable. You might find the feng or you might not, and if you dont then you get to walk around the map until you do (while everyone else cranks gens; or not progressing the match by hiding in some corner). Most killers on most maps in most situations require some kind of info perk to do well, or a million slowdowns to make up for lost time (or blight will just zoom and be everywhere with 4 slowdowns anyway).

I'd like to reiterate I am a former distortion user and have firsthand experience. Every point I make comes from my experience playing killer and survivor.

The same concept applies to aura perks. Would you rather face a killer using up some slots for aura reading or a quad slowdown demon? If aura perks aren't strong, which in the current meta involving distortion and OTR they are often not, killers resort to slowdowns. Or maybe they still bring auras and tunnel when they get no value. Either way strong auras are good for the game. They promote more enjoyable gameplay on both sides (teammates dont like the stealthy distortion gamers) and less slowdowns.