LEAVE DISTORTION ALONE

You should try running a full area build on someone like Huntess. Bring a map like Dead Dawg, hit some juicy cross-maps, it's fun

Yeah...Distortion is dead.

The vast majority of players will go down in chase in less than 1 minute (and that's only if we're talking about a pure M1 chase without traps or insta-downs). Nearly every chases will end on a hook unless something or someone gets in the way.

This especially is bad for players that aren't very good in chase/newcomers since that perk essentially is now useable for very good players that can loop a Killer for ages but nearly useless for newcomers/casuals, which is weird because good players don't need to hide.

All this change does is it will make those people hide in lockers more and bring entire builds around stealth instead of minimaly helping since rats didn't go into chase anyway and aren't good enough in chase to get much use out of the perk. Another change that makes a perk worthless and doesn't fix the core issue.

If the intent was truly to make rats unable to hide the whole match while not helping, the perk should have been tied to gen repair instead so that aura blocking would be reliant on helping yoour team. All this does is make another non-gen-speed perk too bad to use over a gen-speed perk or Sprint Burst/Lithe.

It's better than a single-use thing, still not worth bringing unless you can confidently run the Killer for a while and manage to escape chase on the regular.

I really like the change for Distortion today, it gives me use in chase which is where I use it most, to aid in mindgames. I see it as a buff plus it'll work now against scratched mirror as you can get it back in chase with him and other stealth killers.

if that's such a big deal use object of obsession instead . Also what killers are doing this because the best way to win is still having 4x slowdown perks .

It is kind of arrogant to speak about an ingame mechanic as "hack". Distortion counters countless perks and add-ons all at the same time for a duration of 10 seconds while hiding your scratch marks on top. So basically to stay completly invisible you only need one perk and could counter the entire killer build.
It was problematic because you didn't need to do anything to actually get value from it. So huge advantage for free and recharge is kind of free too.
That position is impossible to defend. Nobody should rely on a single perk alone (well Windows users for sure do) and that is your key problem. You are getting dragged out of your comfort zone and you don't want to adapt.
Fair. Doesn't feel good. But so do killers if they want to have fun with orbital huntress and they see nothing the entire game.
In the end it's about balance and distortion was unbalanced in some way. If used effectivly you were invisible for the killer the entire match and that needed to change.
The change is controversal and while being a fan of the nerf Im also not the biggest fan of how it got nerfed.
You said "good killers don't need auras" well these people could tell you "good survivors don't need stealth, just get better at looping". Bhvr seems to push the game in the direction of more chases because thats what the game is about now. It did shift from hiding and searching to this and it is that way because matches became extremly fast over the years.
We will have to see how things work out in a few weeks and if it really is as bad as you make it look like.
Because if it really is too bad, bhvr will rework it. (except for windows they are super blind on that eye lmao)

Cool, take weaves if you want, it is the only perk that (pre ptb change) guarantees aura without the need for the killer to do anything (aside from lethal pursuer which can only trigger once). Every other perk has a condition to activate, a timelimit and sometimes even multiple conditions.

You act like you are scanned 24/7 in a match. I guarantee you, if you don't use multiple aura reading perks, you will never ever burn through distortion fast enough to actually see the survivor using it.
If you use up all your stacks while being so far from the killer that they can never recharge it kind of is your fault.
You are way to addicted to the idead to never be chased because of one perk.

Your propose would buff distortion. Using up to 15 Tokens in a 7 Minute match is nuts. Even in a 15 minute match it means seeing nothing half the time. And that needs the condition for aura perks to constantly being triggered.
You don't want balance, you wan't an op stealth perk so you never get chased.

You better speak just for yourself.
If you are not afraid of the chase then whats the problem with being seen for a few seconds?
As I said problematic perks will eventually be reworked (weaves is on the list). So most of these perks are not a problem to the majority of the community. Only to you.
Just like windows is only a problem to a small group of people (I am part of that group xD ).

A killer can only ever have 4 Perks as you know. So if he has a full aura reading build then he lacks gen defense, chase aid, endgame support and basically cannot use his entire build during this part of the match.
I said it and I will say it again. Aura reading perks are limited, bound to conditions and are not an op tool to easily win a match.
They have the potential to throw you under the bus, sure, thats what they are made for, but they can also backfire or provide no value.
The only use for them is to either win a mindgames (which is very rare, might change after Sanshin Tactic rework is live) or to look for your next target for a chase. The only other benefit you have (if youre good) is to guess where all the survivors are based on the information you just got. So that way you can surprise survivors out of place or change your strategy.
Overall, they don't really provide a ton of value.

I think it's usefull for beginners as they need to learn to recognize resources and tiles that are shaped the same across the maps. But at the same time it turns off the brain of a lot of survivors. Just like when you are driving your car with google maps all the time and one day you cannot use it and are completly lost because you forgot to learn the streets.

If I use a build which blinds the survivor (running a build like that is tiring) you notice that almost all of them are like deers in headlights. They don't know where to run as they usually just go for the next resource highlighted to them so chases end very quick.

The second problem I see is that almost every survivor runs it thus making chases kind of unfair on higher levels. These survivors know how to loop but still run this perk almost every match, leading to chases that are much longer then they should be.

My problem here is that a single perk shows the survivor not only every resource in its reach but also it's status (pallet dropped or broken). This perk works as soon as the match beginns, has no downside, no condition to activate, never deactivates and is basically providing limiteless value for free.
The value you get from it depends on the experience of the survivor but even beginners can double the chase time with this perk. Imagine what high level players can do with that.

I don't think any perk should provide that much crucial information for free. The only counters to this perk are Hex Third seal (the worst hex perk in history) or ultimate Weapon.

The effect of both perks will not apply long enough to make good use of it. So in the end there is no real counter and you see them running to pallet after pallet to window to pallet. Which is kind of annoying considering the chase wouldve ended 30 seconds ago because they would've not chosen that path without knowing about the resources.

I think I said it earlier. No perk should grant huge advantages for free. And seeing every loop resource is a huge think in chase.

exactly tying token to gen repairing and healing with 3 tokens like before would be perfect. it would force people to do the objectives and play like a team to keep their tokens to avoid aura reading. i think this would be the best thing to do honestly.

I think all killer aura read add on should be gone and all aura perks should get pain res treatment. So all aura read killer perk should only be able to use 4 times max so killers should not have unfair 24hours free information and also they should only be able to use 1 aura reading or add on and can't stack them just like how survivors lost ability to stack endurances.

If survivors stealth is taken away so should killers free information perks. Remember 2016 when killer had to use scratch marks, grunts of pain and blood pools. Hey I can really push it to say lightborn should not fully negate any flashlight and should only work 4 token max. Or how is someone like chucky with rat poison allowed free wallhack hits?

I love how killers think aura reading perks from add ons or perks arent as crutch or more of a crutch than distortion, obviously why distortion use sky rocket was cause of too much aura reading. I challenge a killer to give me a add on or aura perk that takes skill from their part other than BBQ that requires you to hook someone. What killers use to do when aura reading never use to exist? Side note I run OOO so don't ask for that to be nerfed please.

If DBD was a 1v1 game, then previous distortion would have been fine. But it's not a 1v1 game, it's a 1v4 game. Distortion was too strong for what it did and it affected your teammates by making them easier targets. Now distortion requires survivors be a little bit aggressive for stacks instead of just hiding the entire time.

Plus what people always seem to forget to mention when they bring up killer aura reading is the slot cost. If a killer is running 4 aura perks then gens should fly meaning that while the killer is capable of finding survivors, they lack the means to effectively defend gens. Not to mention many aura reading perks are still bad and don't see use. So ultimately survivors really only need to be prepared to deal with whatever the top 5 aura reading perks are.

I'll side with you on this one that survivors who complain a out about 4 gen slow down aren't smart. I Say this for 2 reasons. We I have too much gen rush speed perks and add ons. If 2 survivors go on a gen it's still fast even without gen rush things. 4 gen slow down did nothing if a killer couldn't catch survivors to begin with so those who do complain. On 4 slow downs are silly.

me healing or being heal by someone else aka nurses= takes no input from killer

Me unhook and gets reveal = takes no input from killer

Opening a locker and finding me still don't count as input from killer.

Kicking a gen which requires a survivor to work on one also is no input from the killer.

Hitting good(use to be great skill checks) on gen the killer sees me with yet again no input from killer

Notice how far killers get free info for nothing but from survivors doing their jobs? @Crowman. I still need a answer why killers must be allowed free info. Also don't be shocked when things like nth be asked for nerfs.

Maybe it's time to take off the crutches.

Or try Object. It's really underrated