Aura this, aura that

Better than 4 slowdown and 4 extra lives, at least.

I can't blame people for running aura perks honestly. What else is there to use really? Slowdown is frowned upon, chase perks suck (aside from Coup on a select few killers), Undetectable perks are mostly bad (and useless on already stealthy and loud killers/lullabies), non-aura tracking perks are god awful, Hex perks are too RNG.

There isn't really much else to run unfortunately :(

And don't worry, once people get bored of the new aura perks and the lack of Distortion, I'm sure we'll be back to 4 slowdown every game.

So we complained about seeing nothing but slowdowns and now we’re complaining about seeing nothing but aura reading? What do you want the killer to run, no perks?

What do you want people to run?

According to Nightlight, of the 10 most used killer perks only 3 of them are aura vision.

BBQ, Lethal Pursuer and Nowhere To Hide. BBQ is mostly regarded as completely fine and only activates after a hook, which means the max value BBQ can provide is to give the killer a direction to go in after a hook, so that they get back into a chase as soon as possible.

Lethal Pursuer is a one and done (apart from the secondary effect, which is not a big deal). So you don't have to deal with it throughout the match. Meaning, complaints about that are completely misplaced.

Nowhere To Hide is the only perk here that can be activated on demand and it only helps a killer if they are already in the right place. It's also not exactly hard to figure out that a killer has this perk and to counter it. Most people already do that even if it's not in the game because it is countered by what you mostly do anyway. Run away.

Quite frankly, I don't understand what all the fuss is about. We nerfed slowdown multiple times, nerfed STBFL and Sloppy Butcher and demanded that killers use something other than slowdown on top of slowdown and just when we get there, people complain about aura vision. What perks is the killer supposed to use at this point? Pretty much all killer perks can be categorised as either info, chase or slowdown.

Info and slowdown are complained about non stop, so only chase perks remain. But there aren't that many good chase perks and they also aren't good on every killer. A Blight, Huntress, Billy, Nurse, Singularity, Knight, Trickster or Nemesis are probably not going to use STBFL because they don't benefit from it. They also won't use Brutal Strength and most of them have no reason to run Bamboozle.

I just wanted to say this myself: aura reading only took off like it did, after basically everygen defense perk has been obliterated. And while annoying to get ratted out by a perk, I think that its 100x preferable to get into a chase with the killer (that they must still win), then to lose 50% of a gen just like that.

With the knowledge and experiences the players these days have, the game will never go back to the way it was like 2021 or earlier. The playerbase found the most efficient ways to play, and of you now take back something, it will severely impact the way the other side can dunk down on that weakness.

What could help would be a full on health update, to completely go back and redesign all the perks and setup hard caps for regression, gen speed etc. and maybe just outright ban certain perks on certain killers or combinations. By taking away this freedom the game would open up SO MUCH design space. Literally half the perks in the game have dumb restrictions on them, because Nurse exists, and its killers like Trapper who pay the price for that.

I've said it before and will say it again, if aura reading and pain Res are being over used its likely due to...

1.aura reading needed to find the last 2 survivors that decide to hide untill server time ends while not doing gens (in the hope to get the hatch)

2. Pain res needed because how fast gens fly. Gens get completed too fast, killers need to be able to find survivors, chase them and down them. By the time a killer has found and downed 1 survivor a gen or 2 pops.

Killers are just trying to adapt to nerfs on their end and buffs on the survivor end by using perks as aids which is what perks are for. They will generally use perks that's needed more...aura reading and regression perks.

Gens don't regress while blocked. There's also no perk that would cause gens to then start regressing at 300% speed.

Aura reading as always been a thing to a degree, but I agree that DbD has gone aura crazy, and it only seems to be getting worse. It's gotten to the point that I think a lot of killers can't function without it (which is why so many loathe Distortion). No one should be able to be constantly fed their opponent's location.

Not to sound like an old man shaking his fist at the clouds, but I remember when killers actually knew how to predict pathing and actually track survivors, and the most you saw of them aura wise was with BBQ and chili (and even then most survs knew to hop in locker when you picked up). If your aura perks get countered, you should still be able to play effectively.

Now it seems like all auras all the time and it's ridiculous. Running 3-4 aura reading perks is no less lame than running 3-4 slowdowns. And as killer player, it just doesn't even seem all that fun. I'll usually run one (nowhere to hide, typically) and that's it.

No, that's not how it works. Blocked generators have their regression frozen until unblocked.

Its almost like we have this disussion every few months. First they nerfed chase perks so Killers moved to Gen slow down, they then nerfed that too so Killers moved to aura reading.
Now you want them nerfed too (which is fair for 2 of them). If that happens what vaule does any perk provide? With gens fyling in 15 to 25 seconds the options for killers are really limited. I don't say aura reading is best but all that leads more to tunneling. We need some common ground. Slightly nerfed aura reading perks and massivly nerfed gen speed perks.
Matches are sometimes only 7 minutes. I am not Wesker but I feel like very fast matches are more stressful then 12 minute matches.