Distortion - Medium Update

I also think think is a better idea than the chase ones floating around. Not everyone can be productive during chase. Everybody can do a gen though.

Distortion hard counters from the start of the trial plus 2 more times no matter what.

I'd say give it back only 3 tokens but they can be recharged when you get chased, the change the developers are going for is overkill.

Its not that distortion counters too many perks and add on's, but that distortion is the only counter to so many perks and add ons. Dev's should get a clue. If someone wants to go unseen the whole game they'll just go in lockers. An aura build will already burn through distortion stacks. With the new build and perks like predator it'll basically be impossible to even have stacks of distortion. With a smart killer, that perk alone would completely allow the killer to control his stacks on you as well so you'd never be able to use the perk. If a survivor's gone unseen for the entire match, its because they are not engaging and if anything this will make cowardly players even more likely to hide in lockers. The amount of survivors that are not great in long chases is already high even in higher ranks. All this is going to do is encourage tunneling out the weaker survivors and massively encourage gen rushing build's.

It was incredibly easy to to burn distortion stacks, especially on killers with smaller terror radius. Predator is not strong on many killers, but its incredibly oppressive with nurse and a few specific killers. This didn't help diversity, its simply forced the game into a single playstyle. Everyone that doesn't fill that gap will now be filtered out of the game.

Wait. Perk X is strong on nurse? That's nuts. Better balance everything in the around this one killer they ignores half the mechanics in the game.

The only time I ever ran out of distortion stacks was vs a full aura reading huntress or scratched mirror Myers. Vs nearly every other killer in the game it just turned aura perks into a dead slot. That sucks. Sorry. People stealthed before distortion and you can stealth now.

Its excessively strong on that killer specifically, but its far from being as bad as you claim. When people stealthed before distortion, there were half as many aura perks. You are basically guaranteed to know where at least half the team is now almost 24/7 if not more. Even then, if you didn't burn all of someone's distortion stacks you'd still see most of the other survivors and be able to fairly easily predict where the distortion user is if you had half a brain. It's far from a dead slot to the killer, and more of a dead slot to survivors since it makes them even weaker in a chase compared to the rest of their team.

I'm sure some do. In my experience, I really only see 1 person on our team with distortion and 9/10 this person is ratting all game. Plenty of users on here agree and have shared that this is similar to their experience: distortion players usually just hide or as they call it, 'stealth gameplay'.

this doesn't make it so that all you'll do is take chase and 'gen rush'. Just play the game dude, no one is stopping you from walking and hiding if you hear the killer or playing smarter, it's just not rewarding you for hiding and forcing anyone without distortion to get focused on. It's not a big deal unless you relied on it so much.

all this makes it is so that you can still hide but you have to earn it by playing the game beyond sit and do gens. Go alleviate some pressure from the other 3 team members, do saves, heal, etc.

So your solution is to turn those same distortion users into locker rats. There are no other aura counter perks and they wont just stop using stealth gameplay. The perk was already a dead slot for survivors. It's already a rather big weakness having that perk in chase and this change only makes it worse. With aura perks being stronger then ever, if anything you'll see even more distortion user's regardless of the nerf since there's no other counter. The game's just turned into a gen rush/tunneling simulator instead of your so called gen simulator.

This is excessively true. Because they dont play like they want them to play, they'll harp on them and take specific notice.

Basically 80% of my matches were garbage because all the Distortion users could not last 20s in chase.

They need to include gen repair with chase because 30 seconds is a huge amount of time in chase. I had it one yesterday and I got one token back but immediately lost it in chase and then it took me the entire match to get the token back. It was a little hard to gens because they would easily find you. It needs to include gen repair as well.

Gen repair should be how it get's replenished. Not every survivor likes being chased and if they are doing gens they are doing objectives, and if a killer cant watch their gens without an aura perk that's their fault.

While nice to hear that it'll be shorter, it still doesn't change the fact that not only are there less tokens but also that the majority of the playerbase will end up on a hook after nearly every chases anyway(losing chase for a second because of stun, LOS or distance doesn't count) unless someone else takes chase or the Killer decides that another target is easier (likely by going back to a possible hooked/recently unhooked Survivor or hearing an injured Survivor mid-chase) which basically means that outside of good players that can actually make the Killer drop chase reliably the perk will have (a maximum) of 6 uses throughout the whole trial.

Reducing the ability to hide and avoid chase is merely making the experience worse for newcomers/casual players, especially when/if they don't have friends to play with. If the goal is to prevent players from hiding the entire match then just tying token recharge to gen repair (and increasing the requirement to like 40-45 sec spent on a gen per token, so a full gen would replenish 2 tokens if uninterrupted) would be perfect since it would encourage people to contribute to keep their aura block and useless Survivors would eventually lose their protection, to get it back they would need to put themselves in the Killer's path by doing gens.

Most people can't loop and definitely can't escape chase reliably but anyone can repair gens. Not everybody wants to engage in frequent chases because they know they'll go down quickly (and probably get shunned in the post-game chat out of spite) and that a sneaky gen-doer is way more useful than a dead teammate. With Distortion requiring chases (which means getting hooked rather quickly in most cases) it just kills the perk for players that use it normally but doesn't really change the core issue of useless players hiding all match, they'll just spend more time in lockers than before and be just as useless if not even more.

That's a fair tweak, but please keep the chase part.

Keeping the chase part is more than fair. The issue when switching to genrepair is that aura perks that encourage the killer to chase different survivors gets blocked and the killer is more likely to tunnel or to camp or will go back to full slowdown and these builds encourage a more tunnel/camp strategy. In addition, the average player can have a 30sec chase to gain two tokens back. 6 times is a lot in dbd, especially when the average killer only has one or two aura perks. The killer finds you, 30sec chase, two tokens back and either hooked or able to escape and then save for the next two times due to distortion. Switching to genrepair would also not solve the so called "rat issue" /the disliked teammates. In addition, when Distortion triggers, you will know why it triggers and the next time you are prepared for it to either avoid it or to keep that in mind.

The game provides many other perks (Lightfooted, Quick and Quiet, Dance With Me, Lucky Break, Lucky Star, Iron Will to name a few) to hide, avoid chases, and to lose chase with the killer/to confuse them. It is also not the case that every killer has a full aura perkbuild. The average killer has either one or maximum two aura perks (info/slowdown/slowdown/ either info, chase, or slowdown).

If players avoid the chases, then - of cause - they can't loop. At some point, every survivor should go for a chase. It is nice to repair a gen, but it is much better when the one who repairs the gen is not the one with zero hooks while the other survivors are already hooked/dead on hook. So even when the players give the killer a quick down, this is still better than a 3v1 situation. Switching to genrepair will encourage these players to avoid the chase and sacrifice their teammates by doing this.

You still need to get chases, you can't just hide indefinitely and get tokens by just hiding, so people that used to hide with distortion will still be affected

But the killer would eventually find you when he is patrolling gens. It’s not like you are just hidden somewhere random when doing gens.

With all due respect I play only soloq and it is brutal. Every killer has at least 2-3 aura reading perks. I ran distortion and most of the time my tokens were eaten up by the first minute of the game. It allowed me to do gens I also don't hide in lockers because I always get caught. Even users that don't have distortion jump off a gen and hide when they get the heartbeat or sound. Problem is the killers I face don't engage in chase and drop it extremely quickly. They don't patrol and just really hang around one area if the board is large, some killers even force a 3 gen situation. The players that I have found that didn't do anything (and trust me it was a lot) hid in the basement doing a locker shuffle, some even just hid in a locker all game and the killer ignored the explosions, these players did not have distortion but Object of Obsession they also knew exactly where the hatch would Spawn. I am also seeing now as both killer and survivor that when there is 2 gens left nothing gets done. I don't know if this is because of the mori now but it's a standoff and I just put myself out there because I'm not going to hold up a game but I them am the lucky one to get bled out.

Also tying the token recharge to just chases will discourage a aura running killer to drop chases quicker. Most aura build contain LP so they will figure out who the distortion user is. As per the lives you all do you constantly stress "the killer to engage chase" but adding gens repair or solely gen repair does encourage both patrol and chase. These killers don't chase, they hang around the edge of the hook or weave in an out and really tunnel. They don't have gen regression perks and it's all aura builds. The games are always hard pressed after an update but I fear this change (and eve buff) will discourage players.

Also there is a huge handicap between console and PC. Console can't maneuver as smooth as PC a lot of distortion users were console because looping is a little hard for us, out fast vaults and pallets are super broken.

Why is not a good thing to get tokens while repairing?
Always the same arguments like: "hiding in the corner forever" and so on… -.-
I'm doing my objective and help the team to escape, or do I need to force getting chased?
If the killer is not there to defense the gens why is it my problem?

I'm playing for a long time with distortion, and I was almost everytime the first one that got chased, and if a survivor chooses to play stealth they just continue doing it without the perk 🤷‍♂️

The killer still have eyes to see survivors, and if they need to rely on so many aura perks, why is the only good counter for survivors only for chasing. I don't understand it 🤷‍♂️ Is it unfair to get it back while you are doing your objective and NOT hide in the corner like you said?!

Why is it that when people post complaints like this they use the most exaggerated, hyperbolic statements possible? No every killer is not in fact using 2-3 aura perks. There is no way all three tokens were consumed in the first minute of the game on a regular basis. The rest of your post is about 3 gens and people swapping lockers in basement and killers apparently not chasing(how are they hooking anyone without chasing?) which are super outdated complaints.

The whole thing paints you as someone bolting into a locker the second you hear the terror radius and only doing gens on the edge of the map, 3 genning your team. Frankly you sound like a terrible teammate.

The main issue with Distortion was that having one or 2 people use it in a team often caused the other 2 teammates to get chased very frequently even if the killer did not intend on "tunneling them out". You had 2 people on death hook while the Distortion users had 0 hooks.

I have friends who use the perk regularly, and what I described happened in the majority of my matches. Even though they are not always hiding. They are just more a "support" (mainly altruism and gens).

When I was using Distortion, my matches would be the same. I would never be chased unless I got found somehow, even though I am quite good in chase. I had to actively try to get chased to not just hold M1...

You all listen and cater to players with low hours. The haste boost gained after a hit is 15-20 seconds. This will just punish m1 killers and reward players who can't last more then 10 seconds in chase.

15 seconds is too short. You all just want to cater to the side that buys the most skins.