So... A distortion change

That meme build also runs play with you food that completely counters his slow part. as building up 3 tokens for 15% speed is a joke.

There's no way you're proxy camping at 32+ meters.

If that were true, then for the past years we'd have only seen info metas on killers. But that's not the case. Without slowdown the game is still too fast paced for the killer to do much. Most killers barely lose any time in looking for survivors anyway because they already have an idea where to go thanks to their experience and the fact that survivors usually don't hide either way.

A balanced build with slowdown and info is better than just overcommitting on one thing (very few exceptions).

Survivors are your objective but that objective becomes unobtainable after a certain amount of time. Meaning, you have 2 ways to try and win.

1. You do your objective faster.
2. You try to buy yourself more time to do your objective.

The second option is the more common for killers because there is only so much you can do to increase your own progression speed. After all, survivors have a direct impact on this and there are some time traps that you can't avoid normally (picking up, carrying, hooking, traversing the map).

We also nerfed the best chase perks for killers, STBFL and Sloppy (for the sake of the argument I'll consider it a chase perk because chases with an injured survivor are way shorter). So that already makes point 1 harder. Meaning, you'll need to decrease any other time losses you have, which you do by using info perks. The time you can save with this approach however is finite. Even if you were to see survivors at all times, you still couldn't win the match infinitely fast. So at a certain point more info doesn't do anything anymore.

With slowdown perks nerfed, the approach to buy yourself more and more time has become less effective, which means that the hybrid playstyle of both saving time and slowing down the game is the most effective way to play.

Just little correction :

Leatherface, Knight, Amanda and Onryo have an add-on to see the aura of the survivor

people don't realize that slowdowns are top tier shift for every killer player that gains enough game sense to not rely on full aura builds and chase builds so often.

Am m1 killer is chasing me with no antiloop power, how scary...said no one ever that knows how to loop.

Survivors aren’t a team.

what are they then? An orchesta quartet or?

And if you’re struggling to handle four survivors in today’s DBD I have news about your skill level.

maybe you should analyze how survivors play rather than jump to instant conclusions based on the match outcome. I am on my Agi only streak with only and streak exists purely because skill of survivors i play against is...very questionable thanks to the MMR that is close to nonexistent :D

It’s not cope. I don’t use slowdown (I run aura reading) and do fine. It might also help that maps are shrinking (I definitely exploit this), dead zones and unsafe loops are increasing (I exploit these), and killers received a ton of basekit buffs (I make good use of these). I’m sure those elements have something to do with it.

again, only maps that received the relative shrinking are Haddonfield and Coldwind realm ones, Ormond received quite a minor shrink level. Deadzones discussion is vast exaggeration and many of survivors literally lack chase skills in the very amount that they run themselves into deadzones because they don't know the map they are playing on at all.

Regarding basekit buffs, like c'mon, you even gotta be joking here.

If you’re personally struggling perhaps you should consider leaning into some of these features? They’re meant to help killers achieve that < 60% WR.

as i already said, i'm not struggling, but it's all thanks to bad opponents i get thanks to a magnificient and reliable MMR system wink wink.

The rest of them are slowdown. So this confirms what I said. Running full info builds is more gimmicky than useful. It's a lot better to run a build with both info and slowdown.

Without the info, it's harder to use your slowdown perks often enough to buy yourself the time you need and without slowdown you don't have the time to act on the information you get.

Distortion, Tinkerer, BBQ, Nurse's, Bitter Murmur and Infectious Fright all existed when I started playing and they were used, just not as often as they were now because you had something like Pop, Ruin + Undying and mostly Corrupt Intervention as the most common killer build.

All of these 4, literally ever single one, was nerfed. Ruin + Undying have become pretty rare and Pain Res has been nerfed a few times too.

Killers used to run 4 slowdown perks because they were so strong (and even then most would use at least one perk for something different). People complained about not wanting to play against 4 slowdown perks every match and whenever the devs released another slowdown perk that wasn't crap it would become meta by virtue of it being slowdown.

Now we changed the game so much and nerfed slowdown overall and people are complaining that killers start to use something other than slowdown?

Really, what perks is the killer supposed to run?

I don't have problems winning a faire share of my games, but I still fail to see how aura reading alone would win games. You still need to be reasonably good at chases and make decisions influenced by your game sense. There are so many situations where I see a survivors aura, but I don't act upon that, because of lots of reasons, for example (and not exhausting):

1) I am in chase with someone and can end this chase in a reasonable time, 2) the gen in question is on the other side of the map, and traversing there isn't feasable, especially since all the pallets on that side would still be up, 3) a gen close to me or at a strategic position is getting worked at and defending that is much more viable.

In all that cases I could see the aura of all the survivors permanently and it probably wouldn't influence my decision of what to do that much. But aura reading often helps to get into the right chases, to stay in said chases and, yes, sometimes to win mindgames, but there is a limit to what level of information will "essentially play the game for you" and when showing some auras is better then gen regression.

To me this whole discussion feels like moving the goal post. I was always in the camp that claimed that DH was an abomination that should burn, and MFT should have never even be conceived in the state it released, because it broke so many rules of the game, BUT even when I sometimes rolled my eyes at a game with four survivors having SB and sprinting away or how Lithe often was a "nope. Lets and this chase before it even starts", I never asked for this perks to be nerfed, because I got what I wanted, I got what I asked for and I recognized the need for survivors to have exhaustion perks. Sure, some killers every now and then asked for nerfing Lithe or SB, but most of us couldn't care less for such calls, as neither of this perks felt even 1/10 of oppressive then DHs domination did.

But when a sizable portion of the survivors now cry and whine over aura reading of all things, it feels so dishonest and crooked. Did it really feel better to have regularly repair two full extra gens, because 4 gen regression was so effective, then being regularly found by the killer and dragged into chases? Is easily sidestepping the killer by leaving the gen when you heared the terror radius and move behind any number of walls within 15m, and keeping them at 2 hooks all game really that much more fun and exciting?

6.1 and the following changed irrevocably burned the playfulness out of the game and breed efficency into the player base, that won't ever go away now. So unless BHVR does a big rework of the base game mechanics, we are stuck with extremely fast and efficient gens with split up survivors, while killers must be killy enough to keep up with the pace.

I wish I was going against these killers running 4 aura-reading perks. It'd be a lot more interesting than all these killers I'm actually getting who are all running Pain Res + Pop + Surge, which is a teeth-grinding experience when it feels like it's happening 10 games in a row. Especially in soloQ.

I mean i would rather face aura reading than gen slowdown. Some people complaining about aura reading just don't like to get chased.

That must be it.

y are killers not alloud to run anything for gens or aura bc thats all i hear ppl mad about???? what r killers alloud to run now?

i dont have issues im fine i can hide perfectly well. maybe u just bad at hiding??????

maybe its time to admit it not meant for surviors to win evry chase or loop for five gens. maby its time to be ok with killers chasing u a lot, i thot we all want chase more??????

It occur to me that this seem to be only two things killers run but complain on survivors running only meta.

Even some killers you always expect the same perk set up here is a few

Artist= always pain res and deadman

Pyramid head = am all ears nurses

Huntress = lethal bbq iron maiden and a random perk

Myers= corropt

I tried an all expose build as wesker the other day and was getting quiet alot of value with 1 hits dragon grip make your choice starstruck and floods on midwitch.

You forgot the shrunken maps. I get them a lot. You are basically on top of each other all the time and with several aura perks the games last 5 to 10 mins of we are lucky. It's just a slaughter or slug fest because there's really nowhere to go.

Most killer aura perks are not a real concern since they don't see much use.

The ones you will actually see are as follows:

Lethal - aura reveal once at start. Changed Distortion still starts with 1 token if you don't want to be the first one chased. Otherwise just pay attention to your surroundings, something you should be doing anyways.

BBQ - Hide in a locker after the killer picked up a dying survivor.

Nowhere to Hide - Best thing to do is to get far away from the gen before the killer kicks it.

Nurses - Don't heal inside a killer's TR. If a stealth killer, be alert.

Friends - Really the same counter play as BBQ and just hop into a locker as the obsession. You can use the expose duration as a timer.

Undying - Killers aren't really using this for tracking. It tells you the first time you step in range of a dull, so start looking for hexes.

Weave - About to get changed, but currently it tells you when you are being shown so use that knowledge.

Honestly the best thing you can do to beat aura reading perks is to just be good at chase. It doesn't really matter if the killer knows you are there if they will either waste time chasing you or ignore you to try to chase an easier target.