THWACK! nerf makes it useless :(
I actually really liked using THWACK! before the current patch, the combination of scream interruption and information from aura reveal were really fun and useful, and since the use cases were limited it was definitely not overpowered. I always thought it was kind of an underrated perk, but that meant survivors didn't expect it or often forgot about its effects.
I recently used the current version and it is just sad how useless it is. The fact that the aura reading effect got removed takes away most of the information value the perk had, not to mention the area it covers got reduced from 32m to 24m (which is even smaller than the previous version's Tier 1 area).
The scream itself gives very little info. If survivors are close to you, the scream bubble might not even show up. The length of the reveal does not matter, it's actually kinda worse if it lingers longer because it's a static location and the survivor will have more time to move away from it, making it more disorientating as Killer.
The addition of tokens is nice I guess, giving you more uses of the perk, but with the other nerfs it really doesn't matter, since the effect overall is so weak now. I would really appreciate even having old THWACK! back, without the tokes.
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Honestly I got the most value out of this perk when Survivors try to get a (useless but annoying) blind during break animation (which makes them slow and not make distance) but scream before being able to complete the blind and almost always gives me a free hit.
Even before, the info was only good on a handful of Killers (the powerhouses) and wasn't very reliable.
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