Two Aura Perk Buffs, Two Aura Perk Nerfs

Recent discussion has me thinking about killer aura perks, specifically two that I believe are overtuned and two that I believe are undertuned. We'll start with the two I think need nerfs, and what I think those nerfs could realistically be.

Weave Attunement.

Nobody's surprised to see this one take top billing, it's obviously overtuned and we already know it's getting changes. I propose the following:

• Aura read activation and range remain the same as they are now,
• The Oblivious effect is completely removed from the perk,
• Survivors see the aura of dropped items revealing them within a certain distance.

The idea here is that the counterplay becomes more obvious at the cost of survivors needing to run a little bit into the area of effect to get the benefit, and survivors are no longer actually punished for engaging with the counterplay. The Franklin's + Weave synergy would now be about gaining wallhacks in that chase, and after that point any survivor could stumble across the item and pick it up.

This change doesn't affect the fact that Weave is kind of bad on its own and needs synergies, but I legitimately don't know how to address that, so my goal is just to make it less potent in its synergies. It'd still be a damn good perk, just not as busted as it currently is.

Nowhere To Hide.

This one, too, probably isn't that surprising. Nowhere To Hide is more overtuned because of how it functions on stronger or more mobile killers, which can be kind of obnoxious to face- especially since it makes it harder to play around even when you know it's in play. I propose the following:

• The perk's range is no longer centred on the killer, but rather on the generator, and does not move.

The idea here is simple. The perk should function the same on all killers, or at least shouldn't become way more of a map radar on more mobile killers. I could see something like the range being increased to compensate, but honestly, the range is already pretty huge considering what kind of perk it is, so I think it doesn't necessarily need a compensation buff.

Now, on to the buffs!

BBQ and Chili.

Now, don't freak out, I know this perk is already quite good and one of the few aura perks to actually crack into the top ten most popular perks on the killer side. I don't actually want to raise this perk's power level that much, but I think there's an open design space to partially bring back an old feature that people liked. This is what I propose:

• Each time you hook a survivor for the first time, you gain a token. Each token reduces the perk's 'deadzone' where it cannot read auras by 2 metres, capping out at a range of 32 metres where the killer can't read auras after a hook.

This one's simple enough too. I liked BBQ's old stacks, and I agree that the bloodpoint bonus would be inappropriate to bring back, so I want to see it make the perk very slightly better. I just liked the stacks, man…

Alien Instinct.

This perk is a really interesting one, but I can't help but to feel that it's a little internally self-defeating. You reveal someone vulnerable, but you also give them a head's up that they're being targeted, which kind of cancels itself out. Here's what I propose:

• After getting a hook, all injured survivors are inflicted with Oblivious for 20 seconds
• The furthest injured survivor from you also has their aura revealed for 5 seconds

The idea with this one is to add a degree of uncertainty to each proc of Alien Instinct - a survivor may know they're Oblivious, but how far are they from the hook? Is anyone further away? Unless they're on comms with pretty on-point spatial awareness from everyone, they aren't going to know whether their aura has been revealed, giving the killer the edge to maybe surprise someone.

That's it, that's my ideas for some tweaks to some aura perks. What do you think?