Distortion useless now

It's just not the stacking them, the killer has way too many ways to blow your through them but now we have less and only get them back through chase.

SoloQ has a point in the argument as its the 95% side of survivors in games. If that 95% is gone its all SWF teams on 30 minute - hour queues till killers get nuked so people play survivor again. But Fthat is a newly made troll account so don't take their words for anything.

I mean yeah they are a lot, but solo-queue doesn't have a specific point in this argument, it's more like all survivors or just people that hide a lot, it's not a problem only for solo-queue as a group.

How exactly have aura perks been power creeped? Things like BBQ bitter murmer and nurses have been around FOREVER. We've gotten more aura reading that trigger from different causes, but I wouldn't say they are necessarily stronger. Stuff like Friends til the end or Alien instinct I wouldn't say is STRONGER than BBQ. Many of these perks also announce that you've been seen. The last time we've gotten an aura perk that DIDNT announce itself was 2 years ago.

I'm also just going to add that this:

The last time we've gotten an aura perk that DIDNT announce itself was 2 years ago.

It's deliberately attempting to miss the point or just a lie.

If I "play around" weave attunement and don't bring an item, it doesn't notify me if someone else's item reveals my aura. It only notifies you if you pick up an item, which, coincidentally, means your aura isn't being revealed any more.

That's not two years ago. Try like 5 months.

That's false. Anytime you're in weave attunement aura reading area, a red icon appears at the bottom right to alert you.

Auras work the other way too; i may be nice one moment, but if an aura shows me somebody worth tunneling or camping I'll drop the chase I'm currently in to remove that poor aura from the game.

I used to run Distortion years ago, before it received its first big buff. We used to have only 3 tokens if I recall correctly, and there was no way to recharge them. You got those and that was it. And I liked to run it because back then there weren't as many aura perks/add-ons as there are now, so it was a good information tool since you could decipher what aura perks the killer was running solely from the moments when your tokens were consumed. It wasn't an OP perk but I really liked it for the information it got you.

Nowadays, that style of playing would be nearly impossible to carry out. There are so many aura perks now (and new add-ons, too) that trying to decipher what exact killer perk got your aura revealed would be tough. Especially if you're not playing SWF. In solo-Q, how could I possibly know that the killer, all the way in the other side of the map, opened a locker and got to see my aura because of Darkness Revealed? It's just sad.

This does not add much to the current Distortion debate but I do believe that the people saying that there aren't that many relevant killer aura perks are a bit delusional.

Outta curiosity, how does aura reading suddenly become op since people have to actively and actually go and catch said revealed survivor?

I firmly disagree with this, I think the stealth playstyle is still completely viable.

For one, Distortion itself is still perfectly useful for stealth playstyles. It lets you get your bearings early on because whatever the first aura read is, it's not revealing you, whether that's Lethal or something like a first hook BBQ, and that's already very useful. On top of that, if you like playing stealth enough that you want to evade the killer after they start chasing you, Distortion pairs beautifully with trickery perks like Dance With Me and Quick & Quiet, since it stops stuff like Predator or I'm All Ears revealing you as you try to escape.

Another strong element of Distortion is that its activation tells you which perks the killer has, with a small margin for false positives. That means that certain aura reading perks, ones with predictable tells like BBQ, can be avoided after you've used up a token on them. This doesn't work on everything, but a fair few perks do function in ways you can avoid.

But, crucially, Distortion isn't the only tool for hiding your aura, and it never has been- it just use to heavily outclass the others.

If what you want is more geared towards working on generators safely, to minimise the risk of being seen and the killer interrupting your repairs, Shadow Step is legitimately a viable option. It pairs very nicely with something like Overzealous or Circle of Healing, to get extra benefits from the setup time.

Off The Record, too, lets you reset with other survivors and start to work on generators again after an unhook. Less consistent than the other two, but it's also pretty good anti-tunnel so it's still an appealing pick.

What's changed about the stealth playstyle is just that it involves more than crouching in a bush these days, you have to plan around wanting to be stealthy. That's not a bad thing, because it really isn't that hard, it's still very accessible. You just gotta think about your options a bit more.

Tired of hearing this exaggerated crap. The killer doesn't see you all game at base. Even if he does so through perks, what's it to ya? Can't take a chase? Is the deciding factor, of whether you live or die, the mere idea of the killer seeing you?

Well... you just listed off the effect of like 10 different perks. If your asking if someone hacked the game to allow them to have all those perks equipped, if THAT would be stronger than BBQ and Nurses... of course. Some of those are questionable though. What perk shows auras based with no other activation requirement than survivors being injured?

If you start comparing 1 to 1, you'll notice aura reading perks haven't seen an uptick in strength. How many closed chests are there in the match that you wanna compare THAT to something reliable like BBQ? T

For more active playstyle, Distortion is better since the tokens recharge faster than before for actively engaging with the game and mechanics. I actually enjoy running it.

Old Distortion was not necessarily strong, but I did not like the impact it had on my SoloQ games, since Survivors were more likely to hide and awful Survivors were carried by Distortion enough for them to be brought to my MMR range so I was often thrown under the bus by a single teammate only playing for themselves.

We have other perks like this and frankly and you can get this gameplay without perks sometimes as well, but I think they should be reworked as well to be less "selfish" in terms of design.

Also I understand that there is a lot of Aura Reading but Aura Reading is not slowdown, they dont work to make games last longer. Likewise, while we have a lot of Aura Reading effects, loadout still restrict how much Aura Reading can be used, we only have 4 Perk Slots and 2 Addon Slots.

I'd say Weave Attunement, Floods of Rage, and particularly NTH are all way more powerful aura reading than BBQ.

Even more so on the smaller maps now. Standing mid some as a standard Imposable skill check TR size doc lets your TR hit the walls, and that's just lightly larger then BBQ min range.

Forgot about face the darkness since it has that TR requirement. Means it's not good for aura reading on the survivor you're chasing and you instead have to use it to find a new target without downing the injuring survivor before they heal or break the bones.

I think people are generally forgetting WHY BBQ was used so much. It activates generally when you need to find a new target to chase instead of while you already have a target. Floods of rage on the other hand can be really potent if it activates at the right time, but you have no real control over when that is.

The game isn't designed for the killer to know where survivors are at all times.

That's true and that's also why aura perks in general have a limited activation time and a condition to be activated. Let's be honest BBQ, Lethal Pursuer, Eruption, Nurse's Calling, Alien Instinct, Awakened Awareness, Blood Warden, Darkness Revealed, Gearhead and Floods of Rage do not affect you in chase. There are clear activation requirements and no matter how the game goes, these will not reveal you "at all times".

The way I see it, aura vision helps finding a survivor and getting into the next chase or giving you a helping hand in chase (like with I'm All Ears). They don't do both. The only perk that I can think of that would randomly reveal your aura is Undying and if that's the issue, then I guess we'll have to get rid of that. Not that it would be a big loss anyway.

What is also certain to happen is that killers know they can burn through tokens and continue tunneling one person while knowing where everyone else is.

The only perk that can even hope to achieve something like that is BBQ and that has been around for longer than 90% of us have played. It was never an issue before. The only people that really struggled with BBQ are typically newer players because they obviously suck in chase. But even then it's good that this perk exists because it means that excessive hiding won't work and these people won't get very far without learning how to loop.

A new excuse for camping and tunneling is now "but I'm just playing around distortion by not allowing their tokens to recharge". Not that those people need an excuse, but some people will justify anything.

Distortion had absolutely no impact on tunneling and camping. A killer that tunnels you doesn't need to see your aura and it's the same with camping. So the Distortion nerf has no impact on this. Also, if it really was about tunneling then why would you use Distortion and not OTR? It's undeniably a better anti tunnel perk.

If you are going to tunnel deliberately, you'll do that regardless of what perks your opponent uses. Distortion doesn't stop anyone from tunneling. It never did. If I want to tunnel you out of the game, the only thing I need is the unhook notification, which is not affected by Distortion. Even then, there is another perk that would protect you way better and it's called Off The Record.