What's the point of TR perks?
I ask because I have never seen a killer use a Terror Radius perk. Ever.
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You’ve never faced a Coulrophobia build before?
There were a lot of TR builds when Wesker came out. For me there were, anyway.
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Which ones? TR increase perks, TR decrease perks, or perks that create effects within the TR?
TR increase perks are there to magnify the effects of other terror radius perks. Distressing sounds awful until you realize you can cover most of the Game or Midwich with it. Also, Wesker. Doctor particularly likes to use it for the Impossible Skill Check build, but Wesker + Coulrophobia is downright nasty even before you use Distressing.
TR decrease perks make you stealthier and confuse survivors. Pretty straightforward. Less warning means less time for survivors to hold W away from their gen. Monitor and Abuse used to be super common, but I see it less these days. Can pair especially well with Huntress and Trickster because their lullaby adds another layer of confusion - I've run right into Undetectable Huntresses plenty of times because I thought I was running away.
And perks that create effects within the TR can be good or bad. Coulro is murderously evil if the map is small enough or your TR is big enough. Unnerving Presence is usually bad because it means average-good survivors will hit Greats more often, but with Merciless Storm or an Impossible Skill Check build it's pretty good. Overwhelming Presence always sucks. Infectious Fright is awesome but doesn't really benefit from a larger TR, as the information is more useful the closer the survivors are to you. Am I missing some? I'm pretty sure there's more, but I don't remember newer perks as well as I know the older ones.
And perks that transfer the TR somewhere else, like Dark Devotion or that one Unknown perk, are my guilty pleasure perks. Mass confusion.
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Theoretcally, The Houndmaster can use the terror radius perks well, with her purple add-on.
That’s also the only thing it will be good for.
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Like every doctor I go against has at least one TR perk
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Their primary use is reducing holding-w by making it harder to react to the killer getting closer.
My personal favourites are trail of torment and monitor and abuse.
Everything else Is borderline useless :P
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monitor and abuse is an underrated perk, killers with a terror radius of 24m or less get a lot of value out of it as it lets them get close to survivors and start chase with less time for them to respond. Players don’t usually realize you’re close until you’re in LoS.
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Weskers tend to use them in my games
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most have useful if niche uses.
Distressing on Doctor can make him static blast so much better, and can be put into TR builds like impossible skill check.
Couldrophobia for anti healing.
There are more but I forgot them
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Infectious Fright on killers like Oni or Billy is really good
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I think they mean things like Unnerving/Overwhelming Presence, Coulrophobia etc., not Perks which alter with your actual Terror Radius.
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As a Doctor main I can confirm that I always run Distressing :3c
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As one example if you use Agitation with Starstruck you can use that perk more tactically by quickly moving towards a hook near a generator you think a survivor might be working on so they’ll have the Exposed status.
The smaller terror radius is a bit weaker these days since it’s easier to just have the Undetectable status via perks but in the past before Deathslinger’s terror radius was increased I used to enjoy using Monitor and Abuse with his other terror radius reducing add-ons.1 -
Monitor & Abuse is underrated, that perk is actually useful.
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Also starstruck Is insane on Spirit, Singularity and Dracula since they have insane Powers to close the gap (Dracula's Bat form and Wolf Form have insane synergy with starstruck)
On every other killer it's ass though, so be careful
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Monitor & Abuse helps you reduce the distance between you and survivors since they don't start to hear you as early.
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Chuckys upcoming cooldown nerfs don't bother me too much because I'll get more value out of his monitor addon that works when he is on cooldown.
Love it on Knight too, as Monitor paired with Nurses gives me 4m to play with to setup a guard ambush
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Monitor is interesting to use if you play Knight, I agree!
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As Doctor i use it for the Blast - it also gives bonus BP.
If you do the impossible skill check build it is also good. And as said for Coulrophobia as well.
Some survs are also a bit panicking with TR all over the place.
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