Everyone is like use Counterforce.

What happened to distortion was heartbreaking for me, but I expected it since both killers and survivors were complaining about it.

I don't think Counterforce will have that happen. If anything, Thrill of the Hunt is going to take an L this time.

I mean, Distortion did need a nerf of some kind, thats not even remotely up for debate (like, at all). A single survivor perk shouldn't completely and permanently shut down an entire category of killer perks and addons. I'm blown away that there are any survivors out there that think it should

Because they cling to the narrative of, "Stealth is the intended gameplay!" only when it benefits them. When Distortion was targeted for a nerf, suddenly a lot of them took up that position. But it's led to a real downgrade of the discussions on here. At least before, you could reason around a lot of gobbledegook. Now, you can't get past the starting line because of commonplace nonsense like, "Killers seeing aura is OP, full stop!" I laughed at that opinion like 2 years ago, when someone said Clown's Cigar Box was OP. Now they're the ones laughing, because they've conned people en masse into believing it. Yes, the killer should use their eyes and ears to find survivors, without the use of aura perks. But you know, that only gets you so far. If someone's wearing a dark cosmetic on MacMillan or Dead Dawg, you straight-up can't see them sometimes. If someone is running in front of you on Ormond or Eyrie, you literally can't hear them running or breathing, and that's without Iron Will/OTR. Scratch marks are never consistent, and either show up way late or stay for way too long. So sometimes the game gives them Iron Will or Lightweight for free, randomly. That's why the "use your eyes/ears" argument falls flat. In addition, others argue essentially that killers are entitled for wanting info. Yeah, I'm entitled because I can't see or hear anything when I ought to be able to, like in any other game. Way to support your hard of hearing/poor vision crowd (I'm neither, but still).

I play a lot of killer and am hard of hearing but have no issue with Distortion as it was. Mainly because the aura reading meta we are in is fact kinda out of control. A few years ago when there were only a small number of aura reading perks that saw much use, now there are tons, and some killers stack them. It's kind of a brain rot scenario where waves of new killers just depend on them, and have almost no idea how to do any tracking.

Some degree of aura reading is totally fine, but it has really proliferated over the past couple of years, to the point of absurdity, and it is continuing. You're not supposed to see survivors auras constantly, that's just silly.

And the whole "it negates a whole class of perks" is really disingenuous, being that it has stacks that can be exhausted. Anyone who has run Distortion against a Huntress, Nurse, etc. with 3+ aura perks can tell you there are plenty of matches where you get like a minute or two of value out of it, at best.

Now my opinion may be skewed because when I've run Distortion I didn't also stealth around, I played it as much (or more) for the info (quickly knowing which aura perks the killer was running) as for the actual effect.

As for the OP's mention of Counterforce, it's almost necessary right now, but it'll fade back into the background once the Thrill buff is reverted.