Lightborn Partial Rework Suggestion

You’re right, but prepare to be drowned out by the very same people who wanted Distortion nerfed for its ability to completely counter its opponents’ builds with a single perk slot :p

Not use, but abuse. No other word fits that type of playstyle.

And don't try to make me seem one sided, stacking 4 slowdowns on a strong killer seems wildly unnessesary to me.

Flashlight blind after every pallet, an attempt at every window, and at least 1 survivor chasing you around with a flashlight or just using BGP to ensure the only way to get a kill is by slugging. And if they manage to not kill themselves in doing so, which to be fair, not all of them are smart enough for that, a disco attempt at the exit games.

Also attempts at flashlight clicking but that was thankfully removed after that one MCote match.

The killer gives up a perk slot to use Lightborn. Lightborn like Shadowborn, Hubris, Hex: Two Can Play, require's the survivors to do something to the Killer to activate it, if they don't do anything to trigger it even after fiiguring it out that it's in play, the gameplay in the match shifts and adapts.

Lightborn also is the only current way for killer's to counter Flashbang saves, Killer's can position themselves to try and avoid Flashlight saves but Flashbang's have no restrictions when it comes to a pick up save.

Blastmine and Lightborn interacting is a great example of why this suggestion to change Lightborn so the stun goes through is bad, it sucks just outright in both feel and function, you loose alot of that aura read time because of the stun.

Instead of asking for Lightborn to be changed or have negatives, ask for other perk's that activate off Blind's, Shadowborn/Two Can Play, to be improved and be a more usable option in builds or by themselves over Lightborn.

Of course it needs to be weakened. some people take flashlights on purpose because of tasks in books, this does not mean that all these people should wait until they come across a killer who is not afraid of flashlights. survivors do not have special abilities like killers, and one perk should not withstand many items.

lightborn is killer perk. it costs 1/4 of the killer build to use. distortion costs 1/16. the commitment for killer is way higher than survivor. big no to rework. i sometimes use the perk on Nurse because i do not like flashbang+background player spamming.

So, I was thinking about what I'd do to preserve it being useful and worth bringing while toning down that aspect of it, like what was done to Distortion

Except the part, where Distortion players were harmful for the team and Lightborn literally says "guys, go do gens, there is no point in trying".
And I really wanna know, when you guys will stop put "=" in between ONE survivor's perk, which denied whole perks and addons category (and still does, just in more healthy way), and ONE killer's perk, which denies one item and few perks? Especially funny to see it from person, who told me "oh you can't compare killer and survivor healing perks, they are different", but somehow you can compare two perks, that do two absolutely differing things? I see, I see.
Also suggest make perk, which whole and only point is removing blind ANIMATION on your part is wild, even for you.

However, if survivors want to get a save when you're picking someone up, that's still possible, so you have to take extra measures to prevent it.

It's my favourite part. Remember you took a perk, buddy? Yeah, do some work to prevent its effect. Or just stay still to activate the perk and… wow see no animation of blinding! Truly brilliant design.
Next suggestion will be make Spirit Fury have only animation of pallet breaking, but you actually need to break a pallet after it?
At least it was really fun to read.

Leave lightborn alone, it's fine the way it is

The changes you propose make a circumstancial perk miserable. The blind screen is no big issue anymore (good lord, the old one was annoying) since you still can hear. And what we need against these groups is a counter that works 100% of the times, since they are very prone to pick up items dropped by Franklin's fast when they are well-coordinated. So those may be fine outcomes for you, but for the rest they aren't, because you could abuse the mechanic once more, because killers are still exposed to being stolen hook states and pressure with them. You would absolutely butcher this perk like SM was butchered, and all because you want your flashlight saves, making the killer's objective more difficult to achieve when we all want to have a good time.