I dunno, you sound like a brand new player to me.

Well, you both look new.

Anyway, the distortion debacle has come and gone, and is yet another bad idea tossed in to kill a perk instead of doing actual work on it. But hey, if this is the absolute best BHVR can do, we should be thankful, yeah? lol

It wasn't a jab, chill.

Also changes nothing I said.

Also, you're*

I agree. 100%.

Distortion needs 3 tokens back. Until then, its pretty dead to a lot of players. Not all, but a lot. I very much agree with @shadow_V , but he got snappy.

But lets take it step by step.

Distortion Debacle come and gone?

Yes. Yes it has. Complaints can still be made, but like Skull Merchant, Distortion has just been beaten to death.

This is the forums that we're talking about here.

Mmmmm

It is quite dumb to me that you at max get 2 Distortion tokens, but you only start with one and I say that as a person who loves to chase and can get one easily.

I agree. Again, 3 tokens at start and max, and leave as it is, or 2 tokens and revert how it use to be, when it was useful.

@shadow_V has a point that once your token is gone, it's hard to get one back especially if you're going against an S tier killer like Blight.

The killer shouldn't matter. The perk should be functional in general, but it simply isn't. OP is complaining about a perk that's been nerfed, dragged and gutted so much its really not even a thing anymore. This isn't me dismissing his venting, just stating a fact.

I think Behavior should just give the player the 2 tokens off rip, as it's redundant reducing it to 1 at the start when it was originally 3 tokens.

Agreed. Even that lil handout would be nice. But as with all changes in dbd, how would this change make them auric cells?

I really dislike how they gutted distortion without any clear reason why. Especially now, when they claim the perk’s chase function is useful. I suppose it's intended to give you a chance to lose the killer if you manage to duck around a corner during a chase.

For a long time, killer mains have been trying to enhance the killer's endgame value, and it's glaringly obvious now with how they've nerfed Wake Up.

What's frustrating about this community is that when you try to voice a complaint, many people respond by dismissing your argument as simply a skill issue.

What has specifically changed with the game to make it go from fun to miserable? I see you complain about slugging, then go on to complain about one specific match where a Blight found you using BBQ while you were (I assume) getting into a locker (honestly that one is kind of your fault). I agree that distortion got a bit overnerfed but also the game shouldn’t allow survivors to stay hidden forever.

As for distortion, you will easy get 2 new charges for being in a chase.

As for distortion, you will get 2 new charges for being in a chase long enough, if you are good at looping and have some game sense.

Fixed.

If by chance you are confident in your looping, I'd recommend Object of Obsession. You'll get just as much aura reading as your assailant, but the catch is if you aren't the obsession, you simply get free aura reading whenever the killer does, instead of every 30 seconds on point. Its quite fun and objectively more valuable than OTR or Distortion imo. Its all about where you are with your looping ability.

@Firellius

More consistent to play with Distortion if you are a strong chaser, I can easily get my 2 tokens back in one chase if I can pull it off. Obviously depends on the killer, but Off The Record only works twice (as it only works off hook).

@I_Cant_Loop , with the new Distortion there is counterplay as obviously the survivor needs to be in chase to get value from Distortion - if it is a perk that you get tokens from in chase, then there was no need to reduce it to 2 and only give 1. They're complaining about two things because I assume (as I also play survivor a lot) that they see slugging (and find it annoying) along with being found having LP consume one token, potentially getting in the locker a little too late, and having BBQ tell Blight where to go.

In this situation, it's best to go into the locker early or have their aura read and go somewhere else when the bubble leaves (obviously hard because this is Blight we're talking about here, pinball boy who goes from one end of the map quite easily).

These two issues can still persist for the average survivor, as the average survivor cannot loop a Blight to get their tokens back for Distortion anyways.

@HerInfernalMajesty , interesting point - yes, you could use old Distortion to recognize subtle cheating as well. I don't understand why they nerfed the perk so hard when aura reading is quite prevalent in the game. The way that Behavior manages to nerf perks like Distortion and Adrenaline is a bit mind boggling in a way.

They need to find a common middle ground towards perks, rather than obliterating them into the ground and buff weaker perks alongside them.

No one wants to "hide" all game and mentioning how Distortion players are rats are absurd.

No one is loading into a game with Distortion waiting for their team to die, if that was the case we would see people calling for changes for Left Behind key users who go into a corner with a key and do nothing all game.

So Blight gets a hook before even 1 gen is done (sounds like a very fast, easy chase), and you're there hiding in a locker. He couldn't have found you with BBQ while you were in a locker, unless you purposefully stayed in the locker after he saw you, because you got into it too late. This is just something I can't empathize with because it's not my world. I don't play around BBQ, or hide in lockers period, unless the killer is hard tunneling me and I managed to get away while on death hook. I also don't run Distortion, because again, I usually don't care if the killer finds me. You've got to be able to buy your team some time when the killer finds you. Your teammate didn't do it, and neither did you (basically giving him an instant down). So it's not what the killer's doing or your perk getting nerfed that's the problem. If you're weary of certain perks like Lethal or BBQ, you're at least playing smart by bringing Distortion (although, I'd recommend Shadowstep instead). But hiding your aura from the killer really doesn't matter if either you're an instant down when they do find you, or if they can't find you so they kill your non-Distortion teammates really fast instead (because they were the only ones the killer could find).

I used to find the game fun, too. Then I met strong survivors as killer, and bad teammates as survivor. So the real problems in this game are deeper. Your issue, or at least part of it, can be fixed by learning to run the killer. Blight's harder to counter than most, but the counterplay to him is essentially the same as an M1 killer, just that you need to think and execute faster. Learn to loop comfortably against M1 killers, and one day he'll be almost as comfortable to face.

Yeah. I've played a grand total of 100 minutes over the last month. My frustration is mainly with the survivor role. I really don't see myself playing this game with any consistency anymore unless they may make huge changes to solo queue matchmaking. There's zero downside for tunneling out a weak link, and there's almost always a significantly weaker teammate in a solo lobby. Weaker teammates disproportionately affect outcomes relative to a stronger teammate.

I shouldn't consistently be put in lobbies with teammates who quite literally have three sub-20 second chases against a killer that me and another teammate run for 1+ minute. I don't care about the horror theme in that context. I don't care about the "power role" in that context. It's downright frustrating and not worth any significant time investment to play a PVP game that you lose by design and don't have any chance to affect the outcome with your gameplay. Your reward for playing well on survivor is to watch the killer ignore you for the rest of the game while they relentlessly tunnel out your teammates.