I think aura perks need to be nerfed.

Pandoras box has already been opened. It's my opinion outright seeing the full movement of anyone in the game was a mistake from the get go. I've always aired on the side of it just being a killer instinct type notification where the area is highlighted but you can't see exactly where I am whether it is a survivor or killer.

You know I'm right. There was a reason exhaustion was literally added to counter multiple exhaustion perks being used because even the 50% increased regen time while sprinting still wasn't enough. Think about it why do you think exhaustion was made a thing when NURSE and BILLY were arguably at the peak of their power.

Ah this is the direction we are heading now where Survivors now want Killers to not use Aura perk builds. Would you rather 4 gen blocking/regression perks again? For specifically Huntress I use Lethal Pursuer, BBQ, Nowhere To Hide and Agitation purely just go for long range hatchet throw clips.

What's interesting is Aura perks design wise condition Killers, at least me anyways to leave the hook, I see BBQ proc I go for a hatchet throw then follow, If BBQ doesn't proc if i'm lucky ill kick a gen near a hook and oh look Nowhere to hide procs theres 2 people near me so I can work out my next chase. I thought thats what Survivors wanted? Killers not camping.

You're pointing at exactly what made all my friends quit the game.
Last year, we picked up DBD with 6-7 players, and today only 2 of us are left.
The others either quit or only play killer now because survivor just wasn't possible for them.
In 300 hours, they couldn't learn anything because their games were just: constant vision, constant tunneling, or camping.

Personally as a killer main, I hate using aura perks. I think it too distracting and take you eyes off chases and gen protecting. Honestly, I rather see all aura reading perks gone for both sides and get more chase related perks instead for killers . I miss the whole hide and seek part of the game.

"If there is no aura perk then how do you know where survivors are?" Easy check gens. there is also spies from the shadows (can be countered with one of jakes perks) and my personal favorite is whispers (nothing counters it except for your own skill lvl). Another favorite is discordance which is great paired with surge.

A perk I use have as my 4th perk was predator because it made tracking survivor scratch marks so much easier and was a great counter to light weight until they changed it to an aura reading perk. I was soo upset that they messed up my fav perk.

But then again this is my opinion and I played before there was any aura reading at all, maps were bigger, and gens were much faster so my mindset is much different from newer killers.

If I was being forced to make a decision one way or the other I’d be closer to saying most aura perks could use a buff than I would a nerf. Most people would rather see a killer running a bunch of aura perks over stacking slow downs, myself included. Less holding m1 and more chases? Yes please.

I've started running blastmine with residual manifest and the amount of DCS is astonishing. They really clutch with aura that much, we even 4 outted a nurse running no where to hide lmfaoooooo

Or to actually doing gens, rather than making it 'OTR, just without the endurance effect'.

The game isn't the hide and seek dark and spooky horror game that used to be, back in the day when we only had a few or a perks jeans used to take a lot longer, in the game revolved more around them. Now the amount of time taken off the gyms it's pretty substantial, as well as the entire game is centered around chasing while protecting gems. The game just isn't balanced around having survivors hide anymore. If you made this post 8 years ago you may be correct, but now it's kind of needed. Especially with how much gin regression has been nerfed in the past 2 to 3 years. Starting and ending chases quick fast and easy is the number one most important thing in the game now.

You are absolutely right. The game needs a complete redesign. It has currently become nonsensical. The generalization and transfer of perks are unsustainable. Now, any killer can have auras or stealth, etc., regardless of their potential or traits.

By affecting the abilities in the same way for killers so different from one another, it’s leading the game into chaos in terms of balance, and, of course, the polarization of the community due to everything this causes. To give you a clearer picture, it’s like if perks started to appear that allowed teleporting to generators, just like Freddy does, and then we normalize it.

Since this is not the relevant thread, I won’t add anything more. I just want to say that, even though they mock you for the exhaustion perks issue, you’re absolutely right in general, and you’re not the only one who sees it.

The absurdity is obvious, and it’s clear that a generalized chaos is being normalized within the game itself. In other words, they are keeping a system that was designed for a game that no longer exists.

“I don’t know where we’re going to end up... when the foundation is broken and the results speak for themselves, the logical thing is to rebuild, not to insist.”