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Aura Reading / Revert Distortion / Survivor Perks
Constantly. Constantly. Every match my aura is constantly being read. Distortion has been the only counter to this, and, with its recent nerf, it makes it almost useless.
Either revert these changes or limit Killer aura reading perks. It is getting so ridiculous and tiresome constantly being located at any given moment.
This game was fun because there used to have tension. Now, its just being found, 2 second chase, instant down. Some players will simply never be able to run insane loops. Even with my 1500 hours. If anything, slow down gen progression to balance instead of giving us 100 perks to chose from and then nerf them all into uselessness.
This also feels like part of a larger problem where solo queue is being nerfed due to SWFs. Create separate game limitations for SWFs so solo queuers no longer have to pay the price.
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While I agree with you and hope some day they consider making aura reading stacking no longer a thing, distortion nerf was solo q fault not swfs.
My 4 man and I ran it with particular build which usually then may make said killer DC or give up. We save heal, take hits, hook trade, take chases and What. Solo q ofc didn't really do as such.
However even after its nerf people aka solo q still hides without it. Its just beyond no skill that killers have add on and perk that shows survivors now for EVERYTHING they do. .
I had a Jane yesterday did nothing but urban around the entire map as me and the other 2 did all the gens, take chases and what not. The 2 died and I barely on my death hook and injured escaped after she open the gate and dont even try to have be there to take a hit. She had no distortion btw.
Until more people start making a riot like how killers make a riot about things survivors had like endurance stacking it won't change.
BBQ is only healthy and fair aura perk imo with locker use. However telling me to hide in a locker to avoid no where to hide is the most funniest thing ever since smart killers will check any close by lockers by gens and then what? You just gave away free pressure.
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use boon shadowstep it blocks aura
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there is way too much aura reading and the fact that a killer can stack 4 perks + 2 addons to get permanent wallhack the entire match is incredibly stupid and unbalanced and on top of that they butchered the only viable conter to it just because of a few bad apples. not everybody play like that and the nerf just proved that it didn't change anything. people are still doing it with the nerfed version or without it. they need to remove aura stacking or bring back the pre nerf distortion.
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Sole survivor shuts down aura reading HARD. There are tons of counters to it, you are just not using them.
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Even off the record soft counters aura reading
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Distortion revert in 2025?
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So, someone should use a perk that only gets value at the end and even then you're not guaranteed that value? People do not use Sole Survivor for aura blocking, they use it to get speed on exit gates when they're the last alive (more than likely not getting value consistently anyways) as you cannot control that you are the last survivor specifically.
Shadowstep, Off The Record, Object of Obsession (if you're great at looping), and Distortion are the only major counters to aura reading.
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Constantly. Constantly. Every match my aura is constantly being read. Distortion has been the only counter to this, and, with its recent nerf, it makes it almost useless.
OTR, Boon: Shadowstep, getting in locker, hiding behind generator to blend with gen aura. And Distortion is somehow...the only counter?
This game was fun because there used to have tension. Now, its just being found, 2 second chase, instant down. Some players will simply never be able to run insane loops. Even with my 1500 hours. If anything, slow down gen progression to balance instead of giving us 100 perks to chose from and then nerf them all into uselessness.
"2 second chase, instant down"
there is the core of your problem, you don't need to be insane in terms of skill to at least have 60s chase from healthy to downed against majority of killers.
This also feels like part of a larger problem where solo queue is being nerfed due to SWFs. Create separate game limitations for SWFs so solo queuers no longer have to pay the price.
this was literally not a nerf for soloQ, but rather a buff because it reduced amount of people who hide and do nothing all match by a significant margin.
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Have you not read SS lately? It gets stacks and prevents aura withing 24M for each stack. It's usually not that hard in soloQ to not be the first down.
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It gets stacks when people die, not when people are downed. It's deeply inconsistent and only at its most worthwhile when you need it the least, I wouldn't consider it a viable counter to aura reading.
@ the wider topic:
Distortion wasn't gutted. It's still a completely worthwhile perk that provides consistent information and stealth in matches that have aura reading. However, it's now a perk that has gaps, so if those gaps are things you care about the most, I'd recommend other tools.
If you want to be able to perform specific actions (repairing and healing mostly) while being stealthy, Shadow Step is the right call. Take a few seconds to set it up, and the killer won't be sniping you with BBQ or anything while you're on that gen.
If you want to be able to reset and get back into the action after an unhook without an aura pointing the killer towards you, Off The Record is your best bet, also offering some reasonably potent anti-tunnel as its main effect which makes it quite worthwhile overall.
If you don't actually care about blocking the aura and just want to know what the killer has + get an edge over them, Object of Obsession is worth mentioning. It does require you to be better in chase than it sounds like you are (no shade, I'm not great either), but it's a worthwhile tool within that context.
Aura reading is good right now but it's not absurdly oppressive and it's not impossible to counter. You've got tools available, if you want to use them.
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I suppose, but it grows stronger every time a player dies.
It's not as consistent as the other ones and I would prefer to not use a perk that depends on my teammates dying to get value from -- but I can see your point.
Yes, @jesterkind thank you for pointing out the lack of inconsistency.
Even when I play Soloq, I prefer more consistent perks rather than outright selfish perks. I know some people think Distortion is selfish, but it depends on the user and what they're doing. In the past, I used it and it would prevent BBQ from seeing me, which allowed me to pop gens without constantly being read from far away. Sole Survivor would do nothing for me here, unless someone died -- which is not something I would advertise to people to use.
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Distortion blocked 50+ perks, powers, items, and entire builds. It was encouraging ratting and not teamwork. It was ruining Survivors' games, not just Killers, because people would use it to not do anything and just hide in the corner. It had to change, the change was good. Accept this, Distortion does not need a revert and should not be reverted.
There are still ways to handle aura reading, Off the Record is my go to. But the Devs never intended the game to be about the Killer not being able to find and interact with you at all while all your friends die so you can get the hatch.
If aura reading does turn out to be excessive, then BHVR can fix it later. But I don't know how excessive it is when it's mostly used as the equivalent for Killer that chase perks are for Survivor - to handle chase by getting into chase sooner/out of chase faster.
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