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Bring back good distortion.

Fed up of getting hit through walls by vecna's spamming aura read builds.

Tbh when distortion got nerfed i was chill with the changes. But now every vecna is constantly using aura reads the perk is virtually worthless. Against the one thing it is explicitly aupposed to counter.

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  • Junylar
    Junylar Member Posts: 2,308

    Being able to just turn off a whole class of killer's perks with just one perk is not healthy for the game balance. It's like giving the killer a perk that would unconditionally disable all exhaustion perks.

    The new bird system does not change much, people still can hide all game, especially at the end when there are 2 survivors left. So no, it doesn't prevent anything.

  • ShanoaLegendaryPlz
    ShanoaLegendaryPlz Member Posts: 1,825
    edited February 4

    Well the gen exhaustion + bird exhaustion does disable every exhaustion perk, and the game has gotten to a point where nearly every killer now heavily relies on aura reading rather than game sense.

    But another thing was put into place to prevent long games of hiding and thats the killer abandon feature. The survivors are forced to touch generators which eventualy give their general location away, or the killer can abandon if no generators have been done for 10 minutes. Im not sure what the results are but when i had it happen a long while ago, i abandoned and it even gave me the adept achievement apparently counting the survivors as sacrificed. But anyway, there are more things in place to prevent hiding all round, while killers have gained atleast 5 or 6 more aura perks since distortion's nerf, and auras are completely spammable, even deerstalker would eliminate distortion on its own after a bit.

    And killers have 1 perk to disable an entire class of blinding perks and items so its not that unfair.

  • ImWinston
    ImWinston Member Posts: 842
    • I agree, Distortion should start with 3 tokens, but tokens should be refilled ONLY on chase... problem solved.
  • Leon_van_Straken
    Leon_van_Straken Member Posts: 658

    Problem with old Distortion was that a) it allowed players to stealth out full games and b) was so strong that every other perk which hid your aura was horrible bad compared to distortion.

    If a perk is so good in the thing it does that many other perks are invalid it should be brought back in line.

    And just for Information purpose. Old Distortion and the nerf of Sloppy Butcher spiked the 4 gen slowdown meta in its days, because there was nearly no reason to bring an Aura perk at all.

    I think the others are right. If the AFK crows get fixed and it only recharges in chase Distortion can get its 3 tokens back.

  • Philscooper
    Philscooper Member Posts: 677

    Make distortion work on generator progress.

    Not on chase. Killer mains suggesting "making it chase" also had no idea why and how distortion worked.

    And this is why you dont only listen to one side's feedback on a perk THAT IS NOT THEIR'S.

  • HoodedWildKard
    HoodedWildKard Member Posts: 2,400

    That's my main issue, a distortion player is explicitly trying to avoid being found. Forcing them into chase defeats the point.

    Gen progress for tokens is a good shout. That way you make sure the player is still contributing.

  • indieeden7
    indieeden7 Member Posts: 3,663

    This isn't necessarily true, aura while in chase can be just as useful as aura to find a survivor. I've started using Distortion specifically to try and counter aura reading Vecnas, I don't want to completely avoid chase, I want to try and minimise the information that the killer receives while chasing.

  • HoodedWildKard
    HoodedWildKard Member Posts: 2,400

    See i run distortion too, and my tokens get burned so quickly i can't get any use out of it. Since most aura read killers are running leth i start the game with no tokens half the time

  • indieeden7
    indieeden7 Member Posts: 3,663

    I completely agree, being left with nothing as soon as the match starts if the killer has Lethal is annoying. But I believe the way that tokens are earned works well enough, the issue is how low the token cap is along with only starting with one token.

    Buffing the cap to 3 and simply starting with 2 or 3 tokens would make a huge difference IMO.

  • HoodedWildKard
    HoodedWildKard Member Posts: 2,400

    Idk i still think being in chase to get tokens is not great. Particularly with this current vecna meta, vecna is particularly good at ending chases quickly, stops you genning many tokens unless you are particularly good at chase, which I'm definitely not, and tbh most of the survivors who are, won't be using distortion because they don't need it