So I'm thinking of using NOED...

I don't care if people use I personally think it's a trash perk and it can be useful because people will do totems even if you don't have it equipped.

It may be frowned upon to use NOED but you won’t be frowning when you kill everyone in the end game :) especially if it’s a game of 4 man SWF who spend the game antagonising you and thinking they’re invincible. Nothing quite as satisfying as the first down, who is none the wiser.

I think i am the only survivor i know that hunts totems every game. Don't worry about survivors. If they can't take 75 seconds over 4 people to cleanse totems then they don't deserve the escape.

NOED is one of the best perks in the game. Why wouldn't you use it?

But if you bring an ebony mori you probably won't need NOED unless you do really bad or you're playing against optimal survivors in which case they'll probably have the totems cleansed. Ebony Moris are almost guarrenteed 4ks or one survivor might escape through the hatch if you don't know where it is.

There is a group of survivors that's going to always frown upon anything that might get them into a corner. I'm going to say what already has been just to throw in more weight - don't care about survivors and their fun, you make your own rules as the Killer.

NOED has always been fun or should I say, it's the only way to make the ending part of the game fun for the Killers without teleporting or snaring abilities. Use it to your hearts content when you feel like it! Also don't get it in your head about Killer "having to use it" because it's going to become the second others-people-opinion that influences your choice.

there is no rule that forbids you to play with NOED. if you want to do so, do it.

dont listen to the crybabies that try to tell you that "NOED is an OP crutch perk for babie killers", and play the game the way you want to play it!

if you wanna hear my opinion on weather you should run NOED or not, i would not recommend the perk.

its not because its "OP" or "unfun" or anything like that, but because i believe there are many better alternatives out there. NOED is simply too much reliant on the survivors - and if they cleanse totems you basically play the entire game with only 3 perks. if you want to run a good endgame perk, id recomment Bloodwarden. Survivors dont hate you for it, its relatively easy to use and its very effective. or run both, if you like to see the world burn! >:D

Go for it dude, who cares what the Survivors think, you're the Killer after all.

I never used NOED, never get to endgame, most times I kill the 3 Survivors, close hatch and find the Survivor on a door and chase him, he knows he's dead then.

In high ranks most peeps clean all the totems, or they find it before you get any good use out of it. So its a gamble. Hexes always are. Especially with the lame totem spots.

It situational because sometimes it won’t activate because all the totems are cleansed. I personally try to cleanse all the totems if the killer is something like Wraith or Freddy who are notorious for running NOED. Most of my teammates are garbage though so I have to cleanse on the totems and the game doesn’t even get to the end :/

Sometimes you’ll kill all survivors before the gates are even powered so you basically wasted a perk slot the entire game.

You’re also going through the entire game with only three perks hoping that it’ll activate at the end.

It also depends on the killer you play. Killers like Nurse, Billy, and Spirit would be EXTREME overkill to use NOED. A killer like poor Leatherface or Wraith could definitely use the help.

It’s just not a good perk to me personally. Although if you want to use it then nobody should frown upon you for using it.

Noed is a fun perk if you don't crutch on it. Having it as a safety net is nice but never come to rely on it regularly

Except the issue that survivors dont know how many totems have been done. Which kills that whole argument of "just do totems".

To the question itself, using Noed is obviously fine, but depending on what killer you play, I wouldnt recommend it. On killers like nurse, billy, hag,spirit, myers and others I wouldnt use it except if you are going for a full endgame build with noed,bloodwarden,bitter murmur or something like that.

You have to realise that with noed, you have quiet a disadvantage until the endgame.

Noed is a fine perk, to be honest one of the better examples of good balance in the game. People who whine about it .. just seem pitiful to me honestly. Its a perk which removes a perk from the killer through most of the game, it can be countered if people do totems resulting in a wasted perk (the risk of bringing it) and punishes survivors for failing at their 2ed objective. As an ability it can be strong late game but as it has counter play and cost to the killer even when not countered; I see this as a great perk that adds flavor to the game. As a survivor its do you gamble on a gen rush or do you take the time for the threat of noed in the last 1-2 mins of the game. This game was once a game about hard chooses, though it really isn't any more this still has the spirit of that in mind I feel and I love it.