Deerstalker is useless or is it just me?

[Jewel]

Am I the only one that thinks Deerstalker is a waste of a perk slot? I see so many people using it and I just think to myself "Why not use your ears to find downed players?" By the time you get within range of them, you'll hear them. On top of that, if you just think of how slow a dying player moves per second and estimate how many seconds it's been, you can guess how far they could have possibly gone from where you left them. Combine that with your sense of hearing and possibly blood trails and you'll find them in no time. It just seems like a waste to me because it's simple to just do the same thing inside your head and take another perk too. Anyone else think the same way as me or am I the only one?

[Mr.America]

It's a question of speed. What if you down 2 people chase and loose a third and know the 4th was on a generator far away? If you spend 1 minute to search for the downed players the other will certainly be picked up by their friends.

It depends a bit on playstyle, The Shape can really benefit from it, so can leatherface for example... or Billy.

[Buhoy Alkash]

Deerstalker is really useful only for slugging, for everything else Whispers and Nurse's Calling are a lot better.
Hearing, however, isn't always enough to find someone, even with blood trail, especially if you
downed a survivor around 2 minutes ago - enough time to crawl half a map and you don't even know in which direction did he crawl.

[Russian Doggo]

Deerstalker is probably one of the most underrated perks in the game right next to Enduring and Lightborn (Before the flashlight nerf of course)

[Sernior]

it is a very good perk.

[Nihil]

Extremely powerful on nurse, can be interesting with killer who can one shot. I find it interesting with huntress too. Best combined with N&C.

[simension]

I use it only on trapper with down addons to track survs that got trapped while I was in a chase or hooking... as long as I downwed someone myself I just keep in mind where it happend and go back there.

It surely is usefull if you run slug meta with goal to down them all before hooking.

[McMurphy]

i run nurse's calling or deerstalker for the trapper with diamond stone.

[Croquedead]

Originally posted by Lucky Boi Ace:

Deerstalker is probably one of the most underrated perks in the game right next to Enduring and Lightborn (Before the flashlight nerf of course)

Enduring ain’t underrated, everyone knows it’s really good.

[Jewel]

Originally posted by Mr.America:

It's a question of speed. What if you down 2 people chase and loose a third and know the 4th was on a generator far away? If you spend 1 minute to search for the downed players the other will certainly be picked up by their friends.

It depends a bit on playstyle, The Shape can really benefit from it, so can leatherface for example... or Billy.

I guess since I've been playing Freddy lately this hasn't been an issue for me. If I make them sleep then down them I'll always know where they are. On top of that, if it's down to 2 survivors and I downed one, I'll assume that if they're staying still then something ♥♥♥♥♥ is going on over there. I usually find someone trying to help by doing this and get another person down.