How do survivors find NOED totem?

[Heart of the Sea]

Is it visible to them or easier to see? It used to be that no one got it, but now in almost all my games its destroyed

[Nocturnal Pie]

The NOED totem spawns at a random dull totem on the map. Most survivors are just used to seeing NOED more often with the reworked ruin so they more often than not eradicate all of the totems or keep tabs on where they all are in case NOED procs.

[Myu]

A random dull totem becomes NOED once all the generators are done. It's any dull one.

If there are no dull totems left, then NOED simply does not trigger.

That's the risk/reward of using it.

Once it becomes active though, it's a lit totem just like any other.

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

almost every game has NOED now, so, yeah, survivors have just started doing totems a lot more than before.

Back about 8-10 months ago, NOED wasnt as common, so, people didnt bother with totems, now, EVERY GAME is NOED, so, we just do them now.

And, they honestly made it WAY harder to find totems a few months back, so, no, survivors are actively looking for them now, because, you HAVE to.

Blame all the NOED or die trying killers, I never run NOED, havent for a year, makes life easier not trying to guard every damn totem, and, since all games are NOED, people waste time in my games killing totems, almost like a baby Ruin, kind of funny...

[Fury]

If you have bad luck, some survivors in your lobby could have had inner strengh, small game or detective's punch.
I always play NOED with Trapper and I guarantee that if the survivor repair all gens in less than 6-8 minutes, NOED always spawns to me. If the match was longer, sometimes not but i don't mind as I had fun and will probably kill 3/4 survivors anyway. NOED is to punish genrush and works. Confirmed!