So this whole scream change thing...

[Voidlines]

We have done a consistency pass on the following perks and addons which trigger audio feedback when the position of a Survivor is revealed: Deathbound, Dragon's Grip, Eruption, Hex: Face the Darkness, Infectious Fright, Iron Maiden, Make Your Choice, Kanobo Yamaoka Family Crest, Incensed Oinment, Healing Poultice, Greasy Black Lens. When a Survivor screams to reveal their location, the scream will be a 3d scream (instead of a 2d/mapwide scream), with a 19m max range, and a loud noise sfx is triggered.

If I am reading this correctly, does this make perks like MYC even worse if you don't get to hear the scream notification since it activates past 32m, and screams are heard in the 19m range?

I'm kinda puzzled as to why this was changed. Any insight?

[￭ Yuri ￭]

honestely, idk the reason for the change, maybe the same as changing the wiggle system (because they "wanted to", even though no one asked or approved it)

[Dagger]

I missed the 19m range when I first read the change and thought it was a great idea to have the screams be 3d. You are right though. If you only hear the screams when within 19ms then perks that activate outside of a certain range such as MYC would be nerfed.

[Voidlines]

Originally posted by Dagger:

I missed the 19m range when I first read the change and thought it was a great idea to have the screams be 3d. You are right though. If you only hear the screams when within 19ms then perks that activate outside of a certain range such as MYC would be nerfed.

That's what I thought too, would make scream perks that have aura reading and a notification a little less tedious but thinking on it, it's really gimping a lot of other perks.

[￭ Yuri ￭]

maybe the solution is make all scream perks has some small aura reading built-in, and not only the scream like in make your choice.

[60mph gorilla]

Imagine in 2023 MYC gets an indirect nerf because of some stupid decision by the devs. They really are trying to kill off the killer population at this point.

[Voidlines]

Originally posted by ￭ Yuri ￭:

maybe the solution is make all scream perks has some small aura reading built-in, and not only the scream like in make your choice.

I feel a lot of people would be turned off by more aura reading though. But then again I don't have a better alternative aside increasing scream audio radius to like 40m, just quieter the further you are or something.

I'll probably practice some of the perks on bots and see how it goes and get a better idea.

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Or after the 19m radius, make the scream 2d again (since 3d is pointless far a way)

[Voidlines]

Originally posted by ￭ Yuri ￭:

Or after the 19m radius, make the scream 2d again (since 3d is pointless far a way)

From what I am testing on Sadako running MYC, Deathbound, Face The Darkness and TWACK, you only get the noise notification from MYC and no scream, so knowing who unhooked is immediately nerfed to the ground for that and Deathbound.

FTD shows both aura and notif, no scream, and honestly makes the aura reading pointless since the notif blocks it for the duration.


I actually hope this is reversed and thought over better before messing with perks like this.

[NarkoTri1er]

idk what I should think about this change, I mean I really hate it when I down a survivor when I use Infectious Fright and basically don't see anything instead of barely visible indicator of the scream direction if the revealed survivor isn't inside my FoV. I would somewhat like this change for killers with Infectious Fright like Oni.

[Grim]

Since they mention it as a "consistency pass" it seems like there were already perks which had this behavior. Face The Darkness, for example, you wouldn't hear the screams if you were far away, you'd only see the bubbles.

They should've done it the other way around.

[††v.Saiki540]

imagine trying to fix "tunneling", so you nerf anti-tunneling perk (MYC) XDDD

[MadArtillery]

So make your choice doesn't help reveal the identity of the survivor who unhooks anymore? That's really dumb, the range of the scream is shorter then the distance a killer has to be, so does it then revert to the 2D scream or do you just not hear it? Guess I'll have to try it out to find out

[Mmm]

Big sad, scream build (all perks with screaming, it is like Doctor but people don't hate you) was one of my favorite, hearing screams and knowing that other survivors hear it is the main point of it, it was fun for everyone. I often use random scream perks in other builds just for laugh.

It the last thing I was expecting they would destroy. Like, why?

I am taking a break.

[NarkoTri1er]

Originally posted by Hex: Never Had Sex:

idk what I should think about this change, I mean I really hate it when I down a survivor when I use Infectious Fright and basically don't see anything instead of barely visible indicator of the scream direction if the revealed survivor isn't inside my FoV. I would somewhat like this change for killers with Infectious Fright like Oni.

I'm taking this back, the new scream changes are awful. Now I am really trying to understand what is going inside the development and balancing team of DbD.