I really, REALLY don't understand NOED

[Reckall]

Second post about my personal drama with this perk.

I tried it with Sadako maybe four times, and now with the Artist. Every time the result was the same. The exit gates are powered, the totem lights up... and the Survivors just open and exit the gates like if nothing happened.

What I'm missing?

[Trigger warning: I'm fine without NOED on my builds but I'm curious to see what all the fuss is about - and this perk does literally nothing for me.]

[feral]

do not quite understand. what did you expect to happen?

[miketheratguy]

Unless the perk is bugged, NOED applies the exposed (1 hit down) status to survivors until they find and cleanse the totem it got applied to when they powered the gates. That's all it does (which is good because that's quite enough. Too many killers use it as the free "reverse the outcome of the match" perk that it is).

[Reckall]

From the wiki:

- Survivors suffer from a permanent Exposed Status Effect.

This never happened in my games. I don't know what I'm missing.

[Reckall]

OK I found the problem:

There is a popular misconception amongst newer Players that due to its name, Exposed reveals their Aura.
This is not the case.

That was me :)

[feral]

are you sure that the hex was not cleansed in the meantime? also, if all 5 dull totems are destroyed by the time the last generator is completed, the perk will never be activated.

[Mr Freeze]

The exposed status effect is only applied when all 5 gens are done and the totems isn't destroyed.

[Raft]

Originally posted by Reckall:

...The exit gates are powered, the totem lights up... and the Survivors just open and exit the gates like if nothing happened....

So, I did not see you mention your attacks?

"Exposed" means u can insta-down the survivors with your *basic* attack. Special attacks (using crows) will still deal 1 health state damage. If you don't attack them at all, well, it's as if noed wasn't used.

[DMesse]

Mostly a mix of the dice god giving you the finger (whether you're survivors or killer) and questioning/arguing the usefulness of NOED.


You are missing the following:

1) Salt of upset Killers when NOED totem gets cleansed very quickly due to the dice god putting it somewhere very visible to Survivors when it activates

2) Salt of upset Survivors when they do get 1 hit downed

3) Salt of upset Survivors when they realize that they no longer can freely sprint around, leaving scratch marks

4) Salt of upset Survivors when NOED activates right before, in the middle, or after tunneling/hook camp

5) Salt of upset Survivors who thoroughly believe that they've officially won the game when all the generators are repaired


Generally speaking, as you've witnessed, as long as Survivors are willing to not get themselves spotted easily, NOED does very little. Operating under the assumption that the killer has NOED used to be standard practice but sadly, the Survivor community obviously had different priorities over the past couple years rather than passing down hard earned knowledge.

[Thrax]

gens finish they become 1 hit down, usually leads to panic, hiding, leaving people behind.

Keep after them and it'll pay off.

You will get salt, season some popcorn with it and watch the entitlement rage because to them finishing gens means you aren't allowed to hurt them

[Reckall]

The problem I had with NOED was the one even mentioned in the wiki: “Exposed” doesn’t mean that I can see their aura.

The word choice is a bit confusing (what of the Survivors is “exposed”, exactly?) but now I see how I used it wrong.

[[Desgo.👽**]

Originally posted by Reckall:

Trigger warning

[miketheratguy]

Originally posted by Reckall:

The problem I had with NOED was the one even mentioned in the wiki: “Exposed” doesn’t mean that I can see their aura.

The word choice is a bit confusing (what of the Survivors is “exposed”, exactly?) but now I see how I used it wrong.

It's an understandable mistake. In this game the word "exposed" makes much more sense in the context of vision, not vulnerability. It's kind of a poor choice of words on the developer's part.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Reckall:

The word choice is a bit confusing (what of the Survivors is “exposed”, exactly?)

Exposed in NOED does the same thing that it does on many other perk/addons
You can check a list of status effects on the ingame guide. If you dont, probably exposed is the first one you will learn about

[Deadpool]

If you want to see auras when gens are finished, use "Bitter Murmur". It's "only" 10 seconds, but you will get an general idea where everybody is.

[Ameshy]

use NOED alongside no way out if you want more results