Adrenaline changes. Just no.

[Phoefire]

The perk is already useless the entire match (I always use adrenaline). If the end of the game after 5 gens are completed, the killer has bigger problems. Adrenaline was one of this biggest counters to a tunnelling/camping killers. It assisted you in getting away if you were able to loop and give the rest of the team enough time to finish up gens. When I play dbd a vast majority, almost 90% (I have 2.8k hours) of the time I'm playing solo. Just remove the perk if you're gonna make these changes.

[Shiro]

If the perk is useless the entire match, why is it the second most used perk in the entire game...

All the change does is lower the speed duration and prevent it working off unhook, which quite frankly it never should have to begin with. A very survivor point of view to think that makes the perk anywhere near unusable.. it'll probably still have the exact same amount of usage.

Oh, but I guess it is a really harsh nerf because it also doesn't wake you up against freddy.

[Mr. Lullipop]

Originally posted by Shiro:

If the perk is useless the entire match, why is it the second most used perk in the entire game...

All the change does is lower the speed duration and prevent it working off unhook, which quite frankly it never should have to begin with. A very survivor point of view to think that makes the perk anywhere near unusable.. it'll probably still have the exact same amount of usage.

Oh, but I guess it is a really harsh nerf because it also doesn't wake you up against freddy.

Freddy is gonna be a T1 killer, mark my words Bhvr will regret this change and Freddy is gonna have another rework.

[Roadrunner MeepMeep]

I'd say that i am on hook 50%-60% of the time when adrenaline is activated, so i hate that they are removing it. Its probably going to lower my escape rate even more....

BUT it does make sense to nerf it, here's why;
In the perk description it specifies that it only heals 1 health state. So going with this notion, here's the reason for the change.

When INJURED during the activation, you get healed to FULL health state.
When DOWN during activation, you get healed to INJURED.
So it only makes sense to change it from HOOKED/DOWN to INJURED state when activated on hook.

As much as i hate it (Survivor main 95% of time on solo q) it just makes sense to change the perk to reflect its description/skill.

[Hellbear88]

atleast u have another reason to use distortion... since next update will have another perk it counters with no skill needed. ultimate weapon will be useless

[ToadLicker]

Originally posted by Roadrunner MeepMeep:

I'd say that i am on hook 50%-60% of the time when adrenaline is activated, so i hate that they are removing it. Its probably going to lower my escape rate even more....

BUT it does make sense to nerf it, here's why;
In the perk description it specifies that it only heals 1 health state. So going with this notion, here's the reason for the change.

When INJURED during the activation, you get healed to FULL health state.
When DOWN during activation, you get healed to INJURED.
So it only makes sense to change it from HOOKED/DOWN to INJURED state when activated on hook.

As much as i hate it (Survivor main 95% of time on solo q) it just makes sense to change the perk to reflect its description/skill.

In that case when it activates it should unhook you.

[Hellbear88]

Originally posted by ThatBlokeRustyy:

Originally posted by Roadrunner MeepMeep:

I'd say that i am on hook 50%-60% of the time when adrenaline is activated, so i hate that they are removing it. Its probably going to lower my escape rate even more....

BUT it does make sense to nerf it, here's why;
In the perk description it specifies that it only heals 1 health state. So going with this notion, here's the reason for the change.

When INJURED during the activation, you get healed to FULL health state.
When DOWN during activation, you get healed to INJURED.
So it only makes sense to change it from HOOKED/DOWN to INJURED state when activated on hook.

As much as i hate it (Survivor main 95% of time on solo q) it just makes sense to change the perk to reflect its description/skill.

In that case when it activates it should unhook you.

wouldnt make sense to heal you while your hooked.... if u wanna unhook there are other perks for that. im fine with that perk being the meta to be fixed... almost every game i had was distortion,Adrenalin,deadhard and random perk they want usally windows of opportunity

[Shiro]

I think people are underestimating how often survivors will run out of distortion stacks if someone is running multiple guaranteed aura reveals, this makes distortion both better and worse in different ways. I do think it should stay as scream, but I also think that scream shouldn't interrupt actions.

[Silamon]

Originally posted by Shiro:

I think people are underestimating how often survivors will run out of distortion stacks if someone is running multiple guaranteed aura reveals, this makes distortion both better and worse in different ways. I do think it should stay as scream, but I also think that scream shouldn't interrupt actions.

I like seeing distortion as scratched myers.

Good luck being in my terror radius to recharge it

[bunni]

i dont think the change is that big a deal

[Wezqu]

Originally posted by Hellbear88:

atleast u have another reason to use distortion... since next update will have another perk it counters with no skill needed. ultimate weapon will be useless

Ultimate Weapon is also a perk that does not need any skill. Open a locker walk around see where all survivors are.

[CEO of Genrush]

I hate this nerf, because it only really affects solo Q. In a SWF you can just 99 the last gen and pop it after unhook. In solo q there is no reason to use adrenaline anymore.
Great job BHVR. Let's nerf solo Q even more, so killer mains can finally get their 3000 win streaks.

[ᚠᛂᚿᚱᛁᚱ The Rat]

Originally posted by Wezqu:

Originally posted by Hellbear88:

atleast u have another reason to use distortion... since next update will have another perk it counters with no skill needed. ultimate weapon will be useless

Ultimate Weapon is also a perk that does not need any skill. Open a locker walk around see where all survivors are.

While distortion is like "Do nothing and counter 100 perks", killers should have more ways to track hiding survivors that should be base kit

[Azelinuu]

Adrenaline got lightly tapped so it doesn't work off hook and gives you 2 seconds less of a speed boost and people are screaming like the perk is dropping to F-Tier because of it

you have base kit BT already, the nerf isn't crippling you

[Jah'Raksha]

Originally posted by Hellbear88:

atleast u have another reason to use distortion... since next update will have another perk it counters with no skill needed. ultimate weapon will be useless

DIstortion is garbage
Why are players so afraid for being chased? This perks gives u NOTHING in chase (like windows or resi), NOTHING for protecting team (like reassurance, ftp + buckle up), NOTHING vs tunneling (like d strike, deadhard, OtR), NOTHING to clutch the game (like adren or background player)
So why use it? Learn how to chase and create solid builds
About adren - it was meta since release. So for me its obvious why this perk is getting nerfed

[Hidden Sniper]

Originally posted by Jah'Raksha:

DIstortion is garbage
Why are players so afraid for being chased? This perks gives u NOTHING in chase (like windows or resi), NOTHING for protecting team (like reassurance, ftp + buckle up), NOTHING vs tunneling (like d strike, deadhard, OtR), NOTHING to clutch the game (like adren or background player)
So why use it? Learn how to chase and create solid builds
About adren - it was meta since release. So for me its obvious why this perk is getting nerfed

Its not because people afraid for being chased. It's counter to killer aura perks which gives killer very useful info about survs on map.
Few examples:
1. You play against mobile killer with bbq. He hook someone, then he see your aura on other side of map how you repair gen, then he goes after you, kick your gen(+pop) and chase you.
2. You play against huntress with aura build(lets say its bbq, flood of rage, lethal, darkness revealed and add on) and your aura will be revealed almost entire match so huntress can throw hatchets across all map to you or throw hatchets to your next position in chase for easy hits.
3. You play against nurse. She sees your aura - you are dead. And you even didnt know about it. If its 2 floor map, nurse can kick gen on first floor, then she see your aura, blink to you and knock you
Distortion is counter to each of these 3 situations