Any point bringing Aura perks as killer anymore?

[Donut]

Every game i've had today (beside 3 survivors) have had distortion and considering how you get tokens at the start as well as the ability to regenerate tokens, Is there even a point in bringing an aura perk anymore or is it basically just a wasted perk slot?

One perk can counter what twenty-three killer perks? that's alot

[Jah'Raksha]

For me it is
Coz I see resi, d. strike, deadhard/lithe, windows/otr/unbreakable each game
No distortion whatsoever

[Donut]

Originally posted by Jah'Raksha:

For me it is
Coz I see resi, d. strike, deadhard/lithe, windows/otr/unbreakable each game
No distortion whatsoever

yeah i''ve seen alot of DS + Head on combos.... its rough ngl

[NeuroticMei]

I don't come across survivors with distortion very often personally.

I do use it as survivor however. It's not as strong as people think. Sure it counters most aura reading (I say most because some aura readings tick so fast that you can't hold onto any tokens) but you run the risk of wasting a perk slot if the killer isn't using any aura reading. Considering most of the best killer perks aren't aura reading I'd say a little more than half of my survivor games don't get any distortion value. So I have a wasted perk slot a lot of the time because of it.

You also have to consider that if someone is running distortion they're likely not very good at chases. That's the main reason to use it. So when you do find them you could probably down them pretty quickly.

Another option is run something like the killer perk surveillance. You can see when someone is on a gen again. There's nothing distortion can do about that.

[Facu]

I mean, it depends on the killer at the end of the day cause something like BBQ is great with high mobility killers while Nowhere to hide works on anyone. With that being said is not common to came across a full squad of distortion players but think it this way; is 1 perk less on their arsenal and you get that info too cause yknow, you cant read their auras.

[Slippery Williams]

I think to combat it you need to being a lot at once, or use one and make sure it procs a lot to waste their tokens

I like using

- lethal pursuer
- nowhere to hide
- bbq
- bitter murmur

In different combos depending on my my mood and if I start with LP I can instantly see who’s using distortion

Honestly as soon as you start worth LP and you see how many people do and don’t have distortion you know for sure about how much use you are going to get out of your aura reads

I take spies from the shadows on every killer anyway and unless they bring that no disturb animals perk or are always crouching it’s a ping every 5 seconds they are in my terror radius and they can’t counter it

[Tokogawa [GER]]

If you just use 1 then no.
You need to use at least 2-3

[Slippin' Jimmy]

Originally posted by NeuroticMei:

you run the risk of wasting a perk slot if the killer isn't using any aura reading.

Depends on how you look at it. Knowing killer doesn't have any aura read is value itself too.

[Raft]

It's usually just 1 out of 4 survivors that use it.

That 1 survivor tends to evade so much - that one of the other non-distortion survivors ends up being sacrificed early. They sort of help killers to tunnel - unless they reveal themselves to protect their teammates. And when they do reveal themselves - u get to catch them anyway.

So it's manageable, unless u're consciously trying to avoid tunneling and still want to 4k.

[Ez⁧⁧ 󠁳death]

Originally posted by Donut:

One perk can counter what twenty-three killer perks? that's alot

As a modest player unlike a lot of here, I'm a Distortion user since 200 or 300 hours cos I'm most likely playing in soloQ. Mixed (with the old and even the new DS) to avoid and win the max of time against the tunneling meta it is pretty good tho. from my side I like to loop, having good assets to help for it is usefull.

From my main survivor side I would say Distortion need a certain nerf because it is OP to start w/ 3 tokens to win a full stack in a good chase...

But it is still not the best and not the most used perk tho. Full premade or a full soloQ game, this perk wouldn't be the best at all comparated to all the others for the survivor. You can also bring perks to counter Distorsion as a killer aswell.



I used to play aura perks revealers a lot as a killer, because I'm a newbie and also because that's still good enough to not waste a lot of time.

But since Distorsion exist, some games a lot of players are hidding their auras and it is quit unfair because you finish to tunnel in someway the non Dis-player if the Dis-player don't wanna start by their own a chase. But it's the game at the end, a win win from both side I would say

[Shinkiro]

Originally posted by Ez⁧⁧ 󠁳death:

Originally posted by Donut:

One perk can counter what twenty-three killer perks? that's alot

From my main survivor side I would say Distortion need a certain nerf because it is OP to start w/ 3 tokens to win a full stack in a good chase...

Yeah i feel like you should have to earn them from the start and start with 0 stacks and only get them during chase so you're encouraged to interact with the killer and your team. Its detrimental to your team as it is right now and too powerful against far too many killer things at the same time.

[Oodanna]

the moment you play a stealth killer, especially ones like wraith, distortion disappears, but play wesker or doctor and suddenly youll never see them unless you have multiple aura perks. although i think theres too many aura read perks, and too big a reliance on them at the same time

[NeuroticMei]

Originally posted by Ez⁧⁧ 󠁳death:

As a modest player unlike a lot of here

How modest of you... Lol

Originally posted by Shinkiro:

Yeah i feel like you should have to earn them from the start and start with 0 stacks and only get them during chase so you're encouraged to interact with the killer and your team. Its detrimental to your team as it is right now and too powerful against far too many killer things at the same time.

As a distortion user I'd rather not have it nerfed but if it did get a nerf I'd say this is a good way. Only I'd make one change to your suggestion. Instead of starting with 0 start with 1. This way distortion survivors can still avoid lethal pursuer and the killer using lethal can still see how many people are using distortion.

[Raft]

Originally posted by NeuroticMei:

Originally posted by Ez⁧⁧ 󠁳death:

As a modest player unlike a lot of here

How modest of you... Lol

Originally posted by Shinkiro:

Yeah i feel like you should have to earn them from the start and start with 0 stacks and only get them during chase so you're encouraged to interact with the killer and your team. Its detrimental to your team as it is right now and too powerful against far too many killer things at the same time.

As a distortion user I'd rather not have it nerfed but if it did get a nerf I'd say this is a good way. Only I'd make one change to your suggestion. Instead of starting with 0 start with 1. This way distortion survivors can still avoid lethal pursuer and the killer using lethal can still see how many people are using distortion.

Yeah i think this sounds reasonable. I do remember a time when nobody used distortion. And then BHVR (over-?)buffed it and it became so popular. If it's a small nerf like starting with 1 token, I think it would be a nice balance - makes the perk more engaging if the stealth users need to earn most of the tokens.

[TheBadApple]

Originally posted by Donut:

Every game i've had today (beside 3 survivors) have had distortion and considering how you get tokens at the start as well as the ability to regenerate tokens, Is there even a point in bringing an aura perk anymore or is it basically just a wasted perk slot?

One perk can counter what twenty-three killer perks? that's alot

I think it didn't matter, when got 4 distortion / sole survivor it didn't matter. I still can 4K with built FTL, FOR, Nurse Calling, and LP with good guy. You just need combo, so you burn the token faster than feed.

[Donut]

Originally posted by grperdana:

Originally posted by Donut:

Every game i've had today (beside 3 survivors) have had distortion and considering how you get tokens at the start as well as the ability to regenerate tokens, Is there even a point in bringing an aura perk anymore or is it basically just a wasted perk slot?

One perk can counter what twenty-three killer perks? that's alot

I think it didn't matter, when got 4 distortion / sole survivor it didn't matter. I still can 4K with built FTL, FOR, Nurse Calling, and LP with good guy. You just need combo, so you burn the token faster than feed.

That's the big issue i'm seeing though, Using 1 perk to counter 1 perk in a match is fine but having to run multiple Aura perks just to burn the tokens on 1 perk seems very unbalanced especially since its each individual survivor (not saying it should be shared because thats dumb), If i bring 3-4 Aura perks then that's perk slots i'm not using to stop/counter things like "Gen rushing"

I'd feel like it would be alot better if it was something like you got two distortion tokens instead at the start but could earn more from being chased by the killer, Kind of a "You suffer less now, more later, before suffering less again" sort of thing