Noticed something about distortion and lethal pursuer

[Sensible Soccer]

I have distortion equpped and it protects me against lethal pursuer. But it always seems to be when I start the game with a few of my teammates. So it negates the effect and the killer comes over to that part of the map anyway for my teammates.

Just me noticed this?

[￭ Yuri ￭]

yes, it's old, if you start with the others and the killer has some knowledge/experience of the game, he will know that one is missing there (since everybody start toguether) and he will look for who is using distortion.

[Shinra Jimmu]

If the killer is cheating with esp/wall, he'll go for the one with distortion, I got hit by so many cheaters lol, because I'm the only one with it, after dying. They can blatantly cheat with esp/wall with no worries.

Easily detectable when allies are spawned separated and you're not running about and using calm spirit and crouched in 1 corner.

[Mors_Indecepta]

Move away from your teammates, at the start.

[asa0199]

Originally posted by TheMetalOne:

Move away from your teammates, at the start.

This. If my Distortion goes off, that's my cue to start walking and find a gen that's not easy to see/get to from our starting point.

[miketheratguy]

Always move away from your teammates at the start, using Distortion or not, and try not to grab the first gen you see. Most killers know to head for the furthest gens from their spawn point and start searching.

That said, Distortion needs work. There should be some kind of value to the perk besides blocking aura reading because if the killer isn't using any aura perks it's a completely dead and useless perk right from the start.

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Originally posted by miketheratguy:

Always move away from your teammates at the start, using Distortion or not, and try not to grab the first gen you see. Most killers know to head for the furthest gens from their spawn point and start searching.

That said, Distortion needs work. There should be some kind of value to the perk besides blocking aura reading because if the killer isn't using any aura perks it's a completely dead and useless perk right from the start.

A good buff for distortion would be to proc on killer instinct too, but the game lacks more perks that block auras in different ways, until today there is only distortion that gives this stealh effect, they could reuse several old low-picked perks, such as urban evasion (staying crouched for 2s , for example, would make the survivor undetectable and the aura could not be read, so smart survivors will need to get ahead of the killer's move when they suspect the aura will be read), bite the bullet (disallow the aura reading while healing or healing others), and even Technician (block the aura reading while you repair a generator), anyway, there are many ideas to proc the aura reading block to combat the excessive number of aura reading perks by the killers and bring back the stealh game play

[erandomone]

Yeah, if you lose a stack of Distortion on logging in? Get away from your team mates, the killer's coming in fast.

[erandomone]

Originally posted by miketheratguy:

Always move away from your teammates at the start, using Distortion or not, and try not to grab the first gen you see. Most killers know to head for the furthest gens from their spawn point and start searching.

That's how I find my first chases, even without using aura perks! It's real solid advice.

[KOutland]

Originally posted by miketheratguy:

Always move away from your teammates at the start, using Distortion or not, and try not to grab the first gen you see. Most killers know to head for the furthest gens from their spawn point and start searching.

That said, Distortion needs work. There should be some kind of value to the perk besides blocking aura reading because if the killer isn't using any aura perks it's a completely dead and useless perk right from the start.

I don't think a perk needs work if you bring it and the Killer isn't using anything for it to be against.

You gambled, and lost, just like a Killer who brings light born and no flashlights are brought.

And even to a lesser extent NOED, just because a Killer brings it into the match doesn't mean they will ever see any use from it. Does that mean it needs work to make sure a Killer gets some kinda use out of it?

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Originally posted by KOutland:

Originally posted by miketheratguy:

Always move away from your teammates at the start, using Distortion or not, and try not to grab the first gen you see. Most killers know to head for the furthest gens from their spawn point and start searching.

That said, Distortion needs work. There should be some kind of value to the perk besides blocking aura reading because if the killer isn't using any aura perks it's a completely dead and useless perk right from the start.

I don't think a perk needs work if you bring it and the Killer isn't using anything for it to be against.

You gambled, and lost, just like a Killer who brings light born and no flashlights are brought.

And even to a lesser extent NOED, just because a Killer brings it into the match doesn't mean they will ever see any use from it. Does that mean it needs work to make sure a Killer gets some kinda use out of it?

The analogy wasn't the best.

Killer manages to have control over what the survivors are bringing as an item in the match. And even though no one has brought anything, there are chests and grenades, either way, you haven't potentially lost a slot.

If the killer does not bring any aura readings, on the other hand, distortion is indeed and potentially a wasted slot, as there is nothing secondary that will proc the use of the perk.

NOED for simply doing and cleansing the dull totems, the killer potentially gained a huge amount of time in the middle of the match, even though the perk does not actually activate at the end.

The best analogy would be to bring shatered hope as a killer without having any boom totem, which is why people kept asking for a secondary effect (buff) in the perk or that it was a base-kit when coh was omnipresent (like we are asking here now with distortion)

[Mimi]

dude, it is not hard to move away from your teammates lol. just go in assuming no one else is using distortion

[Ruru Rabies]

It means you can't use another offering but isn't there a shroud to start separately? Or is it killer only?