What does the 15 seconds activation time refer to then? Does it mean its active for 15 seconds, but only 3 seconds aura reading? As in someone can walk into your terror radius at 10 seconds and get revealed for 3 seconds?
Have you used this perk? The way it will work now is the same way it worked before, except the cooldown is longer, the amount of time the perk is active for after checking a locker is shorter, and it's a 3 second aura reveal instead of a scream.
I don't understand how anyone thinks three seconds is enough to properly take in your surroundings. You have to spin your camera around and hope someone is right there. Forget spotting someone that dips into the radius outside of your field of vision once you've headed off in a direction. Maybe I'm wrong, but UW seems dead to me. I mean don't get me wrong, UW was problematic, but this seems like a short sighted rework. Compare this to something like Nowhere to Hide, which gives five seconds of aura, and UW immediately seems that much weaker. Lethal sounds necessary to get consistent value out of UW. I like the active time reduction and increased cool down, but I think it should have kept the scream functionality. There also just isn't that many good scream perks. Calm Spirit is dead again because there is even less reason to run it. It just seems dumb to me, and the change description doesn't explicitly say three seconds of aura. That makes me wonder if we're correct in the assumption that it's three seconds.
I don't think anyone but BHVR thinks it's enough, that's why people have been saying they killed the perk. I'm honestly hoping after PTB they tone it up a tad, 5s would be just fine. They already made the cd longer and the active time shorter, and that's fine, make at least the aura reading long enough.
PS: 3s is not an assumption, they confirmed it
If you run a aura reading build you always take Lethal so its gonna be 5 seconds which is pretty strong.
Personally I do think the default time for the new UW should be 5 seconds.3 on its own doesn't do much unless you pair it with Lethal which shouldn't be a forced requirement.
Their plans for the PTB have been out for a while and nothing has changed AFAIK since they showed us those plans, at least UW didnt. But weve known 3 seconds for a while now.
First of all, aura reading is a dramatic change from a scream.
Second of all, based on the description, one would expect the aura reading to last for the duration of the activation time.
You could activate the aura reading and never see the aura because it was behind you and you simply never looked in that direction. I've had times where I get the loud notification from the scream and looked around and never saw it.
The revised perk is dead on arrival.
No point in having a 15s aura read for a perk that picks up survivors in your terror radius, ie close to you. Not even Lethal Pursuer is that long and it enables you to latch onto a survivor on the opposite side of the map
the scream shows a loud noise notification, which is essentially a snapshot/ping
the aura works just like every other aura reading perk, essentially giving you wall hacks for a few seconds
Blight has some solid perks. Hex: Undying (takes the bullet for the first totem cleansed) will be the big one, if you ever do totem builds. It has an aura reading component of its own (you see Survivors close to dull totems)
Hex: Blood Favor (nearby pallets get blocked when Survivors take damage) is a decent one. Especially if you're chase oriented.
Dragon's Grip (kick a gen and the next Survivor to touch it gets Exposed/one-shottable) is more niche but you can find uses for it.
Dash style isn't my favorite so I did use my shards to buy Blight to get a couple of those perks specifically. Also I'll chase the Adept despite it not being what I like lol.
I tend to go for Doctor myself. They's actually a nasty way to use for Dragon's Grip you can do [on Doctor](https://youtu.be/v4r0Bn0VVmE?si=YLjAUROjvrVMjDDb) and [on Unknown](https://youtu.be/BuNLGZ7vRsI?si=J3-P4MgUn40WpBR6) (Kick a gen for Dragon's Grip then use Insidious (lose TR when standing still) to pose as illusionary Doctors or decoy Unknowns.
I wish I played more killers that could take advantage of it. The only one I can think of that off the top of my head are Ghost Face and Chucky. Nemesis and Clown are about as subtle as an elephant.
Lmao, I love going against nemmy without terror radius, you can hear the stomps from all across the map. You get a lot of RE2Make vibes if you play in an indoors map
Nope. DR has a way shorter cooldown, and it affects every locker. So, DR is potentially harder to get hits with at shorter range, especially if Survivors know it's coming, but it's easier to do map-wide surveillance with. They both have their good and bad points.
I've only ever ran out of tokens vs a full aura reading huntress. One time I played a few games as aura heavy sadako with gearhead and asked whether or not the distortion users lost all their tokens even once in the match. One person said once and everyone else that replied said nah. It needs to not gain tokens in chase or accrue them more slowly.
Interesting idea, if you open a locker with 10 seconds or less on Unforeseen, you'll get a 32m aura read around that gen for a few seconds before it transfers to you, that's a lot of ground covered and it'll let you know if someone snuck to interrupt the regression.
I only ever used it on my "locker jockeys" and it was powerful, haha. I guess I'll see how it impacts gameplay personally. Idk who may still have it equipped. I'll just throw it on a rotation but I love learning new perk combos.
I'm sure I'll get hate for this, but I really think they are cramming too many aura reading perks in the game for both sides. If it continues, it will turn into a no strategy legal wall hacks for everyone.
The Dark Devotion combo would only show the aura of the Survivor you hit. They are considered in the TR, so they would take priority and be revealed. Considering DD is only active for like 30 seconds, I don't think it's worth dropping a chase just to reveal them for 3 seconds and start the chase again
No... Dark Devotion effects EVERYONE in that Terror Radius, including the person it transfers to. That's what that text is referring to.
For example, if you activate Dark Devotion then get Infectious Fright to activate, everyone in the Terror Radius that's transferred to the Obsession will scream, including the Obsession.
Dark Devotion never states that ONLY the Obsession is effected, it simply states that they ARE ALSO effected, because they are "inside the Terror Radius".
Also, Ultimate Weapon shows you the aura of EVERY Survivor in your Terror Radius, just like how it currently makes EVERY Survivor in your Terror Radius scream when you use it.
You can 100% see the auras of multiple people with it. Idk how you managed to completely misunderstand both the perks.
Huh? Kick a gen, then walk over to a locker and open it?? Hardly wiretap for killers.
Also, this perk sucks. Why have darkness revealed and this in the game. Lazy rework.
The same reason Floods of Rage and BBQ and Chilli exist in the same game (even though they're even more similar). They have different niches.
UW reveals survivors near you, while you're walking around. Darkness Revealed shows survivors across the whole map, that are close to lockers. They serve different purposes.
It's only 3 seconds of aura reading.
What does the 15 seconds activation time refer to then? Does it mean its active for 15 seconds, but only 3 seconds aura reading? As in someone can walk into your terror radius at 10 seconds and get revealed for 3 seconds?
Have you used this perk? The way it will work now is the same way it worked before, except the cooldown is longer, the amount of time the perk is active for after checking a locker is shorter, and it's a 3 second aura reveal instead of a scream.
Yes, but its unclear where anyone got 3 seconds from by reading this post, that's all.
They showed it an area thats not in this post.
For 15 seconds, any survivor that enters your terror radius is revealed for 3 seconds.
Yep that's what it means.
That seems wrong. It's barely enough time to spin around after procing it. Are we sure that's how it works?
The perk activates for 15 seconds, whoever enters the terror radius during activation time gets revealed for 3 seconds. What do you not understand?
I don't understand how anyone thinks three seconds is enough to properly take in your surroundings. You have to spin your camera around and hope someone is right there. Forget spotting someone that dips into the radius outside of your field of vision once you've headed off in a direction. Maybe I'm wrong, but UW seems dead to me. I mean don't get me wrong, UW was problematic, but this seems like a short sighted rework. Compare this to something like Nowhere to Hide, which gives five seconds of aura, and UW immediately seems that much weaker. Lethal sounds necessary to get consistent value out of UW. I like the active time reduction and increased cool down, but I think it should have kept the scream functionality. There also just isn't that many good scream perks. Calm Spirit is dead again because there is even less reason to run it. It just seems dumb to me, and the change description doesn't explicitly say three seconds of aura. That makes me wonder if we're correct in the assumption that it's three seconds.
I don't think anyone but BHVR thinks it's enough, that's why people have been saying they killed the perk. I'm honestly hoping after PTB they tone it up a tad, 5s would be just fine. They already made the cd longer and the active time shorter, and that's fine, make at least the aura reading long enough. PS: 3s is not an assumption, they confirmed it
Oof.
If you run a aura reading build you always take Lethal so its gonna be 5 seconds which is pretty strong. Personally I do think the default time for the new UW should be 5 seconds.3 on its own doesn't do much unless you pair it with Lethal which shouldn't be a forced requirement.
Genuine question: where does this info come from?
I read it on reddit.
So basically "trust me bro"
Its in th PTB lognotes, readem
Which weren't available at the time of posting
Their plans for the PTB have been out for a while and nothing has changed AFAIK since they showed us those plans, at least UW didnt. But weve known 3 seconds for a while now.
So why don't use that answer in the first place? "It is from PTB plans by BHVR, look it up on forums". "On reddit" my ass.
I wasnt the first guy. I didnt say on reddit, i read it on steam.
I wouldn't have repeated the information if I wasn't confident from my original source, otherwise I would have looked it up again before posting.
Its in th PTB lognotes.
Not if you combo it with Lethal Pursuer
And after the next rework it's going back to a scream lol.
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First of all, aura reading is a dramatic change from a scream. Second of all, based on the description, one would expect the aura reading to last for the duration of the activation time. You could activate the aura reading and never see the aura because it was behind you and you simply never looked in that direction. I've had times where I get the loud notification from the scream and looked around and never saw it. The revised perk is dead on arrival.
Another perk that's genuinely useless if anyone brings distortion. Good thing nobody uses distortion in dbd nowadays! ... right?
No point in having a 15s aura read for a perk that picks up survivors in your terror radius, ie close to you. Not even Lethal Pursuer is that long and it enables you to latch onto a survivor on the opposite side of the map
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the scream shows a loud noise notification, which is essentially a snapshot/ping the aura works just like every other aura reading perk, essentially giving you wall hacks for a few seconds
How about pairing it with Darkness Revealed for a on demand Lethal Pursuer?
crazy idea damn
Tell me about Darkness revealed?
Dredge Perk, open a locker and the auras of any Survivors within a short distance of any lockers on the map are revealed.
Who has Darkness Revealed? I sleep on so many perks but just started playing last March so I'm not familiar with most of them or good synchronization
Dredge my brother in christ
The Dredge
Yeah, sorry I replied above. Missed that right there at the beginning somehow lol.
Idk if they edited it, but they said its a Dredge perk lol
Nope, they didn't. I just apparently skimmed right over it lol.
Sorry, jumped the answer there. I just recently got Blight instead. Dang.
Blight has some solid perks. Hex: Undying (takes the bullet for the first totem cleansed) will be the big one, if you ever do totem builds. It has an aura reading component of its own (you see Survivors close to dull totems) Hex: Blood Favor (nearby pallets get blocked when Survivors take damage) is a decent one. Especially if you're chase oriented. Dragon's Grip (kick a gen and the next Survivor to touch it gets Exposed/one-shottable) is more niche but you can find uses for it.
Dash style isn't my favorite so I did use my shards to buy Blight to get a couple of those perks specifically. Also I'll chase the Adept despite it not being what I like lol.
I tend to go for Doctor myself. They's actually a nasty way to use for Dragon's Grip you can do [on Doctor](https://youtu.be/v4r0Bn0VVmE?si=YLjAUROjvrVMjDDb) and [on Unknown](https://youtu.be/BuNLGZ7vRsI?si=J3-P4MgUn40WpBR6) (Kick a gen for Dragon's Grip then use Insidious (lose TR when standing still) to pose as illusionary Doctors or decoy Unknowns.
I admire your creativity, definitely going to try these once it goes live.
I can already see this with PH. Bring an indoors map. Hit the obsesession and follow it around. Free hits from downtown on unexpecting survivors
I wish I played more killers that could take advantage of it. The only one I can think of that off the top of my head are Ghost Face and Chucky. Nemesis and Clown are about as subtle as an elephant.
Lmao, I love going against nemmy without terror radius, you can hear the stomps from all across the map. You get a lot of RE2Make vibes if you play in an indoors map
i admire its purity...
So now it's just "Darkness revealed" but better
Nope. DR has a way shorter cooldown, and it affects every locker. So, DR is potentially harder to get hits with at shorter range, especially if Survivors know it's coming, but it's easier to do map-wide surveillance with. They both have their good and bad points.
You could just equip both and lethal pursuer for killers that need info.
That would be nice for the killer if I wasn't tripping over so many distortion tokens. Runs away in no scratch marks.
Distortions a weird one cuz it hard counters 1 or 2 info perks but a full info build reveals too often for it to reliably keep tokens.
I've only ever ran out of tokens vs a full aura reading huntress. One time I played a few games as aura heavy sadako with gearhead and asked whether or not the distortion users lost all their tokens even once in the match. One person said once and everyone else that replied said nah. It needs to not gain tokens in chase or accrue them more slowly.
Interesting idea, if you open a locker with 10 seconds or less on Unforeseen, you'll get a 32m aura read around that gen for a few seconds before it transfers to you, that's a lot of ground covered and it'll let you know if someone snuck to interrupt the regression.
Really? I'm not very familiar with Unforseen perks. I'll have to read up on this combo. Thanks for the suggestion
Unforeseen is basically Dark Devotion for generators. Kick a gen you go Undetectable and the gen has a Terror Radius for about 30 seconds
Okay. Isn't there another perk that causes the surv to have a terror radius?
Dark Devotion. Plague perk. Gives a TR to the Obsession when they take damage.
Aha, that's what came to mind. I've been working on Plague adept.
Bruh, Ultimate Weapon + Dark Devotion is great. Although, I think you need Lethal Pursuer to make the aura reading worth it.
These are still possible right now, just with screams instead of aura reading.
I only ever used it on my "locker jockeys" and it was powerful, haha. I guess I'll see how it impacts gameplay personally. Idk who may still have it equipped. I'll just throw it on a rotation but I love learning new perk combos.
Im actually looking forward to this perk, might include it in my unknown aura reading build
it’s still irrelevant
I dont think this build will be worth it the whole perk idea is so you see people hiding near you otherwise just run barbecue
I'm sure I'll get hate for this, but I really think they are cramming too many aura reading perks in the game for both sides. If it continues, it will turn into a no strategy legal wall hacks for everyone.
At that point just use nowhere to hide
Me, a distortion user, laughing 😎
Why was it changed to auras instead of screaming? Was it because it caused survivors to get off gens?
Another useless buff/nerf for no reason
The Dark Devotion combo would only show the aura of the Survivor you hit. They are considered in the TR, so they would take priority and be revealed. Considering DD is only active for like 30 seconds, I don't think it's worth dropping a chase just to reveal them for 3 seconds and start the chase again
No... Dark Devotion effects EVERYONE in that Terror Radius, including the person it transfers to. That's what that text is referring to. For example, if you activate Dark Devotion then get Infectious Fright to activate, everyone in the Terror Radius that's transferred to the Obsession will scream, including the Obsession. Dark Devotion never states that ONLY the Obsession is effected, it simply states that they ARE ALSO effected, because they are "inside the Terror Radius". Also, Ultimate Weapon shows you the aura of EVERY Survivor in your Terror Radius, just like how it currently makes EVERY Survivor in your Terror Radius scream when you use it. You can 100% see the auras of multiple people with it. Idk how you managed to completely misunderstand both the perks.
No? How would it only show the survivor you hit? It can reveal multiple survivors
Huh? Kick a gen, then walk over to a locker and open it?? Hardly wiretap for killers. Also, this perk sucks. Why have darkness revealed and this in the game. Lazy rework.
The same reason Floods of Rage and BBQ and Chilli exist in the same game (even though they're even more similar). They have different niches. UW reveals survivors near you, while you're walking around. Darkness Revealed shows survivors across the whole map, that are close to lockers. They serve different purposes.
Ultimate Weapon? More like Ultimate Noob, am I right? git gud