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Tbf the reason DBD is so survivor sided is because there are more survivor mains then killer mains and the survivor community cry on twitter far more often that the game is killer sided if they lose a single match in their 10,000 streak. I have a p100 Myers and a p60 leatherface yet sometimes I can’t keep up, then they have the urge to bm you at the gate. Guys just try and dodge lobbies if you don’t want to get sandbagged on every match.
Just commenting to help with the algorithm here. I agree with everything said in the video. Distortion players in solo queue are a scourge and never stick their neck out for the team. Lately they even run Calm Spirit so they can be more immersed, leaving their team out to dry.
If playing killer, I will typically drop map pressure just to run back to hook against a Distortion Spirit player and hard tunnel them out. Not only will they screw over their team if I let them be, but they're essentially down 2 perks and are easier targets as a result.
I think a good change to distortion to discourage the type of people who use it from hiding all the time would be building its stacks from unhooks rather than from being in the killer’s terror radius
i think the "going down the list of issues" thing is just something we do as humans
What is the point of perks if they aren't, in some way, meant to potentially counter the other side's perks or playstyles?
I see you on stream receiving comments like "What do you think about Ultimate Weapon?" and "Should Ultimate Weapon be nerfed?" and the response is always "Just put on Calm Spirit and you never have to worry about it again." Exactly! It's the same problem that Distortion players face when you use no aura reading perks or addons. It's the same problem that Autodidact/Self-Care/Second Wind/Other Healing Perks face when you play a Plague, and it's the same problem that Fogwise runs into with any Stealth killer. It's intended and normal, because it is a niche perk that shines within its niche. Shocking concept for Twitter right there.
Someone hates Distortion? Run Ultimate Weapon, play a Stealth Killer, or don't base builds on aura reading.
Only thing that should change is make it so u cant get tokens in chase because stake out cant so distortion shouldn't either
Distortions biggest issue is when my solo q teammates crouch 90% of the match and hide in corners
Oh I should’ve watched the video first
If you complain about distortion, you’re bad at the game.
I havent used aura perks since i quit in 2021 because back then bbq was free bloodpoints. when i came back a few months ago i saw they removed the bp boost from bbq and swapped it with thrilling tremors on every killer
I swear if everyone was forced to play as both survivor and killer these complaints would be so different
So many triggered Distortion users in the comments. Let's face it, 10% of you use it properly and 90% of you are potato survivors who can't last more than 10s in chase and you let your entire team die before you get hooked once. And you also run Calm Spirit, Sole Survivor and Self Care or maybe Lightweight if you're feeling daring. Enough said.
It’s frustrating when you get selfish players with distortion. I hear complaints about tunnelling but I’m seeing a lot more people who don’t try to take chase. I’m still a baby killer and I take aura to instigate chases with different survivors and learn my power. But also because I do have sight issues and some maps are just very difficult for me. Borgo on both sides is impossible for me to see unless I’m Freddy. The other day, I had 3 distortion urban evader players against pyramid head. It was frustrating because my bbq + all ears was useless.
Maybe make it so you gain tokens while in chase. Instead of just hiding in a killers terror radius and reward people for taking chase and exchanging hook states. But honestly? I don’t see distortion THAT much to where I’m like ‘GAH DISTORTION IS RUINING MY PRACTICE’
"search desperately to not tunnel of hook" what a mood BUT there nothing like making friends with that survivor to snitch on his teammates lol
Though I am a killer main distortion is fine but gen rushing and tunneling Is a real problem
The only issue i see with distortion is that you get tokens back even while in chase, it would be like stake out where you need to be in the terror radius but not in chase, that's the only thing I'd change
I would say the main "problem" is that you can get the stacks back while in chase, compared to say Stake Out (Which is only 15 seconds in TR not in chase) or more egregiously… Mr Pebble over here and that one is worse cause it's 30 seconds just like Distortion but you have to not be in chase which is significantly more difficult unless you specifically look for it while the killer is chasing someone else😭
My only real issue with distortion is how easy it is to get stacks back and the fact you start with 3 full stacks from the get go. The way i see it ppl want killers to run less slow down right? Well distortion discourage this because it easily hard counters the only other type of perk that every killer can get value from and that is info aka aura reading. It only tells killer while this one perk will easily block your bbq all game long might as well drop it and run a 3rd or 4th slowdown perk.
Do i think distortion is a unbalance perk? No ots fairly balance but it does discourage killers from being anything but slowdown perks. Honestly believe the reason why UW is so popular is bc killers got tired of distortion blocking thier floods of rage or bbq so they went with the super easy replacement that is UW. Yeah Calm sprit counters ot but it heavy punishs survivors which does suck.
As i said i only want distortion to be slightly nerfed, just make it where its harder to get stacks back by slowing down the regen rate. I just think you being able to block every single aura perk for so free all game long is little bs. This coming from someone who uses the perk and i can tell you i never lost all my stacks.
There's two types of distortion players, the ones that you mention in the video, and the one that use it because they're absolutely terrified of killer interaction. I personally don't think one perk should be able to flat out counter countless other perks that can aura read and it is too strong, and I think some scenarios should flat out make it not work ie if you get hit with Exposed, but I doubt anyone shares that opinion. Despite that I've never once thought to myself that it was OP
i hate teammates that hide all game with distortion calm spirit not taking any aggro
It’s just like self care, it’s not the perk, it’s the idea. Like when I see my teammate in a corner self caring while mangled I’m just sitting there like “How scared are you about risking anything?”
I mean it’s so obvious the new chucky perk it totally cucks it lol and people don’t like not getting value from it.
It's not a problem when I run a full aura build on Billy, but it does feel bad when I have like one Alien Instinct on Legion or something.
Less tokens will be nice, but don't think it's an op perk.
But ya, F@$K Distortion players 😡
I use distortion because there is tone of aura reading perks. With Chucky and friends till the end there is even one that expose you. I take aggro I take downs for my team and protect them. But I see no reason not to counter killer meta?
More Killer players need to play The Nightmare. Half the game you don't even have a terror radius for people to regain Distortion tokens from. And if Survivors use the clocks then that's fine because it just gets harder for them to wake up again and again.
I had a game as Pallet Freddy on The Game *sent myself there because Pallet Freddy) while running some aura reading stuff and kept finding this one Jeff who wound up having Distortion and they was wondering how I kept finding them and it wasn't until I was half-way into my next game that I realized that as The Nightmare I didn't have a T.R. most of the time for them to regain tokens from so I had probably burned through them all quickly.
What's next? Nerf calm spirit? XD
Most of my solo games get ruined by a useless distortion user, often with other selfish perks like Left Behind or sole survivor or self-care. They won't take a chase for the life of them, often having zero hooks or hits that late into the match, when everyone else is death hook or has been hooked at least once. They also don't really do generators that quickly and hide whenever they hear the terror radius. Go down very quickly when they do get chased and so on. Often times they will be the obsession when the killer has stbfl
I understand people say they like playing stealthy or suck at chases. But playing in a blatantly and extremely selfish way, letting your team get indirectly tunnel and playing for solo escapes is so annoying. Chase is a key mechanic of the game and if you're not good at it, you shouldn't be escaping matches. Since that's all that factors into MMR for survivors.
The biggest issue with balance right now is 3 gen/map rng for both sides and a very small selection of perks.
Also would like to point out the immense amount of aura reading perks the killers have now. Its almost impossible to hide or mind game half the time. Thats why the perk is so used now. The introduction of aura reading perks will always make OP killers like Nurse and Blight even stronger. They never bring gen regression bc they just run aura reading perks and insta downs. As a nurse i suggest never running slowdown. Always run aura reading perks
Ohhh my lol whats gonna be next on the list plunders🤣🤣
i love distortion primarily for removing scratch marks. i pair it with object of obsession for random bursts of stealth in chase and info outside of chase
thank you scott i was thinking the same if distortion is currently the new "Big bad" we are eating good lol like i understand that playing against distortion players that just hide is super boring but that is not that big of a deal. boring matches are annoying but thats much better than everyone running some meta exhaustion perk like old dead hard or something like that
"Man It sucks that ever killer now adays is just anti-loop they really need to spice it up"
"IS THAT A PERK THAT PROMOTES STEALTH? NERF THAT NOW DBD IS ONLY LOOPS AND NOTHING ELSE"
Scott really posted a video where he's surprised people are complaining about the stupidest shit on twitter.
So people are complaining about distortion because it counters aura reading perks? What's next, complain about repressed alliance because it counters genkick perks? Imagine having a perk that counts as another one. Geesh
TL:DR Either Distortion has to change or they need to look into the Aura reveal perks/add-ons and start nerfing things so that Distortion becomes less common.
I don’t agree because then if even 2 people in your match have it it can severely make your aura perks worse or even useless. I don’t think I should have my whole build or just perks I find fun to use completely not work at all because survivors ran one perk to completely kill it. I think aura perks shouldn’t be AS strong or AS oppressive and in that route maybe they won’t need to nerf distortion but current distortion is so common (because of understandingly really strong aura perks/add ons) that it’s almost not worth running aura perks it feels like for me. (All of this is irrelevant if you run multiple ways to reveal aura as you can chew threw stacks or if you’re playing a stealth killer OR if you face less distortion)
I don´t believe distortion is a big problem, however, it leaves a lot of killer builds completely blind or without information for the entire game. Not to mention early valuable info on what perks or add ons is killer running right from the start of the game (especially powerful for swfs). For that reason I also think that charging tokens should get a bit longer cooldown, just to not negate entire builds by simply existing. Not everyone is a nurse or blight for which these perks are not needed, they are convenience. But no other changes are needed for it really.
I remember that when Spirit first came out no one really had a problem with her for like the first year she was in the game. She was even considered to require a decent amount of skill to play well. Then one year later seemingly out of nowhere a bunch of people started complaining about her and got her hard nerfed.
I don’t think distortion is broken I just think it’s annoying and way too easy to recover stacks.
Edit: I made this comment before you said roughly the same thing about stacks recovering too quickly so good to see Im not alone on that lol.
I think your point about Distortion not being a very problematic perk is valid. If we only have Distortion to complain about then it is true that DBD is likely in a pretty good spot.
HOWEVER, my personal issue with it is that it is a one-stop-shop perk for completely shutting down aura builds for killer. I think aura builds are not really the strongest way killers can play if they wanted to build mean. Gen perks are way more boring for survivors to deal with, yet if Distortion becomes too popular, then it's just going to corral killers into running gen defense instead of allowing aura builds to thrive.
If I am running Eruption, Lethal Pursuer, Nowhere to Hide, and I'm All Ears, ONE perk should not be so good at its job that it completely stops my build from seeing them once all match. At this point, why does it even have tokens if they're usually spent so infrequently that you've regained them before you spend the next one? Just make the perk give you complete immunity to aura reading since in most cases that's what it already kindof does.
I just don't think full aura perk builds are strong enough on their own to warrant a single perk shutting them down. Assuming you're playing a normal killer and not Nurse/Blight.
Since this video all ive had is 4 Distortion gamers in every lobby.
Vile Scott strikes again.