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How does Furtive Chase look like from a Survivor's perspective?

Whomst Whomst
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I'm curious to see how it looks like from the perspective of the Survivor being chased and how it " affects " nearby Survivors at 4 stacks.

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  • thesuicidefox thesuicidefox

    I haven't played against Furtive Chase much as survivor (because it's not that great or popular of a perk) but from the handful of times I have seen it, it's basically like a reverse Monitor & Abuse.

    When a killer chases you with M&A, their heartbeat becomes noticeably more intense when the chase starts. You can also tell the killer has it when the chase someone else nearby, you will suddenly hear a heartbeat.

    For Furtive it's the opposite. The heartbeat becomes less intense, however you will still hear chase music. The killer will also tend to focus on the obsession, which is generally unusual given that 4 out of the 6 killer obsession perks basically require you to ignore this person (Rancor doesn't require it, but you are encouraged to keep them around if you want a mori).

    For nearby survivors, they would hear a heartbeat and then it suddenly disappears. Considering how rare this perk is, most survivors probably won't realize it's because of Furtive and instead will assume the killer moved farther away. So you can use it to get the drop on them. But this only works as long as Furtive is a super uncommon perk to go against. If more killers start to use it, survivors will get used to the effects and it will become less effective in the long run.

    IMO it's a niche perk. Good for particular builds but not very effective. You are generally just better off using M&A or even Tinkerer. The specific requirements to get tokens and the fact you lose them if the obsession dies really kind of hurt this perk.

  • Rezblaze Rezblaze

    @thesuicidefox said:

    I haven't played against Furtive Chase much as survivor (because it's not that great or popular of a perk) but from the handful of times I have seen it, it's basically like a reverse Monitor & Abuse.

    When a killer chases you with M&A, their heartbeat becomes noticeably more intense when the chase starts. You can also tell the killer has it when the chase someone else nearby, you will suddenly hear a heartbeat.

    For Furtive it's the opposite. The heartbeat becomes less intense, however you will still hear chase music. The killer will also tend to focus on the obsession, which is generally unusual given that 4 out of the 6 killer obsession perks basically require you to ignore this person (Rancor doesn't require it, but you are encouraged to keep them around if you want a mori).

    For nearby survivors, they would hear a heartbeat and then it suddenly disappears. Considering how rare this perk is, most survivors probably won't realize it's because of Furtive and instead will assume the killer moved farther away. So you can use it to get the drop on them. But this only works as long as Furtive is a super uncommon perk to go against. If more killers start to use it, survivors will get used to the effects and it will become less effective in the long run.

    IMO it's a niche perk. Good for particular builds but not very effective. You are generally just better off using M&A or even Tinkerer. The specific requirements to get tokens and the fact you lose them if the obsession dies really kind of hurt this perk.

    I disagree greatly. The ability to switch your obsession will mean you can use certain obsession perks selectively.

    It allows you to down your obsession without risking killing them off the whole match and forcing to DS or make your obsession perks useless.

    If you plan it carefully, Furtive Chase is a gamechanger for obsession perks as it allows you to have an obsession the whole match without risking a DS.

    While it is 'niche' in that it requires a particular obsession build to be useful, I don't think its a bad or weak perk because of it.

  • FireHazard FireHazard

    @AllHopeIsLost

    It's about the same as if you run say... Monitor and Abuse on Hag.

    If you use Furtive Chase on a base 32 Terror Radius Killer... than 4 stacks of Furtive Chase will give you the equivalent of The Hag using Monitor and Abuse.

    Both would have 16 Terror Radius at their max... so that means The Trapper with 4 stacks of Furtive Chase would have a Terror Radius of 16, instead of 32... The Hag with Monitor and Abuse would have a Terror Radius of 16 as well instead of 24 with M&A Tier lll (Not in chases of course.)

    So, it would look something like this... or I mean "sound"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE417VBc3oU

    Skip to 3:14 and end at 3:22, that's basically how the Terror Radius is against Monitor and Abuse Hag... or 4 full stack Trapper.

    All credit goes to the youtuber of course, i'm just using their video as an example.

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