Dark Devotion
So um. I may be late to the party but this perk is so much fun. One person misplayed and i ended a game in less then 2 minutes.
Legion on mothers dwelling. Frenzied a David which led me to a nea. Saw the other 2 in main building doing gen cancelled frenzy downed nea who nicely led me to main building.
Hit a Meg as she vaulted the window. Picked up nea and brought her to basement, turned around a david was right there. Downed and hooked him.
Kate, my obsession, was at top of stairs and started holding w leading me away from the hooks. I chased for a couple seconds then hit her.
Immediately went back and got Meg just as she hit the stairs. Hooked her and just ran around until kate got hatch.
Got an actual gen grab the game before.
I know comms ruins the perk but its Hella fun!
Comments
Curious, I've used the perk before but for some reason never with anything like Coulrophobia or Intimidating Presence. Do those perks also follow the obsession you hit? Anyone know?
They do. You can really mess with survivors that way, as they carry any effects of perks that affect your TR with them. Even funnier is when you're playing Doc and send the obsession away before you trigger Static blast, the attack emanates from them instead of you, so it's like firing off a little madness giving missile.
I would like them to upgrade it like some of the recent perk changes. It sounds good on paper but very poor in practice. You need to hit the obsession to activate it. The problem with that is you have to give up a current chase in the hopes that you might get the drop on someone else. If they could rework it so when we "hook" the obsession or something along those lines, it would improve.
Another perk that needs a full rework is furtive chase. What is the point of a smaller TR "during" a chase? They already know your there.
Yes all Terror Radius dependent perk synergies, addons and powers go with it with the base being a 32m around the Obsession. It also works with Doctor's Static Blast even though the animation centers off you - your obsession is your little remote bomb which is a fun meme.
Dark Devotion is a well designed perk in my opinion just because it makes really fun things happen that break the normal flow of the game - things like a completely silent T3 Meyers because he transferred his TR before popping it can be a hilarious snowball. It's not "meta" but just like Scratched Mirror or Judith Meyers or other "viable" memes it's just good clean fun when you want to break up the tedium. I have fun with it on instant down killers like Bubba/Hillbilly since it doesn't make a damn generator glow yellow like PH's newest perk (though that can have it's uses too)
Furtive I've found useful for the Obsession musical chairs challenges but nothing much else. Could affect nearby Borrowed Time unhooks or survivors wanting tokens for their Stakeout so they can get that sweet sweet extra 1% on gen repairs?
More survivor perks need to be affected by Terror Radius now that I think about it. What else is there? Pebble? Because that's popular.
Edit: But the main effect is the eerily silent chases. It works on Ghostface since you don't exactly know when he used his power or not.
I think there needs to be an actual penalty for being the obsession. Unless the killer is running rancor, they are liable to leave you alone. If they have STBFL they won't want to hit you. If they're using pwyf they will probably leave you alone once a chase begins.
Fun, but not good enough in my opinion to be worth a perk slot.