Residual Manifest big issue for new killers
Blinds happen fairly often, mostly when breaking pallets. The issue is the 30 seconds where the killer is unable to see where gens or hooks are. This is a non-issue for experienced players, as they generally know where their gens and hooks are, but for new killers, it's a complete shutdown where they are just bumbling around. 30 seconds is a long time for them to be completely lost only to get flashed again and hit with another 30 seconds. They can spend the match just being lost.
Let's face it, we have a lack of killer players. We need to be encouraging people to start playing killer (as BHVR has shown considering the BP bonus for playing "needed roles" in the future). Getting into killer as a new killer is very overwhelming, and with bully squads, post trash-talk and such, it's easy for them to get disheartened. There's a reason some people try killer and never try again. Now, we have a perk that can make that new killer experience even worse. Instead of being able to concentrate on their goal, patrolling gens, trying to hook survivors, and so on, someone with a flashlight (which is guaranteed now with the perk) can take new killers completely out of their objective while they are simply trying to find out where gens and hooks are. True, survivors also don't see them, but there are FOUR of them looking at once for these "hidden" objectives. Killers depend on having this knowledge already so they can plan ahead.
This doesn't really affect experienced killers all that much, no...but it is a direct nerf and huge pain point for new killers. We shouldn't be having game effects that are only being hell for new killers specifically and no one else. All this does is make a stressful situation more stressful. DBD NEEDS a healthier population of killers. If we're trying to encourage people to try playing killer, removing one of the baseline things a new killer needs - simply even knowing where their gens\hooks are, is not a good idea.
That being said, Residual Manifest should NOT affect the auras of hooks and gens. It doesn't do much against experienced killers, anyway. All it does is make the experience of new killers a more painful one...one that's very likely to prevent them from wanting to continue trying killer.
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