What is your opinion about Gearhead?
As the title says, what is your opinion about Gearhead? I haven't seen this perk even after its rework in 6.7.0
As the title says, what is your opinion about Gearhead? I haven't seen this perk even after its rework in 6.7.0
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The perk is good if you have an aura build and want to burn trough potential distortion tokens, BUT suffers from the survivor aura blending into the gen aura more often than not.
Game in general requires a QOL change when it comes to aura colors , losing perk value over auras blending with eachother doesn't feel good.
It's alright... I'd rather have it highlight the Gen then the Survivor working on it
Only decent on a select few killers who can quickly capitalise on the information it provides (I.e. Onryō and Freddy because they can teleport to gens).
Honestly though, I kind of don’t like it because the survivor’s aura is really hard to differentiate from the generator’s aura.
its pretty nice and a niche perk.
I use it every now and then. It's easy enough to activate that I practically consider it a passive intel perk, which is always welcome in a build.
Very underrated.
It's easy to activate, and it provides both passive info to show you where people are while you're doing something else and active info that you can choose to capitalise on.
It's especially good on stealth killers, who can sneak up on survivors mid-repair, but pretty much anyone can use it effectively.
A fun pseudo-hidden benefit to the perk is that its aura reading doesn't require the survivor to stay on the generator, if they're revealed then they stay revealed even after leaving the generator to do something else. Not the most useful element, but a neat detail.
Its pretty good. I'd use it over other stuff if the survivor aura didn't blend in so hard with the generator making it really hard to sometimes see it. But in general i think that is a visibility problem in general, and i don't know why their colorblind modes don't make them different colors.
It’s actually pretty good now. I like it best on hit and run builds, but it can work in other builds too. It’s also one of the few aura perks that can chew through Distortion somewhat efficiently. Most other aura perks can’t keep up with its recharge system at all.
Pre-6.7.0 Gearhead was terrible because it only showed one aura per activation and that made the effect super easy to miss/not even notice because it didn’t have a sound cue or anything like Alert does. That can still happen with the new one, but since it can trigger multiple times during the 30 seconds it’s active, it’s not as big of a deal now.
Overrated. I'd rather use Nurse's or Infectious.
If you want to secure gen, then equip Thrilling or BBQ.
The aura colors mess it up. It’s good on a few killers.
Very underrated perk. Gets a lot of value when it works but distortion counters this perk heavily and like everyone else the auras are hard to see
better than people expect it to be.
the perk is good for stealth killers/split off but i wish information was a little less random. Like some consistent when you trigger to know where to go.
I find it useful on my Artist, be chasing someone, smack them and then harass other's revealed by the perk while continuing the chase. Gearhead lasts 30 seconds after you hit someone too, so you'll more than likely always get value out of it if someone gets a gen skillcheck during that time. Like other's have said sometimes you'll not notice an aura because it blends into the gen aura colour but having no cooldown and being easily activated outweighs that con. Can be a good alternative to BBQ for information if you're finding a lot of people entering lockers out of habit upon hooking.
Perhaps they could add a noise to the perk when an aura is revealed, like how distortion tells you when your aura is hidden.
pretty good perk. mainly use it on drift billy but i guess any high Mobility killer will be able to make use out of it