Alien Instinct aura reading
In the next PTB could you guys toy around with the Alien Instinct aura reading being basekit?
I believe it could (unironically lol) have a massive impact on how matches are played.
- Less aimless camping
- Anti-healing perks are more appealing
- Beginner friendly
- Hiding inside of a locker while injured inside the killer's terror radius becomes less of a meme & more of a necessity
- Killers may have to play around lockers more often, which means locker perks may see more use
Because of how lukewarm Alien Instinct's aura reading is there's no real risk of things getting out of hand. Hopefully.
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Certainly an interesting idea.
Considering how laughably situational alien instinct is for a perk slot, it might no joke be better off being free than being a perk.
Also maybe toy around with Better Together as well.
I feel like that perk is kind of in the same boat as Alien Instinct.
Alien Instinct don't read the aura all times, is a Bug... I play 6 dais whit this perk and work only 1/2 of the times...
Now why exactly do we want anti-heal perks or lockers to become more appealing?
Coupd be distortion, people hiding in lockers, or people hiding behind a generator to block the aura with the generator aura.
Current gameplay loop of gen regression spam/ Sprint Burst pre dropping has been stale for several years.
If Alien Instinct aura reading (just the aura reading) was made base kit that may encourage people to run perks that synergize with or counter the effect.
Blood Echo, Inner Strength, Furtive Chase, Object of Obsession, Coulrophobia, Quick & Quiet, etc.
Anything that might get people's eyes away from Pain res Sprint Burst every game.
Different =/= better, anti healing and stealth playstyles are skill-less and super boring
I'm personally against adding aura perks basekit wherever possible, especially for killer.
A skill to master for both sides is the ability to read the trial state and predict what the others in the trial are doing. Aura reading perks/abilities having numerous different flavours and situational benefits, as well as being mostly only available via build commitment, is the very thing that gives those perks value, and any basekit aura reading immediately reduces the value of not only that perk, but every other aura reading perk in the game.
E.g. the value of Bond is massively reduced when you have basekit Kindred. The value of BBQ and Chilli is massive reduced if you have basekit Alien Instinct. Why take these over something like We'll Make It or Pop goes The Weasel if you already have Aura reading built in?
The entire point of an aura perk or add-on is you gain the benefits of reducing the errors you make when applying your trial reading skill via having very accurate information, but at the cost of forgoing more immediately effective perks that can have a much morr immediate and bigger impact on the trial.
This is especially problematic on Killer because killers with lots of map mobility benefit greatly from aura reading, whereas less mobile killers cannot capitalise anywhere near as frequently. Basekit Alien Instinct would be not particularly beneficial on killers like Trapper, Hag or Myers, but absolutely devastating on Blight, Spirit or Wesker, and allow those killers to drop having to take any aura reading perks to instead take more immediately impactful perks to make them even more oppressive.