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• Alert is more useful (and, importantly, useful more often) in telling you where the killer is at a given time. Between the two, I would run Alert rather than Dark Sense easily.

  But Alert itself is in turn inferior to Empathy. Empathy at the highest 3rd tier provides a wealth of information at huge distance (128m, that's nearly the whole map even for larger maps) telling you:

  • which of your teammates is injured and may need healing
  • which of your teammates is injured and running from the killer (dropping pallets, vaulting, etc)
  • the above also tells you where the killer is at the given moment (so basically Alert)
  • often useful for getting an idea if anyone injured is running to unhook or you should do it
  • locations of gens being worked on by injured teammates

  etc.

  Empathy is god-tier in information perks, after trying it I'm never turning back.

  in Does Dark Sense count as a beginner perk? Comment by JarrodL November 5, 2019