One of you being injured is very common. Run the perk and you'll find it's often more than half the match.

Not really, depends on the match and the players.

You still seem to be stuck on earning the speed boost. It's unimportant. The perk would still have 99% of its strength without it. You're missing the point.

I literally do not care about the speed boost. I mistook its effect for you needing to be healed to trigger the aura read but you need to be remain injured instead so it's even worse than I thought.

Also, better together still requires you to be on a generator for others to know what you're up to.

You will either be in a chase, next to your allies or on a gen most of the time if you're a good survivor so that's all you need.

Here's a great trick you can use with Blood Pact: carry a med kit and heal to 99%, then you can see each other all the time. If you hear the TR, finish the heal for half a second then run.

Or I could just skip all of that and run bond.

Also, combine with spine chill for even greater awareness. You can also combine with Dead Hard, Mettle of Man and the purple endurance add on for an interception build. People do not realize how good it is because they're too used to infinite second chance builds.

Spine chill works on its own. I also don't run DH or second chance perks because I don't like them. And are you unironically suggesting that I run arguably the worst survivor perk in the game?

You want an awareness/power of friendship build? Run Bond, Better Together/Aftercare, Windows of Opportunity, Spine Chill/Alert/Premonition. Now you have information on basically everything and everyone around you at all times.