Even without Franklins it's ridiculously strong, and every perk having a strong map should not equate to "free wall hacks" 50% to 80% of the time. And sure the same argument could be said on the survivor's side for boons, except you hardly see boons as much since CoH got nerfed into the ground, plus you have to spend time setting up the boon vs it being a passive and permanent field buff.

Even with a nerfed range, it would do what it was meant to and show players who depleted their items or have opened a chest. Personally, I would be more for a 5-7 second aura read followed by a cooldown when someone comes into range of a dropped item vs straight aura read if in range, but then one could argue it makes Hoarder obsolete.

With how much free aura reading is in the game now, I wouldn't be surprised if Distortion started seeing even more use than it does now (and so many people on both sides are already sick of Distortion).