Wraith Flashlight Stunning
I personally find this an issue and I know I'm not the only one. Often when you play the Wraith, and someone knows to stun you with a flashlight they can keep doing it over and over since the stun doesn't uncloak you. When you try to uncloak again, you can't do it in time before you're stunned again and there isn't a lot you can seem to do about it until the survivor decides to stop. This is sometimes incredibly frustrating as it renders your power completely useless and takes away a lot of your time.
Is there a possibility something could be done about this? Maybe after the stun leave Wraith uncloaked, so you can't immediately stun him again? Or does anyone have some tips to overcome this in other ways that I don't know about?
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The old Wraith used to be burned out of his cloak. They changed it so the survivor burning the Wraith is rewarded for the burn by not being at risk of being hit right away.
You can avoid a burn by stopping your uncloak and moving out of the way of the flashlight, if you try uncloaking while a flashlight is aimed at you you'll always get burned. You can also avoid a burn if you use Swift Hunt, you'll be uncloaked faster. And also if you start uncloaking before the flashlight is on, you'll most likely pull it off before the burn; just make sure to look down at the floor when trying to uncloak with a flashlight aimed at you so you don't get blinded in the process. Otherwise, yeah, just strafe out the way of the beam and uncloak from behind a tree or something that has a wide hitbox that blocks the beam. It's not hard to avoid a burn, and it doesn't waste a lot of your time. If anything, a survivor is taking a gamble by attempting to burn you, they lose a lot of ground in the pursuit and make themselves easier to hit if you pull off the uncloak
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"The old Wraith used to be burned out of his cloak. They changed it so the survivor burning the Wraith is rewarded for the burn by not being at risk of being hit right away."
Do you have any source for this statement? That the Change was intentional?
Because for me, it looks more like a Bug, because as Wraith Player you are uncloaked for a short moment afterwards, but then cloaked again.
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@Aven_Fallen Could be a bug could be intentional. If it is a bug, I hope it gets implemented as a proper mechanic; since it actually makes more sense than burning him out of it completely. He gets burned and stunned, but his Cloak isn't broken because only the Wailing Bell has the full power over that ability
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They changed it so the survivor burning the Wraith is rewarded for the burn by not being at risk of being hit right away.
I mean, they were still rewarded. The burn is long and it stops him completely in his tracks
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Thing is, the way you wrote it suggested that you know that it is intentional, maybe because a Dev has written it on the Forum.
Anyway, I dont think that he should be cloaked afterwards. The Stun is pretty long so it is kinda rewarding to burn a Wraith anyway, but the way it is now, you can basically stunlock him. And this is most likely a Bug.
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@Aven_Fallen because it feels intentional, they are obviously doing stuff on purpose to Wraith's cloak since he has experienced bugs with his cloak in recent months.
Maybe they're tweaking stuff and on the live version it's resulting in bugs. But, ultimately, it's very easy to avoid being burned
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I kinda feel that burning a cloaked wraith shouldn't be a thing at all. A mechanic that nerfs a killer power just by a survivor using an item is pretty huge. If there was an item that stopped a killer from being able to pull out a chainsaw I think everyone would agree that would be kinda broken. But in the end its not too hard to avoid being burned out of cloak. I think I have only come across a handful of survivors in the last couple of years that could do it with very good effect. And typically if I see a lot of items in lobby or if not all 4 survivors are readied up by 15 seconds left, in general I will switch to one of the stronger killers that I have pre-prepared for strong swf teams anyways. 2 or more flashlights or not readied survivors and I'm definitely switching off wraith.
It does kinda stink to feel the need to switch killers because the most fun games for me and the survivors are usually the ones where I play a weaker killer while playing around trying out different combos of perks and addons. But in the end my advice is to just switch killers to something you have pre-prepped if you are worried about the survivor items breaking a match in any way.
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