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Did Flashlights get changed?

Adriang14
Adriang14 Member Posts: 257
in General Discussions

So lately I've noticed flashlights are blinding me faster but not causing me to be stunned when I'm picking up a survivor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/g3b83k/is_there_something_wrong_with_flashlight_blinds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/g3b9z8/in_conjunction_with_my_previous_post_heres_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

The first video is from a match I had where it showed i was blinded but I didn't drop the survivor. However in the second video from Painreliever the blind feels more gradual and not as quick as in the first one. Sorry I couldn't post the video straight here because i didn't have the right video format and didn't know how to convert it. Anyways is this intended or is this a bug? I think i noticed it started happening after the doctor patch around the same time with the decisive strike bug too.

Comments

  • Cheers
    Cheers Member Posts: 3,426

    I'm having something completely different. I'm being blinded but I can't see anyone trying to blind me, this is probably because your FOV degrees isn't as wide as the angle you can be blinded from, but it could be a change?

  • Adriang14
    Adriang14 Member Posts: 257
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1219375#Comment_1219375

    I'm just confused because I haven't seen anything in the patch notes about changes to flashlights.

  • Hippie
    Hippie Member Posts: 1,003

    I'm pretty sure that the Zarina just missed the timing on the blind, as you were still in the pickup animation when she fully blinded you, so it didn't work. I had the same thing happen to me as Nurse yesterday!

    As for how the blind looks on your end, I think that's just normally how it looks now, so they might have changed it at some point. It looked exactly the same on my game, and it was an unmodded flashlight as well.

  • Adriang14
    Adriang14 Member Posts: 257

    @Peanits can you confirm if there’s been a change in the blind animation?

  • Milo
    Milo Member Posts: 7,383

    Zarina was just slightly off the timing. Or perhaps latency had a play in this.

  • Adriang14
    Adriang14 Member Posts: 257
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1219471#Comment_1219471

    That’s not what I’m worried about, it just felt abnormally fast and has been since the doctor rework.