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Dead Hard Issues
Maybe I’m the only one, but has anyone else ever had an issue with Dead Hard not working correctly? There’s been countless times I use the perk and for one I go nowhere, and two I still get downed but yet I’m exhausted.
It’s frustrating that whenever I use it to extend loops, or flat out avoid the killer I still get hit but I’m exhausted. Is it the servers? Am I lagging? Is it latency?
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Nope you're not the only one.. it's been broken forever and the Devs refuse to fix it. They blame "Latency"; yet how can it be latency when the perks exhaustion goes off and the perk is supposed to make you invincible? If it was "latency"; the exhaustion part shouldn't even proc.
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yes, because on your screen you hit the dead hard, causing exhaustion, while on the killer's screen you didn't hence he hits you. Since killers have the last word in terms of what happens in the game, you go down, generally spasming on the ground while your exhaustion is, generally, not every time, taken back, since now the game "understood" that "you haven't dead hard-ed" because killer's screen said so,.
that's basically how latency works.
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Exhaustion always procs when this situation occurs; if I didn't dead hard because the killers screen says so, then my exhaustion should immediately be recovered. This is a massive flaw in the game that needs to be addressed. They either need to add in a delay that looks at both sides, like "if player exhaustion activates within .25 seconds of hit, dead hard trumps killer side".
With the amount of times dead hard fails on survivor, this is an issue that needs to be taken serious by the Devs.
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I agree, every time it doesn't work which is more than 80% of the time, I ask myself why run the perk in the first place. I've been told that I'm using it too late, but I know I'm not. I've even used it to get past bear traps and it doesn't register. They really need to take another look at this perk.
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I only have a problem with Dead Hard when I try to be greedy with it and press it PIXELS before the killer hits me, i.e. they probably already hit me on their screen. Other than that, it usually works when I want it to. I don't think there's anything wrong with the perk itself, the problem is more likely lag and latency.
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2 words. Dedicated servers.
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You gotta Dead Hard ahead of time nowadays. Using it to dodge a hit is a 50/50 chance of dying.
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