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How is the obsession chosen?

Ferixstar
Ferixstar Member Posts: 48
in Ask the Community

I was in a trial with a friend who was working on the “escape as the obsession” challenge. He decided to go for the Adept Laurie challenge as well. So he ran all 3 of Laurie’s perks which all say they “increase your chance of being the obsession.”

Well, the trial started and he was not the obsession. An Ace was the obsession. After the match, we looked at the Ace’s perks and saw that he wasn’t running any perks that would’ve made him the obsession.

I’ve noticed similar situations in other trials as well: I will be running no perks that increase my chance to be the obsession, and the killer isn’t running any obsession perks, but one person has DS and I start out as the obsession.

So my question is: how is the obsession chosen?

Answers

  • animalmak
    animalmak Member Posts: 399

    I think it's all by chance. My sister has a "No, /I'M/ the obsession" build that's like DS, Mettle of Man, Object of Obsession, and For the People, and still we loaded into a lobby and I was the obsession (and I run zero obsession perks).

    I'm not sure what the actual percentage increases are in terms of being the obsession, but let's look at it as if the killer is running an obsession perk but no survivors are. Each survivor has a 25% chance of being the obsession. Survivor obsession perks increase that, so let's say that all together those perks increased the chance of being the obsession by 15%. So now you've got a 40% chance of being the obsession, and the other three survivors still have a 20% chance each. And then the random pick happens from those percentages.

    At least this is how I've always assumed it was done. This wiki page has a little more info but no specific numbers: https://deadbydaylight.gamepedia.com/Obsession