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Flashlight Users: You’re WAY too predictable.
I have a correlation in my killer matches whereby the more flashlights I see in the lobby, the easier the match will be because of how much easier it will be to initiate a snowball.
So many of you flashlight users seem to not understand the concept of “discretion”. I’ll have just downed someone and either I’ll hear your footsteps, or your groans of pain because you’re dumb enough to get close enough while injured, or i’ll catch another set of scratchmarks nearby from the corner of my eye, or a disturbed crow.
Even more laughable is that most of you seemingly do this in preparation for a save (that I’m never gonna let you have because you’re now going down too) without consideration for where you are hiding, and what loops/pallets/vaults are nearby when things (inevitably) go very very wrong for you.
So you:
- make your presence incredibly obvious, and...
- make yourself very vulnerable by placing yourself in a pretty defenceless position.
Flashlight users, you really need to smarten up. You’re giving killers incredibly easy 4K matches.
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I can say I see this ONLY when its a team of 3-4 flashlights. If its only one flashlight mixed with keys, toolboxes, and medkits, the flashlight user usually is a bit better. I think when you see a bunch of clicky-clicky bois and gals they're usually practicing, meme-ing, doing a challenge or know they're bad and think a flashlight swarm will make it better for them.
Someone needs to tell them "the killer just needs to look down. If in a pickup animation, they will usually counter by looking at a wall. And a lot of us will fake a pickup to draw you out for a free hit."
I love it when someone thinks they've blinded me and starts tea bagging just to get slashed in the face. I even get hits while blinded pretty often because they get cocky and i have a good headset.
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I don’t even bother with the pick up. I know they’re there, so I go after them straight away.
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you just have better instincts
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You're just good at the game now, creeps up on ya don't it?
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They’re just way too obvious. It’s like they presume we play on mute. And on the odd occasion I can’t even detect that a different survivor is also nearby after a down, if I remember there was at least 1 flashlight in the lobby, I do a quick sweep anyway. They’re usually pretty easy to find based on where they’d need to be to do a save upon pick up.
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Hehe thanks.
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Idk I've used a flashlight almost every game for like, 2k hours at this point I thought I was already incredibly predictable. Nothing becoming predictable about it; always done it and probably always will, just how I've learned to play the game and have fun.
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As in you still manage to consistently get flashlight saves?
Are there really that many killers you’re up against that don’t hear or notice these things before a pick up?
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Unironically yes it happens more often than you'd think. I just have to run in when the survivor is nearly downed so the chase music covers my scratch marks, usually with a 99'ed sprint burst. Then wait. Killer picks up, I run around, and save with +1 WGLF stack.
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They aren't becoming more predictable, you just finally caught up to everyone else after 2 years.
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Wow, ok...
I guess perhaps I’ve just become ultra sensitive/attentive to this stuff then.
Nothing gets past me anymore these days after a down. Footsteps, breathing, a crow, groans. I always hear it if somebody else is nearby.
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Thanks so much for a side of “condescending” with my coffee 😒
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You'd be very surprised how much you can get away with because of the sound of that damn chase music and the killer focusing on the chase instead of on what's happening outside of the chase
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It’s pretty fascinating now that I think about it. Being a Clown main has forced me to learn to be attentive to these things. If he isn’t quickly in another chase after ending another, he’s powerless. So I can’t “afford” to miss hiding survivors. Plus by the very nature of how his power works most effectively, it forced me to learn to pay attention to the surrounding (and distant) environment, not just the currently chased survivor.
Perhaps I’m being too harsh starting this thread then? I.e. am I taking it for granted that all killers eventually learn this?
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Whenever I see flashlights in a lobby I just think "oh, free m1s and wasted survivor time". Honestly that item does more harm to a team than good.
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Pretty much
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I don’t play killer often, but when I see two or more people in a lobby with flashlights then Lightborn immediately is chosen. I’m not sure why people in a party would choose so many of them knowing that perk exists. If the killer doesn’t use it they either are stupid or they really know what they’re doing. Barring that, maybe they don’t have the perk on that particular killer.
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Stop trying to educate them.
I love free STBFL stacks.
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Lightborn is one way to deal with flashlights but if you really want to scare them shi less use Infectious Fright to expose them 😉
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I mean, how can flashlight saves be discreet?
If you get blinded for the first time fine, but eventually the killer’s brain is gonna hesitate before the pick up.
If the killer has more than 5 wrinkles in his/her brain, flashlight saving is impossible.
I mean it’s cool that you can use your senses to, y’know, sense people. Just know that any decent killer listens for grunts of pain, footsteps, etc. (don’t mean to burst your bubble)
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i think this is a case of "remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer"
(if you know where this quote is from you and i can be friends)
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flashlight users are funny, they usually throw the game for the entire team...
my tip, NEVER dodge flashligt lobbys. When there are 3+ flashligts use lightborn, but pretend that you are trying not to get blindet all the time (face walls, look up etc.) this way they dont fin out n keep trying and trying :)
i just had one as a trapper that was following me for 10 minutes not doing anything else but disarming traps and trying to save others and annoy me. it was hilarious.
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