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Flashlight Blind Hitbox?
So I'm playing a lot more killer so I can earn more points for rift, and I'm noticing something really weird about the blinding mechanic. I distinctly remember, as a survivor, having to shine the flashlight RIGHT IN THE KILLERS FACE. If they weren't looking at you--it didn't work. So you had to time it JUST so, like right as they're breaking a pallet or right as they're picking someone up, otherwise they can simply look away and ignore the blind.
Now in my past few games, I've gotten blinded--from the side, while looking at the ground, turned around, and while LOOKING DIRECTLY UP AT THE SKY.
Can someone explain this bs to me?
I'll go 20 games as a survivor and not have a single teammate land a SINGLE flashlight blind, then I go play a few games as killer and suddenly I have 4 survivors all with flashlights all who are capable of blinding me even when they're shining a flashlight AT THE BACK OF MY HEAD. I literally will turn a complete 180 from the direction of the survivor and yet their blind will still hit. Like if they are anywhere remotely near my face for the first 1s of their flashlight usage, even if I turn, the flashlight burn will creep in and blind me even if I'm not even facing the survivor.
It's complete nonsense, what is going on.
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The best way I can really explain it is like this:
Imagine the FOV of the killer to be a cone in front of them.
If a survivor shines a flashlight into this cone, the killer is blinded. But it doesn't have to be exactly head-on, it can be anywhere within the cone, like this:
But this can also lead to some very... odd angles. So long as the flashlight goes into the FOV.
This also explains why sometimes you're blinded while looking at walls.
If you're very slightly slanted, it's possible to get very very odd angles indeed.
Moreover, I'm almost 99% sure that it calculates the blind angle based off of if the killer is using Shadowborn even if they aren't.
Combine that with survivor-client-sided blinds and they can be very wacky items indeed.
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This illustrates it pretty well. Is this new, though? I dont feel like it was this easy before, wheras while carrying a survivor I could easily just look down at the ground if a survivor tried to blind me, and it wouldn't work. Now it seems if they just point the flashlight at my feet I'll go blind
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Gotta say, not a fan. But, maybe as a survivor I can finally land a flashlight stun. All I have to do is point the light in the general direction of the killer
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it's been this way for a while tbf. Survivor client sided blinds really don't help, either.
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