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Tome Level 1 Pulses of Terror
Hide within the killer's terror radius without being caught for a total of 120 seconds, complete in a single trial.
This shouldn't even be a level 4 challenge let alone a level 1 one. At the very least this shouldn't be a "in 1 trial" thing, or the time should be significantly reduced. Even the infamous dwight one only required 30 seconds.
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I hate those "challenges". BHVR needs to stop adding challenges that is demanding players to throw the match to do.
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Yeah, they want you to grind grind grind grind grind. They made that clear the update before last when they went back to any easier challenges in old tomes and 'updated' them to be grindier alongside the last tome which was their grindiest so far.
It is ridiculous to make the game a chore to play.
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i hate all the "do in one trial" challenges. like why? can you let this be a chill game??
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This really feels like they added an extra zero by accident or didn't intend for this to be a one trial challenge. 2 entire minutes is insane.
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Sounds like a job for me and my 192 purple beamers
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Heres how I did it. Urban Evasion, Calm Spirit, Distortion, Iron Will. Wear dark clothing, go to Midwich, hide in the center courtyard the entire game. Be hated by your teammates. EZ
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Use midwitch/the game offerings and wait for a wesker (shouldn't take long) is probably the idea. Still a stupid long time for one match.
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His absurdly wide terror radius?
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exactly
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You forgot the probably most important one: activate anonymous mode!
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This is the only one I have left. I'm afraid to try it.
To be fair though, I think the Dwight challenge OP refers to wasn't just in the terror radius but some insanely small distance from the killer (like 10 meters or something)
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It honestly sounds pretty doable... specialy if you ever get an indoor map. You'll be sitting in a gen while someone is getting chased and the terror radious will simply be there
Edit- granted, I hate most of the "in one trial" stuff.
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Why? Let my teammates know what Im doing when they inevitably complain so they now know how to do this stupid challenge
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I mean EVENTUALLY you'll get an AFK killer. Probably one of those leave for last, tack it on and wait for it to magically be completed. On some maps like Gideon or Midwhich you might not even need to throw the entire game.
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Came here to say pretty much this exact same thing!!! 🤣
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you better have "I need a hero" playing in the background
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The Shrek 2 Version, obviously.
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As annoying as it sounds on paper it's not so bad if you get a 32m TR killer or a Wesker.
Basically you just need to hear the terror radius for 2 minutes total outside of chase. The other hide challenges involved being x amount of m from the killer which is a LOT harder because you had no easy way to know if you were getting progress or not.
If you get a stealth killer tho good luck
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Two minutes is a lot, but I find a lot of people overstate how hard these challenges actually are. You're in the killer's TR a lot more than you'd think you would be unless you're unlucky enough to face a stealth killer, it doesn't require going out of your way to follow the killer and urban evade in a corner or something.
For two minutes in one trial, though, you may have to be more proactive about it. That is a really high number for one trial, kinda too high.
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half my teams do it for free no challenge needed it.
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Just follow someone around as they get chased and do nothing for 2 minutes. That's what I did and it only slightly cost us the match.
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I got it pretty quick. Was on Midwich against a camping Trapper, so I just worked on gens above wherever he had set up shop.
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The usual archives then
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it used to be 12 meters or something instead of TR. i remember using no mither to do it
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Yeah, this is the usual way how this challenges are designed. Killer-Challenges are mostly "play the game" while Survivor-Challenges require things to do which are not the main Objective.
But even with this Formula, the Challenge is quite tough for a Level 1-Challenge. I got it in my first game, but I think mainly because the Killer was camping and I was able to crouch nearby. Still, I waited a lot of time doing nothing and 120 seconds in one game is a lot.
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I said earlier I was afraid to try this one but it isn't bad at all. I got it on my first try (map was Midwich, which helped a lot) and I didn't have to do anything special.
The two things that will make or break this one are map and killer. A small map and a non-stealth killer should make this pretty easy.
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I think the issue is how actively useless you have to be to complete these ones TBH. I dont like that Solos are so weak and then ecnouraged by the archives to go and crouch in the TR for an ENTIRE 2 minutes.
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That's what I'm saying, for the majority of these challenges you don't have to be useless. You don't have to go crouch in the terror radius, you just need to be in it and not in chase. That happens way more often than you'd think.
Two minutes in one trial is pushing it, though.
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A hot take of mine is that they should encourage you to be less useless a lot more than they currently do tbh. It strains the weakest role in the game and makes it even weaker as it is rn
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This challenge archetype does not encourage you to be useless, though.
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yeah it does. Good challenges for survivors are things like:
- Stun the killer X times
- Blind the killer X times
- Use X perk and do whatever the perk is (but not in terrible ways like the teamwork ones)
- Escape as X Survivor
- Unhook X Survivors must be safe unhooks
- Pick up X survivors off the ground
- Do X generators
- Do X coop actions
Those types of things that are things that you actually would normally do in a normal game. Yeah some people might argue that blinding is less useful then gens, but flashlight saves are a thing and you can still be useful while doing the challenge. Bad challenges are:
- Hide within X meters of the killer while not in a chase for Y seconds
- Hide in killer's terror radius for X minutes while not in chase .
- Any of the glyph challenges that give you debuffs
- Escape while your teammates escape, you must remain in the trial while they escape (these are dumb because you have to wait for you teammates to leave first, you should be able to just leave and you get credit if any teammates escape)
- Loot X chests
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It only encourages you to be useless if you assume that the only way to tick it up is to go actively hide and do nothing else.
But you don't need to do that. You can progress generators in the killer's TR and it isn't even always a risk, and that's just doing generators, not any other action.
You literally just need to be in the killer's terror radius. It can be a little inconsistent but it doesn't require you to be useless.
Though again, I'm talking about the challenge archetype here. I do think two minutes in one match is a little harder to do that way and might encourage players to go follow the killer around.
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This is only true if you have a severely limited range of playstyles, or no imagination.
Just run an unhooking build. Bring some perks like Distortion, Distraction, or maybe even Stake Out. Come along with We'll Make It. When you notice someone about to go down, or something being picked up, get close, ready to make the rescue once the killer's gone.
This challenge has never been difficult and I don't see why so many seem to have trouble with it or believe they have to "throw the game" to complete it. The above strategy is something I employ all the time when I run an unhooking build, or any of the perks I mentioned.
But then, I guess everyone just runs DH/SB/MFT with Adrenaline so they can focus on looping right? Why bother playing in different ways when you can just loop until the game ends one way or another?
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If the challenge was to do it in multiple games. Sure, but 2 minutes is a long long time for a single game. Typical game of DBD lasts like 8-10 minutes. So you have to be in the terror radius but not chased for potentially 20-25% of the match? There is no way you can do that legit in any consistent way.
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If we're moving from criticising the archetype to criticising this one specific version of it, yes, I'd tentatively agree. I haven't tried it yet, but it does sound too high where the other version of this challenge aren't.
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The general problem i have is. The challenge should be achievable by playing the game "normally" and working with teammates, healing teammates, and doing generators and generally trying to escape. Once the challenge gets away with that. Or that the "normally" aspect becomes so difficult that you can't play normally. An example is this one, or another one they had before was to like, use some perk and finish repairing 4 generators in a single game. So you had to actually be on 4 of the 5 generators as they finish. Yeah, doing gens is part of the game, but in order to make sure you are on 80% of the gens that get done means you can't play "normally" to get it.
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Which this general archetype of challenge is. You don't have to go out of your way to get it and normal gameplay will fulfil it.
(In general, again. Two minutes in one match is a lot.)
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I got this done on my first try. I basically just followed the killer around without them seeing me lol it helps that every time you leave their TR it shows you how much time you have left.
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It's actually pretty easy. You just have to throw your team under the bus and run a stealth + empathy. Like most survivor challenges, it requires throwing the game.
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Hiding within the terror radius is much more forgiving than hiding within 10 meters of the Killer. I actually did this one and still played the game normally. (It was against a Dredge in The Game.)
If the challenge was to hide within 10 meters of the Killer without being caught for a whole 120 seconds, then I would agree that that challenge would be insane, but the terror radius is not nearly as bad as it sounds.
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