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PC - Remote Hook Ability + Flashlight Save
DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT
(Video at bottom with timestamps.)
Hello, I was playing blight on the Dvarka Deepwood in a public lobby. I downed a survivor, proceeded to pick them up, only to have two other survivors attempt a flashlight save. Knowing they will get the save, I opt to try to use the remote hook anniversary ability, so I spam it as fast as I can, and I hear all the associated noises of getting flashlight saved (as killer), but also the audio of hooking someone. Unfortunately, my clipping software just missed the pickup, but I have much footage after that. However; after this occurred, I was somehow in a state of both carrying and not carrying the survivor. This can be noticed in many ways:
- The HUD showed that survivor 2 (Jill) was in a carry state, however, my power as blight was still in the bottom left corner, and was not replaced by the typical carry symbol where the killer power icon normally resides.
- The survivor can be heard wiggling, however I do not experience any of the horizontal sway that a wiggling survivor inflicts on a killer, and I am not using iron grasp to reduce that effect.
- I am moving at 4.6m/s and not 3.68m/s like I should be.
- I am able to do every action that is not normally possible while carrying a survivor, e.g. lunge attacks, using the blight's rush ability.
- I cannot hook the survivor I am "carrying", the prompt does not appear, nor does the prompt to remote hook.
- I cannot drop the survivor by pressing my drop bind ( r ).
I originally thought that this was simply a client-sided bug, and that I was only visually was carrying Jill, and she was still running around the map after being saved. However, she really was stuck being carried by me. She is no where to be found on the map, and the constant struggling stops after some time, presumably after she stops hitting the skill checks. The other survivors seem as bewildered as me. They blind me, nothing happens. Feng drops a party pallet on me, again nothing happens. So I then down Feng to see if picking up another survivor would have any effect. Amazingly, this resulted in me carrying two survivors according to the left HUD. I did not hook Feng, because I believed she was on death hook and I didn't want to kill her. So she wiggled and escaped like normal. I was still "carrying" Jill, and her model's position relative to my hand seemed to have changed.
Following these failed attempts to fix things, the Jill being "carried" leaves the game replacing her with a bot, which immediately began to struggle again, solidifying the idea that she really was stuck in my grasp.
The survivors then finished the remaining generators, I opened the gate for them, and they both left leaving the Jill and myself to wait out the endgame collapse. Once the timer ran out, the game did not make me forcibly drop Jill to then have the entity kill her, like it normally would. In fact, nothing happened at all. Nothing happened for another minute or so, so I finally left the match.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Load into a match with at least two survivors, and at least one flashlight.
2. Collect at least one invitation as killer.
3. Down a survivor.
4. Prepare to pick up the downed survivor and have the other survivor ready to perform a flashlight save.
5. When picking up the survivor, have the other survivor commence the flashlight save, and have the killer spam their bind for the masquerade ability (default: q), to activate remote hook asap.
6. When complete, the bug may have occurred.
COLLECTION OF CLIPS (WITH TIMESTAMPS)
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - 4:02 | State of both carrying and not carrying survivor.
0:00 - 0:22 | Demonstration of basic and lunge attacks, the blight's rush, and being unable to hook Jill.
0:28 | Nea's flashlight does not force a drop.
0:54 | Pallet stun does not force a drop.
1:06 | Jill stops wiggling (right after second use of rush ends).
1:24 - 2:00 | Downing and picking up Feng. Her wiggling out. Nothing changing aside from the postition of Jill's model.
2:06 | Jill leaves, resulting in the bot immediately beginning to struggle.
2:38 | I open the gate, beginning the endgame collapse.
3:27 | Endgame collapse timer reaches zero, followed by nothing happening.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK
Hope this helps! :D