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Phantom Fear triggers when it shouldn't

crystalkitti
crystalkitti Member Posts: 424
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Summary: As title says, the Animatronic's perk Phantom Fear triggers when it shouldn't, based on the description of the perk. It has activated when the Killer is out of sight numerous, numerous times.

I've had it trigger while I'm looking away from the Killer, I've had it trigger against the Animatronic himself while I was operating cameras and he walked past. Sometimes it triggers through walls or solid objects, I think.
The only part that seems to work properly is the fact that it only fires off in the Radius, as I've noticed with Undetectable Killers that it will go off once their heartbeat returns, but not prior.

Platform: PC, but this is not a hardware-related issue, so likely it affects all platforms.

Instructions: Be playing Survivor against anyone running Phantom Fear. It does not seem to matter the size of the Radius, whether it's a 24m or a 40m. It is not specific to the Animatronic.

Video shows an example; the Killer was on the far side of my screen, not within actual view, nor did I look at him. This is one of many instances where the perk does not fire off correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDcsp1N__k

This is the moment in the video that the scream initiates. The Killer is not within my field of view at all, and I am DEFINITELY not looking at him.

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  • crystalkitti
    crystalkitti Member Posts: 424

    Proof that it is in fact, triggering through walls:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P15JCLrMXvg
  • BugReporterOnly
    BugReporterOnly Member Posts: 784

    If the perk is meant to be when you look at the direction of the killer then they need fix the description as it implies you need to be looking at him directly. This is frustrating.

  • Attckcat
    Attckcat Member Posts: 71

    Can confirm this has happened to me, Killer was somewhere offscreen and I suddenly screamed when the perk activated.
    I'm wondering if some of these FOV related features are treating low FOV players as if they had the highest FOV. Like being flashlight blinded from the side when no one is even on your screen.

    Not sure how I'm being blinded if I cant even see the flashlight, much less the person holding it.

  • Attckcat
    Attckcat Member Posts: 71

    Also I forgot to mention it's also triggering and revealing when using a un-scream perk such as Hardened and Calm Spirit.

  • Adameia
    Adameia Member Posts: 13

    i personally almost wonder if it is triggering if the KILLER is looking in your direction while you are in the TR because i have had times where it triggered when i was literally looking at an edgemap wall. or while knight was pathing a guard past me but his body was a ways away with more than one wall in between. i also know it is bugged occasionally in customs. my sister was using it and it would sometimes trigger when there was no good reason for it to do so and other times it was not triggering at all even when it SHOULD have triggered on that person. (the person was in a bush watching her look around for them and giggling while feet away from her)