If you don't understand why Flashlight Clicking is hated, here's why;
When you're playing killer, you have 4 people stacked against you, a single person, and you have to use absolutely everything you can to your advantage. Sounds are a major part of it. The sound occlusion in the game currently is slightly bugged, so the sound of footsteps and most importantly generators are muffled and sometimes completely silent, meaning you have to either have a very expensive headset to hear the most basic of things or move just a bit closer to even check, possibly wasting more of your precious time. The sound of flashlights however, seem to be one of the only sounds not affected by ANYTHING systemically placed in the game, meaning it is one of the loudest sounds possible to hear. The sound of even hearing it click on once is annoying enough, but repeated and bound to something like MWheelDwn can be absolutely infuriating to hear. Just listen to it yourself and you'll start to want to rip your own eardrums out. Then there's the 'attention' factor of it, where the survivor clicks their flashlight just to get the killer on them, like wanting to get a Hag on them near the Badham preschool loop, the Haddonfield backyard loops, etc. This in itself can be very distracting and can even ruin games at times under specific circumstances. If you combine all of this into one, you get one of the most hated gestures to do in-game. And if you still do it even after taking this into account, don't be surprised when you have some pissed killers tunneling you to death, or even straight up facecamping.
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They could make it so that the more you click the flashlight, the faster the battery drains. Or put an initial battery usage on each click, e.g. .5 seconds of battery usage per initial click, then normal usage while holding down the button.
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If you get triggered by the sound of a clicking flashlight, then you have issues. It's honestly not that big of a deal. The person is doing it to trigger/distract you, therefore if you get triggered/distracted you are just playing into that. Ignore it.
Same with teabagging, or gesturing, or literally anything else someone can do in game as a way to annoy you or get your attention. If you got annoyed by it they win. Honestly it's all fair game, the only ACTUAL toxic thing people can do it ######### talk after the game is over. Taunting your opponent as a means to throw them off their game is a legit tactic.
Like did you know that football players (American) on the line will say nasty ######### to each other to trigger them? Because a triggered opponent makes mistakes and is easy to beat. Don't be a triggered opponent.
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I will take clicking flashlight over locker/vault spam
I hate red ranks
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Survivors often use flashlights for communication - especially solo survivors. Therefore it's a big no-no to punish the clicking in any way whatsoever.
Killers just need to learn to ignore survivors that want to get chased. That's literally why flashlight clickers do it all the time. They plan a route and start clicking when they're ready to go. If a killer falls for it and ends up getting looped into oblivion they're just bad at the game and deserve to lose. Simple as.
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I don't agree that's the "problem". People complained about clicking flashlights long before this and always have. As for hearing it, survivors hear it too, including the one doing it. Some even do it to other survivors. People who complain about flashlight clicking are the same people who complain about people tbagging at a loop and say it should have some sort of ACTUAL IN GAME EFFECT like slowing that survivor down after doing it. It's annoying and arrogant, but it's a minor annoyance and arrogance, nothing that should make your blood boil or change your behavior to an insane degree.
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I know, I was just making a suggestion for what they COULD do about it. I personally don't care about flashlight clicking (or crouch-spamming, or loud noise notifications) in my games whatsoever!
Although, I only play solo as Survivor in red ranks and never find the need to clicky my flashlight, so I dunno about that first part. I really don't mind it, but to say it's necessary for communication to the point of it needing to be in the game is a bit far-fetched, in my opinion. 😋
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let be honest Flashlights are meant to BM at pallets and to make clicky noises. Ever since the great nerfing of Insta-blind flashlights and The GREAT BUFFING of survivor pick-ups you have to go out of your way just to get a flashlight blind.
Soooooo i will click clack my flashlight at my killer all i want and BM blind at pallets ^_^
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Please say this is satirical. Seriously.
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I agree somewhat. Both are annoying, but locker spam is just inane.
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I don't think blinding at pallets should be considered BM. It's one of the ONLY ways to actually use flashlights.
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I'm never really annoyed by clicking flashlights. I take it to mean "Chase me" which either I do or I ignore them because it's strategically a bad move.
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Love people that justify toxicity, must be toxic themselves. It's like the people that tried to justify basement body blocking, or Mori Cancelling. Nothing good came from either and now they're both gone.
It doesnt matter if its effective or not effective, whether or not you should be annoyed.
The whole flashlight clicking breaks the immersion of being a survivor
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+1 I would add More to this myself but looks like you pretty much covered what I would of said👍.
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Don't complain if Kekdetteface camps you to death, then.
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If clicking was added to the game to help players communicate with each other, than killers just have to get used to it.
Take the sound away from toxic players, otherwise.
I feel like the clicking is there just for toxic behaviour, personally. I feel like Behaviour encourages it...
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You can't just take away the meaning of something when it is convenient. That is like saying some insult in chat is just a word. Flashlight clicking is overwhelmingly associated with bullying survivors. The bullying is active in the game, the BM in chat is just dessert. It is one thing to take a loss. It is another to be constantly antagonized while dealing with an inevitable loss. This is super common now that high rank SWF are often going against much lower rank Killers. If BHVR could get it together and fix matchmaking, it would not be such an issue.
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Or maybe... you can't just put meaning on something when it's convenient.
An insult in chat IS just a word. If it triggers you, then that's your problem. Take your L and move on.
Anything outside of outright cheating is fair game when you are playing. If someone says something AFTER you can cal that toxic, but that doesn't mean you should get triggered by it.
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Maybe you should just ignore me. Take your L and move on. They are just words.
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What L? That you get triggered from someone pressing a button?
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You seem triggered...
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The only time it was annoying was during the instant blind time.
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That's an assumption.
Obviously the OP is triggered else he wouldn't be coming here to complain about it and you seem triggered because you agree with him.
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I'm usually talking when I play dbd as a killer no less, just like how people say above me, clicking/teabagging etc is to distract you and make you lose, don't get triggered and let them do whatever they want, I prefer people with flashlights over medkits and toolboxes since most of the time if you as the killer are about to down someone they will be there, free hit and maybe a free down.
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I'm simply recommending you practice what you are saying. I am simply putting words on a web page. Why do you continue to respond? Move on, like you have have suggested.
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Because I'm defending a point. Has nothing to do with either a game or being triggered. I'm sure you can see the difference between something done in a game and something done on a forum.
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They both involve sending a message. You keep responding to my messages. Much like a Killer is responding to flashlight clicks. They both have a deeper meaning.
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They don't but whatever helps you sleep at night.
Like I'm not going to "lose the forum" for responding to you. Whereas a killer will lose a game for paying attention to a flashlight clicker.
See the difference now?
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I think that playing the game any longer than 100 hours already breaks the immersion. This isn't a roleplaying game, nor a horror game; immersion is unneccessary in DbD.
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