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Can anyone explain this bloodweb?
Not only did it randomly decide to not take the tooth next, it redirected to a node in the middle ring with 3 more possible outer ring nodes.
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It's just what it randomly chose, that's how bloodwebs work. Sorry if that's a little blunt, but like pretty much everything else in the game, it's completely RNG based.
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That's weird, it totally should have eaten the tooth. Maybe the entity thinks teeth are too hard to digest so it refused to eat it.
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No, for every single bloodweb I can remember, it starts at the farthest node (always preferring a perk) and then worms inward unless you interrupt its path, in which case it goes to another outermost node.
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it's not random. It's a very specific pattern.
@OP sometimes the bloodweb just ****s up and ruins your plans because the coding had a hiccup. Sometimes it'll eat everything behind the node (in two stages) it was supposed to eat but not the node itself. DbD's code can be weird sometimes.
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@Xbob42 Yes, it's happened several times to me.
@Kind_Lemon Sure it'll follow a path to an extent, but it is random too other than the perk spaces when you unlock another perk space. I've been playing for 3 years and must have gone through hundreds if not thousands of bloodwebs. Agreed that their 'spaghetti code' does hiccup though and that's most likely the reason for it.
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I've played since before Pig (is that almost three years? idk), and I've grown to be able to determine what node is going to be consumed in seemingly random situations 75% of the time (the first node is always kind of opposite, but that's the only one that I never have any idea until the Entity bubble first shows up). The Entity tends to take the node directly to the right or to the left of the outermost node it took to enter the bloodweb. It skips nodes occasionally, and I think this is influenced by rarity. Otherwise, the Entity will always proceed inwards, taking the least rare node it can unless that leads it on a path to a conjunction (then it will take the rarer node even if it also leads toward a conjunction). The Entity is designed to minimize lost nodes by consuming the least amount it can on every move.
Fun tip: you can tell which junction is more expensive oftentimes from the way the entity moves!
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But it certainly shouldn't "randomly choose" when the last node it took still has a path to progress on. Surely the only logical movement at point 6 is to take the tooth but it just decides it's going to the opposite side of the blood web at a completely random place. Guess spaghetti code is the only reasonable explanation.
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