Flashlights NEEDS a buff

sampsomonium
sampsomonium Member Posts: 3
in Feedback and Suggestions

Just got done watching youtube videos on how to use the flashlight. Have been able to use it occasionally able to use it correctly. I started a game with a few new friends and equipped a flashlight to help them. I used the best purple flashlight with rare perks. I cant believe how easy it is for a killer to just look away and look back and avoid flashlight blinds! OH MY LYANTA! If you are going to require a huge skill of 1. hitting a moving target in the face 2. you are moving at the same time 3. have to hit them right in the eye then why are they only blinded for maybe a second and a half?!?!

Personally, I think you should always blind for 1.5 secs if the flashlight even flashes them at all OR if you require this timing then blind them for 5 seconds so its a guaranteed escape. The skill to benefit ratio makes no sense at all for using a flashlight. I know I am raging right now but can anyone explain this to me? Why is it so hard for such a small benefit???

I will recognize that if I am able to use it at the right time during a pickup animation it will always feel "broken" but this seems like a simple fix with immunity during the animation or something. In all honesty, does anyone think the flashlights are perfectly balanced as is?

Comments

  • Whispers23
    Whispers23 Member Posts: 111

    I suck using the flashlight but when I play the killer 80% I get blinded so I guess it doesn't need any buff.

  • mcNuggets
    mcNuggets Member Posts: 767

    Flashlights are extremely annoying for killers.
    You would know that, if you played killer before.

    You can get blinded on windows, on pallets and while picking someone up.
    Loosing your prey just because someone had an item isn't fair.

  • DisturbedZ
    DisturbedZ Member Posts: 59

    @Whispers23 said:
    I suck using the flashlight but when I play the killer 80% I get blinded so I guess it doesn't need any buff.

    Same here lol I cant blind the killer at all but those survivors who hit me get me before i even have a survivor picked up off the ground.

  • Rebel_Raven
    Rebel_Raven Member Posts: 1,775

    Flashlights are largely used to troll killers. In that regard, no, they do not need a buff.

    They're mostly anti-Wraith, and Anti-hag devices, IMO. Cloaked wraiths get burned by flashlight beams. Hag traps dissolve under flashlight beams.

    Getting blinded constantly by flashlights would probably make me lobby dodge the hell out of anyone with one.