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If you see 2-4 flashlights in a lobby, what do you do?

slunder
slunder Member Posts: 247
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If you see 2-4 flashlights in a lobby, what do you do? 128 votes

Put lightborn
33%
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Put Franklin
10%
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Put both
5%
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Put no anti flashlight perk
50%
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Comments

  • AetherBytes
    AetherBytes Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 3,062
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I smell a legion tech

  • Aurelle
    Aurelle Member Posts: 3,611
    Put lightborn

    I hate flashlights, so usually I would dodge the lobby all together. But if I stay, I usually bring Lightborn and sometimes I'll bring Franklin's Demise along with it.

  • ArchAbhor
    ArchAbhor Member Posts: 847
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    they're easy to counter without the perks. If they're pressuring pick ups thats 2 people min not on gens, and if you play it right 2 downs.

  • konchok
    konchok Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 1,719
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I don't pay attention to items of survivors. I don't think killer should be able know ahead of time if survivors have specific items.

  • catkillsmouse
    catkillsmouse Member Posts: 244
    Put Franklin

    Put Franklin's cause they hate it or just look downwardish before you pick them up or away something where light can't reach your eyes.

  • TurtleSushiTV
    TurtleSushiTV Member Posts: 156
    Put both

    yep that's right! whos laughing now!

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,030

    None. Flashlight are weak and a minor annoyance

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,557
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    The evil me wants to equip Franklin's, but half the time im not even looking at the lobby, i just alt-tab back into the loading screen.

  • TeabaggingGhostface
    TeabaggingGhostface Member Posts: 3,108
    Put lightborn

    Sunglasses go on when i see them

  • Wampirita
    Wampirita Member Posts: 809
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    9/10 times they just want to scare you, and don't actually know how to use them. Had multiple matches with 4 flashlights, even tho i baited saves, no one came or even hit it right.


    BUT, if you're Hag player, take Franklin and trap them, they'll lose so much time going back for them xD

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,713
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I couldn't care less what they do in the lobby.

  • Hex_Llama
    Hex_Llama Member Posts: 1,846
    Put lightborn

    If I see 3-4 then I'll probably put Lightborn, mostly because 3-4 suggests to me that it's a group loading in with the intention to shine flashlights all match. If it's just two then I don't bother.

  • musstang62
    musstang62 Member Posts: 517
    Put lightborn

    I don't do it every time but lightborn is kind of hilarious whenever there are 2+ flashlights and survivors are really trying to use them

  • N8dog
    N8dog Member Posts: 541
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    The leave lobby option exists for a reason.

  • RoboMojo
    RoboMojo Member Posts: 1,326
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I rejoice! If all four of them have flashlights, then there's a damn good chance that they're a bully squad. I'm kind of okaish at the game so I can usually deal with them. Although I admit that these squads can be incredibly painful to face in certain scenarios. I.e. if they all jump in lockers and constantly force you to grab, leading to a free save. Super annoying when that happens and not a whole lot of counter play if they're all doing it.

  • SuzuKR
    SuzuKR Member Posts: 3,910
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    Why would I waste a perk on one of the worst survivor item types? I face a wall or kill the people nearby.

  • Chordyceps
    Chordyceps Member Posts: 1,715
    Put lightborn

    If the Killer I'm playing doesn't happen to have Lightborn I will straight up dodge the lobby

  • Shaped
    Shaped Member Posts: 5,907
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    Either dodge or not depending on a killer I play or my mood. But I never use franklins and lightborn.

  • GarlicRice
    GarlicRice Member Posts: 118
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    Honestly I sometimes just dodge the lobby, I'm a beginner at killer so if I see a full lobby of flashlights I ain't in the mood for that ######### haha.

  • GlamourousLeviathan
    GlamourousLeviathan Member Posts: 1,093
    Put Franklin

    It's not necessarily because of the flashlights, I just like to use Franklin's against any item.

  • Another_LegionMain
    Another_LegionMain Member Posts: 399

    4 beamers and I dodge, I have none of the anti-beamer perks

  • Kurri
    Kurri Member Posts: 1,599
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I don't understand why it matters how many flashlights they take in? If you're that scared of flashlights, just so you know survivors can get them from Chests too. Goodluck sleeping tonight.

  • KblokoBR
    KblokoBR Member Posts: 209
    Put Franklin

    Franklins cause + contering it i destroy the item and make them grind again XD

  • vanGlasse1
    vanGlasse1 Member Posts: 295
    Put lightborn

    I like having fun with Lightborn + Agitation + Mad Grit + Forced Penance, don't care if I could do without Lightborn, I just adore it.

  • FeryGEN
    FeryGEN Member Posts: 629
    edited May 2022
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    overwhelming presence, sometimes better xD Many stop clicking lights xD I take it sometimes

  • pizzaduffyhp90
    pizzaduffyhp90 Member Posts: 901

    I sometimes will put Lightborn on but, that's sometimes before I enter the lobby and I see flashlights then once I see them I'm like well that's ironic. Most of the time though I just don't both cause you can still just bait them to come out of hiding.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 7,030

    Either franklin's or nothing at all if I don't feel like it. I never run lightborn.

  • ReikoMori
    ReikoMori Member Posts: 3,333
    Put lightborn

    At 2 flashlights I grab Lightborn, at more than two flashlights I just leave the lobby. I'm not interested in the type of teamplay that comes with a team full of beamers.

  • TragicSolitude
    TragicSolitude Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 7,410

    What do I answer when I ignore the lobby and just run Lightborn 100% of the time? There can be zero flashlights in the lobby and I still have Lightborn on.

  • SkeletalElite
    SkeletalElite Member Posts: 2,713
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I only switch up my perks for 4 medkits

  • Slan
    Slan Member Posts: 307
    Put lightborn

    Lightborn allows you to troll survivors and have fun when seeing them trying to blind you. I always have a good time when that happens. And Franklyn's makes them be salty, and I don't want to hear a survivor crying at me for half an hour for using it.

  • AnchorTea
    AnchorTea Member Posts: 1,021
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I accept the challenge.

  • Ssajbambusa
    Ssajbambusa Member Posts: 496
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    I put Iron Maiden on.

    The only thing about flashlights that is uncounterable is locker tech - which Iron Maiden makes so hard, that I never had it succesfully happen against me with it on. Iron Maiden is very underrated in general, I encourage you to try and use it in place of Lightborn - which does it's job... but is trap of a perk. Survivors can see that you have it from the very first second, so they will just genrush.

  • N8dog
    N8dog Member Posts: 541
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    "leave lobby" exists for this reason.

  • Pr0p3r9
    Pr0p3r9 Member Posts: 111
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    2-3 flashlights don't phase me. If I saw 2 flashlights and 2 med-kits/toolboxes, I might consider Franklin's. If I see 4 flashlights, I might consider going full meme build and putting on Lightborne+Agitation+Mad Grit.

  • AshInTheTallGrass
    AshInTheTallGrass Member Posts: 1,679

    I know this poll isn't for me and my kind, but I'll answer anyway:

    Take off my medkit because I know that Killer is bringing Franklin's and I'm #########.

  • brock
    brock Member Posts: 305
    Put Franklin

    Win

  • TheCovetedPrince
    TheCovetedPrince Member Posts: 3
    Put lightborn

    One of my 3 main perk sets includes Lightborn. I either just switch over to it or I ignore it. One or two people with flashlights doesn't always mean very much, because not everyone can use a flashlight. Hell, I'm not even that good with it. But I don't like lobbies with four flashlights. Those are the people I tend to dodge. The ones who like to act big and tough in a group, but couldn't play solo if their life depended on it. I dodge them and deny them any BP from me.

  • Ghost077
    Ghost077 Member Posts: 713
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    If I play completely relaxed, I take lightborn or Infectious Fright.

    If I want to embarrass the survivors, I take Franklin or Infectious Fright or both.

    If I play seriously I'm just... smiling.

  • INoLuv
    INoLuv Member Posts: 464
    Put lightborn

    must of the time they change in last moment, if not then starstruck agitation lightborn

  • Darkest_Night
    Darkest_Night Member Posts: 151
    Put both

    I usually have one or the other ton anyway. But against 4 flashlights, they are both going on just to piss people off

  • NoTerrorRadius
    NoTerrorRadius Member Posts: 201
    Put both

    It's always fun to put both on in a lobby full of flashlights. Pretending to dodge the beam then rushing the survivor👍🏾

  • StrangeGuy
    StrangeGuy Member Posts: 48
    Put lightborn

    I always bring Lightborn, this perk is comfortable for me

  • johnlikesguns2
    johnlikesguns2 Member Posts: 82
    edited July 2022
    Put no anti flashlight perk

    This. SWF's with flashlight are so easy and fun to play against because the fakes of picking up always work so in the end i just snowball them all cause they keep trying. Here is a tip.