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Are Flashlights Bugged?
I know they recently got a change, but I was doing fine with them for a bit and now, suddenly, I couldn't even blind at pallets, let alone save.
Now, on killer, I'm seeing survivors sometimes manage to blind me but more often just point it at me and then go down.
Is...something weird going on?
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There might be something wrong, yes !
I've played killer a little bit this weekend and over a few games, I had a few weird flashlight interactions. Like, I'd pick up a survivor, realize as I'm looking back up that someone ran up to me and is blinding me, but I neither get the red screen nor the blind (just like if I had Lightborn, which I did not), and the survivors stays on my shoulder.
I know their timing wasn't wrong, plus it was not even the question : the borders of my screen showed I was in range to be blinded, but it just... didn't happen.
I've also had people somehow miss blinding me at a pallet, same visual : borders of my screen going slightly yellow, but no red screen, and no blind.
The two times I can think of, I was playing Clown and Legion.
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This is exactly my experience.
Can confirm it's not working against Doctor, Ghostface or Trapper either.
Yeah, something is badly broken.
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I've noticed a wide variation with flashlights, but I feel I'm getting blinded way more often that I used to. It also happens when the survivor is pretty late with the flashlight.
I guess it's broken and can go either way.
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Yes while breaking a pallet you seem to have flashlight protection kinda like when you pick up a survivor with wesker's power they can't blind you. Then there is that mangled but and Huntress Lullaby is still active if you cleanse it. This midchapter broke a lot of new things again. At this point I'm just impressed on how consistently they are creating new bugs.
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I got some party when survivor try to blind me when using the flashlight on my neck... So, dunno about some new possibility with the flashlight, but it seems not working well
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I submitted a bug report for this. There's at best an inconsistency with blinding killers during the break pallet animation currently.
If I had to guess, it could be that the base kit lightborn while pulling a survivor out of a locker is bugged and it's being applied to other forms of interactions. I haven't had a pallet blind work for me, as either role, since the patch, but others seem to have it work sporadically.
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That would make a lot of sense!
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Sometimes i cannot blind killers when they break pallets as well but saves have been fine
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It seems to be something involving the angle.
If they come from the side, they can save.
If they try for a 'full frontal' then it fails.
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Honestly ,typical patch fixing 5 things and breaking 10 new,,,on the flashlight talk ,some male survivors still shine the beamers too low ,effectively blinding killer's crotch
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