What are your thoughts on using a flashlight on pallets?
Title. It's a very common action, but is it really efficient? I don't have an solid opinion on the issue, but I believe that it can be useful in specific situations. As a killer, do you feel any difference? And as a survivor?
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Against inexperienced killers it doesn’t really hurt you much, might even benefit. But outside of that, it’s very inefficient. You will lose distance against a killer that can path off of muscle memory, and has a decent headset. All that blind will do is cause you to lose distance.
The possible exception being if you have a perk that allows you to quickly and quietly try and mindgame the killer whilst blinded, ie light footed, urban evasion, self aware, combined with blind duration addons.
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Depends on pallet, but in most situations survivors just lose their distance. But sometimes it could help leave unsafe pallet. I'm glad when survivor just blind me in every pallet and don't reach other one because of it.
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Unless you can chain the blinds, you lose distance if you play against an experienced killer.
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Think you are wasting time and charges lighting up a pallet.
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In my opinion people are either mistaken that it is efficient or do it to annoy the killer. I only use flashlights for saves or if I'm trying to get the killers attention.
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if you are zoned out and have nothing after that pallet is broken do blind at it but otherwise survivors lose distance doing that.
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It's efficient for doing tome challenges that require blinds. Otherwise no.
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Some survivors just have fun scrambling Killers eyeballs. Most of the time it better to run but if u wanna try to disappear the flashlight the move. Much like survivors there are plenty of average players and they will not be able to keep track of u blind consistently.
also points
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I feel like you just need to have good game sense on top of being good with flashlights for it to be worth. Yellow range is the best fl addon for pallet blinding by far. Once you get very good with it, you'll memorize the distance to just barely stand in range to chain blind before pathing to your next loop. It also depends on your playstyle. I like fast paced chases, so if I get too much distance and the killer has been getting cooked chasing me, their brains might go on overclock mode and realize they need to drop chase and instead go pick on lil timmy doing a gen.
On the other hand, you have 97% of survivors (generous number) who stand still while single blinding at pallets and they wonder why they take a hit or instantly go down after lmao. Seen too many.
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Good use is when you're healthy, that you can walk back that may even create more distance. Or to blind killer at pallet for injured teammate to run.
Flashlight blind when you're injured is a really bad move, I can track injured survivor with speaker.
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If you're good at timing you could blind right when the killer gets stunned then chain blind the moment they regain control after breaking the pallet giving good space but less distance.
The main benefit is that it prevents the killer from accurately using their power for a few seconds which makes a big impact as it prevents zoning.
You just need to have good timing and good pathing. It also forces pallet breaks which is huge for bloodlust resetting and escaping dead zones.
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I think it's a good way to get flashlight practice, from a survivor's perspective
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I just do it for points.
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I usually don't because that's a waste of batteries for a potential save but I'll do it with killers who tried/are trying to tunnel one of my teammates, it usually works as the killer now wants to tunnel me.
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Lightborn
Simple answer as killer
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It's only useful for aiming practice, blind challenges and niche techs that only have a chance of working with specific perks.
Otherwise it's just a waste of batteries and distance.
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It's better against less experienced Killers.
They can be overwhelmed by the blindness and open themselves up for all kinds of deceptive plays.
Against more experienced killers, I'd say it's a bad choice. Especially against ones with good headsets.
I have very good sound when playing dbd, so I can just listen to the survivors movement. Due to the flashlight, they make less distance and sometimes this leads to free hits.
Not injured? Listen to food sounds.
Injured? Even easier to track.
It's overall really good for scoring though.
Comes down to the playstyle I'd say.
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I don't mind it as I can use my ears and visualise where I need to go whilst blinded. As survivor I drop flashbangs jusy as they go to break it. You can get a little more distance with those as you can leg it instead of standing there.
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