Have scratchmarks gotten worse?

moputopia · July 12

I thought it was my fault for being too blind to see them properly for a while, but I've seen other people bring this up as well. I believe there's also been a few bug reports on this topic that got marked as not enough info. Personally I feel like I have to rely on sound pretty often to be able to tell in which direction a survivor went after losing line of sight. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem.

https://twitter.com/KillaWhale72/status/1793654162548518944

Here's one video I found for a comparison.

ChaosWam · July 12

Thank the entity it isn't just me experiencing this.

GentlemanFridge · July 12

Yeah, I’ve noticed it getting worse too.

JustAShadow · July 12

I have noticed it too and it makes playing killer really annoying.

90bubbel · July 12

yep, its getting really bad

Aven_Fallen · July 12

This is nothing new and the comparison video is quite…useless.

The thing is that Scratchmarks end up under the grass, so if there is grass, you will have a harder time seeing scratchmarks (as seen on the left). But this is not new at all, this has been the case for years.

CosmicScarab · July 12

It's been like this since around the switch to unreal 5, it feels like. There's absolutely a noticeable delay in scratch marks and occasional large gaps their placement. It's pretty noticeable if you run fixated.

EmpireCity830 · July 12

Have people also being noticing its harder to hit basic M1s now than before? Or am I going crazy?

danielmaster87 · July 13

They're always getting worse, just like the sounds.

mizark3 · July 13

I do think they are getting worse, but there is a variable unaccounted for in the video. In the right video, they throw a firecracker/flashbang, so that might affect the scratch mark spawn logic in a way we are unaware. It may be the case that they are getting worse because more people are using flashbangs, but it also could just be scratch mark issues in general.

Neaxolotl · July 13

BHVR loves to mess with scratch marks and it's strange, this is a core game mechanics that must be consistent and messing with it doesn't makes sense at all