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Am I crazy or is no one using flashlights any more?
I thought that the new Awakened Anger achievement (get blinded as killer and then hit the blinder within 30 seconds) would be rather easy to get because you usually can't go more than an hour or two before you find a full flashlight squad, and usually at least a flashlight user every other game or so. After the latest update, no one seems to bring flashlights any more, much less try and blind the killer if they do. On one hand, I can pretty much pick up without worrying about a blind save, but on the other hand, I might never get this achievement done.
Is anyone else seeing this, or is BHVR trolling me and only me?
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It was slow work for me, too and the last 6 blips for the achievment went by at an agonizingly slow crawl. But when I finally got it, it was against a bully squad with 4 Flashlights and I got probably 10 blips that match alone.
Since I got that achievment, I now see flashlights in nearly every lobby and get blinded constantly at downed pallets - as always, never let the game know what you want or hate, it can smell fear.
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The time you waste going for a save for the killer to easily avoid it = your gens aren't progressed enough to withstand four slowdowns + tunneling = free loss.
There's barely any time to even heal atp. The only good survivor item is green toolbox (for now.)
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They are hard to get value from especially in Solo, pretty easy to avoid and not to mention Lightborn exists. Not to mention Latency being jank among other things like Fire Up's buff and Franklins + Weave Attunement.
I used to bring flashlights all the time but most of the time I bring medkits now so I can heal others or myself faster with how prevalent tunneling is these days.
As killer I cheer if I get flashlights coz I know they'll be trying to save, so they'll be on gens less or I can be greedy and get multiple downs coz of it. Sabotaging seems more effective these days, not to mention they did something it feels like where its harder to get a good angle anymore, its like you have to be head on to the killer LOL like straight infront.
I miss being able to save others bringing a flashlight when a killer doesnt respect me while I work on a gen, I used to do the gen aggressively to bait them to chase and hide my flashlight from them.
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This is so true, like why are medkits gatekeeping fast self heal and efficiency behind great skill checks??? One of the most baffling changes, medkits should be better than self care + Botany at healing oneself not the same, especially the higher tier medkits.
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I always have light born regardless if there are flashlights in the lobby or not as I never know if they have flash bangs. I do enjoy pretending I'm a avoiding the light so they keep trying to save instead of doing gens.
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Had a survivor last match have a halloween flashlight without a white ward. Wasn't sure if they had stocked up on it, but I was running an aura jumpscare Unknown build and had the perk that makes you drop depleted items. He lost track of where he had dropped it. I didn't want him to lose out on an old flashlight, so I signaled him back to where it was so he could pick it back up, then we continued with the match but I made sure he got hatch. XD
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Maybe people are wising up the fact that flashlights suck
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I still get them in nearly every lobby as killer. 30% of the time in survivor que.
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I used to be flashlight user on 95% of my matches. Since Kaneki I didn't use one at all.
I have almost 10k hours in the game and I know that I will lose if I don't do gens, that's it.
If you don't succeed at the save it's time wasted, too much of it. Also people die close to walls most of the time, making it impossible to save.
Killers got too much power now, surviviors can't let themself to lose time if they want a chance to win the match.
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It took a while for me to get this one so I could get my 100% achievement trophy back on my steam profile. I waned to hug the 30th survivor who hit me with a pallet and blinded me.
It's probably because Ghoul is in the state he's currently in and flashlights are almost worthless against him.
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- Flashlights are a useless/harmful item if you're not really good at using them... better to focus on generators. Just be a decent killer, and flashlights are never a problem. the amount of games I've seen losers due to flashlights is HUGE... maybe survivors are finally realizing that it's better to bring a med kit or a toolbox
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It's probably just the fact that you're going for the achievement that's bringing it to your attention. Years of "flashlight bully squad" YouTube videos has created the idea that flashlights are some sort of god item when they haven't really been all that useful since the removal of insta blinds.
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Flashlights have been bad Items for years. The only reason to take them is to have some Killer-Survivor-Interaction, but when it comes to efficiency, they are pretty bad.
They were even bad when the game was survivor-sided, however, Survivors could afford that someone was not efficient and maybe even following the Killer (even tho this was already bad when I started playing DBD…). But nowadays, you dont have the time anymore to do a lot of this interaction - blinding at Pallets is always the worse move compared to just getting distance and lurking around for a Flashlight Save just benefits the Killer. This was the case back then already, but nowadays you need to be way more efficient as Survivor.
We are basically at the point where you might have lost a game from the moment you spot a Survivor in your Lobby with a Flashlight, because if this person decides to only want to gather footage for their montage, the game is lost.
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flashlights and pallet stuns are pretty much a joke these days. Like others have said you’re wasting precious time trying to do that when you should be on a gen, because it’s basically throwing the match.
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hide the pregame lobby because you aren’t getting value with a flashlight? 😭
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LOL no, I mean coz of picking perks based on items being brought and the whole song and dance of having to hide items until the last second to avoid it etc.
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I just almost never get them in blood web anymore and like every said the flashlight is k8nda usless when most map have giant free hit dead zone now so their really no point to try anymore what the point of saving someone ony for them to go down again becasue a the loop is way to far away or b just no loop at all usually it a becasue look at corn the loop are that spread then and far apart u have to path 100% correctly or get hit for free
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Flashlight and flashbangs are worthless, I started to be a filthy gen rusher and use commo tool box and bnps built to last and street wise. Survivors are to be defenseless people with no counter play so why bother? Hell lightborn is so meta that even if its one or 0 flashlight It's still bought.
It's a pity really as I usually am not to get into gen rush but you know we'll what else is there to do? I only see tool boxes in most my matches as survivor or killer. Heal, stealth,flashlight/bang and even chase perks are like non existent for survivors now and med kits, maps and keys are garbage easily useless cause Franklin's. All we have left is tool boxes for now as wolfy says. So you know since everything survivors enjoy constantly is nerfed its time to be a filthy gen rusher. Killers cause this on themselves.
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i still get blinded periodically
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Flashlight usage has drastically went down like 2 years ago when they reworked (ruined) them.
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But indeed, as of the moment, Awakened Anger is the rarest achievment by quite some bit. It is one of this achievments that will eventually get done just by playing normally, but its no pushover
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All hail to our Lord and Savior Lightborn 🫲😎🫱
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Following other survivors for flashlight safes only causes you to lose if you aren‘t already near them.
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Yeah as a survivor if its not my swf I leave lobbies with survivors brining them, have way too many videos of wanna be aryun/ jrns trying to be heros when am looping and wasting so much of the killers time chasing me and killer for their non existent save. Many games that was easy win became last cause of said wannabe hero's 😒
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Crazy right strength in shadows with botany= is faster than med kits self healing lmao and you do not even need botany with shadows since its still solid in it's own.
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But with Lightborn you aren't blinded and so can't down survivors who blinded you within the last 30s. The bane of any dedicated achievment hunter out there :V
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I don't know. I use flashlights regularly. That's what I enjoy the most, even though I often die because I don't know all the maps well enough yet.
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I see at least one flashlight at least every other game.
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You dare question the glory of the Lord for a mere plebeian achievement? Heathen begone!
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Medkits and toolboxes are pretty much always good. Flashlights are only good when you can consistently get the angle on the killer, or when the killer doesn't have Lightborn, which many low level and a few higher levels killers use. I've just been using Fire Up/Forever Entwined to avoid flashlight saves.
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In another 8 hours of gameplay, I've gotten a whopping 3 more ticks of progress on this achievement. Tonight at least, there were 8 survivors with flashlights, but only one of them ever tried to use it and they screwed up a pallet blind. This turn of events is even more frustrating than not having anyone bring flashlights, because in those games, I had no hope of any progress at all.
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The last time I saw anybody use a flashlight it was a Meg who managed to annoy the killer enough that he dropped me onto the ground to chase after her. He then proceeded to tunnel her out of the game as soon as humanly possible. Most often, I see soloq teammates have a beamer in the lobby, but I never see them use it in game unless it's to try and draw my attention to something like working on a generator with them.
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I can say from my Red-Gold ranked experience that they are still very much everywhere. Especially in SWF teams.
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im finding people in my solo matches just flat out refuse to bring items lol. no idea why. these same people get confused when they dont win
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I see them in most of my games
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