Flashlight saves need a little buff
Hello everyone. I wanted to ask about your opinions on flashlight saves. Back in the day when killer pick up was 4.3 sec. flashlight saves were fun, rewarding, but also increased the skill cap of survivor as positioning yourself using the right addons, and timing of blind. However now, it seems now that it is almost impossible against most killers because they can look into walls, do a 180, light born, infectious fright, slug and it's not worth it. I feel like flashlights in general need more purpose because outside of hag traps, they dont do enough. What do you think, am I right, wrong, an entitled survivor main, let me know. Personally I think the odd bulb, ultra rare add on should make blinds shorter, but just that add on and not by an insane amount because we know how stupid insta blinds were.
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Broadly, I do not think survivors need any meaningful buffs.
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Flashlight saves should not be something that occurs often. I think it's perfectly fine that it requires skill from the survivor and that the killer has some chance to counter it.
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i cant pull flashlight saves, that being said, i don't think it should be easier to do. Its an immensely powerful tool, and extremely frustrating when performed against you.
Personally i think the bulb add-ons shouldnt change the timing of the blind, but instead just the duration and strength of said blind.
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Even if you were to buff it - how exactly? (im not saying they should be buffed im asking how you would buff it)
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It's a big right-place-at-the-right-time sort of thing, and I honestly think that's fine. I still get them, but they're a very opportunistic thing and not something to rely on which honestly only makes them more exciting when they do happen in my eyes.
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They are fine where they are honestly. It shouldn't be something that happens often. The ways you said killers could counter it were all there with the extended pick up (minus the new perks obviously). I feel that any change to it would drastically affect the item too much for one side. Right now you have to be in the right place at the right time, or hope the killer makes a mistake and it should stay that way. The option should not always be present.
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I think what the OP was suggesting was that they increase the pick up time again so you get a better chance to get into position.
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I think flashlight saves are easy enough if you know your timing. The biggest issue that I've seen is too many people get downed while hugging a wall and it makes it impossible for you to do anything for them. It's kind of the same issue as wiggling, if you want more time or someone to save you don't loop around a hook.
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I do agree, but flashlights are seeing less and less use. Especially high rank killers who always look at walls or bait the flashlight saves, it just seems to eat to counter. If there were less counters I would like that, but there are seven ways. Slugging, baiting, walls, franklins, infectious fright, lightborn, Moris. I just wish if not for saving others, then why use flashlights to begin with. At pallets killers can hear you, and hag traps which can be good but still alerts her. I just want them to have use again.
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A buff would be nice, but flashlights are a very, very thin line. Too fast a stun makes them OP, but not enough makes the buff pointless. I honestly think they just need more purpose, because the only other thing a flashlight can do is destroy hags.
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fl saves dont need buffs, fl in general do
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To flashlight save you need two things:
1 Position yourself correctly
2 Not suck at timing.
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That's why I was saying buff the saves a little, it just seems that there's no reason to use them. Maps, medkits, keys, toolboxes, always have effective and actual usage, but not so much for flashlights
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