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Phantom Chainsaws as billy

BenZ0
BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125
edited November 2019 in General Discussions

Does anyone experiences these more often since the servers are out? I know that they EXISTS BEFORE but when I did my billy daily yesteday I had 4 of them in 1 game, that is honestly really annoying and gamebreaking...

Phantom chainsaws are the weird hit animation you do when you are about to hit a survivor but nothing happened to the survivor, just like you didnt even hit him. But you still stopped with the chainsaw just like you would hit. I DONT MEAN WHILE THEY ARE IN SPRINT BURST ETC. No dead hard or other perk, just a regular chainsaw hit. Because of this you can lose a entire chase because the survivor has a plenty of time to run to a new window or pallet. I like billy but since the phantome chainsaws are getting even worse I am forced to stop playing him...

So my reason for this post is if you guys experience these Phantom saws aswell as I do?

Post edited by BenZ0 on

Comments

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125

    @PinkMochaV2

    Yeah seems like that, it should get fixed, Its nothing of the players issue and that prevents you to play this killer properly.

  • Groxiverde
    Groxiverde Member Posts: 767

    Yeah it happens a lot to me, that's 1 of the reasons why I started to take spirit instead of billy against 4 swf with key/toolboxes. Last game I played with billy I had 3 phantom chainsaws which cost me 2 kills.

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125
    edited November 2019

    @Groxiverde

    Agree, I really like billy but I cant play him with this bug...

  • CrowFoxy
    CrowFoxy Member Posts: 1,310

    Unintended issue with dedicated servers I would guess, I doubt they'd add that on purpose.

  • Broccoli_Jaeger
    Broccoli_Jaeger Member Posts: 252

    Wdym? Thats the Billy nerf everyone has been asking for.


    When using the chainsaw you have a 15% chance of missing a survivor. It can be affected by luck offerings and perks like Up the Ante

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125

    @CrowFoxy

    Phantom saws existed before the servers are out, I had my first at spirit chapter.

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125
    edited November 2019

    @Broccoli_Jaeger

    Okey lets bring a 15% miss chance by dropping a pallet or vaulting a window or unhooking a survivor, would be great right?

  • CrowFoxy
    CrowFoxy Member Posts: 1,310

    Billy is probably overperforming anyways, it's better this way.

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125
    edited November 2019

    @CrowFoxy

    So you are fine that you get punished for playing the killer properly with a random chance? lol

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 18,006

    I have not played much Billy lately, but Phantom Saws 100% existed before and they were annoying. But 4 in 1 Match sounds way too much from my experience, so it might indeed be a Dedicated Server-Issue. I got like 1 or 2 in 5 matches usually (which still is 1 or 2 too much...).

  • anarchy753
    anarchy753 Member Posts: 4,212

    I keep getting it as Pig, pretty sure it's cos of dedicated servers.

    I use the dash, they turn even slightly and it just ends prematurely. It's like it ends because on my end I hit them and then it corrects and goes "oh wait no, that missed" which is really dumb because if they do dodge against her ambush it's easy to correct while still holding M1.

    I don't let go, I still CAN hit them, but it's just cancelling the attack as a miss.

  • yeet
    yeet Member Posts: 1,832

    it's not dedicated servers, it's been happening before dedicated servers

  • NoShinyPony
    NoShinyPony Member Posts: 4,570

    Phantom chainsaws also happen on PS4 and we don't have dedicated servers. It must be something else.

  • justarandy
    justarandy Member Posts: 1,711
    edited November 2019

    This is a bug since release of dbd. It has nothing to do with servers (they might made it worse, but the problem relies deep in the game code) and devs never adressed this.

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  • Seltas0208
    Seltas0208 Member Posts: 1,056

    I can't tell if your joking

    But I'm dying of laughter

  • Hoodied
    Hoodied Member Posts: 13,101

    Yup, and its not even Ded-Servers


    I play xbox

  • Spooky13
    Spooky13 Member Posts: 1,485

    Phantom Hits always existed, isn't even a dedicated servers issue, it's a lag issue, I play on Xbox and experience them all the time because my wifi is bad.

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125

    @Spooky13

    I never had a phantom hit in my life with 2,5k hours, only on billy chainsaws

  • Spooky13
    Spooky13 Member Posts: 1,485
  • OMagic_ManO
    OMagic_ManO Member Posts: 3,278

    It's not just Dedicated Servers, I play PS4 and I stopped playing Billy for a while cause I got tired of getting cheated out of a chainsaw.

  • BenZ0
    BenZ0 Member Posts: 4,125

    @Spooky13

    😂

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 10,464

    Servers just make the random bugs from P2P more common.


    You detect the hit and start the animation. The survivor's hitbox moves outside the chainsaws range and the confirmation check fails the hit.

    Less likely to happen on P2P but add servers and it becomes more pronounced.