Know the best part of the new Lightborn?

Xbob42

99% of the people I go against will stand in place and continue shining it on you, clearly confused, as you walk up and smack them.

I still don't think it's a particularly incredible perk for obvious reasons, but it's really satisfying when you can basically see the cogs turning before you land the hit.

Ghouled_Mojo

It brings a little joy.

hillbillyclaudmain69

@Xbob42 said:

99% of the people I go against will stand in place and continue shining it on you, clearly confused, as you walk up and smack them.

I still don't think it's a particularly incredible perk for obvious reasons, but it's really satisfying when you can basically see the cogs turning before you land the hit.

This happened in my last match 3 times. I got messaged and called a hacker lmao

WeenieDog

I honestly feel like the best part of lightborn is that people waste a slot for it.

Infectious Fright will help you avoid flashlight saves ( on top of pallet saves) and gives you the heads up on when to slug and when not to.

Just hard pick that Infectious Fright. It will give you more all-round value throughout the match than lightborn.

Xbob42

@WeenieDog said:

I honestly feel like the best part of lightborn is that people waste a slot for it.

Infectious Fright will help you avoid flashlight saves ( on top of pallet saves) and gives you the heads up on when to slug and when not to.

Just hard pick that Infectious Fright. It will give you more all-round value throughout the match than lightborn.

Everyone over here assuming we all buy all the DLC. I'm running base killers + Pyramid Head. Also clown and Halloween for some reason, though I don't remember buying those. Will pick up some more when there's a big sale, probably. Not gonna bother wasting anything on the shrine, either.

BillyMain77

@Xbob42 said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1558063#Comment_1558063

Everyone over here assuming we all buy all the DLC. I'm running base killers + Pyramid Head. Also clown and Halloween for some reason, though I don't remember buying those. Will pick up some more when there's a big sale, probably. Not gonna bother wasting anything on the shrine, either.

Your not wasting anything on the shrine as the game literally gives you shards for just playing, and infectious has been in the shrine multiple times over the past year.

The reason the shrine is there is for players like you who dont want to spend money to buy the dlcs.

The fact that you dont buy anything from the shrine and instead spend your shards on cosmetics? 😂

Idk just saying your preventing yourself from becoming a better killer by not using the shrine to its advantages in my opinion.

But hey if you like getting one free hit on any experienced survivor for a whole perk slot then your choice.

Any experienced player who uses a flashlight on the regular mainly the survivors you have to worry about will be able to identify you have this perk on first pallet break and then its just a wasted perk slot.

Xbob42

@BillyMain77 said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1558074#Comment_1558074

Your not wasting anything on the shrine as the game literally gives you shards for just playing, and infectious has been in the shrine multiple times over the past year.

The reason the shrine is there is for players like you who dont want to spend money to buy the dlcs.

The fact that you dont buy anything from the shrine and instead spend your shards on cosmetics? 😂

Idk just saying your preventing yourself from becoming a better killer by not using the shrine to its advantages in my opinion.

But hey if you like getting one free hit on any experienced survivor for a whole perk slot then your choice.

Any experienced player who uses a flashlight on the regular mainly the survivors you have to worry about will be able to identify you have this perk on first pallet break and then its just a wasted perk slot.

Whole lotta assumptions here. Let's go over 'em!

1. It doesn't matter how many times infectious has been in the shrine over the past year... because I only started playing about a month ago. But I went ahead and checked, and infectious has shown up exactly once in 2020... at the end of March. Lemme hop in my time machine
2. I never said I don't buy DLCs, I just started and I'm not gonna spend a bunch of money on DLC right out of the gate without a massive sale.
3. I haven't spent a single shard on anything, and I care exactly 0% about cosmetics. I'm saving my shards for the event that something comes along that I might want piecemeal, like maybe a specific killer but not an entire DLC pack. I don't have enough for even one killer yet, though, because of the grind.
4. I'd argue that going for meta perks prevents you from becoming a better killer. I prefer to learn with less add-ons and powerful perks because I feel like they develop reliance and bad habits. I believe learning the fundamentals first and then augmenting that core set of skills with add-ons or perks is much better. That said, I obviously don't run entirely perkless, so I like to experiment with lots of perks, which is why I tried out Lightborn. And you know what? It was really fun. This isn't some weird one-off event where some single dude came up for a flashlight save, it happened again and again every time a flashlight was in play, and it was quite satisfying each time, because almost ALL of them just stood there. Much more fun than them screaming and running off. Turning a flashlight save into a double down because of cocky injured survivors was hilarious.
5. Who cares? This thread isn't about it being a good perk, I said as much in my very first post, which in exchange for these bizarrely aggressive replies you could have just read fully. I know it's not a great perk, I was just saying that I loved that it confused people, which is fun. And I like fun.

Rivyn

I've only used it once on Plague, against two flashlights. It really was a great feeling when they kept trying to blind me. They mocked me at the end for using it, but those two died.

JHondo

Had a full flashlight swf ttv squad (all friends in steam and one streaming that I saw in the lobby before the game loaded) running the meta in bright neon clothes the other day so I threw Lightborn on Trapper and even though I still lost it was a pretty close game and was so satisfying to deny them the opportunity of bullying that way. Plus getting a couple free hits in before they realized what was going on was fun.

CalamityJane

The best part is faking like you're trying to avoid it so they spend all game wasting their time trying to blind you on every pickup and you essentially get a stalling perk for free.

Xbob42

@CalamityJane said:

The best part is faking like you're trying to avoid it so they spend all game wasting their time trying to blind you on every pickup and you essentially get a stalling perk for free.

Yup, trying to make it look like you just barely avoided it and always making sure you pick up facing walls means you get a lot of use out of it before they figure it out.