Lucas Elevator kill. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[Papa_Yokai]

Multiple times i have left the apartment staring at the windows not seeing a laser. I have even clipped the videos to make sure I didn't miss the laser. I get on the elevator and Lucas kills me. I am not sure what i am doing wrong as i don't see the laser. Is this a common bug or do you guys have a strat to prevent this?

[Papa_Yokai]

https://www.twitch.tv/papa_yokai/clip/FastTastyStinkbugKeyboardCat-8UA7uXeymSa7XKiO

For context here is a clip of the sniper kill. I check frame by frame and saw no laser.

[Maya-Neko]

I guess Lukas spawned right after you've opened the door and before you've closed it behind you afterwards, causing him to cue up for killing you in the next possible moment. (though that's just the only thing i could think of, but it might be something else as well)

It's quite a common problem that simply comes down to being unlucky with the timers. If you want to be safe, you could've just wated for the laser, but on Nightmare you pretty much just run with those moments and pray, that it never happens.

[Papa_Yokai]

Bummer. I check the vid frame by frame with no laser in sight. But I gotcha. Just disheartening to be deep into the game and then get sniped in a way that feels like you can’t prevent it. But I’ll keep at it and hope I can find another way around that from happening.

[DMM]

It's just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanic I have lost my run so many times to this as well

[DenZuk0]

Just be very careful when leaving the appartments, I've had this death a couple times on my earlier runs but after awhile that never happened again.

What might help is to reduce his spawn frequency by always having a couple lights off, and then focus on getting the heat detector very fast so that you can switch off every remaining lights to make him attack a little less. Not completely foul proof but greatly reduces the odds.

Also overall don't leave when he didn't attack for a while.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by DenZuk0:

What might help is to reduce his spawn frequency by always having a couple lights off, and then focus on getting the heat detector very fast so that you can switch off every remaining lights to make him attack a little less. Not completely foul proof but greatly reduces the odds.

The frequency of Lucas spawning isn't affected by the amounts of lights being on/off. There's just a timer running in the background that gets rerolled everytime he was there (or a shorter one, if he wasn't able to spawn due to another threat). On normal it takes 385 - 730 seconds for him to come back after he tried to kill you the last time and since the window is so big, it might sometimes be better to simply take the risk instead of potentially wasting several minutes to waste for him (especially on nightmare you've not really that much room to not do anything for a while)

The only thing that lights being off do is to have the laser despawn faster.