How do I use the Good Book?

[Maddie Gaming]

Title, I guess.

[Prompter]

It stunned ducks before, but you have to immobilize ducks in some way for it to be of any use now.

[Entropie]

Pretty sure it is bugged in the current version so that only the host can stun + convert with it.

[Prompter]

It's not bugged, they nerfed it. Anyone can convert, it's just very tricky.

[Entropie]

When the host uses the book it stuns you, if non-host uses the book the stun does no longer work.

There was never an update where the dev acknowledged to nerfing the book (and why should he, it is not a powerful weapon anyways) but the last update changed the netcode in order to make online play more data efficient.
The book changed behavior along with that update.

[Cubirex]

Originally posted by Entropie:

When the host uses the book it stuns you, if non-host uses the book the stun does no longer work.

its true the book only seems to work fine with the host and never with the other ducks. maybe is not a glitch but something that happens because of the host having a lot of priority between all the lag of all the other players

[Entropie]

From what I have seen it goes clearly beyond a simple latency related issue.

For example, other ducks can simply walk around on the ground slowly and they will be impossible to stun (for non-hosts).

For it to be purely latency related you would still have to leave the book's hitbox in time on the host's end (either by building sufficient distance or by jumping) in order to avoid the stun.