What happened to Bamboozle?

[Harrowick]

Had a player hop through a blocked window.

I legit thought they were hacking until they told me that Bamboozle got nerfed, but I'm not seeing anything and the perk description still states that it blocks windows.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Afaik it's not been nerfed or changed at all.

It either literally expired as he tried to jump through it (and the visual just didn't animate fast enough to convey that) or some weird glitch/bug or he hacked (though, I've never encountered someone with this kind of "hack").

My guess is it bugged/glitched out, this IS DBD after all.

[EvilJoshy]

Which map was it? I had one match on iron works. The guy vaulted through the window on the first floor. I vaulted to block it off with bamboozle. He ran around to the front of the building, went upstairs, vaulted a window to the 2nd cat walk, dropped down, ran back into the building and by the time he got back to the window I blocked bamboozle wore off -.-

[Mostly Ghostly]

The last patch bugged all window blockers.
This includes both the blockers form Bamboozle and vaulting multiple times.

A silver lining though is that since the bug doesn't always happen, sometimes survivors who are trying to abuse it will try to go through a blocked window only to find out they can't, and you get an easy it.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Originally posted by Mostly Ghostly:

The last patch bugged all window blockers.
This includes both the blockers form Bamboozle and vaulting multiple times.

...Seriously? This could genuinely break balance for awhile if it becomes widely known. Or is the chance it doesn't block movement so small survivors can't reliably depend on it? (ie, is it going to screw them more often than save them?)

[Harrowick]

Thanks for the responses, folks. Sucks to hear that window blocking is broken.

I can see *those* survivors trying to abuse this if news of this gets out there.

[Mostly Ghostly]

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

Originally posted by Mostly Ghostly:

The last patch bugged all window blockers.
This includes both the blockers form Bamboozle and vaulting multiple times.

...Seriously? This could genuinely break balance for awhile if it becomes widely known. Or is the chance it doesn't block movement so small survivors can't reliably depend on it? (ie, is it going to screw them more often than save them?)

From what I gather it's not a super well known bug (though every day knowledge spreads).

As far as how often it happens, I simply can't say.
Most survivors don't even try to go through "blocked" windows, so it's hard to put a figure on it.
(I'm going to play a few games of survivor to try and get some data. I'll post back in a bit).

[Harrowick]

I played a few matches both as killer and survivor, on my end it seems that windows aren't blocked when excessively vaulted in a chase and bamboozle does nothing but increase the vault speed.

[Reindin]

Window blocking currently does not work at all. It's a bug.

[Mostly Ghostly]

@OP I ran a test for the bug. Here's a link to a thread detailing what I found.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/381210/discussions/0/3726075043722023359/

In short. From what I saw, the bug does not seem common enough to ruin Bamboozle.