Evidence Bugged or Bad?

[Killum𝄞Luna☾]

Soooo, today i have played 2 matches with 4 in party. Evidence all over the mofo for 2/3 necessary. But when we left van, a completely unlisted Type was the culprit haunting the crib. Are we bad? Or has something terrible occurred since last night's update??? O.o SpooOOOooooOOoookyyyyy Happy Hunting!

[Cursed Hawkins]

Sounds like you miss read the evidence, of course your not even saying what evidence you had so how should we know what the heck you had!

[Dr. Long Schlong]

No doubt you misread something or someone gave the wrong callout.
Like calling out there's a fingerprint when there's not one.
That's why you always double check in pub games instead of taking their word for it.

[warb]

Unlisted type?

Never had bad evidence. One time the EMF reader wouldn't go off at all, but it was easy enough to rule everything else out.

[Myth Alric]

The most commonly mistaken thing is EMF 5. If you don't see a red light, it isn't an EMF 5. Second thing is that footprints are not consider fingerprints. And lastly don't mistake someone doing a smudge stick as freezing temps.

[DragonsDusk]

I really do hope they eventually can impliment when the EMF hits 5 it makes a different tone/noise. I think that would help.

and some evidence can be confusing, cold doesn't mean freezing and footprints can't count for fingerprints.

I've had a few times where I was so sure and got something else, I think just some of the evidence needed might be explained a little better

[WolfVonD]

I forget the specific evidence but you can narrow down if its a Wraith or not by placing salt and checking for foot prints. This has saved us a few times.

[warb]

I've been counting glowing green footprints as fingerprints and it's always been correct.

[PupMup]

Originally posted by warb:

I've been counting glowing green footprints as fingerprints and it's always been correct.

Every ghost leaves footprints, except wraith. Which oddly enough, you seeing footprints tells you it NOT one of the ghosts (The wraith) that DO leave fingerprints.

[warb]

Originally posted by PupMup:

Originally posted by warb:

I've been counting glowing green footprints as fingerprints and it's always been correct.

Every ghost leaves footprints, except wraith. Which oddly enough, you seeing footprints tells you it NOT one of the ghosts (The wraith) that DO leave fingerprints.

Every ghost disturbs salt piles (except Wraith?), but every time I see UV footprint trails I've been putting down fingerprints and it's been correct.

Hand prints too. Anything that requires the UV light to see. They're bare feet. Toes have prints.

[PupMup]

Originally posted by warb:

Originally posted by PupMup:

Every ghost leaves footprints, except wraith. Which oddly enough, you seeing footprints tells you it NOT one of the ghosts (The wraith) that DO leave fingerprints.

Every ghost disturbs salt piles (except Wraith?), but every time I see UV footprint trails I've been putting down fingerprints and it's been correct.

Hand prints too. Anything that requires the UV light to see. They're bare feet. Toes have prints.

EVERY ghost disturbs the piles, but wraith is the only one to not leave footprints

[warb]

For me, only ghosts that leave fingerprints are leaving footprints, excluding Wraith. I'm playing the beta updates so maybe it was changed, or there have been a lot of coincidences.

[Cryohydra911]

While I've never had "bad" evidence, there have been many instances where things have glitched. Handprints on doors that only showed up when one of us was dead (guessing it was applied on the inside of the door for some reason), EMF readers never reading above 4, "freezing" temperatures (i.e. breath) despite the thermometer never reaching freezing, and so on. I think a lot of these have been changed over the many mini patches (I play on the beta version), but it's still frustrating when evidence bugs out somehow.
And I've had many accounts where we've spotted footprints, but they didn't count as fingerprints. Nine times out of ten though, the footprints would disappear shortly after we found them with the UV light, unlike other fingerprint evidence which is permanent.
Then there's the thing with taking photos, but even though whatever you're taking a picture of is clear as day, it doesn't count it...
And I've had wraiths disturb a lot of salt piles. Never seen a footprint with them, but that's not saying much.

[M@ngouste Agile]

@Cryo : footprints are just for taking a pic. Only Handprints and fingerprints on switch count as primary evidence.
Btw I did many games recently, and I have encountered many bugs.
The EMF never reaching 5 is recurrent, the Freezing temperatures never showing up or handprints NEVER appeared and we had to guess which spirits it was.
We play only on professionnal we're almost all above lvl 200 and this problem was recurrent since few days.
A few times we checked street house, road house etc... for prints : every switch, every window, every door... nothing... 3 thermometers slowly scanning the entire house or building to never get temperatures under 8°C while in the end we had to find freezing temp.
Same goes for spirit box, handbook or Ouija...

Sometimes it seems that evidences just don't want to show... sometimes you finish a mission in less than 5min. sometimes you spend 30min or more on a streethouse to get nothing.

I'm thinking more of a glitch or bug. Same goes for spirits behaviours... the description in book doesn't match the spirit behaviour ingame. I've seen Yurei or Demon and others running way much faster than Jinn or Specter and some that are actually flying, poping footprint on the floor...

I'm not even talking about randomness of crucifix and salt...

The game does need a fix.

[Sludge Man]

There is a bug where one evidence will not activate.
Ghost Orbs and Freezing temps are the two most common to bug out from what I've seen and heard.

[Aquahutch]

My experience is that a ghost orb will eventually show up if you a. move the vid camera around to different spots/angles or b. get someone to use a head mounted cam instead. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature of jobs with a higher difficulty.

Freezing temps don't always reveal themselves right away and you have to put in some time and effort with the ghost to get the freezing temps to manifest.

In both cases, its possible you may be giving up too soon and dismissing it as a bug. Or its possible that it IS due to a bug, but you are still giving up to soon to know the difference.