Banshee Special Ability!

[His Quivzness]

I've known about it for a long time, but now I've finally seen it first hand and i caught it live while streaming!

I don't think steam forums preserve the time stamp link, but just skip to 59:00 or click the time link in the description below the video and watch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZ_GuQMzRY&t=3540s
Video is still standard definition at the moment, i streamed twice today and the first one (hitman) is still processing so i don't know when the HD for the phasmo banshee hunt will be up.

[Shooty Manz]

Ah, if you had left the EMF on this would have been perfect. I have such a hard time getting the Banshee to do it when I want it to differentiate it from just a "normal" hunt most games as I play with friends.

Supposedly its supposed to initiate a hunt when you leave its line of sight once it "teleports" to you with its special ability. So having the EMF on would have shown it teleported as it will have an EMF of 3-5 once it does that.

And I am guessing that breaking line of sight from it with the door when you were checking for fingerprints is what did it caused it to start its hunt.

Still cool to see it in action.

[weiss]

getting the EMF 5 stuff out of ghosts is sometimes one of the hardest things xD expecially if you didnt got it at the beginning (first 5~10 minutes) of the game. cause ya sanity is by then (atleast in intermediate and proffessionall) so low that ya get yourself mostlikely killed to get that EMF 5 and it is the only thing which is missing cause you have like 3 ghost choices with 2 evidences but 2 of them have still EMF 5 in them. luckily ya can often count 1 of 3 out. but meeeh that damn 50/50 sometimes when ya find no frigging fingerprints or no ghost writing etc. and that damn emf wont go up to 5 to see if it is this one or that one xD.

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by Shooty Manz:

Ah, if you had left the EMF on this would have been perfect. I have such a hard time getting the Banshee to do it when I want it to differentiate it from just a "normal" hunt most games as I play with friends.

Supposedly its supposed to initiate a hunt when you leave its line of sight once it "teleports" to you with its special ability. So having the EMF on would have shown it teleported as it will have an EMF of 3-5 once it does that.

And I am guessing that breaking line of sight from it with the door when you were checking for fingerprints is what did it caused it to start its hunt.

Still cool to see it in action.

Um... That's the opposite of the banshee's ability. And it doesn't teleport, that's the wraiths special ability. The banshee's special ability is to move towards its target no matter where in the house they are. They do this for 20 seconds and if they draw line of sight to their target during this time they start a hunt no matter what the average sanity is. The reason i know its a Banshee is that when i get back to the truck I'm on 85% sanity.

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by Chiro:

getting the EMF 5 stuff out of ghosts is sometimes one of the hardest things xD expecially if you didnt got it at the beginning (first 5~10 minutes) of the game. cause ya sanity is by then (atleast in intermediate and proffessionall) so low that ya get yourself mostlikely killed to get that EMF 5 and it is the only thing which is missing cause you have like 3 ghost choices with 2 evidences but 2 of them have still EMF 5 in them. luckily ya can often count 1 of 3 out. but meeeh that damn 50/50 sometimes when ya find no frigging fingerprints or no ghost writing etc. and that damn emf wont go up to 5 to see if it is this one or that one xD.

Its a bit easier in solo. Your sanity drop is only half and you dont have to share pills with anyone so you have a total of 160% extra sanity at your disposal. Doesn't help with a Banshee's special ability though!

[His Quivzness]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Video is still standard definition at the moment, i streamed twice today and the first one (hitman) is still processing so i don't know when the HD for the phasmo banshee hunt will be up.

HD is up finally... I also realise from the comment from Shooty Manz that people don't even know whats the special ability in the video. If you watch for about 2 minutes You'll see the hunt and then see me get back to the van afterwards and check my sanity. Then I'll explain why it can't be any other ghost except a Banshee.

[Shooty Manz]

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Originally posted by His Quivzness:

Video is still standard definition at the moment, i streamed twice today and the first one (hitman) is still processing so i don't know when the HD for the phasmo banshee hunt will be up.

HD is up finally... I also realise from the comment from Shooty Manz that people don't even know whats the special ability in the video. If you watch for about 2 minutes You'll see the hunt and then see me get back to the van afterwards and check my sanity. Then I'll explain why it can't be any other ghost except a Banshee.

It seems there's been more information released since the game came out. Even the wiki has more up to date info than before when I played. We all just going off what we had at the time and how we thought the game worked. All we had on release was data mined info on the banshee.

I'll just say that I do think at one point the banshee did actually teleport as we would sometimes get EMF 3-5 readings in the van back in the day when the banshee seemingly teleported to the van when it was just in the room with another player. Unless the banshee wasn't working as intended before and its "Mark" that it threw down was giving off the readings but the banshee didn't know how to get to the target.

Also, I've never really heard it "walking" to its targeted location. So I'm not sure if it makes noise or if its just so rare that its hard to look out for and test. :\