Man that Obake change, who the hell stares at the ghost when it hunts?

[Vahnkiljoy]

I'm usually trying to run away and NOT bump into things, yet now we have to hope a miniscule as hell chance will happen for the thing that NEVER happened to happen. I just don't even get the point of that change.

[Benji]

I like smudge sticks.

[Drizau]

You don't have to keep looking at it, you still have a chance to get obake fingerprints. If you still wish to see it change it's model just bring smudge sticks and stay near a hiding spot or somewhere you can loop safely. Obviously the change was made to add more details to the ghost and it's very useful if you happen to see it shapeshift, but it's not something you must do

[Vahnkiljoy]

I figured, hell there was an investigation my friends and I were on, it opened or closed a door I forget which one, I grabbed a nearby glowstick and saw the 6 fingers, let them know on the radios, ran out as we were keeping lights off for orbs/dots anything we could get at the time and when I went back in the prints changed to the streaking hand one. Now if that isn't an intended thing than it should be.

[Drizau]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

I figured, hell there was an investigation my friends and I were on, it opened or closed a door I forget which one, I grabbed a nearby glowstick and saw the 6 fingers, let them know on the radios, ran out as we were keeping lights off for orbs/dots anything we could get at the time and when I went back in the prints changed to the streaking hand one. Now if that isn't an intended thing than it should be.

It is intended, obake touched the door again so it changed the prints

[Maya-Neko]

This change is mostly geared towards 0-Evidence, as you can still easily get it with 1 or more evidence without even a single hunt due to its both fingerprint-abilities. And when you're able to play at 0, then you're already good enough to not panic all the time.

[Rhapsody]

It's also something of a frequently requested addition to Obake. Changing forms only briefly during hunting is probably the only way to make their shapeshifting actually visualized without making it too easy.

[Sylante]

You mean you DON'T walk backwards staring at the ghost waiting til the last possible second to light your smudge stick then go find your next smudge only to repeat that and stare at the ghost the entire time?

[Jimmy Hunter]

Some maps/rooms are also large enough you can set up a camera and see watch the Ghost. This is also why you can have up to 6 cameras placed around to watch the Ghost during the Hunt to help confirm the shape shift.

Gotta learn to make better usage of your gear, eh?

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Some maps/rooms are also large enough you can set up a camera and see watch the Ghost. This is also why you can have up to 6 cameras placed around to watch the Ghost during the Hunt to help confirm the shape shift.

Gotta learn to make better usage of your gear, eh?

Never heard of anybody really doing something like that as a method to confirm anything beyond orbs and writing, especially given how hard it is to look through all the disturbances to begin with.

And i highly doubt, that the new Obake ability has anything to do with the devs decision to specifically put 6 cameras into the van like 2 years ago.

Overall there's a more reasonable reason for that: It's just a static tool for those, who rather go into the van to check for stuff like orbs or interactions, so you've the option to put more cameras in, so that a bad camera angle doesn't force you back in again to move the camera.

And given that the van only supports one picture at a time, it's not really made to switch fast between it to follow an active hunt.

And then there's even singleplayer on top of that, where you can't even utilize that to begin with, since you can't start a hunt from the Van