Smudge stick not working - still died

[Kaelyn Noelle]

Experienced player. Used a smudge stick about 1.5 meters away from the hunting ghost and I ran past it and it still got me. I know how smudging works (right when you do it and right after it's done). This wasn't an issue for me before this recent patch.

[Digestive]

Same happened to us in our game

[Shadow]

It's possible the ghost followed you when wandering, this happens quite frequently. Maybe you are no longer able to run through the ghost while it's smudged?

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Kaelyn Noelle:

Experienced player. Used a smudge stick about 1.5 meters away from the hunting ghost and I ran past it and it still got me. I know how smudging works (right when you do it and right after it's done). This wasn't an issue for me before this recent patch.

The smudge stick applies its effect multiple times throughout the smudge stick animation, not just twice, so no need to wait for the latest possible moment.

If you're playing multiplayer, but aren't the host, then smudging that late can still cause you to die due to latency. It can even happen in singleplayer, if you use the smudge stick at the same time the ghost reaches you.

[BelligerG]

Yup, this happened to me too. I got credit for completing the objective (smudging a ghost when it's chasing someone), ran through okay, only to be followed and killed instantly within about 2 seconds of the successful smudge.
I wonder if there's an issues with smudge time? It did allow me to run through without dying which makes me think that it did register the smudge

[AncientShadow]

I started the smudge and it was like 20% burnt and I still died when the ghost was close enough to me to have been blinded and not kill me......

[𐎿𐎠𐎾𐎠𐎼]

its your latency has happened many times for me
thats why I dont try to loop the ghost in multiplayer
I have had ghosts killing me from 5 meters away in multiplayer but I can loop ghosts standing 1 meter away in single player
if you wanna smudge it during a hunt in multiplayer , just do it from 3m minimum, else based on your ping you will die

[𐎿𐎠𐎾𐎠𐎼]

Originally posted by Shadow:

It's possible the ghost followed you when wandering, this happens quite frequently. Maybe you are no longer able to run through the ghost while it's smudged?

you totally can run through ghost when its smudged, Im doing it everyday

[The Roadtrain]

never had an issue till the past few weeks, smudge sticks not working.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Maybe you are no longer able to run through the ghost while it's smudged?

Were we EVER able to run through the ghost? As far as I understand, touching the ghost at any point during its hunt results in death.

Smudging does not make the ghost intangible; it just makes the ghost walk in a random direction for the duration of the smudge.

I had something similar occur back in 2020, but it was me testing my theory by smudging the ghost, have it turn around and walk into a wall, and me running directly into it while it was "confused" to see what would happen. (I died, as you might expect.)

[Shadow]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Shadow:

Maybe you are no longer able to run through the ghost while it's smudged?

Were we EVER able to run through the ghost? As far as I understand, touching the ghost at any point during its hunt results in death.

Smudging does not make the ghost intangible; it just makes the ghost walk in a random direction for the duration of the smudge.

I had something similar occur back in 2020, but it was me testing my theory by smudging the ghost, have it turn around and walk into a wall, and me running directly into it while it was "confused" to see what would happen. (I died, as you might expect.)

You used to be able to, while you smudge it you'd be safe to run through it. Maybe it's broken now, considering all the desync issues, this doesn't surprise me.

[Watcher Rat]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Shadow:

Maybe you are no longer able to run through the ghost while it's smudged?

Were we EVER able to run through the ghost? As far as I understand, touching the ghost at any point during its hunt results in death.

Smudging does not make the ghost intangible; it just makes the ghost walk in a random direction for the duration of the smudge.

I had something similar occur back in 2020, but it was me testing my theory by smudging the ghost, have it turn around and walk into a wall, and me running directly into it while it was "confused" to see what would happen. (I died, as you might expect.)

Can say from experience that it does still work, so I'd say this was either a random glitch or a latency issue for the OP. I've made it a habit to run through the ghost pretty much any time I smudge to make sure it hits, and have done it pretty much every single hunt I've been in since the last patch (and last several before that). Have yet to ever die except for one case where I waited just a second too long (it was a phantom and I misjudged the distance while it was invisible), and it grabbed me at the exact moment I lit the smudge.

[Drugnir UA]

Same here. Ghost follow me during the smudge stick and when stick was 50% ghost killed me.

[Nightmare]

There is a one second delay for this smudge stick Were you smudges where the ghost will be when it’s not stunned when it’s stunned it’ll be wandering