How does the Tier 1 DOTS work?

[Chuckleton]

Hi there, so after spending a few hours in the new update with friends we were able to use all the new Tier 1 items and everythings worked fine, the only thing we could not find out how the Tier 1 D.O.T.S worked?

Pretty much we're used to the normal one where when it's placed the little man will run across it to show DOTS, but after playing a bunch last night we could not figure out how with this updated DOTS worked to tell if evidence was working in our favor or not.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated, haven't been able to find much but the update did drop yesterday so not expecting a plethora of knowledge on it yet, but if anyones figured it out, would be great!

[Vanessa]

The ghost will periodically enter a 'DOTS state' where it becomes visible if you're pointing a DOTS at it. When revealed it will move towards the nearest player and then disappear.

And that's it.

Goryo is when things get messy, because I've had a Goryo a few times since the update and NOT ONCE has it ever shown its DOTS.

Normally, Goryo has DOTS that only appear on the cameras, but not with the naked eye. But try as you like - prop the DOTS up on a table or on the floor or whatever, and watch the cameras either in person from a neighboring room or from the van. The DOTS won't show, ever. If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice. Just assume it's not functional.

[Chuckleton]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

The ghost will periodically enter a 'DOTS state' where it becomes visible if you're pointing a DOTS at it. When revealed it will move towards the nearest player and then disappear.

And that's it.

Goryo is when things get messy, because I've had a Goryo a few times since the update and NOT ONCE has it ever shown its DOTS.

Normally, Goryo has DOTS that only appear on the cameras, but not with the naked eye. But try as you like - prop the DOTS up on a table or on the floor or whatever, and watch the cameras either in person from a neighboring room or from the van. The DOTS won't show, ever. If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice. Just assume it's not functional.

Interesting, okay! I had the ghost walk up to me while using dots but I wasn't sure if it was because of dots or the ghost wanted to do a spooky jumpscare, I swore that happened and still didn't count but I'd have to look back to see if it was Goryo or not in my recordings. Thanks for the advice!

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Chuckleton:

Originally posted by Vanessa:

The ghost will periodically enter a 'DOTS state' where it becomes visible if you're pointing a DOTS at it. When revealed it will move towards the nearest player and then disappear.

And that's it.

Goryo is when things get messy, because I've had a Goryo a few times since the update and NOT ONCE has it ever shown its DOTS.

Normally, Goryo has DOTS that only appear on the cameras, but not with the naked eye. But try as you like - prop the DOTS up on a table or on the floor or whatever, and watch the cameras either in person from a neighboring room or from the van. The DOTS won't show, ever. If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice. Just assume it's not functional.

Interesting, okay! I had the ghost walk up to me while using dots but I wasn't sure if it was because of dots or the ghost wanted to do a spooky jumpscare, I swore that happened and still didn't count but I'd have to look back to see if it was Goryo or not in my recordings. Thanks for the advice!

You can determine the difference between a DOTS apparation and an event by the sound - or lack thereof. Events are loud, DOTS don't tend to make noise

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

The ghost will periodically enter a 'DOTS state' where it becomes visible if you're pointing a DOTS at it. When revealed it will move towards the nearest player and then disappear.

And that's it.

Goryo is when things get messy, because I've had a Goryo a few times since the update and NOT ONCE has it ever shown its DOTS.

Normally, Goryo has DOTS that only appear on the cameras, but not with the naked eye. But try as you like - prop the DOTS up on a table or on the floor or whatever, and watch the cameras either in person from a neighboring room or from the van. The DOTS won't show, ever. If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice. Just assume it's not functional.

Works for me, Goryo camera DOTS I mean.
You were just unlucky, I guess. No reason to tell others to not bother...

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Sunshine:

Originally posted by Vanessa:

The ghost will periodically enter a 'DOTS state' where it becomes visible if you're pointing a DOTS at it. When revealed it will move towards the nearest player and then disappear.

And that's it.

Goryo is when things get messy, because I've had a Goryo a few times since the update and NOT ONCE has it ever shown its DOTS.

Normally, Goryo has DOTS that only appear on the cameras, but not with the naked eye. But try as you like - prop the DOTS up on a table or on the floor or whatever, and watch the cameras either in person from a neighboring room or from the van. The DOTS won't show, ever. If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice. Just assume it's not functional.

Works for me, Goryo camera DOTS I mean.
You were just unlucky, I guess. No reason to tell others to not bother...

It's certainly rare enough to not be worth spending an hour hawk-eyeing the cameras for the chance that maybe it'll show

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Originally posted by Sunshine:

Works for me, Goryo camera DOTS I mean.
You were just unlucky, I guess. No reason to tell others to not bother...

It's certainly rare enough to not be worth spending an hour hawk-eyeing the cameras for the chance that maybe it'll show

I had a Goryo since our last post. Didn't take an hour. You're really exaggerating this problem instead of just admitting you are mistaken. Why?

All Goryos I had since the patch worked as intended.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Sunshine:

Originally posted by Vanessa:

It's certainly rare enough to not be worth spending an hour hawk-eyeing the cameras for the chance that maybe it'll show

I had a Goryo since our last post. Didn't take an hour. You're really exaggerating this problem instead of just admitting you are mistaken. Why?

All Goryos I had since the patch worked as intended.

Doesn't work for me.
You were just lucky, I guess. No reason to tell others they're mistaken...

[Thea-Creampup]

I am not saying this to be mean in any way, but you can check the tutorial it is updated and teach much better than the old one, also let you see how to use all the basic updated tools. i ben playing the game a while and I easily skipped it, but I check it, and it is a great way to re-learn practically how the tools do it's work or new functions. it is also nicely done.

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Originally posted by Sunshine:

I had a Goryo since our last post. Didn't take an hour. You're really exaggerating this problem instead of just admitting you are mistaken. Why?

All Goryos I had since the patch worked as intended.

Doesn't work for me.
You were just lucky, I guess. No reason to tell others they're mistaken...

I was lucky in 100% of the cases I had a Goryo but you are somehow correct because it didn't work for you once? Lol.

I swear people just go online to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ argue, no matter what evidence is against them, they are adamant to remain ignorant.

[thrythlind]

DOTs will show up as green ghosts too.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Sunshine:

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Doesn't work for me.
You were just lucky, I guess. No reason to tell others they're mistaken...

I was lucky in 100% of the cases I had a Goryo but you are somehow correct because it didn't work for you once? Lol.

I swear people just go online to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ argue, no matter what evidence is against them, they are adamant to remain ignorant.

I was just repeating your argument back to you, but I've had three Goryos all in small rooms and I've spent collectively... an hour and five, an hour and ten minutes just staring at cameras and never once seen it register on the cameras, regardless of how I orientate the DOTS pens.

That is very obviously enough of a sample size to tell someone that Goryo appearing on the DOTS is rare and not really worth bothering. Maybe it's not actually broken and it is possible that they will show up, but if it can consistently take ~20+ minutes without a single apparation when the Goryo in question is spending the entire time right in front of the DOTS, it's simply not worth waiting for.

I don't know what causes this. I know it's not the orientation of the T1 pens, I know it's not the size of the room, and I know it's not just freak luck since it happened three times. There could be other factors that cause it to sometimes happen consistently and sometimes never happen even if you watched the cameras for a hundred hours. I just know what I've discovered through vigorous testing.

At bare minimum, Goryo's DOTS *may* not appear after a 20+ minute wait and that's enough to warn people against sitting there assuming they'll appear.

[Cryerborg]

Originally posted by Vanessa:

If you suspect a Goryo and don't have tier 2 DOTS yet, don't bother is my advice.

I'll second this, it feels like such a coin toss whether or not you'll get it.

Originally posted by Sunshine:

I was lucky in 100% of the cases I had a Goryo but you are somehow correct because it didn't work for you once?

Maybe you have that special touch, like people who walk in and immediately get spirit box. Buy a lottery ticket, I guess.

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Cryerborg:

Maybe you have that special touch, like people who walk in and immediately get spirit box. Buy a lottery ticket, I guess.

But I really don't wanna touch a Goryo.....

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Zorrito-Thea:

I am not saying this to be mean in any way, but you can check the tutorial it is updated and teach much better than the old one, also let you see how to use all the basic updated tools. i ben playing the game a while and I easily skipped it, but I check it, and it is a great way to re-learn practically how the tools do it's work or new functions. it is also nicely done.

the dots tutorial doesn't even show you a ghost. It shows you a static, always there christmas tree to light up with the pen. The dots tutorial does in no way tell you how to get it in the game, unlike the other evidence tutorials.

Also it's not correct that the dots state ghost will walk towards the player. I've had multiple dots where the ghost was moving in a different direction away from me, in solo mode.

https://i.imgur.com/MLU6UMk.png
https://i.imgur.com/fH1ox0X.png

[Artyriak]

The T1 Dots Pen definitely works, I think it might be deliberately inconsistent because it's T1. I've had it show the DOTS evidence several times in a few minutes while in my hand, and other times it took upward of twenty minutes to show the evidence while placed in a stationary position.

The closest thing to a "trick" I've worked out (subjective - could be confirmation bias) is to "trick drop" the pen so it lands facing in the same direction as a camera but at least a few inches in front of it (the camera's position), aimed at the ghost room/space with as much of the area saturated by the DOTS field as possible. Obviously works best for smaller spaces.

Sitting around watching the camera for 5 minutes to catch the DOTS evidence is a little tedious if you're used to going super fast, but I (as a low-hours primarily solo player) just plan around doing Orbs and DOTS check at the same time from the truck while going over the possibilities from physical evidence checks/behaviour observed/planing what to do next. It's still five minutes but stacking how many things you're checking in that five minutes is at least productive.