Cursed Possessions useless.

[为让我心醉的你]

I love how most of them used to "start a hunt near you" but now they all just insta kill you by spawning the ghost inside of you. Its so awesome that some of the objects (Tarot cards, Monkey paw, summoning circle, in my experience.) don't even have downsides that matter anymore, because they all just kill you. Who cares if you lose your sanity or have permanently muffled hearing and dampened vision when the ghost just spawns on you anyway and kills you before you can even register that what you wanted to use the object for happened, because it doesn't matter anymore! I think out of the 7 times I've used "I wish for knowledge" from a monkey paw, I was able to survive once, because the other 6 times it just spawned DIRECTLY ontop of me and killed me instantly.

Great game, devs. On top of all the lighting bugs this is actually the worst experience I've ever had in this game.

[McGoodGreen]

Sounds frustrating, to be sure.

Quick question. What is your Grace period set to?

[Maya-Neko]

What do you expect? The game just granting you the strongest effect in the game and not trying to kill you in the process? Also you can read about it in the wiki and combined with your experience it shouldn't be too hard to be better prepared next time.

And if you hate it, just don't use that specific wish. Most of the time it is not really necessary anyway and other wishes are stronger in many scenarios anyway, especially if you're somewhat decent in finding the ghost type.

[Kaisoku]

I honestly haven't run into this. I've used the mirror without causing hunts fine. The summoning circle obviously does it on that spot, so that can't be it.
I sat in a hiding spot and tried pulling Tarot cards (I am missing only the hangman for my collection, so I WANTED to die, haha), but I did it outside the ghost room and in a hiding spot. Got several death cards, but never had the ghost find me... it always spawned in or near the ghost room.

Barring the ghosts with abilities to move/teleport to you, there's not much to cause the ghost to consistently spawn on top of you. It's at least not a built-in feature.

If you use the music box until the ghost gets close and then break it.. yeah, it'll be close to you. If you pull a devil card, it does an event, and the immediately pull a death card, yeah.. it's still close and probably sees you. Don't wander into the ghost room to break cursed items.

I mean, they aren't all super useful.. some are just fun to mess around with, or get clutch answers.. but I've never heard of the OP's situation. Hopefully it's not 'yet another bug'. Random if it were though, as I'd suspect more people would be screaming if it was happening all the time.

[weiss]

well, they arent "useless" you should rephrase that and saying more "dangerous" because thats why they are called "Cursed Possessions" noone forces you to use them (aside from the weekly mission) but ... are the 500$ really worth the price?

thats solely up to you ^^.

[为让我心醉的你]

It's so cute that you all can't read. I'm not saying it shouldn't start a hunt. I'm saying the hunt should be "near you" and not "insta gib you instantly". The "drawback" for using the wish for knowledge is muffled audio and darkened vision, NOT instant death.

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

What do you expect? The game just granting you the strongest effect in the game and not trying to kill you in the process? Also you can read about it in the wiki and combined with your experience it shouldn't be too hard to be better prepared next time.

And if you hate it, just don't use that specific wish. Most of the time it is not really necessary anyway and other wishes are stronger in many scenarios anyway, especially if you're somewhat decent in finding the ghost type.

It's almost like you get three wishes and can use multiple kinds and the only one that should INSTANTLY KILL YOU. should be the one that REVIVES someone. I HAVE read about them all on the wiki and NO WHERE does it say Wish of knowledge is supposed to spawn the ghost DIRECTLY ONTOP OF YOUR MODEL WITH LITTLE TO NO HOPE OF ESCAPE.

Originally posted by weiss:

well, they arent "useless" you should rephrase that and saying more "dangerous" because thats why they are called "Cursed Possessions" noone forces you to use them (aside from the weekly mission) but ... are the 500$ really worth the price?

thats solely up to you ^^.

The ones that are currently INSTANTLY KILLING YOU when that is NOT PART OF THEIR DESIGN are absolutely useless.

Originally posted by Kaisoku:

I honestly haven't run into this. I've used the mirror without causing hunts fine. The summoning circle obviously does it on that spot, so that can't be it.
I sat in a hiding spot and tried pulling Tarot cards (I am missing only the hangman for my collection, so I WANTED to die, haha), but I did it outside the ghost room and in a hiding spot. Got several death cards, but never had the ghost find me... it always spawned in or near the ghost room.

Barring the ghosts with abilities to move/teleport to you, there's not much to cause the ghost to consistently spawn on top of you. It's at least not a built-in feature.

If you use the music box until the ghost gets close and then break it.. yeah, it'll be close to you. If you pull a devil card, it does an event, and the immediately pull a death card, yeah.. it's still close and probably sees you. Don't wander into the ghost room to break cursed items.

I mean, they aren't all super useful.. some are just fun to mess around with, or get clutch answers.. but I've never heard of the OP's situation. Hopefully it's not 'yet another bug'. Random if it were though, as I'd suspect more people would be screaming if it was happening all the time.

The summoning circle is supposed to TRAP THE GHOST WITHIN THE CIRCLE. Not cause a hunt AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE LAST CANDLE and INSTANTLY KILLING YOU within less than half a second. The mirror spawns a hunt AT THE GHOSTS LOCATION not on top of you. It IS A BUILT IN FEATURE for the Monkey paw and the tarot cards that some options "Start a hunt near you". The Monkey paw is not "near you" it is "on top of you".

I thank you all for your INCREDIBLE reading comprehension.

The monkey paw did not used to do this. I used to use it all the time. It should not spawn the ghost on top of you.

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by 1NF3S+@+!0N:

The summoning circle is supposed to TRAP THE GHOST WITHIN THE CIRCLE. Not cause a hunt AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE LAST CANDLE and INSTANTLY KILLING YOU within less than half a second.
...
I thank you all for your INCREDIBLE reading comprehension.

From patch notes 0.7.00:

"If you have less than 16% sanity when lighting the last Summoning Circle, the ghost will now hunt instantly after being summoned"

[Raphiel]

skill issue lmmaaooo

[为让我心醉的你]

Originally posted by Glimmer:

Originally posted by 1NF3S+@+!0N:

The summoning circle is supposed to TRAP THE GHOST WITHIN THE CIRCLE. Not cause a hunt AS SOON AS YOU HIT THE LAST CANDLE and INSTANTLY KILLING YOU within less than half a second.
...
I thank you all for your INCREDIBLE reading comprehension.

From patch notes 0.7.00:

"If you have less than 16% sanity when lighting the last Summoning Circle, the ghost will now hunt instantly after being summoned"

Then why did it kill at the very start of the investigation at full sanity?? I know how to read, thank you, and I'm well aware it kills at LOW SANITY. Not 15 seconds into the investigation.

[为让我心醉的你]

Originally posted by NoRizzDuck:

skill issue :celeste_bird: lmmaaooo

I am actually quite bad at getting away during hunts, but the thing is I have survived monkey paw hunts before, and its very frustrating at I never can on the newer updates. It literally never used to do this.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by McGoodGreen:

Sounds frustrating, to be sure.

Quick question. What is your Grace period set to?

Cursed hunts have a grace period of 1 second regardless.

[xo]

They’ve always done that since cursed possessions came out.

I wish for knowledge makes the ghost spawn near you but please realize that most cursed hunts have a grace period of 0-1. If the ghost is roaming around it can potentially spawn on you, but my question is how you are dying instantly.

There must be some correlation to that, but I’m sure the cases you use them in is in their room which isn’t recommended.

Risk.

[xInfectedZz]

right now i doubt that you really can read or understand how it works :O and all your CAPPPPPIIIINNNG wont help you in any way..... i am lvl 94 now and what you describe hasnt happend to me at all with the new update except once with summoning circle but that was my own fault cuz my sanity was low everything else worked as it should

[为让我心醉的你]

Originally posted by Aya:

I wish for knowledge makes the ghost spawn near you but please realize that most cursed hunts have a grace period of 0-1. If the ghost is roaming around it can potentially spawn on you, but my question is how you are dying instantly.

There must be some correlation to that, but I’m sure the cases you use them in is in their room which isn’t recommended.

I only ever use curse possessions near the entrance or hiding spots, never in the room. I love the assumptions people are making as if I haven't owned this game for years, its lovely.

Originally posted by xInfectedZz:

right now i doubt that you really can read or understand how it works :O and all your CAPPPPPIIIINNNG wont help you in any way..... i am lvl 94 now and what you describe hasnt happend to me at all with the new update except once with summoning circle but that was my own fault cuz my sanity was low everything else worked as it should

Its almost like your experience isn't universal. Me and my friends have been *instantly* killed by cursed items when we should not have. Its not rocket science to assume that a bug could be the reason considering the terribly unstable nature of this game right now, especially with world clipping and lighting engine malfunctions.

[McGoodGreen]

When it comes to the summoning circle doesn't each candle you light drastically reduce your sanity? My squad and I have always split the candles being lit for that exact reason. But maybe I am thinking crazy.

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Originally posted by McGoodGreen:

Sounds frustrating, to be sure.

Quick question. What is your Grace period set to?

Cursed hunts have a grace period of 1 second regardless.

Ohhh yeah, that makes sense. Being cursed and all.

[为让我心醉的你]

Originally posted by McGoodGreen:

When it comes to the summoning circle doesn't each candle you light drastically reduce your sanity? My squad and I have always split the candles being lit for that exact reason. But maybe I am thinking crazy.

Originally posted by Vanessa:

Cursed hunts have a grace period of 1 second regardless.

Ohhh yeah, that makes sense. Being cursed and all.

Only 16% per player in the nearby area. Something we knew, and avoided, and was still instantly killed by.