how does DOTS actually work

[DazzyBoy]

can someone explain please - when i done training you can clearly see obvious figures but when actually looking i have not found nothing. however i have found a large circle sometimes what moves?

[Shurenai]

Large circle sometimes that moves is freezing breath refracting the dots light, ignore it.

As for how it works, I just wrote this up in another thread, so copy pasting here with some tweaks:

You know the ghost model you see during ghost events and hunts? Picture that but translucent, green, and dotsy. It's literally the same model but illuminated by dots light.

So if you get a ghost event/hunt and it's the butcher dude with the meat cleaver, the dots you'll see is the same guy. Also beware the ghosts that can change posture like the ring girl who can crawl on the ground on all 4s; They do that in dots too so you have to make sure your dots shine on the floor too if the model in question is capable of that.

As for how to get it, The ghost occasionally enters a 'dots visible' state, during which if you shine dots on it, it'll be visible; and during which it will path directly* towards the nearest** player.
*It will walk around any intervening furniture, not through things
**Banshee's will instead always path towards their target if they're in the building.

With the T1 dots, just stand in a corner in the room the ghost is in, set up some motion sensors in the room so you can tell roughly where the ghost is in the room, and point the dots out from the corner and slowly pan back and forth in the rough area the ghost is at; when it becomes dots visible it'll walk right towards you clear as day.

[DazzyBoy]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Large circle sometimes that moves is freezing breath refracting the dots light, ignore it.

As for how it works, I just wrote this up in another thread, so copy pasting here:

You know the ghost model you see during ghost events and hunts? Picture that but translucent, green, and dotsy. It's literally the same model but illuminated by dots light. As Lemon said, you've likely confused your breath for dots in the past.

So if you get a ghost event/hunt and it's the butcher dude with the meat cleaver, the dots you'll see is the same guy. Also beware the ghosts that can change posture like the ring girl who can crawl on the ground on all 4s; They do that in dots too so you have to make sure your dots shine on the floor too if the model in question is capable of that.

As for how to get it, The ghost occasionally enters a 'dots visible' state, during which if you shine dots on it, it'll be visible; and during which it will path directly* towards the nearest** player.
*It will walk around any intervening furniture, not through things
**Banshee's will instead always path towards their target if they're in the building.

With the T1 dots, just stand in a corner in the room the ghost is in, set up some motion sensors in the room so you can tell roughly where the ghost is in the room, and point the dots out from the corner and slowly pan back and forth in the rough area the ghost is at; when it becomes dots visible it'll walk right towards you clear as day.

thank you for this!

[Summerbutterfly]

When it feels like it lol. I am having a hard time obtaining DOTS.

[Nall]

Can you no longer get DOTS evidence by planting a dots projector or putting down a dots flashlight and watching it on camera from the van, if no one is in the room with it?

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Nall:

Can you no longer get DOTS evidence by planting a dots projector or putting down a dots flashlight and watching it on camera from the van, if no one is in the room with it?

You can, but, it's harder to pick up especially with the T1, since without a player present the ghost will continue just meandering around the room instead of approaching the player, so it's dots active phase could just as easily be out of the green beam off to the side, or in the far corner; and you can't adjust the beam to compensate for where it is in the room either since you're in the truck.

But it is indeed still possible to get dots that way.

[Xomby]

DOTS takes patience now, and depending on the height of T1 DOTS, if you've got a crawling or otherwise short ghost, it wont even show up. also seems to be slightly glitchy sometimes... you REALLY have to be paying attention, and it's far easier to see in the truck than without nightvision.

[Hammer Of Evil]

5m range, have to make sure the ghost is moving through it.

ghost can be crawling on the ground, so its easy to miss.