All lights off but fuse on

[BOOM!!]

Why sometimes the ghost would suddenly turn off all the lights' switches but left the fuse on? It happened at least 3 times in 2 games on 8/27

[Shurenai]

All lights turn off at the end of the hunt, but it doesn't trip the breaker.

Shouldn't happen any other time though.

[WolfLink0370]

All ghosts have the ability to interact with the fuse box from anywhere... usually this involves turning it off, but they can also turn it back on themselves.

So in a theoretical state, it could blow the breaker by turning on one too many lights, then do it's fuse box interaction to turn it back on by the time someone can reach it.

Course, it could also be a bug with the fuse box state not swapping when the breaker trip happened. Hard to say really... but I haven't heard of fuse box being wonky after the update.

EDIT oh yeah, forgot about that detail that Shurenai mentioned - yeah ghosts turn off all the lights after a hunt concludes. kind of annoying, but at least it's a way to tell when a hunt is over.

[Maya-Neko]

I've experienced a bug lately, where all lights go off like in a hunt, when a crucifix gets used. Seems like it is a 1-frame hunt, which is enough to trigger the hunt-ending-events, but still uses the crucifix to prevent it.

[Jayth]

This happened to me JUST now and I was so confused. on Willow Street with 5 lights on. ghost turns off all the lights, crucifix burns the nanosecond after, breaker is still on.
I thought it was a new ghost ability at first that came with 2.0

[Noelle]

Honestly, I like the idea that a prevented hunt still turns off All The Lights.

It makes it very, very clear that your crucifix was just consumed.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Noelle:

Honestly, I like the idea that a prevented hunt still turns off All The Lights.

It makes it very, very clear that your crucifix was just consumed.

It does- But I also dislike it for that very reason. There is nothing quite so terrifying as thinking you're out of hunt territory, and walking into a room to a completely burnt crucifix and realizing the ghost could hunt at literally any moment because you didn't get to see/hear the charge(s) get consumed.

[Endless]

Just had an Obake turn off ALL lights in house twice but leave breaker on. No hunt. Ghost was in basement while I was in kitchen on Tanglewood. I had living room, utility, kitchen, dining room, and basement lights on. So not enough to trigger the lights off by killing the breaker. Makes an insanity run incredibly hard.

[Decurio Cthulhus [ESP]]

when a ghost ends a hunt, or crucifix prevents it, all lights turn off

[stubbies2003]

Originally posted by Flash:

Just had an Obake turn off ALL lights in house twice but leave breaker on. No hunt. Ghost was in basement while I was in kitchen on Tanglewood. I had living room, utility, kitchen, dining room, and basement lights on. So not enough to trigger the lights off by killing the breaker. Makes an insanity run incredibly hard.

That was either a end of a hunt or a crucifix use. I've never seen a ghost turn off all of the lights at the same moment and leave the breaker on other than those two situations.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by stubbies2003:

Originally posted by Flash:

Just had an Obake turn off ALL lights in house twice but leave breaker on. No hunt. Ghost was in basement while I was in kitchen on Tanglewood. I had living room, utility, kitchen, dining room, and basement lights on. So not enough to trigger the lights off by killing the breaker. Makes an insanity run incredibly hard.

That was either a end of a hunt or a crucifix use. I've never seen a ghost turn off all of the lights at the same moment and leave the breaker on other than those two situations.

This.
Active hunt ends: Lights off, Breaker on.
Attempted hunt blocked by crucifix: Lights off, breaker on.

Additionally, ANY ghost can flip switches on- You(Flash) may have only had on lights in the living room, utility, kitchen, dining, and basement lights on; But if the ghost turns on enough additional lights it can flip the breaker anyway. If you weren't paying attention it's entirely possible the ghost was flipping switches elsewhere and your count of active lights was off. Also, It's not just room lights that count towards the breaker- Small light sources like table lamps count too, and ghosts LOVE to turn those on.

And, as another option, It is entirely possible, albeit unlikely, for the ghost to flip the breaker back to ON after it gets tripped by the excess of lights- Resulting in a breaker that is on but all lights are off.

Couple other possibilities too, i think, but, that covers most of the common ones. By far the most likely candidates are an active hunt ending or a crucifix blocking a hunt. And especially, don't forget that Onryo specifically can attempt to hunt and have it's hunt prevented by a candle- That'll also nuke the lights but leave the breaker on, iirc. (Mimic too, by proxy)

[stubbies2003]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by stubbies2003:

That was either a end of a hunt or a crucifix use. I've never seen a ghost turn off all of the lights at the same moment and leave the breaker on other than those two situations.

This.
Active hunt ends: Lights off, Breaker on.
Attempted hunt blocked by crucifix: Lights off, breaker on.

Additionally, ANY ghost can flip switches on- You(Flash) may have only had on lights in the living room, utility, kitchen, dining, and basement lights on; But if the ghost turns on enough additional lights it can flip the breaker anyway. If you weren't paying attention it's entirely possible the ghost was flipping switches elsewhere and your count of active lights was off. Also, It's not just room lights that count towards the breaker- Small light sources like table lamps count too, and ghosts LOVE to turn those on.

Well not 100% true as Mare's cannot turn lights on. Post patch they can with the TV and the computer but not lights.