Goryo

[halflife2]

Does anyone know whether a recently spent smudge stick can attract the ghost as if it's an active electronic device?
We just did a mission on the weekly challenge and we both died, even though I was crouched behind the kitchen cabinet - it had just killed my teammate on the first floor during the same hunt - and it seemed to come straight to me.
I had no electronics (no headgear) no talking (my audio is set to push to talk) and was holding one unspent smudge, a lighter and a spent smudge.
So two things.... 1) It didn't stop the hunt after the first kill. 2) It seemed to know exactly where I was.
I accept it could have been a random path that just happened to pass right past me but it would have had to have happened to have gone around the back of the cabinet to find me.

I didn't drop the smudge when I'd lit it.... so, could it have been that which brought the ghost to me? It turned out to be a Goryo.

[underscores222]

Depending on the difficulty, hunts don't have to end when the ghost gets a kill. I'm guessing you were playing the weekly challenge, and that setting is enabled for this week. So that's functioning normally - unless you were on amateur or intermediate difficulty and didn't mention it.

Depending on where you were and where the ghost was, there's a small chance it saw you before you broke line of sight, and that would cause the ghost to path directly to the last point it saw you, and then it picked you back up.

As far as your question goes, it seems unlikely that the consumed smudge would be the culprit here. In general, the ghost only senses the equipment you are holding and the flashlight (if on) and headgear (if on), so if you were holding a new smudge, it shouldn't have cared about anything else anyway.

I'd like a little more information about the timing of events. Did you smudge before or after your friend died? There's some small chance the ghost saw where you went after the smudge wore off, walked into your friend, and then kept going to the last place it saw you. Where did your friend die? This is mostly important to help locate where the ghost was relative to you right before it started pathing to you. Was there line of sight from that point to the kitchen (were the kitchen doors open?). Were you pressed up against the kitchen island, or a bit back? If you were back a bit, or moving around, sometimes the ghost can see the top of your model.

[halflife2]

We were both at the top of the stairs and it followed by teammate into the room with the cot (turn left at the top of the stairs) while I lit the smudge and dodged past it down the stairs. I went straight through the dining room into the kitchen and behind the counter island. I don't think it spotted me as it was smudged (I guess until I took the smudge with me) and it was busy killing upstairs in the bedroom.
Thinking about it, the ghost room was the workroom in off the back of the kitchen (where the power can be) so I suppose it could have not actually known I was there and was just heading back to its favourite room when it saw me behind the counter (where it would technically be able to see me from the door to its favourite room...?
Would it typically head back to its room before actually finishing the hunt? I must admit I aren't particularly experienced around the mechanics of hunts (yet!).

[Viila]

While the ghost is hunting and it doesn't have a target to pursue, it will be wandering randomly. From the Grafton stairs the ghost can get to the kitchen in as few as three pathfinding steps presuming the ghost's max pathfinding step is same 3m as the max interaction range, so it's not terribly unlikely for it to randomly choose to path to the kitchen. Once it is in the kitchen most of the kitchen is in range of a spot where the ghost can choose to go to such that it will be able to see you behind the counter.

The kitchen counter is a dynamic hiding spot. You need to be ready to move at any time to keep the counter between you and the ghost depending on where the ghost chooses to wander to.

Basically, bad luck, it happens, be ready for it.

[halflife2]

Cool - thanks for the explanation. Since it was on the weekly challenge, nothing lost - and experience gained! Happy ghost hunting ;-)

[The Slut Butler]

Originally posted by halflife2:

Does anyone know whether a recently spent smudge stick can attract the ghost as if it's an active electronic device?
We just did a mission on the weekly challenge and we both died, even though I was crouched behind the kitchen cabinet - it had just killed my teammate on the first floor during the same hunt - and it seemed to come straight to me.
I had no electronics (no headgear) no talking (my audio is set to push to talk) and was holding one unspent smudge, a lighter and a spent smudge.
So two things.... 1) It didn't stop the hunt after the first kill. 2) It seemed to know exactly where I was.
I accept it could have been a random path that just happened to pass right past me but it would have had to have happened to have gone around the back of the cabinet to find me.

I didn't drop the smudge when I'd lit it.... so, could it have been that which brought the ghost to me? It turned out to be a Goryo.

sounds like a confused deogen.