Summoning Circle Bug?

[NaCl]

I have a question regarding summoning circles. I went back and checked through some of the patch notes. but couldn't find what I was looking for, although maybe I missed it? I haven't used a circle in a long time.

So I was playing on Ridgeview on Nightmare difficulty, and was just about done with my investigation. All I needed was a ghost photo to complete my 3 star collection, and a hunt to determine which of my four finalists was the ghost.

I had a circle in the basement, so I went out to the truck and ate all 3 of my sanity pills. I waited for a bit for my sanity to raise, then I grabbed my smudge and my camera and went down to the basement.
My plan was to light up, then snap the photo, then run upstairs and hide behind the boxes by the fireplace. I even turned off the breaker, since one of the finalists was a Hantu.

But as soon as I lit the last candle, it spawned in the circle and instantly rushed and killed me. Which is not how I remember circles working.
I remember circles trapping the ghost in the center of the pentagram for a moment. Long enough for you to snap a photo and run away.
Did they change that? Or did I encounter a bug?
If they changed it, that's fine. I just want to know for future reference. So I can plan accordingly.

Sorry for the text wall. I'm just upset because I had it in the bag.
It was a Hantu, if you're curious. Its speed when it killed me was the last clue I needed. A Rev would have started off slower, and the other options were standard speed ghosts.

[Shurenai]

If the ghost had initiated a hunt prior to you lighting the last candle, the moment the candle is lit it would be moved to the circle and not restrained in any way- This is one of the dangers of the summoning circle. You need to make sure there isn't an active hunt at the time the last candle is lit.

[NaCl]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

If the ghost had initiated a hunt prior to you lighting the last candle, the moment the candle is lit it would be moved to the circle and not restrained in any way- This is one of the dangers of the summoning circle. You need to make sure there isn't an active hunt at the time the last candle is lit.

So they did not change the circle, and instead it was just some frame perfect hunt? Yeah that seems like my luck lol.
I even had unused crucifixes down, covering the ghost room and the area around it. It was in that tiny bathroom beside the garage.
It must have roamed outside the coverage right as I lit the second to last candle, and started a hunt right as I tapped the last candle.

Thanks. Like I said I haven't used a circle in forever. Nowadays it seems like I hardly ever even see them. Usually I get cursed mirror or doll.

[Red]

Its not that at all in my opinion. everytime i use the circle it rushes and kills me. happened three times. frame perfect hunt 3x i dnt think so.

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Red_Somnium:

Its not that at all in my opinion. everytime i use the circle it rushes and kills me. happened three times. frame perfect hunt 3x i dnt think so.

If you run out of sanity when lighting the last candle then it also doesn't restrain the ghost. For the best results on using the circle, I'd recommend have at least 80% sanity.

[Kou]

FWIW

"I even turned off the breaker, since one of the finalists was a Hantu."

That's the opposite of what you want to do when you have a Hantu...

[Gamecrazy009]

I know it's been answered, but every candle lit reduces sanity by ~20%.

So by the time you're lighting the last candle, you're usually at 0.

[NaCl]

Originally posted by Kougeru:

FWIW

"I even turned off the breaker, since one of the finalists was a Hantu."

That's the opposite of what you want to do when you have a Hantu...

Yeah I'm really dumb sometimes. Like....there's always a logic to the things that I do....but that doesn't mean it's good logic.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Bread:

Originally posted by Kougeru:

FWIW

"I even turned off the breaker, since one of the finalists was a Hantu."

That's the opposite of what you want to do when you have a Hantu...

Yeah I'm really dumb sometimes. Like....there's always a logic to the things that I do....but that doesn't mean it's good logic.

Well, it depends on your goal really. Turning off the breaker to PROVE it's a hantu is a big yes.

Leaving it on if you're trying to rule or confirm hantu is somtimes silly since you wont really hear the speed differences in movement speed during a hunt due to how the breaker being on raises temps map wide over time.

If you suspect it's a hantu it's one of the best ways to rule out/confirm. But, it IS a double edged sword- You need to be cognizant of the fact that if it is indeed a hantu, the breaker being off will make it much faster.

If you know it's a hantu, then you want the breaker on to weaken it.

[Cirno]

I imagine the circle is broken, I always used it in the past, even with 0% sanity and it never did the immediate hunt thing, where it doesn't even count as a hunt too for some reason, only after the time it usually takes with it stunned for u to snatch the picture.

After the Ascension patch, all the times we tried it, it immediately went to kill us, only once it got stunned for a picture and I was at 0% sanity because candles were turning off, but, it did more than 10 times the bug, you can quickly switch to an incense and use it to not be killed, thou it will not count for the mission because it's not counting as a hunt until the stun timer ends.
Now people came up with theories that it's on a 50/50% chance of it happening, but seems false to me, prior to update it never happened and after update only 1 time it worked normally out of all the others.