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Don't say you didn't checked them but just wild guessed a fingerprint or interaction. Never do that if you aren't really an experienced player. Because the ghost has to physically touch the switch to leave a fingerprint or the interaction EMF signal for 5 seconds. But ghost events can also alter the state of a light switch and will leave no fingerprint and no EMF signal at the light switch position, because the ghost used a power rather than touching it. In a result you won't get both of them.
With enough experience you can tell those kind of "light switching" events apart from real physical touching without the need of extra checking. Else, better use UV light or EMF signal to confirm them first, then you will get your fingerprint and/or interaction picture (whatever applies first).
To add to this: this is also true for doors, but not for windows. This is because there are ghost events or special abilites that can move doors "from afar" by power rather than physically by the ghost. Windows on the contrary do not have any ghost ability or events that can manipulate them. Whenever you hear a window knocking and you are sure which window it was, you can be sure it was physically touched by the ghost always.
Each light mentioned simply went 'click'. Other than that it was dead silent.
There are events and occasions that don't leave any noise but a light switch will be shut off (not on though). The 'click' is not telling you it actually touched it. And your pictures seemed to proof it.
There are at least two events that come directly into my mind that can throw a light switch (off) without the need for the ghost to interact with it directly.
1. Ghost spook event "mist" form. You don't hear a mist and won't get a heartbeat sound (as it is no "real" ghost and it won't count as ghost picture, don't even try it). And the mist may have spawned in an adjacent room. But it can also easily despawn quickly like other manifestation if the target player leaves the spooked area (intended or not). The trails of such an event are still left behind (the EMF4 interaction signal at the spawn point, a shut off light switch, a slam shutted door - both the latter without an EMF signal by themselves).
2. The ghost overloaded the fuse box by shutting on a light switch/lamp somewhere else. In this case all light switches in the house will be switched off.
And if we go in details through all the ghosts ability and ghost events, I am pretty much sure there are even more of them.
Fact is, that without checking you always have a small gamble that the ghost didn't touched a door or light swtch physically, wasting a valuable picture in the process. You may call it a bug if you actually saw the green fingerprints or EMF signal but didn't got the picture, but without checking you acted just too quick. A good investigator really (double) checks things and not wildly guess them.
2. It wasn't the fuse box. Only the 1 light out of about 6 went off. I had the hallway, piano room and a number of upstairs lights on.
Other. It was a demon which has no special abilities regarding power or interaction with light switches.
But if you keep going wild guessing interactions or fingerprints without properly checking, you deserve to get no picture for it.
Any other room and just one occurrence I would have likely given you the mist event as a good chance of being what happened, but not in this particular position and situation where it could not have gone by unnoticed or without a collision.
Only if the ghost really touched it, EMF signal and fingerprints (if it is its evidence or RNG rolled it for an Obake) will be there. Don't trust the ghosts, they love to fool you. And it seems that your Demon won 3:0.
I remember another thing that can occur that you actually got or see a fingerprint and you don't get a picture. If you already got a picture of that fingerprint. I mean, this is obvious, but there is a strange behavoir in "new" fingerprints that you should be aware about:
If a ghost made a fingerprint on a door with a visual "A" and you made a icture of it, and it touches the door a second time within the 1 minute timer of existence of the old fingerprint, leaving another fingerprint technically, it will only count as a "new" fingerprint for the photo reward when the visual "A" changed to visual "B". I don't know if this is a bug or intended. It is just a behaviour I noticed. But if it is still the old visual "A", don't make a picture, it does not count. Wait for either the fingerprint to disappear and get renewed (then another visual "A" will count) or check the visual change with a UV light. For light switched, there are less different visuals, so the chances to get the same visual is way higher than on doors or windows.
Just to mention, it comes down to use a UV light again to prevent not counting fingerprint pictures. Use one, they are their for it - or easy said: better safe than sorry.
I had already identified the demon. Fairly quick being in first room you walk into. I was just hanging around waiting to get a photo of the ghost as well as a few other interactions in the meantime.
If it was indeed a bug that it didn't register as an interaction then it wouldn't exactly come up with an EMF or fingerprint either. So missing those doesn't really mean anything in such a case. If I wasn't 100% certain that I didn't miss an event at the time of the switch going off, I wouldn't have bothered to report it.
But for your case, it is no real case. As you cannot tell for sure that there was a signal or a fingerprint, anyone, the devs included, can just assume that there were none. You just gambled, and you lost. Easy as it sounds.
The best advice I can just give you is, play properly and this most likely won't happen again.
You also can verify your game file integrity via Steam options of the game. Maybe some game files are broken because of a patch, if you are still believing you got bugged.
Don't just assume that your level and playtime means that you can be dismissive.
You could've had thousands of light switches bug on you but never even knew because you keep straight up assuming they're event related whenever you don't get a EMF/UV reading.
Stop being a moron. YOU asked me about my experience. You got an information AND I said that I well know that I can be mistaken about things as well. How an understandig person you are, indeed.
But I am not the person who is just too stupid to get fingerprint / interaction pictures because he forgot or is too lazy to get an UV light and properly check on them. Think about this, and maybe we got another level of conversation.
But with this kind of attitude, I would really kick you out of my team. First wasting pictures and then accusing others to get things wrong. You are a lost cause, indeed. I just wanted you to understand what might have happened, but you don't want to know. You just came here to whine about "bug bug bug". That is all.
Have still fun playing the game. I am out.
I asked have you ever caught an Obake purely based on it's missing prints.
You straight up and very blatantly used your level to try and raise the weight of your argument. Don't even try to hide that.
And what happened exactly? You don't even know what might have happened. All you came up with was mist, fuse box or OTHER GHOST EVENTS - none of which occurred and are very obvious when they do if you know what they are. You just for some reason assume that since you weren't there to see that no event happened that the other person is clueless. Give me a break guy.
The only way it could have been the mist event in the first instance is if that were in itself buggy, as it did not spawn near and head towards me like it is supposed to. In a hallway, the only player in the house, there is no excuse for it to miss. Neither time the light went off did I spot the mist and therefor I made no effort to avoid it. No hiss. No chunky sanity loss.
And please... a fuse box going off? C'mon man.
How stupid do you just assume people are?
That they wouldn't notice an entire house blacking out?
I don't really care what you think of the quick snap method. It saves tonnes of time and time = money. I do this when I play SP and sometimes I can't even be bothered taking the time to get photos at all since I have to lug everything around myself. Interactions don't exactly pay that well that you need to have a cry about missing one or two in the occasional game, but whatever... you do you.
Uhh you mean like the very first thing you did posting in this discussion?
This time I had EMF2 right after I heard and saw it interacted with, the picture however showed no interaction. I switched back to EMF and it was still reading as EMF2.
No objects were near the door to mislead the EMF reader.
Oddly enough, the door was then interacted with again almost 2 seconds after I switched back to the EMF, with the reading still remaining at EMF2.
Since I couldn't really rely on the EMF at that point, I took a quick snap.
The photo registered interaction properly this time.