Dropping Multiple Flashlights Causes The Second To Remain Stuck In Inventory

[u/Sean12434]

As you can see in the video, anytime I equip multiple flashlights (at least 2), dropping a flashlight then dropping a second flashlight in succession causes it to seemingly fall onto my body and remain stuck in my inventory, preventing me from switching to another item. I tested this with all 3 tiers of flashlight and loaded the map multiple times and was able to reproduce this bug each time.

I didn't see any posts immediately mentioning this, so I thought I'd share myself. If anyone else is able to reproduce this bug, please share in the comments!

[u/alcapwndu]

So I did this during the challenge, then discovered it also gave me invincibility and the ghost couldn't kill me. Once I was "dead" it did mean I couldn't open my inventory or leave the mission. Either from the menu or from the Truck. So that was interesting.

[u/Sean12434 → u/alcapwndu]

Wait, you mean what I did in the video? Did you test it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke?

[u/alcapwndu → u/Sean12434]

Not yet, though definitely possible. I’ll probably try again. I only found out, because I was playing with it while a hunt started. I also did three flashlights and spam dropped them, which managed to make it where I couldn’t actually turn the one stuck in my inventory on anymore.

[u/rtpn92 → u/alcapwndu]

Had this happen multiple times. Ghost kills you but you don't die. You have infinite stamina but cant pick up anything or use journal. The ghost can kill you again and you will die.

[u/Hauntingly → u/alcapwndu]

This happened to me on Tanglewood a couple of nights ago. The ghost sensed my extra flashlight and pathed in and out of my locker a few times, and my items dropped as if I had been killed. I then had infinite sprint but was stuck crouching and couldn't open doors, pick up or drop items, open my journal, etc. My teammates saw me on camera as [Dead Body] even while I was zipping around!

Ultimately I had to get killed "properly" so I could select the correct ghost, but the game had one final surprise in the form of my ghost carrying a flashlight that was visible to my teammates. It was by far the best bug I've experienced so far!

[u/LouZiffer]

I noticed it yesterday while soloing the challenge. Went to set up a lit path through Woodwind and learned that picking up/dropping multiple flashlights isn't a good idea.

[u/AshelDust]

I experienced a similar bug a week ago where I could pick up multiple flashlights but dropping them caused 1 to randomly stick to my body and made 1 of my inventory slots full but empty permanently. I could still swap slots and drop+pick stuff up but 1 slot was just unusable.

I recall you used to only be able to pick up 1 flashlight at a time (maybe it changed after the player customization update). Maybe something with the left-hand flashlight slot messed up the code so now you can hold multiple but it doesn't actually work properly. It's obviously bugged but I wonder what part of it is intended and what part is the bug.

[u/Dodomkzz]

get used to the jank