What triggered the daemonhost in this video? 30 seconds long

The deamonhost attacks me directly after this, and I’m trying to figure out why. The two things I can think of are:

  1. 80% cloud radius is wider than the animation and intersected with the daemonhost aggro radius

  2. Wildfire jumped from the chaff onto the host, triggering it

What do you think happened?

I’m guessing one of the flashlight users pointed that flashlight at the demonhost. That sets them off

Not sure why their flashlight use would have made it attack me, which is why I was asking. Made that more clear in the original post, thank you.

It’s a thing, pointing a flashlight at a demonhost will tick it off and eventually aggro it. It’s probably that way because it was that way for witches in left 4 dead, which is what demonhosts are based on

As for why it attacked you, not sure, but I’ve had similar things happen. Taunt for a while would cause demonhosts to just attack a random target, no idea if flashlights have similar stuff going on

Eliza, you can hear him on your right side in the back the moment the demon host awakens

A great disturbance in the Warp?

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I didnt even shoot at the daemonhost because I was down?

you got rescued and disappeared behind the visual, you just need to look at the demon host with your torch to wake him

this torch

His hp is at maximum, it couldn’t have been anything else but positioning (which was not) or your torch

yeah my flashlight wasnt on. She’s running weapon customization so it just shows teammate’s flashlights as always on unless you mess with settings a bit. That’s all client side.

Edit: and I just rewatched in 0.25x, my flashlight didnt even point towards the host until after she woke up :person_shrugging:

your flashlight was my best guess, since you disappeared from the player who recorded for 5 seconds, what weapon was waffle using?

Waffle was running plasma/dueling sword. I dont remember what the other psyker was running. I dont recall either of them doing anything that could anger the host either.

What I find weird is that mechanically, the Daemonhost is supposed to agro on the person who woke/angered it, so either there’s an interaction with Sarah’s build that is causing it to agro, like the warpfire jumping to the daemonhost, the proximity of her warpflame can agro it, or there’s some other unknown, possibly bugged interaction we aren’t aware of.

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Plasma gun / Dueling sword mk4

then it wasn’t him, my best guess now is that weapon customization make it so your torch is always lit even if it isnt

Would 1 stack of burn from wildfire round down to 0 on unyielding armor?

She has another clip where someone else on the team had blatantly shot the host with a plasma gun, which got it to its warning state, I think, then it agrod on her from 19meters away while she was hosing down some groaners with warpfire

Not true, I’ve shut off and swept gun over DH before without triggering with weapon customization, and confirmed other players see my light going on and off.

then all i can think is waffle getting too close while firing his gun, but at this point is all speculation

i’m 100% sure it wasn’t the psykers fault, you were just too far and not shooting right, and i don’t believe in the 0 damage warp stack either

also hes too far from any enemy that could have proc it, and they are not very sensitive to that kind of damage either

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I wonder if things dying in it’s 10m radius can also agro it. Fatshark, could we get some feedback on that?

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another thing that might have happened is that you actually awoke him earlier, but noone of you were close enough to aggro any of you, and since no damage were made, that also played into it

i often purposly shoot at demon hosts in my games, i see them raging from a far, but they activate only when someone get too close, but i reckon this wasn’t the case, you were all close to him

OR it was your fault, if purgatus acts as a torch when its fired, but i’m more leaning towards waffle’s theory, he was the closest

I am gonna say, that Daemonhost sometimes triggers on the closest player, and not the one that triggered it.


Ok, I found out why did it happened
Here:

So, enemies Suppressed the area and annoyed the Daemonhost

PS:
Daemonhost is damaged because I woke him up with the Kickback

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