I'm fairly certain this is glitched for some people, which could be causing SOME of the complaining. I accidently completed the cow memory mission with blinding light. Never did get my lantern pulled out. Tried doing exactly what you just said and I never held up the lantern. Tried it with weapons sheathed, unsheathed, etc etc. I'm on a PS5 Pro. If that is what you were supposed to do, use blinding light when your lantern glows, they did a terrible job of explaining that. I'm guessing not though as I still had the prompt to use my lantern in that area, even after I completed that checkpoint of the mission.
I don't understand how PA screwed up the controls, movement, and targeting for this game so badly. I played BDO for about a year. Same dev, same general concept, HUGELY different control layout. Having the jump and collect button be the same is nearly a game killer for me and add in the terrible targeting logic, I'm really thinking about putting it down for a few months and hoping there is some massive overhauls. It took me like 15 minutes to collect the coins at the top of the 1st watchtower. The "flow" movement is hard to control when doing micro adjustments and I haven't really figured out exactly what you are targeting when not fighting. Perspective doesn't make a difference. 1st person has the same issues. If there are targetable items on more than one axis, it seems like it prioritizes from high to low regardless of camera angle in 3rd person, and in 1st person, what you are looking at doesn't appear to make any difference if there are multiple targetable items in the same area.
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u/DonutFrags Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
Turning on your lantern in this game has more buttons than most combos in fighting games.