Blackouts

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Blackout
The event's background in-game.
Mechanics
Effect	Turns the current floor's light sources off, resulting in darkness and limited sight.
Chance	0-30%

Blackouts are a floor event in Dandy's World, and are currently the only Floor event (as of v0.9.4) that can occur.

Description

When a Blackout is active, all environmental lights on the current Floor will be disabled, including miscellaneous light sources such as projectors. Blackouts cannot occur before Floor 3, and upon passing Floor 3, the chance of a Blackout occurring will start at 5%, and increases by 2% after every completed Floor, capping at 30%.

Audio

	Sound indicating an upcoming blackout
File:BlackoutSpawned.mp3	Lights turning off

Strategies

• Certain Cards can affect Blackouts and help you better handle them. These include:
  • Sparkplug: Sparkplug increases the light radius for all Toons during a Blackout.
    • Please note that the increased radius is incredibly weak, varying from 2.5% to 3% as its max.
      
      

      Brightney in a Blackout without Sparkplug.

      

      Brightney in a Blackout with Sparkplug (very slight increase in radius and light intensity).
  • Electrician: Electrician lowers the chance increase per floor to 1.5% and decreases the max Blackout chance of 30% to 25%.
• Try playing as a light-producing Toon: Light-producing Toons have a larger radius of light, which can make blackouts easier to deal with.
• Equip the Spare Bulb Trinket: This drastically increases the light radius of your Toon, and also increases the radius of light-producing Toons.
• Reduce your graphics quality to 1-3: This causes the light radius to be a bit larger than usual, along with heavily reducing shadows and reflections that may inhibit vision.
• Use transparent material to your advantage: Transparent material allows you to see farther than usual in a Blackout. This includes Rodger's lens, Gigi's cap lid, Connie when using her ability, Machines, and windows. This while navigating routes and threats.
• Have Vee or Brightney locate Twisteds: This can be used to identify and notify you of any threats nearby.

Light-Producing Toons

If the Toon has a lightbulb icon next to their abilities in the selection screen, they produce more light than other Toons during Blackouts.

Toon	Produced Color of Light (Original)	Produced Color of Light (Skins)
Astro	Blue	White (Vintage)
		Blue (Star-Time)
		Orange (Starry Night)
Brightney	White	White (Vintage/Antique Shade)
Connie	Cyan	White (Vintage)
		Pink (Frosty Mittens)
		Purple (Lilac Haunting)
Rudie	Red	White (Vintage)
		Blue (Blue Bell)
Vee	Green	White (Vintage)
		Blue (Star-Time)
		Purple (Cosmic Signal)

Associated Twisteds

Currently, there are only two Twisteds that directly interact with Blackouts:

Twisted Brightney

• Twisted Brightney can reroll the chance of a Blackout if it fails to occur on the Floor she's on, increasing the likelihood of a Blackout occurring. She’s easier to see at all times than other Twisteds due to her bright red light.
  • If the roll is successful, there will be flickering noises on the lights for approximately 2 to 3 seconds then a powered down noise before cutting off. This also provides information of the fact that Twisted Brightney is present on the Floor.
  • Twisted Rudie processes red light like her, but his light is fainter and he does not have an ability that directly interacts with Blackouts.

Twisted Coal

• During a Blackout, Twisted Coal's stats will drastically change throughout the Floor.
• Her speed changes from 15 to 25, having the same speed as Twisted Pebble, and her detection range is increased.
• Her attention span is reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds, making it easier to lose her.

Gallery

Brightney standing near Boxten during a Blackout.

A box during a Blackout.

Blackout Chance in the "View Stats" tab

The icon used for Sparkplug card/light-producing Toons during in-game lobby selection and run intermission.

Trivia

• The Blackout is the first and currently only Floor event in Dandy's World, as of v0.9.1.
• During a Blackout, the TVs around the map and other miscellaneous lighting, like projectors, won't work.
• Twisted Brightney is currently the only Twisted to directly affect a Floor event.
  • When the re-roll is successful, the sound it makes is similar to some of the sounds that play during the statistics screen after you die.
    • The order in which the sounds play are: the sound effect when “That’s A Wrap” shows up, the sound effect when your ichor is counted, and a glitchy version of the sound when a Jumper Cable is used.
• Coincidentally, most of the light-producing Toons are similar in some way; Astro and Connie have a 5 Stealth stat and a 2 Skill Check stat, while Vee and Brightney have low Stealth stats, high extraction stats, and abilities that function nearly identically to one another.
  • Rudie is the only exception to this rule.
• Twisted Brightney and Twisted Rudie are currently the only Twisteds that produce light.