Friday the 13th: The Game

Friday the 13th: The Game

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PSA: The Phone Fuse
By David
Some important information about the fuse for the phone box.
   
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Increasing your chances of escaping Jason
There are several ways to increase your chances of escaping Jason. One of them is to do several objectives at the same time and/or call the police straight away.

I'm going to focus on the phone fuse. There is only one fuse that spawns in the game. You cannot repair the phone box or call the cops without it. It never spawns far from the fuse box.

If you find the fuse for the phone box, you should do at least one of these things:

1. Take it to the phone box and fix it or drop it (if you dropped it, tell everyone).
2. Tell everyone that you have the fuse so people don't waste time looking for it.
2b) Experienced players that know where the fuse box is will know roughly where the fuse can be and vice versa, you can save them a lot of wasted time, and they can help in other ways.
3. If you don't know where the phone box is, ask people or give it to somebody who does.


From my experience, what actually happens in games:

1-2 people know where the fuse box is.
1 of the other 5 counsellors finds the fuse nearby but keeps it in their pockets and never tells the others, and instead of looking for the fuse box, runs away from it.
The cops never get called after 20 minutes even though the fuse box was 30 seconds away and untrapped.


That's why I made this guide/PSA. Counsellor survivability will go right up once people start taking the fuse to the phone box instead of running around with it for 20 minutes without telling anyone.


Check out my door guide for some tips on specific doors.
19 Comments
David  [author] 8 Jul, 2017 @ 2:50pm 
Yeah they need to fix that asap. Items shouldn't get stuck in ground after a kill or "lost at sea" when someone dies in the water with them.
ÄlskarDuKaniner 8 Jul, 2017 @ 2:47pm 
dont you love when your constantly asking a mate if he has a fuse when the box is untrapped but he doesnt use vc and then DIES and you see it next to his body but its stuck in the ground?

I LOVE IT.
David  [author] 30 Jun, 2017 @ 1:12am 
In theory the phone fuse should respawn if they do that, but in practice I can't remember it happening yet.
PH4T3 <*.*> 27 Jun, 2017 @ 8:37pm 
I've seen people leave the map in a car with the fuse in their pocket ;/
David  [author] 26 Jun, 2017 @ 7:01am 
@babies! (AFK), I don't know Russian unfortunately, but feel free for anyone to write their own fuse guide in any language.

I will be making a second guide about doors and Packanack Lodge doors specifically. There is still a lot to say about doors while ignoring the controversial lock/don't lock door issue which I will avoid since people have their own opinions on that.
David  [author] 26 Jun, 2017 @ 6:57am 
Indeed many jasons double or triple trap the phone. Some Jasons use 0-1 trap and can still kill everyone. It's also possible to get around a triple trapped phone and call cops within 2 minutes with teamwork.

The guide is just focused on getting the fuse to the fuse box in the correct way. You can combine it with other guides, like the maps one for specific fuse box locations, and the yet unwritten guides for dealing with 1-3 traps (most of that from forum threads or ingame experience).
soup can 25 Jun, 2017 @ 10:34pm 
Fun fact:

Good Jasons (Majority of what you'll play against)
Will just trap the fusebox the instant they spawn in and gather their knives, and if it has a counselor near it will most likely get killed.

I'm not ashamed that I put three ontop of the fusebox, nor am I ashamed using the last two to put them ontop of the four-seater or near the boat.

Two seater? Man, who cares about that vehicle? They can go off if I don't have Morph ready or just think reversing is actually an exploit.
Scratch N Sniff Elmo 25 Jun, 2017 @ 7:42pm 
you can absolutely find the box based on where the fuse is located. I can walk straight to the box almost every time once I find the fuse, based on the area I find it. There are only 1 or 2 huts per area that it CAN spawn in. I don't care how much you think you've played. if you cannot find the fuse box after locating the fuse then you don't know teh maps as well as you think you do.
KEK 25 Jun, 2017 @ 7:55am 
will be it on Russian?
Jesus 25 Jun, 2017 @ 3:11am 
@Zilly, Fuse box and fuse correlation can be proved in private match. Do you also think that vehicle parts do not spawn within a quadrant or adjacent quadrant of the car? Because the maximum distance the fuse can spawn away from the fuse box is less than the maximum distance vehicle parts can spawn away from vehicles.

In many games the fuse is not found right away or is taken away from the fuse box. The reason is because the fuse box is often Jason's first morph, which happens before people can fully search, or they find it and then run before he gets Shift.