The Test

The Test is an odd character in Baldi's Basics Plus. He can only appear in floor 3, as well as in some Endless Mode seeds.

Description
The Test's head is a strange, floating, bald human-like CGI head with an extended neck ended with what appears to be a prism shape. His facial features only sport small, pupil-less white eyeballs and an open red square-shaped mouth. His head resembles the overall shape of a light bulb.

The Test wears a dark green shirt and black pants. He also uses dark brown/yellow sleeves, white flat shoes/white socks, and white gloved hands with four fingers.

Main Gameplay
The Test will rarely spawn in the hallway. When the player sees The Test for the first time, he will begin a 5-second countdown. During the countdown, his head will slowly move upwards until it is in its intended position and he is unable to move (aside from turning his head to constantly look at the player). Once this 5-second countdown is over, The Test will gain the ability to move. He will only move while the player is not looking at him, and while the player is still in The Test's line of sight. However, he moves 10 times faster than Arts and Crafters at maximum speed, meaning that if the player looks away for even a split second while still in The Test's line of sight, they will be caught almost instantly, unless the BSODA spray pushes him.

When the player sees The Test, he will produce an unusual and weird humming noise, the lights will flicker around him and all the other characters will stop in place. These effects cease as soon as the player exits his line of sight. However, even if The Test stops all NPCs, Arts and Crafters can try to "attack" the player after all notebooks are collected in Hide-and-Seek or Explorer Mode and 7 or more are collected in Endless Mode.

If The Test makes contact with the player while the player is not looking at him, his body will disappear, leaving only his head behind. Then, for the next two minutes, the player is "blinded", covering most of the school with a black mist. This "blind" effect is similar to the fog event, except it is much stronger and it does not allow the player to see silhouettes of faraway objects. It also only affects the player, meaning other characters such as Baldi can still see normally. When The Test is upside-down during the Gravity Chaos event, he cannot catch the player, thus the "blind" effect will not occur until he is back to normal.

Once this effect is over, The Test will respawn in a random location in the hallway, and the process will repeat from the beginning. Unlike Arts and Crafters, there is no limit to how many times the player can be blinded by The Test in a single game.

Other Appearances

 * In Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, The Test's head is located in the glitched school. To find it, the player has to go to the circled hall that starts with the cookie comic wall from the left-sided hall, and walk through another straight hall where the door to the classroom with Playtime sprites is found. After walking through this hall and another hall, The Test should be found floating in the middle of the fourth hallway. The fifth and last hallway of the circled corridor after The Test ends at the "transparent" wall, back where the cookie comic is first witnessed. This character looks straight at the player, no matter where the player is facing.

Trivia

 * General
 * The Test prototype.gif the early access trailer where The Test's full body was shown, his head seems smaller than the body, as well as lacking arms and shoes. His shirt seems to also be a more light-olive like color. Also, he has no shadows, instead having default Anim8or lighting for his sprite.
 * Judging by his former name,, he was likely a test for the dithering effect used on the characters.
 * The dithering effect used on this character is similar to . However, the Bayer dithering style is used for The Test, while the Floyd–Steinberg dithering style is used for.
 * The sound The Test makes when the player is in his sight is the same sound from the Baldi's Basics Plus early access trailer at the part where the trademark logo is about to show up; albeit slowed down.
 * mystman12 had previously stated that he would like to add a character to Baldi's Basics Plus which only moves when not looked at. This character later turned out to be The Test.
 * This concept was first implemented in It's a Bully in the camping field trip, prior to V0.3.


 * Baldi's Basics Plus
 * The Test is the second character that is able to be viewed from a 360° angle, with the first being 1st Prize. However, his head does not count.
 * There is a very small chance that The Test can spawn in the elevator.
 * The filename for The Test's body sprite is referred to as "", the same phrase used in the filename for one of 1st Prize's voicelines, one of Beans' voicelines, the 99 game over sound and Arts and Crafters' attacking sprite in Classic/Birthday Bash and Field Trip demo.
 * The looped audio of the blind effect resembles the Creepy Old Computer soundtrack.
 * Through his blind effect, the mystery door, dust cloud, Baldi's Math Machine answer (question prior to V0.2), and shapes during the Gravity Chaos event can still be seen.
 * So far, It's a Bully, Chalkles, and The Test are the only characters not to visit the party event.
 * The Test is also one of the three characters that cannot be tricked by the Faculty Nametag, the others being Baldi and 1st Prize.
 * After V0.2.1, The Test seems to be much rarer than usual due to 1st Prize being added.
 * The Test can be pushed by Gotta Sweep, Cloudy Copter, and conveyor belts, which means that the player can rarely find him in classrooms or off-centered in hallways.
 * The Test can become an unpredictable hazard if he has seen the player before and is pushed by those characters and structures, as the player has no knowledge of The Test's location. Therefore, The Test can blind the player by surprise if they are not looking carefully. To prevent from this happening, The Test will not be pushed while he is not moving in the future update.
 * The Test seems to be even more dithered in his poster image in the Principal's office.
 * The Test seen through a window.png is possible to see The Test from a window, before he spots the player.
 * His sound effects were created in the Korg Wavestation VST.

Glitches

 * There is a bug on the Mac version where The Test's blind effect is white like the fog event, rather than black.
 * There was a bug on V0.1 where The Test would make the lights flicker when the player looked at his head while blinded.
 * Rarely, The Test continues to flicker even after blinding the player. This usually happens when they are looking at The Test while Mrs. Pomp drags them to her classroom, and then got blinded.

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