Never ending hunt

[Big Boss Bam]

I'm just curious and this may have been a one off but last night on stream myself and my brother were trapped in a never ending hunt, it lasted for at least a solid 5 minutes before we got bored hiding and my brother bravely sacrificed himself
Has anyone else experienced this? is it a game mechanic? or a known bug?
just fyi we were at around 30% sanity and had already established it was a demon

[Ayboi]

Hello! It's not a bug, it is an intended behavior of the demon ghost!

[Big Boss Bam]

Just so I am clear, its a permanent hunt or is it just a very long one?

[Ayboi]

Originally posted by Big Boss Bam:

Just so I am clear, its a permanent hunt or is it just a very long one?

It is a very long one. :)

[SoiledGiant]

Originally posted by Ayboi:

Originally posted by Big Boss Bam:

Just so I am clear, its a permanent hunt or is it just a very long one?

It is a very long one. :)

Nah, definitely a bug. So how long is one supposed to wait for the hunt to end? 5 min? 10 min? 1 hour? To make it even worse you can't even leave the house if you can manage to make it to the door because the ghost locks you in. Me and my friends played a round at the Abandoned House, ghost started hunting, and would not stop until one of us was killed. As soon as one of us died the hunt ended, coincidence? Sounds like the same type of issue Big Boss Bam came across.

[milkyslug]

Originally posted by SoiledGiant:

Originally posted by Ayboi:

It is a very long one. :)

Nah, definitely a bug. So how long is one supposed to wait for the hunt to end? 5 min? 10 min? 1 hour? To make it even worse you can't even leave the house if you can manage to make it to the door because the ghost locks you in. Me and my friends played a round at the Abandoned House, ghost started hunting, and would not stop until one of us was killed. As soon as one of us died the hunt ended, coincidence? Sounds like the same type of issue Big Boss Bam came across.

LOL, I was in that game...We waited at least 10 minutes, very frustrating...The only way out is for somebody to die.
...Its sadly a broken game, (virtually abandoned at this point) and your experience can be easily dismissed as a game mechanic... Don't get me started on the complete failure of voice interaction...

...At this point, Ayboi is just doing damage control...

[Big Boss Bam]

I managed to find a tutorial online that says the Demon will "chain hunt until it either kills someone or burns a crucifix" not sure if that is helpful for anyone

[Mochan]

Originally posted by Big Boss Bam:

I'm just curious and this may have been a one off but last night on stream myself and my brother were trapped in a never ending hunt, it lasted for at least a solid 5 minutes before we got bored hiding and my brother bravely sacrificed himself
Has anyone else experienced this? is it a game mechanic? or a known bug?
just fyi we were at around 30% sanity and had already established it was a demon

It's probably a Demon.

[Mochan]

Originally posted by SoiledGiant:

Originally posted by Ayboi:

It is a very long one. :)

Nah, definitely a bug. So how long is one supposed to wait for the hunt to end? 5 min? 10 min? 1 hour? To make it even worse you can't even leave the house if you can manage to make it to the door because the ghost locks you in. Me and my friends played a round at the Abandoned House, ghost started hunting, and would not stop until one of us was killed. As soon as one of us died the hunt ended, coincidence? Sounds like the same type of issue Big Boss Bam came across.

Read the description of the Demon in your Pokedex.

Haunts end when someone dies, by the way, in case you didn't know.

[Mochan]

Originally posted by milkyslug:

Originally posted by SoiledGiant:

Nah, definitely a bug. So how long is one supposed to wait for the hunt to end? 5 min? 10 min? 1 hour? To make it even worse you can't even leave the house if you can manage to make it to the door because the ghost locks you in. Me and my friends played a round at the Abandoned House, ghost started hunting, and would not stop until one of us was killed. As soon as one of us died the hunt ended, coincidence? Sounds like the same type of issue Big Boss Bam came across.

LOL, I was in that game...We waited at least 10 minutes, very frustrating...The only way out is for somebody to die.
...Its sadly a broken game, (virtually abandoned at this point) and your experience can be easily dismissed as a game mechanic... Don't get me started on the complete failure of voice interaction...

...At this point, Ayboi is just doing damage control...

No, this is not damage control. This is how demons work. Demon doesn't haunt and is hard to anger, but if you anger it, it will hunt you until you die. Or it dies to salt, exorcism, or eats your cross.

It's also more prone to chain hunting because it's slow to anger, meaning your sanity will probably be 0% already by the time it haunts, so chain haunts are common.

This is not damage control, it's how the game has worked since the start, and no I'm not white knighting, damage controling or whatever, I cirticize this game more than anyone. Just stating facts.

[milkyslug]

So it is a permanent hunt then... And not "a very long one" Ok my mistake.

[SoiledGiant]

Originally posted by Ayboi:

Originally posted by Big Boss Bam:

Just so I am clear, its a permanent hunt or is it just a very long one?

It is a very long one. :)

Originally posted by Mochan:

Originally posted by milkyslug:

LOL, I was in that game...We waited at least 10 minutes, very frustrating...The only way out is for somebody to die.
...Its sadly a broken game, (virtually abandoned at this point) and your experience can be easily dismissed as a game mechanic... Don't get me started on the complete failure of voice interaction...

...At this point, Ayboi is just doing damage control...

No, this is not damage control. This is how demons work. Demon doesn't haunt and is hard to anger, but if you anger it, it will hunt you until you die. Or it dies to salt, exorcism, or eats your cross.

It's also more prone to chain hunting because it's slow to anger, meaning your sanity will probably be 0% already by the time it haunts, so chain haunts are common.

This is not damage control, it's how the game has worked since the start, and no I'm not white knighting, damage controling or whatever, I cirticize this game more than anyone. Just stating facts.

So which is it? Permanent or very long?

Not that it matters as I will not play until they fix (without workarounds) voice interactions, and obviously there is no rush to do so.

[Big Boss Bam]

it's good to get a definitive answer, I feel it adds some substance to the demon and we certainly act with more urgency if we establish it's a demon now, I quite enjoy this game so it will help moving forward, thanks all

[Silver_KSA]

I would really appreciate a developer answer to this, Is it a permanent hunt or chain hunt from Demon ?