Does the Monster ever leave?

[pirapiran]

I'm currently stuck in a closet and I hear him pacing around outside of it. I tried to sneak out but he's lurking in and out of a single room and won't go back into the hole. Should I just poke out and shoot him or will he go wander off on his own eventually?

[Gdudism]

Both are options.

[Antik]

It takes a long time for him to leave, toss an empty bottle then go the other way. You can also run away since the monster is bad at chasing the player.

[ЯeÐ ĄnimaŁ ШaЯ]

Never tossed a bottle, finished the game on normal. The monster never "leaves" but it goes farther away to essentially it "leaves" for a while only to come back. I just w8ed silently for it to move farther away, especially after exploding ♥♥♥♥ or shooting locks I moved away from the explosion, w8ed a little and then moved on.

You get a feel for this weird and nontransparent AI that is essentially pretty easy on normal, but then there may be a situation where it gets you anyway. I for sure ran around and went loud when I felt like it and it usually went well. Just not stay where the loud sound was. The game like lives of the uncertainty of the player. I really dislike the trail and error and how the AI works and how the game tells you nothing about how it actually works, no indicators or anything. I liked other games like Outlast or Alien Isolation better because it was more clear cut and transparent, not such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guessing game.

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by ЯeÐ ĄnimaŁ ШaЯ:

Never tossed a bottle, finished the game on normal. The monster never "leaves" but it goes farther away to essentially it "leaves" for a while only to come back. I just w8ed silently for it to move farther away, especially after exploding ♥♥♥♥ or shooting locks I moved away from the explosion, w8ed a little and then moved on.

You get a feel for this weird and nontransparent AI that is essentially pretty easy on normal, but then there may be a situation where it gets you anyway. I for sure ran around and went loud when I felt like it and it usually went well. Just not stay where the loud sound was. The game like lives of the uncertainty of the player. I really dislike the trail and error and how the AI works and how the game tells you nothing about how it actually works, no indicators or anything. I liked other games like Outlast or Alien Isolation better because it was more clear cut and transparent, not such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ guessing game.

It is actually pretty straight forward but you gotta experiment around yourself.
Just like you had to do in Alien Isolation because that AI was even less predictable.

[CheeseMerchant]

On hard difficulty it never really leaves.
Only goes back into the wall to keep listening to where you are.

On the other difficulties it will leave after a couple of minutes. With the lights on he will just stay 30 secs before moving on.

[Josh Has Worms]

I have had it stuck once in the entire time I have been playing. I just left the zone and came back and it went back to normal behavior.