Has the ghost ever actually killed you while hiding?

[GhostOokami]

My friends and I have put about 17hrs into the game now over the course of about a week-ish. Not a huge amount of time but we are level 20+ now, have a good reserve of cash and items to keep us going even if we do die. After this amount of time I've started to notice that the ghost NEVER comes into the room we are hiding in no matter the map we are at. Lights can be on, we can be talking and the ghost will just stomp around the outside of the door even on professional difficulty. In fact last night I was about 4 feet from a ghost, popped into a room, closed the door and it never followed.

The only time we have actually died was if the ghost spawned inside the room with us or we purposely left the door open to get a picture or some other objective. But as long as I have a crucifix in the room with us, and the door is closed the ghost will never come inside and only sometimes opens the door which we can promptly just close again.

The ghost really should check rooms more often or have like a 10% chance to search your room and a higher chance of searching it's favorite room because often we are just in it's main room with the door closed and even though it's the favorite room it still just never searches it.

[PEAKMALEPERFORMANCEW]

I've died PLENTY of times while hiding and making 0 noise. it really does just seem random but i heavily believe using in-game chat will alert the ghost to your location

[GhostOokami]

Originally posted by DarkertfkX:

I've died PLENTY of times while hiding and making 0 noise. it really does just seem random but i heavily believe using in-game chat will alert the ghost to your location

My friends and I all use an open mic in game to make things a bit more real but we've never been all that quiet, often some laughing or some talking going on but it never seems to come open the door. I may do some dedicated testing tonight, see if making tons of noise will bring it to us while hiding.

[Boshedo]

The ghost normally stays around his area so if he’s on the top floor and you hide in the bottom floor you are more then likely safe. Having cameras aiming at the ghost room does help out. I’ve been in the truck before and have seen the grim reaper ghost leave the bathroom, walk the halls and then returns back to his bathroom. Just make sure your sanity isn’t too low. That’s why it’s good to have someone in truck keeping an eye on the ghost. If my sanity gets to low and my team mate tells me, I’ll just stay in the truck or else grab sanity pills. I don’t want to die and lose all my gear. Which is why I’m hanging onto my cash.

[David]

I had someone die next to me inside a closet, they were talking in-game and died mid-sentence.

I've died on Asylum in a closed room when two others had already died immediately. I assume it picked up something on the mic, or something else, maybe my flashlight. It was on Professional though. Maybe it opened the door, I didn't have a crucifix, smudge or salt with me.

In general if you're hiding and nobody else is dead it shouldn't find you in my experience.

If you die on Amateur, the first time it happens in a day you should get insurance for your gear, so if you're worried about dying then only take risks on Amateur.

[Shiveria]

so i died hiding in a corner before. i find if i hide in a closet no matter where i am the ghost opens and kills me. It could be haunting downstairs and i hide upstairs and it kills

[Ћ Abomination Jones]

A friend of mine died whilst hiding in a closet, but I'm led to believe the ghost can kill you even if you hide in a closet/cabinet IF that closet/cabinet is in the ghost room, so if you do Tanglewood and hide in the foyer closet thats immediately before the right turn down the front hall, and the ghost room is the foyer, you're dead.

Could be wrong though. Apparently the ghost was waiting for them in there, when the hunt started?

[Zanzikahn]

The ghost will attack you while your hiding if you move around or make noise over the mic. The mic is ALWAYS open to the ghost, so don't think you're safe just because you didn't press the push to talk button... The ghost will focus on players that are more active(Being the most talkative on mic is a sure way to be the ghosts target).

I have had the ghost open the door to the room my whole team was in then vanish, Open the door and take a soul, creek the door then switch targets, even roam an area then quickly b line to it's target(more on perceiving targets below).

The ghost will always manifest in it's "haunting room" and begin the hunt there. You cannot hide in his room. You can however hide in any room, bathroom, closet, that is not being haunted. The ghost might roam a couple rooms and a hallway so make sure you are not hiding in it's roaming path.

The ghost will have an easier time perceiving you the longer you stay in the dark. Likewise, The ghost will perceive you if you stay in the light for too long. If for example you are in the dark for a while and then the hunt starts. The ghost can possibly find you because of the amount of time you spent in darkness.

Also, From my 60 levels of experience, I have not once been found by the ghost for having my light on or making clicking noises with the various pieces of equipment. Have not tried hailing the ghost over with EMF reader, Spirit Box, Sound sensor light, or lighter.

I hope this helps you to understand how to hide form the ghost. There are more things, but I cannot think of it off the top of my head right now...

[PEAKMALEPERFORMANCEW]

Originally posted by Zanzikahn:

The ghost will attack you while your hiding if you move around or make noise over the mic. The mic is ALWAYS open to the ghost, so don't think you're safe just because you didn't press the push to talk button... The ghost will focus on players that are more active(Being the most talkative on mic is a sure way to be the ghosts target).

I have had the ghost open the door to the room my whole team was in then vanish, Open the door and take a soul, creek the door then switch targets, even roam an area then quickly b line to it's target(more on perceiving targets below).

The ghost will always manifest in it's "haunting room" and begin the hunt there. You cannot hide in his room. You can however hide in any room, bathroom, closet, that is not being haunted. The ghost might roam a couple rooms and a hallway so make sure you are not hiding in it's roaming path.

The ghost will have an easier time perceiving you the longer you stay in the dark. Likewise, The ghost will perceive you if you stay in the light for too long. If for example you are in the dark for a while and then the hunt starts. The ghost can possibly find you because of the amount of time you spent in darkness.

Also, From my 60 levels of experience, I have not once been found by the ghost for having my light on or making clicking noises with the various pieces of equipment. Have not tried hailing the ghost over with EMF reader, Spirit Box, Sound sensor light, or lighter.

I hope this helps you to understand how to hide form the ghost. There are more things, but I cannot think of it off the top of my head right now...

In my experience, this is about as accurate as a post can get.

[Lou Sassle]

Originally posted by Zanzikahn:

The ghost will always manifest in it's "haunting room" and begin the hunt there. You cannot hide in his room. You can however hide in any room, bathroom, closet, that is not being haunted. The ghost might roam a couple rooms and a hallway so make sure you are not hiding in it's roaming path.

While the part about spawning in their room is right, being able to hide anywhere is not. When the ghost hunts, it already has it's target, and that's who it's going to chase. Smudge sticks were changed recently to attempt to make them so you can't be the target during the hunt, but I'm not entirely sure it works correctly. Though I can't say I've been killed with a smudge before or after the change. One of my friends died a few times last night because he started getting a bit lazy, and hiding in rooms very close to the spawn point.

If you hide in a closet or a locker you are safe, but if you are hiding in a bathroom or bedroom you are not safe unless you've walked a long distance from the spawn point. This only really works because the ghost tends to not be able to track very well beyond that, especially if you are the current target. I don't want to assume what the developer wants, but I want to say it's not that it just doesn't travel that far, but that it tends to bug out and not search properly. You can watch this on cameras pretty often where a ghost will just kind of walk back and forth, go up and down stairs when you are on the opposite floor of their spawn, and other weird behavior.

The ghost will have an easier time perceiving you the longer you stay in the dark. Likewise, The ghost will perceive you if you stay in the light for too long. If for example you are in the dark for a while and then the hunt starts. The ghost can possibly find you because of the amount of time you spent in darkness.

I won't say that this isn't true, but I can say that it would be hard to know for sure, and I've never really known this to be true personally.

Also, From my 60 levels of experience, I have not once been found by the ghost for having my light on or making clicking noises with the various pieces of equipment. Have not tried hailing the ghost over with EMF reader, Spirit Box, Sound sensor light, or lighter.

This part is true. The flashlight and UV light do not register as a light source it seems, so no tracking will be done based on them. I've been in a closet with the ghost passing right by it with my EMF going off, and it never even attempted to attack.

[GhostOokami]

Originally posted by Zanzikahn:

The ghost will always manifest in it's "haunting room" and begin the hunt there. You cannot hide in his room. You can however hide in any room, bathroom, closet, that is not being haunted. The ghost might roam a couple rooms and a hallway so make sure you are not hiding in it's roaming path.

This isn't true though. I hide in the ghosts main room very often and it never comes in to get me. I generally bring a cross with me, drop it in the main room so it can't spawn there so it generally spawns in the hallway or somewhere else but it never opens the door to it's favorite room.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by GhostOokami:

Originally posted by Zanzikahn:

The ghost will always manifest in it's "haunting room" and begin the hunt there. You cannot hide in his room. You can however hide in any room, bathroom, closet, that is not being haunted. The ghost might roam a couple rooms and a hallway so make sure you are not hiding in it's roaming path.

This isn't true though. I hide in the ghosts main room very often and it never comes in to get me. I generally bring a cross with me, drop it in the main room so it can't spawn there so it generally spawns in the hallway or somewhere else but it never opens the door to it's favorite room.

It spawns in it's room, so what you're saying isn't the truth because that's not how the mechanic works. You can spawn in it's room though, depending on the room type, because it patrols it's room as well and some spots might bright line of sight or be considered hiding spots.

If you stay in its room while it is haunting and it doesn't get you, that's because it doesn't have line of sight, or it's going for someone else (like the Banshee, or already aggro'd).

The Crucifix prevents a haunting, it doesn't make it haunt somewhere else. The Crucifix currently prevents 2 hauntings from happening, so the flash light will flicker and it will not spawn twice.

[GhostOokami]

Originally posted by Kurtino:

Originally posted by GhostOokami:

This isn't true though. I hide in the ghosts main room very often and it never comes in to get me. I generally bring a cross with me, drop it in the main room so it can't spawn there so it generally spawns in the hallway or somewhere else but it never opens the door to it's favorite room.

It spawns in it's room, so what you're saying isn't the truth because that's not how the mechanic works. You can spawn in it's room though, depending on the room type, because it patrols it's room as well and some spots might bright line of sight or be considered hiding spots.

If you stay in its room while it is haunting and it doesn't get you, that's because it doesn't have line of sight, or it's going for someone else (like the Banshee, or already aggro'd).

The crucifix prevents the ghost from spawning in it's room to hunt, though that still isn't the point, the point I was trying to make was that you 100% can hide in the ghosts main room. The ghost has not, or very rarely, opened the door and tried to come inside.

[Lou Sassle]

Originally posted by GhostOokami:

This isn't true though. I hide in the ghosts main room very often and it never comes in to get me. I generally bring a cross with me, drop it in the main room so it can't spawn there so it generally spawns in the hallway or somewhere else but it never opens the door to it's favorite room.

While you can hide in the ghost's room as long as it's in an actual closet, the crucifix doesn't work like that. It doesn't make the ghost spawn somewhere else, it prevents it completely if you have it within it's actual spawn point. If it's spawning in the hallway you probably have a ghost that's haunting a hallway and just happens to go into the room you're in sometimes. In this case you'd want to reposition at least one of your crucifixes until it does prevent the hunt.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by GhostOokami:

Originally posted by Kurtino:

It spawns in it's room, so what you're saying isn't the truth because that's not how the mechanic works. You can spawn in it's room though, depending on the room type, because it patrols it's room as well and some spots might bright line of sight or be considered hiding spots.

If you stay in its room while it is haunting and it doesn't get you, that's because it doesn't have line of sight, or it's going for someone else (like the Banshee, or already aggro'd).

The crucifix prevents the ghost from spawning in it's room to hunt, though that still isn't the point, the point I was trying to make was that you 100% can hide in the ghosts main room. The ghost has not, or very rarely, opened the door and tried to come inside.

Ghosts walk through doors, they don't need to open them.

The Crucifix does not force the ghost to spawn somewhere else, it prevents a haunting, so the ghost from spawning at all, twice. If you're unsure of the mechanic look it up on the official discord.

[GhostOokami]

I have been in the ghosts main room, where it writes on the book, speaks on spirit box, has freezing temps, spirit orbs, w/e the case is, I know I've been in the ghosts room and it has spawned elsewhere and walked around. You're saying it's not possible but this has been the case for me for every match I've played.