holding doors closed??

[demdem]

so i saw someone say you can hide in cabinets and closets by holding the door closed and the ghost cant open the door if you're holding it closed, but the past few times i've went to hide in a locker AND i've been holding it closed and the ghost opens it and kills me?? i have over 100 hrs in the game yet i still don't fully understand how the closets/cabinets work, can someone pls help :c

[gredora]

Yes, you can hold doors close.

To the best of my memory, the ghost opening it to check if you're in there overrides you holding it close. So you have to immediately click and hold the door close again.

[Theomax]

Originally posted by gredora:

Yes, you can hold doors close.

To the best of my memory, the ghost opening it to check if you're in there overrides you holding it close. So you have to immediately click and hold the door close again.

I thought they updated it so you can't do that? Or they made it so the ghost knows you're in the closet because you close the door quickly after it's opened it?

[STOOPID]

You need to be out of the line of sight of the ghost before going into locker/closest. Turn off all electrical equipment including flashlights. If your are hiding, the ghost will roam the house during the hunt. It may roam towards you and is able to open doors to check as it goes by. If your door opens make sure you grab it and close it quick. Hope this helps.

[demdem]

Originally posted by STOOPID:

You need to be out of the line of sight of the ghost before going into locker/closest. Turn off all electrical equipment including flashlights. If your are hiding, the ghost will roam the house during the hunt. It may roam towards you and is able to open doors to check as it goes by. If your door opens make sure you grab it and close it quick. Hope this helps.

yeah i always make sure i LOS and smudge AND turn off electronics but still never seem to have any hope, even closing the door again, the ghosts opens it straight back up and i die :/ it's really frustrating, whats the point of having hiding spots if they dont work properly... maybe lots of bugs in the game at the moment? i just played a game earlier with a shade who hunted me at 85% sanity so i dont even know anymore

[Maya-Neko]

For non-closet doors the ghost will simply override your holding-state, so that you can't hide there anymore. I wouldn't be surprised, if that also happens for closet-doors, even if it's only a normal ghost interaction

[StaticR]

I haven't played much since the room door hiding changes so I'm not completely if anything changed, but the way it worked was that holding the closet or locker door would prevent the ghost from doing a random interaction on it, but if it heard or saw you inside the closet it could always force open both doors regardless.
Holding the doors was never safe if the ghost knew you were in there.

[Ashe Lynx]

If the ghost instakills you when you're hiding, check your microphone for noises (you can check in options ingame now), and of course don't speak. Holding the door no longer works, because as someone said above, the ghost overrides you when opening the door, so just be quick to close it insteand of holding.
I died a couple days ago while I was hiding in a cabinet and spoke something to my team (Grafton farmhouse, upstairs on the right) and the ghost heard me while he was in the foyer (entrance of the house), came direct to me and instakilled me. I knew in the moment that it was because I said something.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by StaticR:

I haven't played much since the room door hiding changes so I'm not completely if anything changed, but the way it worked was that holding the closet or locker door would prevent the ghost from doing a random interaction on it, but if it heard or saw you inside the closet it could always force open both doors regardless.
Holding the doors was never safe if the ghost knew you were in there.

On some doors you definitely were save while holding the door, on a few of them even when having flashlights on the whole time, since the ghost wasn't able to establish line of sight at any point. That's why they made this change in the first place.

[Santos]

Also if he knows you're hidden there he will open both doors instead and you cant do anything about that.

[DOL-101 Nintendo Gamecube]

Just quick pull it back shut when it opens it, unless it's a deogen it'll help. Unless it saw you go in there then you're just not gonna survive.

[SiEgE]

Guys.. does holding doors even do anything? Ghost would force-open it anyway, even when walking past randomly, so why bother keeping it grabbed? The only thing that really does something is closing the door back, fast, once it was opened.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Guys.. does holding doors even do anything? Ghost would force-open it anyway, even when walking past randomly, so why bother keeping it grabbed? The only thing that really does something is closing the door back, fast, once it was opened.

It did prevent the ghost from opening/closing the door like 1,5 month ago. That's why some people get confused, if they return to the game after a long pause without looking into the patch notes.

[SlowJoeUSA]

If you make a noise, or have a device on such as flashlight, video camera, spirit box, emf detector, etc. If you are playing solo with push to talk and you make a noise with OUT using your talk button.. the ghost will still hear you. Hence opening the door and killing you.

[brajanek2013]

idk

[Myth Alric]

You can still hold all the doors closed. If the ghost knows you are there(such as in a closet) it will rip the door out of your hands however. Also if you are hiding behind an open door, the ghost will check behind it and kill you.