Ghostc "hunt" in setup phase

[Seiffkin]

Hey there,
I was playing at tanglewood during setup phase, got my things together outside the house, breath heavly and inserted the key to enter the house.
I was holding just a flashlight, thermometer and a UV flashlight, wandering from the boy to bathroom and girl's rooms, literally about 40~50 segs since I got inside the house, the lights started to blink and the "hunt" phase started. This scared the hell out of me as I did nothing to poke into his nose. When it got me, it just disappeared without doing nothing more. I got my pumping heart and ran to my van to get out of that place.
Can someone tell me about this event? Can a ghost hunt you before the timer goes down? I thought that the setup phase was clear from this sort of events. (Oh, I was in Amateur and the ghost seems to be a Renevant).

[Vanessa]

That wasn't a ghost hunt, it was an event.

Ghosts can appear for a handful of different ways to drain your sanity, and one of them is to fake a hunt. Your lights will start flickering, the front door will close (but not lock) and it'll start chasing you.

These can happen in setup phases too, and they'll always be fake hunts in the setup phase - when they get to you it'll disappear with a loud breath in your ear and a drop in sanity.

[Seiffkin]

Oh, Thank you!
I was worried if there any chance to simply die at setup phase without using cursed items.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Seiffkin:

Oh, Thank you!
I was worried if there any chance to simply die at setup phase without using cursed items.

Nope. A cursed item is the only way. Even ghost behaviours that explicitly trigger hunts (like an Onryo blowing out three candles) won't work during setup.

[Seiffkin]

Okay then. This makes me a little... relieved.
I'm still learning the process to find the clues faster, so I was carrying quite a bit of equipment XD
Thanks for the answer.

[Maylonia]

Exactly this happened to me when I attempted to do singleplayer for the first time! I just noped out of there. Then when I tried the next day it happened again! So I guessed it was a demon or something and went to the van to start over. The third time I tried playing singleplayer I just went in, waited for the hunt and said "I dare you to do that". Right afterwards it opened a door. When I realized it had heard me I was to scared to continue and quit the game.
This happened yesterday and today. I have played Phasmopobia for over a year and I am still a wuss.

[Codester]

You necroed a year old thread....
But anyway I want to point out that Demon, and the demon alone, can and will hunt at 100% sanity even if set up timer is still on. No other hunt ability will work during set up but demons will. I have been caught in it multiple times. Though the % chance of it happening is crazy low.

It's his ability. I've been hunted 2 seconds after walking into a house on intermediate before when trying to teach a friend how to play and it killed my buddy. Literally his first ever game Lol.

[VulgarMonkey]

Originally posted by Codester:

You necroed a year old thread....
But anyway I want to point out that Demon, and the demon alone, can and will hunt at 100% sanity even if set up timer is still on. No other hunt ability will work during set up but demons will. I have been caught in it multiple times. Though the % chance of it happening is crazy low.

It's his ability. I've been hunted 2 seconds after walking into a house on intermediate before when trying to teach a friend how to play and it killed my buddy. Literally his first ever game Lol.

This is interesting because the current Wiki information is that while the Demon may 'activate it's ability' it should not actually hunt if within the set-up phase. It will list as an 'ability used' in the post-game stats, but it shouldn't hunt. Similar to the Onryo ability where it will attempt to hunt after extinguishing a firelight 3 times. If the third extinguish is within the set-up phase, it'll 'activate it's ability' but won't hunt.