Shade question

[PewPew]

I thought shade cannot hunt if people are in the same room or right next to it, we have people camp it and it just spawned and killed us all on nightmare. Is it bugged or is it changed?

[Shurenai]

Afaik it works fine, and hasn't changed.

The ghost isn't confined to a single room- It can and will roam out of it's room regularly, so you need to keep track of it and use motion sensors and the like. When it comes to shades, that begs the question: Were you all in the same room? Or did you more wisely split up into the room itself, and any adjacent connecting rooms just in case it moved to one of those instead? If the former, Then the moment it steps foot on the threshold of the room, it becomes able to hunt- And with all of you in the same room, killing you all is easy peasy.

[Robby]

Yes it shouldn't hunt if there are people nearby, however keep in mind you need to be in the same room as the ghost itself, not in its ghost room. I am not sure if it is a 100% chance to block a hunt.

If at least one person is in the same room as a Shade, it will be unable to perform regular interactions (except Ghost Writing) or initiate a hunt, regardless of average sanity. It may still perform these actions if it happens to wander into a room without players.
(Phasmophobia Wiki - Shade)

I might assume it started to wander into a room where no people were at that exact moment and started to hunt immediatly, i've had this happen before too. It could also be a bug.

[Mandemon]

Shade can't hunt if there is an investigator in the room it is currently. So if you have everyone in ghost room, and the shade wanders to next room, it can start a hunt. If you have two out of three rooms with people, it can not start a hunt in the rooms with investigators, but if it wanders to third room it can.

[PewPew]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Afaik it works fine, and hasn't changed.

The ghost isn't confined to a single room- It can and will roam out of it's room regularly, so you need to keep track of it and use motion sensors and the like. When it comes to shades, that begs the question: Were you all in the same room? Or did you more wisely split up into the room itself, and any adjacent connecting rooms just in case it moved to one of those instead? If the former, Then the moment it steps foot on the threshold of the room, it becomes able to hunt- And with all of you in the same room, killing you all is easy peasy.

It spawned on top of us and did a team wipe so IDK what part of it roaming has to do with it. And no, one was in the garage, the other in the piano room (where ghost is) and the others are in the hallway. Map is ridgeview hallway ghost according to luigi board.

EDIT: Ghost spawned on top of the person in the piano room and killed the guy in the garage after then went to chase the hallway ones one after another within 2 seconds.