Shade or Oni?

[Kal]

13 minutes into the game, all of which was in the ghosts rooms.
1 object moved.
1 ghost event in the adjacent room.

What would you pick?
The games least active ghost,
or the games most active ghost?

If you said the games most active ghost, you are correct! 2 ghostly actions in 13 minutes = our friendly neighborhood active ghosty.

Lord save me, some of these ghosts need a little bit of a tweaking to their behavior.

[Captain Oveur]

I agree, sorta. It largely depends on your settings. If you turn interactivity all the way down, every ghost feels like a Shade. I know from experience. A whole lotta experience

[2Klutch]

slay grr

[Watcher Rat]

The important thing to remember about ghost activity is that RNG also applies...same reason you can get a polite poltergeist that doesn't throw things, or friendly demon that doesn't seem to want to kill you. However, if you have anything you can do to force activity (voodoo doll/tarot cards, for instance) you can try to get its attention a bit faster.

[Maya-Neko]

I can't say, what i would pick, because the amount of informations are way too low. Like what map where you playing and which room specifically? At which sanity/time did it the ghost event? How does its blink pattern looks like while hunting? Did it throw an item while being in the room? Did it hunt whit you in the room? What evidences you got? Which difficulty did you use?

Obviously an Oni being less active is quite unusual, but it always depends on the circumstances and i usually don't use soft evidence as a way to determine a ghost, unless i see a good reason to leave early.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Neither because I don't use "13 minutes" as some timeline in which I MUST leave a map.

[mco12]

EMF5 + Freezing - Box - UV? In addition, it moved an object while I am in the ghost room. I would pick an Oni at that point.

[Arzo]

you could use the hunting abilities of the ghosts,oni is blinking way faster then other ghosts(way easier to see) and shade can only hunt at 35% sanity

[Estellese]

The small ghost preferences, like how active they are, are just that. Preferences. Not confirmation. You need to get actual evidence before choosing one. How did you not have any evidence at all after spending 13 minutes in the room?

[Banshee Target]

See folks? This is why you don't rely on soft evidence (especially when it's only been 13 minutes).

[WolfLink0370]

Well if I get that one event and go straight to the truck and notice like 20% of my sanity is suddenly gone, then yeah I'd say Oni. 13 minutes though is honestly not a lot of time invested in an investigation at all, and depending on the map and room it prefers it could very well have little to nothing to actually interact with.

Evidence is always going to be the primary way to figure out ghosts, and in the case of being narrowed down to Oni/Shade.... if you're playing on reduced evidence, forcing a hunt and looping the ghost for a bit is far more reliable as the Oni does not like staying invisible for very long during a hunt. Alternatively, you could see if it will try to hunt you while you're in the same room (a common Shade test)

[badger461]

Originally posted by Watcher Rat:

The important thing to remember about ghost activity is that RNG also applies...same reason you can get a polite poltergeist that doesn't throw things, or friendly demon that doesn't seem to want to kill you. However, if you have anything you can do to force activity (voodoo doll/tarot cards, for instance) you can try to get its attention a bit faster.

Funnily enough, I was doing a weekly challenge a while back and had an extremely pissed off Demon. It used its ability 4 times to try to hunt me, burning all my crucifix uses in about 5 minutes. No ghost events, just straight ability uses while I was at full or near full sanity.

[Shirasho]

Originally posted by badger461:

Originally posted by Watcher Rat:

The important thing to remember about ghost activity is that RNG also applies...same reason you can get a polite poltergeist that doesn't throw things, or friendly demon that doesn't seem to want to kill you. However, if you have anything you can do to force activity (voodoo doll/tarot cards, for instance) you can try to get its attention a bit faster.

Funnily enough, I was doing a weekly challenge a while back and had an extremely pissed off Demon. It used its ability 4 times to try to hunt me, burning all my crucifix uses in about 5 minutes. No ghost events, just straight ability uses while I was at full or near full sanity.

On the bright side the aggressive hunting at high sanity is a unique tell for a Demon. I get really happy when I discover the unique tells, especially when they are really early in the map and I am in a "farming XP" mood.

[einat.levi.2005]

i mean, were you active inside of the ghost room or even the building while trying to find the ghost? by active i mean talkative, annoying, saying "give me a sign" once in a while. sometimes when im not sure i just talk with the ghost about my problems tbf since it doesnt matter what you say. the ghost just needs to know that youre there.

[£]

Hhhyeah... it depends I find the situation