What glitch/strat do people use to avoid the ghost killing them in a hunt?

[Zanaki]

I loop around a big kitchen table, I see ghost on other side of table, it kills me about 5 feet away.

I watch streamers walk in circles around the the ghost, nothing to even loop around and the ghost doesn't kill them, I don't get it.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

The streamers are probably looping a ghost type that is very slow, but most ghosts will speed up if they can see you or are already very fast. If you cannot hide and cannot outrun you need to smudge and hide/flee to survive.

[ThomasTheTerrible [He/Him]]

make sure to crouch! this breaks the ghost's LOS, so it isn't at full chase speed :) Also have smudge on you just incase if you can

[Maya-Neko]

The easiest strat is to simply have an escape route in mind and stand in a way that gives you the maximum amount of time to get to your safe spot. So rather stand in the doorway instead of the back of the ghost room, make sure to check for hiding spots on your first walk through the building and keep an incense at you if you're expecting a hunt.

For looping, it mostly is training. Normal speed ghosts can easily be looped for a while, especially at kitchen counters where crouching breaks line of sight. On top of that, the most dangerous ghost speed is somewhere between standard speed and maxed out speed, since it's fast enough to get you, but not so fast that it constantly overshoots a corner (which is why you can see streamers still being able to loop super fast ghosts)

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

The streamers are probably looping a ghost type that is very slow, but most ghosts will speed up if they can see you or are already very fast. If you cannot hide and cannot outrun you need to smudge and hide/flee to survive.

Well, Phsycho has already successfully looped a Revenant around the small living room table in Tanglewood. For faster ghost it just needs to happen out of muscle memory, so it's definitely a skill that can be trained by simply doing it over and over again.

[Zanaki]

I just don't get how, I hold shift, i hug whatever object im looping with, i die to the ghost because i run out of sprint/it catches me in the sprint.

Just feel like I'm missing something, because it shouldn't be so hard to loop. Does who's hosting effect the games lag?

[Mithrandir]

just holding shift is NOT the thing to do, you have 3 seconds of stamina and once that is gone it takes 5 seconds to recover, so the thing you need to do is to use sprint in small burst and allow it to recover the same amount of time, for example using a 1 second sprint and a 1 second(or longer) recover period.
That being said I know this and still have the habbit of using sprint the wrong way as well. It takes time to unlearn the bad habbits unfortunatly.

[Chibi Life]

also play on custom difficulty setting so you can disable the death penalty. You'll be a lot more likely to want to experiment and mess around when there's no risk of losing every item

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Zanaki:

I just don't get how, I hold shift, i hug whatever object im looping with, i die to the ghost because i run out of sprint/it catches me in the sprint.

Just feel like I'm missing something, because it shouldn't be so hard to loop. Does who's hosting effect the games lag?

There's is no trick to it, but just pure training. You're not getting away with some easy shortcut and have to go through all the testing and dying yourself, until you understand it yourself. You could watch goot players to get somewhat of a headstart, but ultimately you need to build the muscle memory to be effective at it.

And yeah, hosting has a small effect, however unless you're playing in a different region than your own, there shouldn't be that much of a disadvantage that you're dying in the most common situations.

[ah, salmonn]

netcode internet hiccups kills you, every single time.

or me, in that case.

[Zanaki]

Originally posted by 🔱salmonn:

netcode internet hiccups kills you, every single time.

or me, in that case.

This gotta be it, because I watch people basically hug the ghost while running and they're fine, yet I'll be sprinting 10 feet away and die, very annoying.

[Zanaki]

Any tips on taking a picture of the ghost? The phasing makes it nearly impossible, its quite annoying..

[Myth Alric]

Looping the ghost is a gimmick most of the time anyway. You don't need to be good at looping in order to survive the vast majority of hunts, you just need to be paying attention.