Shade Glitch?

[pickles]

Me and my friend played intermediate mode and straight off the bat this ghost hunts and kills him. An average sanity of 100. I stay in for a while gathering 2 evidence, freezing temp and ghost writing. Him and I both guess it was a demon, turns out it was a shade. Aren't they supposed to hunt at an average sanity of 35% and are deemed as shy ghosts?
Edit: To anybody bringing up cursed objects, we hadn't even located it yet. So we both were extremely confused, it was professional mode.

[Maya-Neko]

Sounds more like it was an event, especially when nobody died to it. It's extremely rare that a Shade does an event at like 99 % sanity, but not impossible and if it does one in the room with the front door, then it might even close the door, which can look like a hunt.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Did any of you used the curse object straight away?

[Super Moogle]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Sounds more like it was an event, especially when nobody died to it.

Originally posted by pickle:

Me and my friend played intermediate mode and straight off the bat this ghost hunts and kills him.

Not to sound rude, but uh... you didn't really read his post very well lol.

To OP, you either had a hacker in your lobby or someone played with the cursed possession.

[Myth Alric]

Moogle is right. Either someone broke a cursed object, or someone was hacking. On intermediate there is a 2 minute timer where the ghost can't even hunt, no matter what it is. So not only can't shades hunt, but nothing can hunt during the set up timer. The chances of there being a bug that effects the set up timer and shade, is extremely unlikely.

[WookieNinja87]

Also with the other's information the Shade is a "shy" ghost which means it won't hunt if you are in the room. It will hunt from another room so if you are in tanglewood and in the master bedroom then even if the master bedroom is the ghost room it'll start the hunt in the living room or not at all.

[underscores222]

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

Also with the other's information the Shade is a "shy" ghost which means it won't hunt if you are in the room. It will hunt from another room so if you are in tanglewood and in the master bedroom then even if the master bedroom is the ghost room it'll start the hunt in the living room or not at all.

Not quite how it works. The ghost is always present in the map as an invisible entity that moves around. In the shade's case, if you are in the same room as it when it attempts to start a hunt, it will fail the attempt. However, all ghosts roam, leaving their favorite room and visiting other locations in the map. During a roam, the ghost can attempt to hunt, and in a shade's case, will be able to if you are not in whatever room it's in at that time.

Now... back to this game. Instant hunts are not something that shades are able to do. They have the lowest sanity threshold (35%). The only way a shade can instantly hunt is if a cursed item is used. Normally playing with cursed items won't instantly spawn the ghost, so my guess is he picked up a music box and dropped it or pulled a death card from a tarot deck.