Demon Ability

[Trash Panda]

I've been playing the game for 240+ hours, and have literally never had a demon use it's ability on me.

Is this like a bug or something? Do other people have the issue?

I want to be able to get the achiev for it lol...

[ULTRANEONGODPET]

Demon ability is generally rare. I've seen it ~5 times.
Also, cool name. Raccoons are cool.

[Myth Alric]

The demon's ability is hunting any time, so you likely won't notice it using it's ability fairly often. It could use it's ability to hunt when you are at 30% sanity, and how would you ever know if it used it's ability or naturally hunted.

[Trash Panda]

Eh...it's actually just the most passive ghost in the game for me and my friend. We often end up mistaking it for something totally different (we play on insanity) because it just doesn't do....anything.

We even end up getting intentionally hunted like 5-8+ times in a house timing hunts. It just never does it.

[Ellixen]

I had it use it's ability last night. 87+ sanity. It still took it about 15 - 20 min to do it though.

[Emurinus]

Pure RNG unfortunately. Took me about 2 months before I got one to early hunt fast enough.

[Maya-Neko]

The achievement is pure RNG, so the best you can do to get it is just restarting maps over and over, otherwise you just need to be lucky while playing normally and then be aware to intentionally die when getting an early hunt.

Otherwise the game tells you, how many abilities got used. It's not the most common ability, but it should be used like 1-2 times for a normal 10-15 minute investigation relatively consistent.

[Asset]

I've literally walked into one of the smaller houses and died in 10 seconds of starting the match because a demon used its ability right away. So it could do that, or just not at all, just RNG.

[HairyToeNails]

only had it happen for me a handful of times and im almost at 600 hours oddly they all happened as soon as i entered the location or within a few minutes of entering

[St.Floppywuppet]

I am at 666 hours and it is my only missing achievement.

I play most of my runs at 0 sanity anyways so it is really hard to parse when it is a demon and when not :D

[SilenceLP]

About 20 runs and at least 3 demons that chase and kill me within the first minute, because they always spawn near me.^^
I'm the lucky one who keeps the demons away from you, haha. :-)

[Myth Alric]

If I were to ballpark it, I would say 1 in every 20 demons does a hunt within the first minute, though probably half early hunt generally(above 70% when they can hunt normally). I would say 3 out of 4 hunt before 50%.

[Kelsoren]

I have been slaughtered by demons within the first minute NUMEROUS times... Guess you got bad luck........ or consider it good luck, cause it pisses me off every time it happens.....

[Tracker]

Ability use is all RNG for ghosts

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Tracker:

Ability use is all RNG for ghosts

There's several ghost abilities that aren't tied to RNG, though those are often restricted to hunt tells.