Hunter Strategy Guide: Patrol, Chase and Prediction

Patrol, Do Not Sprint

The fastest way to lose as a hunter is to run around the room in a panic. Sprinting past corners gives hiders free cover, and the noise of your own movement masks the tells you are looking for.

Build a patrol route that covers the room methodically: check corners, check behind props, sweep each wall before moving to the next. A slow, complete sweep catches more hiders than three fast partial ones.

Hunt With Your Eyes, Not Your Feet

Your biggest advantage is that movement gives hiders away. When you enter an area, stand still for a second and let the room settle. Any hider who repositioned as you arrived will be the one still twitching.

Look for mismatches: a shape that breaks the pattern of its backdrop, a shade that does not belong to the wall it is leaning on, or a body that is slightly too round to be furniture. Your eyes find those faster than your feet ever will.

Commit to Chases

When you spot a hider, commit. Half-hearted chases let them duck around a corner and vanish — often into a spot you then have to search anyway.

Cut off escape routes instead of chasing straight lines. Push the hider away from the center of the room and toward a wall or corner, where their options run out. A cornered chameleon is a tagged chameleon.

Predict Where They Hide

Hiders are predictable: they pick cover near the action, they repaint after moving, and they freeze when they hear you. Use that. When you enter a room, check the spots you would pick if you were hiding there.

Double back. The second pass over an area catches the hiders who moved while you were checking the first corner. Slow hunters win by revisiting, not by covering new ground forever.

Cover Ground With a Team

In duo, trio, or squad parties, split the map. One hunter sweeps the perimeter while a partner pushes the center, or two hunters bracket a corridor so a flushed hider runs into the second pair of eyes.

Call out corners you have already cleared so nobody wastes time searching the same spot twice — and so nobody assumes a cleared corner is still empty when the round moves on.

Common Hunting Traps

The biggest trap is over-committing to a chase: sprinting straight at a spotted hider while two others slip past in the noise. Hunters win by controlling the room, not by starring in a single chase scene. If a chase takes you away from an area you have not searched, break it off and return to the sweep.

The second trap is the one-and-done pass. Hiders move while you check the far corner, so the corner you cleared thirty seconds ago is often occupied again. Treat every patrol like a loop: check, move on, come back, check again. Boredom is the hunter's best tool — the hider who stops believing you will return is the hider you catch.

Closing Out the Round

Late in the round, hiders get greedy: they move early, repaint sloppily, and glance at the timer instead of the room. Slow down and exploit it. Sweep the spots that worked at the start of the round — the hider who survived your first pass often relaxes back into the same corner.

The final seconds belong to the hunter who stays methodical while everyone else gets excited. A steady second pass beats a desperate sprint every time, and the round ends exactly when you are done sweeping, not when your energy runs out.

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