Some tips regarding crows. (In case you’re new or still struggle with tracking).
Yo Killers & Survivors.
Have you ever played killer and had to face super stealth survivors, and the game comes to a complete stall?
Have you ever played Survivor and wondered how on earth the killer just found you?
I’m going to cover some things regarding the Entity’s Crows from the killer perspective, then lightly touch base from the survivor perspective.
Killers, ignoring the possibility some survivors run Calm Spirit, here are things you should try to learn to pay attention to:
- If you are out of a chase, try to keep constantly scanning the horizon (on maps that allow you to do this), not just your immediate surroundings. You can sometimes notice when a crow or two scatter from being disturbed.
- Likewise, if on the horizon or the area you are currently travelling through you notice Crows returning to their perches, this is a clue that survivors have recently been through that area (if you know you haven’t been through recently, disturbing them yourself).
- Although the volume/amount of crows vary from map to map, as a general rule of thumb, if you are travelling through an area where you can hear yourself disturbing a lot of crows, it’s unlikely any survivors have recently been in/through that area, so you shouldn’t waste your time searching around there.
- Try to distinguish the different sounds Crows make. The caw they make when disturbed from their perches is very distinguishable from the chirping the idle crows make when survivors have been inactive for too long.
Some cons to be aware of though:
- there seems to be inconsistency on the distance a killer needs to be from a perched crow before the killer disturbs one, especially on indoor, multi-storey maps. Sometimes I won’t disturb any crows until I’m literally right on top of them, and sometimes on indoor maps I’ve been fooled by a disturbed crow a full tile over, search, and realise it was ME that disturbed that crow.
- Sometimes crows idle on their regular perches will make the same chirping that they could make when a survivor is idle/afk somewhere, again fooling the killer into wasting time searching for an idle survivor that isn’t even there.
Killers, if you work on these tracking skills, if makes it much more difficult for survivors to hide from you for very long periods of time.
Survivors, you can also use the above information to improve your stealth.
- Although it isn’t reasonable to try and avoid disturbing any crows, you should definitely note where they are, and if possible to avoid disturbing them, do so. Because if you against a killer adept at the above skills, you are quickly going to get found and go down.
- If you must hide near a crow, stay/move while crouched. Unless you physically touch the crow, staying crouched will not disturb them.
- Even when running Calm Spirit, physically touching a crow will still disturb them. Take note of this.
- It can save your life against a stealth killer (except Wraith) or while a killer is using Undetectable being aware of sudden crow disturbances. It can tell you which direction the killer is coming from.
Hope i’ve been able to provide something helpful to some of you to help you improve in your matches.
