Hiders Enemy Guide
Watch walls and keep distance from suspicious cracks, holes, or movement.
Quick Response
Watch walls for unusual cracks, bulges, or movement. Keep distance from suspicious wall sections. Report wall anomalies when spotted.
Do not shoot unless the live game gives a specific prompt.
Hiders Survival Table
| Field | Confirmed details |
|---|---|
| Threat | Medium |
| Category | environmental |
| Location | Walls, corners, and narrow passage areas. |
| Counter | Slow scanning and avoiding suspicious wall sections. |
| Shoot? | No. Use the listed counter instead. |
| Mistake to avoid | Do not hug walls in rooms that already look visually wrong. |
Appearance
Also called Wall Anomalies — entities that hide inside walls, emerging through cracks or holes.
Behavior
Conceals itself in walls and emerges when players pass by. Hard to detect until it reveals itself. May grab or attack passing players.
How to survive Hiders
Watch walls for unusual cracks, bulges, or movement. Keep distance from suspicious wall sections. Report wall anomalies when spotted.
Warn teammates about unsafe wall sections before they enter the room. Check the Items guide for the listed counter, then use the shift guide to prepare before this threat overlaps with the patient queue.
Decision points
The confirmed location for Hiders is Walls, corners, and narrow passage areas.. Treat that location as a routing clue: Do not hug walls in rooms that already look visually wrong. If the encounter is tied to a patient, complete the normal admission checks before choosing a response; the anomaly checklist explains the distinction between a patient anomaly and an enemy encounter.
The listed counter is Slow scanning and avoiding suspicious wall sections.. Do not assume the Gun is the default answer; follow the counter and keep the team route open.
A detection problem disguised as a combat problem
Hiders conceal themselves in walls and emerge when players pass, which means the encounter is decided before it starts. If you see the wall problem in advance, you can route around it. If you do not, you are grabbed from a surface you had no reason to watch.
That is why the recorded counter is slow scanning rather than any tool. The enemy has no engagement solution because it does not need one — the counter is seeing it first.
What a compromised wall actually looks like
The tells are unusual cracks, bulges, or movement in wall sections. Because these are subtle and appear in places you normally ignore, scanning walls deliberately is the only reliable method. Rooms that already look visually wrong deserve the most attention, since a Hider in a room with other visual noise is far harder to spot.
The recorded mistake is hugging walls in rooms that already look wrong, which is worth understanding as a general principle: in this game, the surfaces you lean on can be the threat.
Wall reporting as a team habit
The recorded team advice is to warn teammates about unsafe wall sections before they enter the room. Like the Bed Monster callout, this works because the player scanning the room and the player working on a patient are looking at different things.
A short callout naming the wall — not the enemy — is enough, since the actionable information is which surface to avoid rather than what is inside it.
Response order for Hiders
- Scan walls deliberately on entering a room, looking for cracks, bulges, or movement.
- Keep your distance from any suspicious wall section rather than investigating it closely.
- Report the unsafe wall section so teammates avoid it before they enter.
- Do not hug walls in rooms that already look visually wrong.
- Route around the flagged surface rather than clearing it.
Hiders FAQ
Can I shoot a Hider?
It is not listed as shootable. The recorded counter is slow scanning and avoiding suspicious wall sections, so the encounter is resolved before combat rather than during it.
What are the visual tells for a Hider?
Unusual cracks, bulges, or movement in wall sections. They are subtle and appear on surfaces players normally ignore, which is why scanning needs to be deliberate rather than incidental.
Why does the guidance warn against hugging walls?
Because Hiders conceal themselves in walls and grab passing players. In rooms that already look visually wrong, leaning on a wall puts you directly against the surface the threat is using.
Where do Hiders appear?
In walls, corners and narrow passage areas, which means tight routes with surfaces on both sides are the highest-risk sections to move through without scanning.
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