Identity V Tips

about kiting as a survivor

Seriously, learn to kite. There's no telling who will run into the hunter first. There are tons of tutorial videos on YouTube and certain survivors are equipped with skills that can aid in kiting. If you can work your way up to even 60 seconds of kiting, that will be very helpful for your teammates.

The main thing you want to do when kiting is maintain distance between you and the hunter. This can be done in plenty of ways. Dropping pallets and vaulting windows is the most common. Be careful when doing this, though, because if the Hunter hits you while you're doing this, you'll get a terror shock (be knocked down in 1 hit). 

You want to be in a good area for kiting. This means somewhere without lots of walls and pallets and objects. Wide stretches of the map give the hunter a perfect chance to catch up because the hunter is faster than the survivors. If you need to move to a new kiting area, wait for a speed boost or until you have enough distance, if possible.

You don't want to throw down every pallet you come across. Throwing down pallets when the hunter is far enough away isn't very useful. They could just go around, and then you'd have to vault it if you wanted to get through, leading to a terror shock. Similarly, if every pallet in an area is destroyed, that area could be a death sentence for someone else trying to kite there. If you're unsure of how many to leave, a common rule of thumb I see is to leave at least two pallets p area.

One of the best places to kite can be a building with NO basement. This seems to be the general opinion many survivor mains have. However, if the building DOES have a basement, avoid it. When kiting, you want to stay away from the basement as basement saves are much trickier than normal saves to pull off. If you do end up getting rescued from a basement, or if you pull off a basement rescue, pay attention to what the hunter is doing. If they're on the stairs, they're most likely waiting to hit you on your way up. Heal your teammate downstairs if this happens. It'll most likely force the hunter into coming down, making it easier to run past and escape. 

Move away from where you spawn, especially when you spawn in wide-open places. More experienced hunters may have spawn points memorized. Going to the nearest cipher isn't always the best option, especially if your spawn point is out in the open. It may seem tempting to go straight for a cipher, but taking ten to twenty seconds to go somewhere better and be able to kite for much longer is worth it in the end.

Kite away from other survivors, especially when they're decoding. Seriously, don't be that guy that always leads the hunter straight to their teammates. Not only is it annoying, but it can result in you both getting out.

Make sure to look behind you. This, as well as many other tips, may seem obvious to experienced players, but it can be tricky to learn if you aren't used to it. You'll have to switch the camera to face behind you and change the direction you're running to be "backward". Once you learn how, though, you won't fall for many hunter mind games and you will always be able to see where exactly the hunter is.

Try to memorize maps. Memorizing maps can be extremely useful. Knowing where kiting areas, dungeon locations, ciphers, basement locations, and pallets are can be what saves you. It isn't easy to memorize maps, but if you can try taking it one at a time or find a different method that works for you, it's worth it.

Even if you KNOW you won't survive, try as hard as you can. The time the hunter spends chasing you is time the hunter doesn't spend downing your whole team. Even if you don't think you can kite, try. I'm not great at kiting but there has been a few times that the hunter chased me for the majority of the game and we won as a result.

I will update this with more at another time. For now, if you guys have any tips or corrections, please leave them in the comments.