Role Encyclopedia

Strategy: Stick with groups, finish visible tasks, and share what you observe during meetings.

Counterplay: N/A — this is the baseline role.

Tutorial: Move to a task marker and hold the interact button to complete it. Report bodies you find.

Strategy: Use vents to catch up on tasks or respond quickly when a body is reported nearby.

Counterplay: Engineers can be seen entering/exiting vents just like Shifters — vent sightings are still suspicious.

Tutorial: Stand near a vent grate and use the Vent action. Cooldown applies after each use.

Strategy: Shield players who are alone or who claimed a suspicious role; save charges for late game.

Counterplay: Shifters cannot tell who is shielded until an elimination attempt fails.

Tutorial: Approach a living player and use your ability to shield them for a limited time.

Strategy: Only fire on strong evidence — an incorrect shot removes you from the game immediately.

Counterplay: Bluffing innocent behavior punishes trigger-happy Sheriffs.

Tutorial: Use your ability on a nearby player. There is no undo, so be certain.

Strategy: Inspect bodies before they are reported if possible, and cross-reference clues with alibis.

Counterplay: Clues are vague by design — Shifters can still explain away a single data point.

Tutorial: Interact with a body before reporting it to reveal an investigation clue.

Strategy: Track players with inconsistent alibis to confirm or deny their claimed location.

Counterplay: Trails only show recent movement, so a patient Shifter can wait out a mark.

Tutorial: Open the map, select a target, and confirm the mark. Check back after the duration.

Strategy: Watch high-traffic rooms during quiet periods to catch a kill or fake task.

Counterplay: Comms sabotage disables cameras entirely.

Tutorial: Use your ability at any console to open the extended camera view.

Strategy: Save your instant repair for a double-sabotage or a reactor timer about to expire.

Counterplay: Only works once — bait it out early with a minor sabotage if you suspect a Technician.

Tutorial: Repair panels faster automatically. Use your ability during any active sabotage to clear it instantly.

Strategy: Combine hints over multiple rounds to narrow down suspects — a single hint is not proof.

Counterplay: Hints never name a role, only a faction-leaning impression.

Tutorial: Hints arrive automatically on a timer and appear in your ability log.

Strategy: Lock a Shifter out of a vent room or seal a room to isolate a suspect for questioning.

Counterplay: Locked doors are visible to everyone, so misuse is easy to call out.

Tutorial: Stand near a door and use your ability to seal it for a short time.

Strategy: Move quickly to fresh bodies — footprint evidence fades over time.

Counterplay: Footprints only narrow a color group, not an exact identity.

Tutorial: Interact with a body shortly after it is found to scan for footprints.

Strategy: Pair with Detective or Forensic findings to build a tight elimination window.

Counterplay: Precision only helps if alibis are also precise.

Tutorial: Interact with a body to see an exact time-of-death readout.

Strategy: Even in death, watch for the most at-risk Operator before using your shield.

Counterplay: Only usable once, and only after the Guardian has died.

Tutorial: After becoming an Echo, use your ability on a living Operator to shield them.

Strategy: Fake tasks convincingly, isolate targets, and use sabotages to create chaos and alibis.

Counterplay: Watch for players who never appear to finish visible tasks.

Tutorial: Get close to a living player and use the Eliminate action. Cooldown applies after each kill.

Strategy: Disguise as someone confirmed elsewhere to build a false alibi before or after a kill.

Counterplay: A disguised Morpher cannot use their name in chat claims that contradict the real player.

Tutorial: Use your ability near a target to briefly copy their appearance.

Strategy: Cloak before or after an elimination to slip away from witnesses.

Counterplay: Cloaked players are still faintly visible up close.

Tutorial: Use your ability to fade out for a short duration.

Strategy: Silence whoever is most likely to correctly call out a Shifter.

Counterplay: A silenced player can still vote — silence only blocks chat.

Tutorial: Use your ability on a target before a meeting starts.

Strategy: Mimic a role that has already been claimed to muddy the meeting discussion.

Counterplay: Mimicked animations do not produce the real ability's actual effect.

Tutorial: Use your ability to play a copied animation near witnesses.

Strategy: Use claimed roles and behavior patterns from discussion to make an informed guess.

Counterplay: Avoid over-explaining your ability in chat — details make you an easy target.

Tutorial: During discussion, use your ability and select both a target and a role guess.

Strategy: Save the haunt for a moment that maximizes chaos among the remaining Operators.

Counterplay: The haunt is a single use and telegraphed to living players when it triggers.

Tutorial: After ejection, use your ability once from the Echo state.

Strategy: Mark early and establish an alibi before the delayed death occurs.

Counterplay: A Medic shield placed before the timer expires fully negates the mark.

Tutorial: Use your ability on a target; the elimination resolves automatically after the delay.

Strategy: Clean up remote kills quickly to buy time before anyone finds the scene.

Counterplay: Missing players are eventually noticed even without a body.

Tutorial: Interact with an unreported body to remove it.

Strategy: Jam Security and Tracker abilities right before making a move.

Counterplay: Jamming is visible on the affected consoles as an outage warning.

Tutorial: Use your ability to disable info systems for a short time.

Strategy: Project a decoy in one room while acting elsewhere to split attention.

Counterplay: Projections do not respond to chat pings or interact with tasks.

Tutorial: Use your ability to spawn a decoy at your position that walks a short patrol.

Strategy: Act just suspicious enough to get voted out without being obvious about it.

Counterplay: Confirm-eject settings and careful voting reduce accidental Jester wins.

Tutorial: You have no combat ability. Your only goal is to be ejected by vote.

Strategy: Stay neutral in accusations and avoid drawing elimination attempts.

Counterplay: Self-shields are limited — repeated targeted attempts will eventually succeed.

Tutorial: Use your ability on yourself to block one elimination attempt.

Strategy: Mark players individually while blending in, then ignite for a mass elimination.

Counterplay: Being marked has no visible tell, but igniting takes a moment the Arsonist must stay near a marked target for.

Tutorial: Use your ability on nearby players to mark them; use it again once ready to ignite all marks.

Strategy: Build a case against your target without revealing your true motive.

Counterplay: The target does not know they are marked, so ordinary suspicion play still applies.

Tutorial: Check your objective panel for your current target.

Strategy: Quietly build suspicion on your target through the discussion phase.

Counterplay: If your target dies to other causes, you convert to a Survivor for the rest of the match.

Tutorial: Check your objective panel for your assigned innocent target.

Strategy: Wait for a strong role to be eliminated, then remember it to inherit their abilities and win condition.

Counterplay: Once remembered, the Amnesiac behaves exactly like the inherited role from that point on.

Tutorial: Open your ability menu after any player dies to remember their role.

Strategy: Prioritize objectives that overlap with normal Operator behavior to stay hidden.

Counterplay: Objectives are individually harmless, but a Chaos Agent completing many quickly can be noticed.

Tutorial: Check your objective panel for your current mini-objective and its progress.