- Guide
Even though ghosts can only do tasks and can't communicate with Crewmates, there's a few things they can help with even after death.
Crewmate[]
- Finish your tasks. If you have any tasks left, complete them as soon as possible to help all Crewmates win through task completion.
- Remind other ghosts to do tasks as well, especially Guardian Angels who may have forgotten that they still have tasks to do.
- Time your long tasks. Due to being able to clip through walls and having increased speed, a task's location is rarely important for a ghost. It is often best to do long tasks such as Upload Data immediately after emergency meetings to avoid body reports or use of the emergency button interrupting the task.
- Don't do visual tasks near impostors. Visual tasks are still seen being completed by Crewmates even if ghosts do them. As a result, in the unlikely chance an impostor is near with witnesses, they can pretend to do it while you are in the process of completing it, giving them a hard clear. Avoid letting this happen at all costs. This does not apply if visuals are turned off.
- Do your tasks before talking much. Especially if there are many tasks in the game, it is important to refrain from sending more than a few messages to other ghosts before you have finished tasks. If you die late in the game and still have tasks left, you should do them before talking at all, as it could make the difference between a win or a loss.
- If you have done your tasks, avoid distracting other ghosts from their tasks by engaging in long conversations with them. Instead, talk to ghosts that have finished their tasks or distract Impostor ghosts from Sabotaging.
- Help the Guardian Angels. If there are Guardian Angels in the game, tell them who the Impostors are. Angels don't have the ghost's ability to tell the difference between a Crewmate and an Impostor, so telling them early will help prevent kills. If there are no Shapeshifters, you can simply tell the Guardian Angels who killed you (if you were murdered). If there are Shapeshifters, use your ghost ability to see if they are an impostor, then read their name so that you can tell the difference between their skin and their true self. This information will assist the Guardian Angels in knowing who needs protecting and when. It may also be a good idea to haunt every living player to find out their role and relay this back to Guardian Angels.
- Another way to help Guardian Angels is to continuously haunt a particular Impostor. This will allow Guardian Angels to identify their location even if they are in a vent or currently shifted.
Impostor[]
- Sabotage when appropriate. Impostor ghosts retain the ability to use the Sabotage menu. You can help living Impostors in ways such as shutting doors, turning off the lights and even directly causing a win through a critical Sabotage. However, since you can't communicate with them, ensure your sabotages aren't getting in the way of what they want. Instead, follow your teammate's intentions and do a sabotage you know will benefit them.
- It is normally a good idea to follow your teammate to figure out what they want to do. However, try not to do this a lot if there are Guardian Angels and they do not already know who your teammate is. If someone is followed or haunted incessently by a ghost (especially an Impostor ghost), it may lead them to realise that they are An Impostor. Using
- The best time to Sabotage is when your partner is in a vent, since living Impostors cannot Sabotage while in a vent. For example, on The Skeld, Red has killed White in Electrical and has entered a vent. You should ideally Sabotage to divert people's attention away from the body (such as Oxygen Depleted or Comms Sabotaged).
- Closing the doors In The Airship Or Polus is also a good idea if your partner doesn't do it, since it does not prevent any major Sabotages and it can delay the crew. Just make sure you do not accidentally leave your partner unable to leave a room, especially if they have killed in it (such as locking your partner in Communications on Polus with a dead body).
- Confuse Guardian Angels. If ejected and the other Impostor(s) have not killed, try to convince the other dead players that an innocent Crewmate is actually another Impostor. This will lead to the Guardian Angels following the Crewmate you framed and wasting their Protect ability while the other Impostor(s) kill without their victims being protected.
- Distract Guardian Angels. If the Guardian Angels already know who your teammate is, you can try simply distracting them. This can involve constantly chatting with them or zooming around in their field of view.
- Try not to be too annoying with this, or you may be banned from the lobby after the game.
- Avoid giving away your role. If Confirm Ejects is off, avoid blatant ghost Sabotages (such as an immediate critical Sabotage or indiscriminate door closing) at least until someone else is ejected. If the crew notices obvious ghost Sabotage behavior right after they eject someone, they will likely infer that they ejected An Impostor.