In this guide, you will find must-have equipment and expert tips that will keep you one step ahead of Dark Hours. Check out our monsters guide for monsters in the game.
Equipments and Tips
When you enter the Dark Hours, you encounter unexpected dangers that make your mission a struggle for survival! To escape, you must find elusive sets of keys that will unlock every step of your escape route.
Basic Equipment
Defensive Tools
Note
All equipment is single-use. Once purchased, it’s stored in your personal locker at the back of the van. From here, you can equip any items alongside the default gear provided at the start of each map. Default equipment includes: 2 crowbars, 1 hacking device, 1 adrenaline shot, and 2 walkie-talkies.
Tips and Information
Fuses
When adding fuses to the vault, note that the third fuse unlocks special abilities for entities:
- Hidebehind gains increased speed and removes the cooldown between hunts.
- Banshee gains a dash attack, knocking down players in her path.
Exhibit
Inside the exhibit, avoid triggering security mechanisms. Navigate the security laser maze to retrieve the key from a statue. Tripping a security line will block access to this key until later in the game and alert the ghost to your location, possibly extending the lockout time.
Overall Score
Your heist score determines your cash cut and is based on your contributions to the objective. To maximize your payout, make sure you actively assist with the main tasks.
Streaks
Streaks are set from 1-4 by the host in the lobby section. For each stage you complete your cut will increase by 10% each time with a maximum of 50% cut for the final stage in the streak run.
Hiding
Typically, your first response to danger may be to run, but hiding inside of lockers and under tables also proves useful if not the best course of action. If everyone is downed, the game is as good as over.
Movement tips
- Crouching makes you quieter than walking or sprinting. If you’re going up against an entity that is more receptive to noise, stealth is a very useful thing.
- Sprinting and then crouching gives you the ability to slide. This can be a useful tool if you’re trying to speed run the exhibit, clear the length of a room, or quickly trying to hide.
- When sprinting, try not to use up your entire stamina reserve or the time to regain that energy is increased. When you are exhausting your stamina, it also causes the character to pant/wheeze alerting the entity of your location.
- Your stamina is directly affected by the weight of your inventory. To maintain stamina, try to return items to the team bag as often as possible.
Here’s how it works:
- You start with 5 stamina bars.
- For every 9kg of weight you carry, you lose 1 stamina bar.
- At 35kg, you will lose a 4th stamina bar, but will not lose any more stamina bars no matter how much more weight you carry beyond this.
Equipment
So far, it seems all equipment is single use. The van gives you two crowbars, two hacking devices, and two walkies at the start with a chance of spawning equipment in the map. These items can be additional starter items or defensive materials such as earmuffs or cameras.
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