Crouching is a gameplay aspect that allows the player to increase their stealth and to help perform stealth kills. While crouching, the player's movement speed is decreased. To crouch, hold down the CTRL key while moving. Crouching (especially in bushes and near rocks) will decrease the player's likelihood of being spotted by cannibals. Crouching is also used for placing multiple amounts of the same blueprint when building.
Known Bugs[]
- (multiplayer) When crouched, your nametag disappears for everyone else, and if you get downed when crouching, it can be very hard for people to find you, as you now have no name. (Was intended to be in the game)
VR Version Behavior[]
- Crouching does not activate the Stealth UI whether it is enabled in the settings or not.
- Physically crouching lower than about 40% of your Virtual Height will cause your view to reset to your default standing height. (This does not exit stealth mode but does increase the height of your in-game body allowing detection while behind low cover)
- Most actions can be performed while crouched in VR including some that would be prevented (Downward axe swing) or deactivate stealth mode in the standard game.
Update History[]
| Version | Changes |
|---|---|
| v0.72 | Fixed player head clipping through ceiling when crouch jumping |
| v0.71b | Fixed dying with toggle crouch on causing issues in hanging cutscene |
| v0.70 | Player can no longer do downward axe attacks while crouching and head height is blocked by a low ceiling |
| v0.68 | Player can no longer crouch while driving the logsled |
| v0.66 | Fixed player sometimes able to jump while crouched in vents and other tight areas |
| v0.62 | Fixed crouch mode inverted when opening options menu |
| v0.57 | Fixed running while crouching speed being applied inconsistently |
| v0.46 | Fixed crouch toggle not working correctly on controllers |
| v0.43 | Fixed player crouch getting stuck sometimes when moving through shallow water |
| v0.39 | Fixed player movement getting stuck when entering rock Thrower while crouched |
| v0.37 | New gameplay option: Crouch Mode (Hold / Toggle), default is hold (legacy feature) |
| v0.36 | Fixed cave map clipping through legs while crouch walking |
| v0.35 | Improved first person crouch walk/idle animation
Blood now washes from weapon/body if player is crouched in shallow water |
| v0.34 | Fixed slight delay on stealth icon removal when standing up from crouch |
| v0.33 | (Multiplayer) Player name is now hidden for crouched players! |
| v0.32 | (Multiplayer) Better crouching animation on player character |
| v0.31 | Added option to hide stealth meter |
| v0.26 | Improved accuracy of plane collision, can no longer crouch/glitch out of plane side doors |
| v0.25 | Fixed player crouching glitching out whilst holding lit arrows |
| v0.22 | Fixed crouch player input sometimes not responding |
| v0.18 | Player crouch speed is now set correctly |
| v0.11 | Player can now attack whilst crouched improving stealth kills |
| v0.08 | Bushes will now hide player from enemy vision when crouched! |
| v0.06 | Moving forward, crouching, jumping or pressing e will make player stand up if sitting on bench |