Disguiser
-The three T's to Guising Correctly-
KNOW THY TARGET
As soon as the game begins and you realize you're guiser, quickly pull out multiple tabs in your browser for peoples profiles. (don't do this for your mafia teammates)
In a person's profile these are important:
Depending on factors involved, your decision should reflect your best suitable target. Keep in mind, that the safest guise target, who is usually a no avay and has no connections to anyone in game, is usually the prime suspect of being guised. In contrast, if you attempt to guise as a person who has lots of information in their bio and is playing with friends, you will be more clear if you can succeed in passing the more rigorous guise tests.
People to rule out immediately,
A person who played a game recently (within an hour) and you were not apart of the game.
A person playing with close friends (unless you plan on killing their friends or framing them)
A person with guise test information in their bio that you are not familiar with.
KNOW THY TYPING
After you have decided on a target, DO NOT HAMMER! Use whatever time you have remaining during night to quickly check previous days and pregame to analyze your targets typing habits. You can probably even steal some time during day and pretend to go afk while you study their typing habit more. (go afk for one or two minutes max)
Here is the typing habit checklist,
In the short amount of time that you used to analyze their typing, you need to mirror it to the best of your ability. But, you also need to try and preserve attributes the person was displaying during the game. If they were flirting, fos'ing, arguing, to players during the game, you have to uphold those themes.
If you can mirror their typing habit, personality, and attributes successfully you will be less likely to be guise tested.
KNOW THY TRICKERY
Knowing how to manipulate guise tests are important. You have a couple of options when it comes to this.
You can clear yourself or find a scapegoat by:
When being guise tested yourself you can:
If you fail your guise test and the person knows your mafia then the only tactic you have left is to resort to saying that the person gave you a fake guise test and is mafia trying to frame you.
Guise Codes:
When dealing with guise codes the only coherent strategy is to make sure you and your mafia partners try to give out guise codes to make it appear redundant. If done properly the village will not attempt to give out guise codes because they assume it's already taken care of without realizing you and your mafia teammates gave the codes.
Wasting a Cop's Report:
Another good strategy is to act scummy as possible in order to attract a cop visit at night. If done properly, the cop will reveal that you guised out, wasting his report, instead of investigating your mafia partners. Of course, this will have the entire village guise testing each other so make sure you are in a good position before attempting this.
Appear as a PR:
Last thing worth mentioning, is that you can use your guiser visit to give the appearance that you are a PR. When you select someone as your guise target that is not the same person being killed, you will visit him/her during the night which will appear on a watcher and tracker report.
Gaining trust:
If happen to guise test other players you are generally seen as pro-town and as such this will usually give you some trust leverage over being guise tested yourself. Of course the downside to this is that some people might feel inclined to guise test you, but if done properly they shouldn't tunnel on you with guise tests.
Guise'ing successfully and dodging guise tests
Pros:
Cons:
As soon as the game begins and you realize you're guiser, quickly pull out multiple tabs in your browser for peoples profiles. (don't do this for your mafia teammates)
In a person's profile these are important:
- Last few games (how long ago did they last play)
- Does their bio have information (these are guise tests you will have to pass)
- Is anyone from their friends list playing in the game (makes it even harder for you)
- Where is their avatar from (what show, character, etc.)
Depending on factors involved, your decision should reflect your best suitable target. Keep in mind, that the safest guise target, who is usually a no avay and has no connections to anyone in game, is usually the prime suspect of being guised. In contrast, if you attempt to guise as a person who has lots of information in their bio and is playing with friends, you will be more clear if you can succeed in passing the more rigorous guise tests.
People to rule out immediately,
A person who played a game recently (within an hour) and you were not apart of the game.
A person playing with close friends (unless you plan on killing their friends or framing them)
A person with guise test information in their bio that you are not familiar with.
KNOW THY TYPING
After you have decided on a target, DO NOT HAMMER! Use whatever time you have remaining during night to quickly check previous days and pregame to analyze your targets typing habits. You can probably even steal some time during day and pretend to go afk while you study their typing habit more. (go afk for one or two minutes max)
Here is the typing habit checklist,
- Do they use periods? (always, sometimes, never)
- Do they capitalize? (first word, names, etc.)
- Do they use punctuation? (always, sometimes, never)
- Do they use slang? (bro, dawg, etc.)
- Do they abbreviate? (u instead of you, r instead of are, etc.)
- Do they use all caps? (always, sometimes, never)
- Do they type full sentences or short bursts?
- How often do they speak? (talkative, moderate, seldom)
In the short amount of time that you used to analyze their typing, you need to mirror it to the best of your ability. But, you also need to try and preserve attributes the person was displaying during the game. If they were flirting, fos'ing, arguing, to players during the game, you have to uphold those themes.
If you can mirror their typing habit, personality, and attributes successfully you will be less likely to be guise tested.
KNOW THY TRICKERY
Knowing how to manipulate guise tests are important. You have a couple of options when it comes to this.
You can clear yourself or find a scapegoat by:
- Having your mafia partner guise test you to clear you (this risks putting your partner in jeopardy when you die)
- Fake guise testing a villager and say he's guised (make someone a scapegoat)
- Doing the above, and having your mafia partners use their own fake guise tests on the selected scapegoat to make them appear even more guised (should agree to do this at night)
When being guise tested yourself you can:
- Try to answer the question in a vague way (raises suspicion but they can't directly say your guised)
- Try to answer the question in a direct way (if you fail then they will recognize your guised)
- Claim you don't remember (good tactic, but expect another question from the person)
If you fail your guise test and the person knows your mafia then the only tactic you have left is to resort to saying that the person gave you a fake guise test and is mafia trying to frame you.
Guise Codes:
When dealing with guise codes the only coherent strategy is to make sure you and your mafia partners try to give out guise codes to make it appear redundant. If done properly the village will not attempt to give out guise codes because they assume it's already taken care of without realizing you and your mafia teammates gave the codes.
Wasting a Cop's Report:
Another good strategy is to act scummy as possible in order to attract a cop visit at night. If done properly, the cop will reveal that you guised out, wasting his report, instead of investigating your mafia partners. Of course, this will have the entire village guise testing each other so make sure you are in a good position before attempting this.
Appear as a PR:
Last thing worth mentioning, is that you can use your guiser visit to give the appearance that you are a PR. When you select someone as your guise target that is not the same person being killed, you will visit him/her during the night which will appear on a watcher and tracker report.
Gaining trust:
If happen to guise test other players you are generally seen as pro-town and as such this will usually give you some trust leverage over being guise tested yourself. Of course the downside to this is that some people might feel inclined to guise test you, but if done properly they shouldn't tunnel on you with guise tests.
Guise'ing successfully and dodging guise tests
Pros:
- Give's you a safe haven by guising as clears
- Let's you escape getting lynched if you get your cc killed
- Gives you the chance to try and out roles before guise'ing out
Cons:
- One of the hardest roles to master
- Some metagaming is nearly impossible to beat
- You risk putting your mafia partners in danger if you rely on them for guise testing