Your Stamina loop
- Write on the blackboard — this is your refill. You can still walk a little and glance sideways while writing.
- Patrol when you have a lead: aisle, back rows, the back door, the drawers.
- Chalk a suspect — it’s long-range and fast, and a hit stuns.
- Tie them to a pillar by the podium. This costs Stamina, but every capture also refunds some (Teacher’s Rage, Oct 21).
- Back to the board before you drop too low. Collapse and the class runs wild until you get up.
Tools
| Tool | What it does | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chalk | Your attack. Long range, fast projectile, stun on hit. Aim matters — misses waste time | Gcores, GameLook |
| Camera | Place it and switch to its feed to watch a zone remotely | Gcores |
| Radar | Pings hidden students | Gcores |
| Flashlight | Evening Study Room only — the room is dark | Chinese press, fan reports |
| Red Card | The capture animation: card out, student hauled to the pillar | Gcores |
| Wooden Pillars | Where captured students are tied. Spacing was widened on Oct 23 so rescues aren’t a pile-up | Steam news Oct 23 |
Exact ranges, durations and cooldowns aren’t published.
Reading the room
- NPC tell: a sharp mechanical head shake when you come close. Real players either keep still or over-correct.
- Items are proof. NPCs don’t hold smoke bombs or burgers.
- Crawling, back doors, out-of-seat with an item — all student-only behaviours added during the demo.
- Computer Lab: walk the aisle; game windows on a student’s screen are visible from behind (players called this unfair, which means it works).
- Sound: eating and drinking have audio since 0.1.9. Listen for crunching.
Counterplay to student items (from the forum)
- Smoke bomb: stand at the edge of the cloud rather than charging in; players complain the teacher can still grab two at once from the rim.
- Flashbang: you’ll still see close-range silhouettes.
- Ink bottle: it covers the centre of your view — tilt the camera and the edges stay clear.
- Bubble gum: random trajectory; keep moving.
- Banana peel: watch the floor near drawers and doors.
Launch changes that affect you
The November 10 build adds a female homeroom teacher (differences unpublished), multiple teachers per room via custom settings, and 8-player lobbies. Dynamic balance already means bigger rooms give you Stamina back per catch.