Post-Match Reveal and Screenshot Review Checklist

You know the pain: you spend the whole prep timer painting one heroic stripe, then the reveal shows your MECCHA CHAMELEON body standing beside the wall like a wet floor sign with ambition. That loss is not useless. The post-match reveal is one of the best coaches in the lobby because it shows where the hide ended up and what it looked like when the joke was over. Pair it with your own screenshots or memory of the Seeker route, and you can see what the room had a real chance to notice.

Use this review right after each round, while the room is still yelling about the impossible disguise. A Hider is the player trying to hide by posing and painting into the map. A Seeker is the player hunting those painted bodies. The goal is not to explain every reveal perfectly. Some rounds are messy. The goal is to find one clear fix for the next hide or sweep.

Hider Review: What Gave You Away?

Spot choice: Did you choose the hiding place before painting, or did you paint first and then look for somewhere to stand? Pick the lie first. A bad spot with good color is still just a suspicious person-shaped sticker.
Silhouette: Silhouette means your outside shape. Look at your outline in the reveal. If your head, arms, or legs made a clean body shape, fix the pose before fixing the paint. Crouch, tuck into an edge, line up with furniture, or hide part of your body behind clutter.
Color zones: Check whether you painted one flat color across your whole body. Strong hides use zones: wall color on the torso, trim color on an arm, shadow color on the side facing away from light.
Shadows: If the background had a dark lower edge, corner shadow, shelf shadow, or dirty floor line, your body needed that too. Bright paint inside a dark corner is lobby comedy, not stealth.
Approach angle: Review the angle the Seeker used when they found you. Your disguise only needs to work from the path they are likely to walk. If it only looked good from your own face camera, that was art class, not prop hunt.
Movement discipline: If you rotated, wiggled, or adjusted while the Seeker was close, mark that as the mistake. A half-bad hide can survive stillness. A perfect hide that flinches becomes content.

Seeker Review: What Did You Miss?

Missed room: Name the room or zone you skipped. If the Hider survived in a whole room you never cleared, your route needs a cleaner loop, not sharper aim.
Missed height level: Check whether the hide was low, eye-level, above a shelf, near a ceiling edge, or tucked on top of clutter. New Seekers scan wall color and forget the vertical game.
Repeated texture mistake: If the Hider copied a tile, poster, brick, graffiti patch, or shelf pattern, ask what was off: size, spacing, shine, shadow, or angle. Repeated surfaces are where the little paint crimes live.
Suspicious spacing: Look for the gap that should not exist. One object too far from the wall, one extra blob in a row, one fake corner that sticks out farther than the real corner. Hunt spacing before you hunt color.
Second-pass timing: If you almost checked the spot but moved on, add it to your second pass. Strong Hiders often beat the first sweep, then lose when you come back from a new angle.

Screenshot Set for a Strong Hide

When a hide works, capture it like you are making evidence for a tiny, painted crime scene. Take five screenshots before the lobby sprints into the next round: the map landmark, the Hider setup, the final disguise, the Seeker approach, and the reveal comparison.

Map landmark: Stand back and show the room marker: a library shelf, graffiti wall, hallway bend, tile row, poster cluster, desk area, or other object the lobby can find again.
Hider setup: Show the raw spot before the paint job matters. This proves the hide is based on shape and position, not just magic brush chaos.
Final disguise: Capture the final pose from the Hider side and from a normal walking distance. If it only looks good nose-to-wall, it is not ready.
Seeker approach: Take the screenshot from the route a Seeker would actually use. Doorway, corridor, stairs, shelf gap, corner peek. That is the money angle.
Reveal comparison: After the round, capture the revealed body against the same background. This shows whether the trick was color, outline, shadow, or pure lobby disrespect.

Turn One Failed Hide Into One Fix

Do not leave a failed round with six vague lessons. Pick one. If the reveal showed a clean body outline, your next fix is pose. If the paint was too bright, your next fix is shadow matching. If the Seeker found you from the side, your next fix is approach angle. If you moved when they paused, your next fix is freezing until they fully pass.

A good rule: change only the part that got you caught. Same spot, better pose. Same pose, better shadow. Same colors, safer angle. That keeps the lobby moving and turns each ugly reveal into useful training data. Screenshots help you compare attempts, but always test the hide in the current build and current lobby. One room's habits do not prove every room will fall for the same painted nonsense.

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