Thread:Vertroyer/@comment-36948568-20190104150513/@comment-28112409-20190106130929

There's a way to play him, although Disguiser in its current state can still fail and fuck up even if you played it perfectly, because of how badly the concept has been articulated into the game. Don't get your hopes up too high, Disguiser isn't as good as he should be but when he does pull off a disguise, shit gets interesting.

Regardless, this is what I got from the experience I've gathered so far.

1- Don't play him like other mafia roles.

The other mafia roles, they go wild with their abilities. GF and Mafioso go to kill, Consig investigates, Janitor cleans, all that jazz. Disguiser is a unique one, he's meant to take the backseat in terms of abilities.

You can often see a lot of newbies playing Disguiser like he's the guy who needs to be the first to do the action and therefore they should die as fast as possible so their ability works, and then they're confused why the ability and their efforts failed so miserably, then they rage and say Disguiser is crap. I mean, they're not wrong, but they still suck at Disguiser nonetheless.

The disguise is not your main plan, it's your backup plan. If you don't treat your disguise like a backup plan, you will find yourself failing a lot, enough to get you into the cringe compliations. What's your actual main plan then? Faking the role you're disguised as, and trying to mislead with it while not giving away that you're a Disguiser.

Mafia majority is too valuable of an advantage to sacrifice just to work a disguise. Instead, mafia majority and deception by faking roles is plan A, then the disguise is plan B. You need to act like a town, not a Disguiser who saved his ability till last minute in a failing attempt to use a trump card. There's already a few common behaviors observed by the typical townie, and you'd be very suspicious if you don't do them.

2- Picking the role you want to fake.

This, is the most important part of playing Disguiser. When you finish this part of your plan, everything can go amazingly or terribly from here. For a normal evil, they just wanna claim a role for one purpose. Mafia claim a role to survive, simple. You want to claim a role to survive for majority AND make a convincing disguise when you die, which makes this part more difficult.

You also have limitations. For example, disguising as a confirmed unique role like Mayor or Jailor in your game is definitely not going to ever work out, getting jailed and executed means your disguise fails, and a Spy who sees you visiting the same person twice or more will recognize the presence of a disguiser pretty quickly.

There are a few guidelines to picking your role as Disguiser. Don't go picking a role that the mafia needs to kill, you're wasting value there. If the mafia holds back and lets you disguise freely, that dangerous role you're disguising as could end up killing or damaging the mafia. If the mafia favor the death of the role over your disguise, you might be in real trouble if you claimed you're that role. You need to have a good list of what roles you should be avoiding because of how threatening they are to the mafia before entering the game.

You also want to pick a role you can fake a will with. Don't go after peeps like Investigators and Lookouts, you can't simply fake a will with those two and and make it look believable if you tried making one. An incoherent will gives away you're a Disguiser, so it ain't worth such a risk unless you know you can somehow pull it off.

3- Game sense/Awareness

It's vital for a Disguiser to pay attention to the chat, and to be aware of a unique balance that Disguiser has to be wary of.

There's a spectrum for Disguiser's picking of roles and claims. The earlier you claim and settle on a role, the more convincing you'll be but the less flexible you will be with your choices after picking the role. In contrast, the later you claim and settle on a role, the less convincing you'll be but the more flexible your choices become. You need to keep a good awareness of where this balance is going, and act accordingly.

If you want to strike an ideal balance between the 2, I'd say the best day for it is D3 at the latest.

4- Some extra tips

Waiting till you disguise as someone at night before claiming is also a common noob mistake a lot of people do, they miss out on so efficiency by doing that. You can claim the day before you perform your disguise if you know you won't be lynched on that day or executed the night after. Remember, you want to act as townie and be as convincing as possible, hence the need to be early and decisive about it.

Don't visit N1. Random disguises just end up feeding information to a possible Spy, and there's no point randomly disguising when you have like no info on anything anyway. It is preferable to wait till D2, and see if there are spy claims. You can even push for spies to claim or else they'll be suspicious later, and it's perfectly valid since TIs coming out assists the Town.

Communicate with your mafia. Don't just stand there and try to yolo something on your own, it won't happen. You got about 30 seconds per night, use it. Tell the mafia who you're using for your disguise and see if they're fine keeping them alive or they need to kill him. Ask for their opinions, give em a heads-up about what you're claiming and what you're disguising as so they can adjust themselves with you. Simple stuff, but they go a big way.