

When playing the Night Hunter for the first time, they will be put and be introduced into a tutorial before they can select matchmaking to find a player to invade.

While only one player can control the Night Hunter, human survivors can be allowed up to four players.

Once the player controlling the Night Hunter finishes synchronizing with the survivor's game, both players will be placed at random places around the map, the nests will spawn, and the map will automatically be set to night time.

As a human survivor, the player will be alerted of the Night Hunter invading and must search and destroy the nest to prevent it from respawning. Invading players control the Night Hunter, a superior player-controlled infected with an unlockable skill tree, to defend its nests (serving as a spawn point) and kill any attacking player survivors until their limited lives run out. Initially set as a pre-order bonus before coming free to players, Be the Zombie is a gamemode where players can invade other player's games, if enabled.
