Pursuitcore Guide: Roles, Objectives, and Matchups

PURSUITCORE is a 1v7 asymmetrical multiplayer survival game on Roblox developed by TamaCorp, taking heavy mechanical inspiration from titles like Sonic.EXE: The Disaster. In each standard match, up to seven survivors (designated as "Users") must outlast a single overpowered killer (designated as the "Terminator") while completing map objectives to unlock an escape portal.

Succeeding as either faction requires a firm grasp of movement physics, cooldown management, and character-specific abilities. This guide breaks down the core match rules, survivor classes, killer abilities, and essential survival mechanics documented across active gameplay.

Core Rules and Objective Mechanics

Every standard round in PURSUITCORE revolves around a match timer and a central fuel-collection mechanic. The round begins with Users attempting to delay the Terminator long enough for the escape route to activate.

Generators and Gas Canisters

To accelerate the match toward an escape, Users must locate blue gas canisters (often called Jerry cans) scattered across the map.

• Transporting Fuel: Users can carry only one fuel canister at a time on their back. Taking any damage from the Terminator causes the carrier to immediately drop the canister at that location.
• Fueling Generators: Maps feature two blue generators. Delivering canisters to these generators increases the exit timer threshold. Players can fill generators up to a recorded maximum of 1 minute and 30 seconds, which dictates when the portal appears and how long it remains open.
• Escaping: Once the match timer matches the display threshold in the top corner of the screen, a blue portal opens. Walking through this portal secures a win for surviving Users.

Health, Down States, and Zombie Spawns

Survivors operate under a strict two-strike health system:

• Baseline Health: Standard Users begin with 100 HP (with exceptions such as Vinnie at 125 HP, and The Kit at a fragile 15 HP).
• The Downed State: When a User's HP reaches zero for the first time, they enter a downed crawl state. A secondary health bar appears that drains at a rate of 10 HP per second. If the Terminator remains near the downed User, this drain slows down to discourage camping.
• Reviving: Teammates can interact with a downed User to revive them, returning them to play at 45 HP. A player who reaches zero health a second time is eliminated permanently.
• Zombie Phase: After dying, eliminated Users can choose to spawn back into the match as zombies. Zombies deal temporary damage to help the Terminator pressure survivors, earning points in the process, though they cannot permanently kill standard Users.

Universal Movement and Jump Cooldowns

Looping and evading the Terminator requires precise spatial awareness. Both Users and Terminators share a 1.5-second jump cooldown upon landing on the ground. Jump pads positioned throughout maps can launch players to high ground, but they also incur a shared cooldown after activation, preventing players from endlessly bouncing in mid-air.

User Class Overview and Abilities

Users are divided into distinct gameplay archetypes, ranging from up-close defenders and snipers to dedicated healers and resource gatherers.

Dante

Dante is a starter melee stunner wielding the Hero's Blade.

• Quick Slash: A fast forward strike that inflicts a 1-second stun and provides roughly 0.5 seconds of invulnerability frames (i-frames). This move can cancel incoming charged abilities or break Jack Noir's tendril grabs.
• Wing Beat: Forces the camera into shift lock before Dante leaps forward. Landing the hit stuns the killer for 1.5 seconds. Missing sets the cooldown to 30 seconds, while landing it lowers the cooldown to 20 seconds. If interrupted by damage, the cooldown drops to 10 seconds.
• Last Man Standing (LMS): Doubles Dante's stun durations, extending Quick Slash to 2 seconds and Wing Beat to 2.5 seconds.

Mikaela

Mikaela serves as a backline ranged sentry who excels on maps with long sightlines.

• Snipe: A hitscan shot with infinite range. An uncharged shot deals a 0.5-second stun. Charging for 2 seconds delivers a 1.5-second stun. Holding the charge for 8 seconds yields an Overcharged shot that stuns for 2.5 seconds with heavy knockback, bypassing stacking stun penalties. Mikaela cannot move while aiming, and charging sounds play globally.
• Do the Dew: Mikaela drinks a soda, gaining a green electric aura for 16 seconds. Her next Snipe charges instantly without needing wind-up, though it cannot reach Overcharge status.
• Smoke Bomb: Drops a smoke cloud lasting 10 seconds while granting Mikaela 3 seconds of invisibility and undetectable status. While invisible, she must crouch-walk and cannot jump. Active particle effects (such as the Do the Dew aura or blood stains) remain visible while cloaked.
• Zombie Mikaela: Throws a soda puddle that lingers for 8 seconds, dealing roughly 8 to 10 temporary damage per second to living Users who step inside.

Nyan

Nyan functions as the game's primary single-target mobile healer.

• Tart Share: Activates an aura around Nyan. Walking near an injured teammate tethers them, restoring 4 HP per second up to 25 to 45 total HP while granting both players a +7 speed boost (raising total speed to 37). The tether aura lasts roughly 10 seconds. Nyan cannot heal other Nyan players.
• Slide: Nyan's sole defensive option. Launches her in the direction her character model is facing, granting full i-frames for roughly 1 second. She cannot steer during the slide, and colliding with a wall terminates the movement immediately.
• LMS Buff: During Last Man Standing, Tart Share converts into an immediate 5-second personal speed boost.

Fukusuke

Inspired by Yume Nikki, Fukusuke provides varied team support through a roulette of buffs.

• Effect: Rolls a random status buff. Options include Bunny (+6 speed), Frog (+15 jump height), Lucky Cat (-5 second cooldown reduction for teammates), Bike (+10 speed), Knife (1.5-second stun strike), and Statue (immobilizes Fukusuke while providing an area-of-effect heal capping at 75 HP).
• Flute: Allows Fukusuke to directly choose any effect from her pool rather than rolling randomly, operating on a 60-second cooldown (reduced to 20 seconds in LMS). Consecutive uses cannot pick the exact same effect twice.

Crafter

Crafter uses Minecraft-inspired gathering and construction mechanics to reshape chases.

• Tool Swapping & Mining: Crafter switches to a pickaxe to harvest dirt, stone, iron, gold, and diamond scattered across the map.
• Weapon Upgrades: Upgrading from wooden to stone or gold swords inflicts slow effects on the Terminator. Upgrading to iron or diamond swords turns hits into outright stuns.
• Crafted Utility: Crafter can expend collected stone and wood to place barricade walls in doorways or construct minecarts that shove the Terminator down corridors.

Vinnie

Vinnie is a frontline defensive brawler who protects low-health teammates.

• Bodyguard Passive: Grants 125 base HP, though each additional Vinnie on the team lowers this maximum by 5 HP down to a floor of 100 HP.
• Venom Apple: Taking damage or successfully absorbing hits awards up to 3 Venom Apple stacks.
• Pop-up Block: A parry stance. If the Terminator hits Vinnie during this window, the attacker is knocked back and stunned, Vinnie takes zero damage, and he gains an apple stack.
• Serpent Crash: A heavy wind-up punch that stuns the killer for 1.5 seconds. Each active Venom Apple stack adds an extended blinding effect to the Terminator's screen.

Tac 9

Tac 9 is an aggressive mobility skirmisher who punishes predictable killer pathing.

• Wall Jump: Allows Tac 9 to scale map walls, leap over ledges, and gain elevation.
• Skull Buster: Fires a straight-line projectile that pushes the killer back and applies a vulnerability debuff, causing them to suffer 1.25x longer stuns from all incoming sources.
• Dropkick & Dive Kick: Dropkick features a wind-up charge forward that stuns for 1.5 seconds upon collision. Dive Kick can be activated specifically while airborne from a Wall Jump boost.

Roflpix

Unlocked by earning the "Manager Special" badge (finishing top-score with the most fuel collected in a round of at least three players), Roflpix is the game's premier objective specialist.

• Power Resource: Roflpix relies on a 100-point Power meter that passively regens at 1 point per second. Dropping below 25% power puts Roflpix in "the red," increasing damage taken by 40% and making them vulnerable to lethal damage from zombies.
• Movement Opportunity: Consumes 5 power to activate and drains 25 power per second while held, giving Roflpix an immense burst of sprint speed to cross gaps or execute long-jump shortcuts.
• Cam Check: Shifts to a first-person lens to photograph map elements through walls for 20 power, revealing generators, fuel cans, and hazards to the entire team for 7 to 8 seconds. Locking onto the Terminator for 1 to 3 seconds before taking a photo reveals them and refunds 20 power.
• Fuel Synergy: Depositing a gas can into a generator instantly restores 75 power to Roflpix.

The Kit

Unlocked through the "IWBTU Gaiden" badge by surviving the special "I Wanna Be the User" game mode, The Kit is an extreme glass cannon.

• Fragile Stats: The Kit has only 15 base HP, dying instantly to almost any direct killer hit, trap, or even standard zombie strikes.
• Legendary Cape: Grants a permanent double jump, allowing The Kit to reach high ledges and perches inaccessible to other Users.
• Pistol & Charge Up: Normal pistol shots fire straight ahead and force all available Terminator cooldowns onto a 0.5-second reset. Activating Charge Up empowers the next bullet to inflict a 2-second stun on the Terminator.

Terminator Roster and Combat Profiles

Terminators possess limitless stamina and unique kits designed to break down survivor loops and exhaust team resources.

Party Pony (Party Pwny)

Party Pony is a starter melee powerhouse running at 36 speed with an elevated 35-damage standard M1 attack.

• Kick: A straight-line strike dealing 10 damage that ragdolls the hit User. This guarantees a follow-up M1 strike for a true 45-damage burst combo.
• Party Hard: Charges forward at high speed. Hitting a User deals 10 damage and carries them along. If Party Pony slams them into a wall, the target takes an additional 30 damage (40 damage total). When chained after a Kick and M1, this combo can deal up to 85 damage. Note that stunning Party Pony during the wind-up cancels the charge.
• Fourth Wall: A silent, mapwide player highlight that reveals hiding Users without an audible audio cue, useful for checking around corners or recovering from Vinnie's blind.

Captain Limewire

Captain Limewire is a high-skill ranged executioner boasting 2,000 HP and a baseline speed profile of 16/34.

• Hook (M1): Swings forward with a broad hitbox, dealing 30 damage on a 1.6-second cooldown.
• Limelock: Draws a gun with a laser pointer to fire an infinite-range piercing shot. Deals 10 to 20 damage and applies "Magnetize," which causes subsequent hook throws to curve toward marked targets.
• Limewire: Throws a chain hook that pulls caught Users toward the Captain. As the User arrives, timing an M1 inside the grab hitbox triggers "Limewire Buster," slamming the victim into the ground for 40 damage. Hooking someone behind a wall causes them to collide with the surface for only 10 damage instead.
• Torrential Leap: Propels Captain Limewire into the air based on camera angle. Highlights all Users on the map while airborne and deals 25 area damage upon landing.

Other Terminators

• Dot X (.exe): The fastest killer in the game, focusing on raw mobility, spin dashes, and aggressive pursuit. Relies on speed over burst combos and is highly susceptible to well-timed stuns.
• Blank Stare: A Minecraft horror-themed killer who places totems around the map to build rage. Reaching full power triggers a Demon Form, providing access to an armored command grab (Siphon) and ground spikes (Transmute).
• Sweep: A strategic area-denial trapper wielding a 35-damage M1. Sweep places Minesweeper-style landmines around tight corridors and jump pads, threatening instant downs on fragile targets.
• Jack Noir: An aggressive melee skirmisher armed with a blade and abilities like Behead, Eldritch Tentacles, Red Miles (a bullet-hell style spread attack), and Omnipotence teleportation.

Map Secrets: Silent Pwnyville Cupcakes

The Silent Pwnyville map contains a hidden side objective tied to the "Party of None" badge. To unlock it:

1. Deposit 5 Fuel Cans: Ensure the team deposits at least five gas canisters into the map's generators.
2. Collect 4 Hidden Cupcakes: Search the map for four colored cupcakes in any order:
   • Vanilla Cupcake: Located inside a small house, concealed behind boxes.
   • Apple Cupcake: Located inside the barn structure.
   • Lemon Cupcake: Located in an open grassy area near a grove of trees.
   • Grape Cupcake: Located near the initial survivor spawn area.
3. Enter the Basement: Once all four cupcakes are collected (confirmed by an audio cue), head behind the house near the bakery/killer spawn. Enter the newly unlocked exterior basement door and interact with the photograph inside to secure the badge.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you unlock Roflpix in PURSUITCORE?

Roflpix is unlocked by earning the "Manager Special" badge. You must finish a round with the highest overall score and the most fuel canisters delivered on a server containing at least two other Users.

How do you unlock The Kit?

The Kit is unlocked by surviving a full round in the special "I Want to Be the User" (IWBTU) game mode, where a single survivor faces seven Block Boy Terminators until the final timer expires.

Can Nyan heal another Nyan?

No. Game mechanics explicitly prevent Nyan from healing duplicate Nyan characters via Tart Share due to an in-lore tolerance. If a team features multiple Nyans, they must rely on Fukusuke's Statue effect or teammate revives to restore missing health.

How do you counter Party Pony's wall-slam combo?

Party Pony's Party Hard charge has a noticeable wind-up and limited turn control. High-level counterplay involves baiting her charge into open spaces, using Vinnie's Pop-up Block to absorb the impact, or interrupting the wind-up using Mikaela's Snipe or Dante's Quick Slash. If she collides with a wall and misses, her post-stun i-frames reset, leaving her vulnerable to follow-up stuns.