What really happens during a dinosaur chase?

The warning comes first

When chases are enabled, a warning cue can sound before an encounter begins. The timing depends on your run mode. Hunted can surprise you after the warm-up; Intervals follows a planned sequence. You can adjust the warning setting in the app.

Your baseline shapes the target

The chase does not ask every runner to hit the same speed. Raptor Run uses a recent pace baseline and your chosen difficulty to determine the chase pace. Easy, Medium, and Hard alter that pace demand. The length of the chase effort is a separate setting.

Two meters tell the story

While you are at or above the target pace, the escape meter advances. In a tolerance band it can stall; below the target it can move backward. At the same time, dinosaur pressure creates urgency when you fall behind. The challenge is to collect enough sustained effort to escape before the threat catches you.

What counts as an escape?

An escape is earned by maintaining the required pace for the chase's configured effort. A short slowdown does not automatically erase the whole run, but it can cost progress. After the encounter, the run continues and your chase result becomes part of the summary.

That makes a chase more than a timed animation. It is a real interval inside a real run, with audio and visual feedback that follow what you do.