Phasmophobia News

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• Improved the fingerprints shader to work better when under UV and normal light
  
• Increased brightness of glowstick during the first minute of its activation
  

• Rain will now collide with the floor in Sunny Meadows instead of 3m above it.
  
• Fog in Prison is no longer inside of A Block and is more performant
  
• Fixed the Ouija Board not breaking if a dead player is nearby
  
• You can now see the Holiday trophy after reloading the main menu
  
• Photo cameras will now be glitched again when the ghost is nearby for events and hunts
  
• Fingerprints will no longer have weird squares when placed on transparent surfaces
  
• Fixed the ghost getting stuck on a table in the servants dining room in Sunny Meadows
  

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[h3]The Kinetic Games Team [/h3]

• Fixed a bug some people wouldn’t back up their save file, get badges or be able to obtain the Holiday trophy. If you were using a VPN to fix this before, you no longer need to use it.
  
• You will no longer get an infinite black screen if you loaded the game for the first time and then quit without playing
  
• The Haunted mirror can now see ceilings again
  
• Fixed foliage lighting in Grafton, Bleasdale and Sunny Meadows
  
• One of the female ghost models will now have the correct visual on the DOTS Projector
  
• Sunny meadows: Adjusted the following hiding spots when they get “blocked”
  
  • Female Bedroom 4, the bed will now move
    
  • The Manager's Office wardrobe will now move up against the wall
    
  • The cardboard boxes in the Supply Room will now disappear
    
  • The Operating Room’s privacy screen will now disappear
    
  • Male Room 1’s bed will now rotate towards the wall
    
  • The bookshelf in the Female day room will now have collision
    
  • Hospital Room 2’s privacy screen will now disappear when not blocked
    

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Thanks,
[h3]The Kinetic Games Team [/h3]

Welcome back! We've got an update for you.



Firstly we'd like to apologize. In our haste to remove money and XP farmers from the game, we penalized our Custom Difficulty goers way too harshly and bypassed the core concept of what custom was originally advertised as "Play your way".

In the long term, we will be rebalancing the entirety of Custom Difficulty's reward multipliers, to make sure that they are fairer, not overly rewarding when lower risk is taken, and stop cheesy tactics to farm easy rewards.

Today, we're removing the -60% reduction for Custom games, and adding the following until the rebalancing is finalized, early next year with 0.8.1:

• Custom Reward Multipliers will now have a maximum cap of x15, displayed with the actual multiplier beside it in brackets.
  
  
  
  
• Incorrectly identifying the ghost type will lower your multiplier to the next default difficulty (rounding down). E.g. 5x > 4x or 3.7x > 3x
  

• Some Ouija board questions have had their sanity reductions increased, as they were much too powerful for the sanity trade-off
  • Ghost location – 50% (Previously 40%)
  • Bone location – 50% (Previously 20%)
• The Haunted Mirror's sanity drain has been adjusted, so that you can't entirely avoid the sanity drain with a ~1-second peek and still reap the reward. This should also encourage slightly longer peers into the paranormal realm.
  
  • The Mirror will now drain a minimum of 20% sanity per use
• Adjusted player freezing breath visuals so it will no longer block your view when walking too close to it
  
• Smudge Sticks will now visually animate much more accurately with the timing of their gameplay effect
  
• Improved Smudge Sticks' smoke effect
  
• Adjusted several inconsistent text capitalizations in English
  
• Rebaked Sunny Meadows
  

• Removed several sky light leaks in the following locations:
  • Willow
    
  • Tanglewood
    
  • Edgefield
    
  • Ridgeview
    
  • Grafton
    
  • Sunny Meadows
    
• The DOTS and death room ghost will no longer be the wrong ghost model
  
• The reset save button will now work
  
• Sanity will now stop draining when you are in a lit area
  
• Snow will no longer fall inside the Bleasdale attic
  
• Willow front room window fingerprints will now be photographable
  

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Thanks,
[h3]The Kinetic Games Team [/h3]

We’ve made the decision to increase the rewards for custom difficulty by changing the reward reduction from 80% to 60%. We have plans to add harder official difficulties in future content updates to help balance the game progression.

We are aware of a bug causing the Holiday trophy to not be obtainable. We are looking into this however for now you will need to use a VPN. This is a top priority for us and we hope to have this fixed as soon as possible.

• Added support for HTC Vive Focus 3 Controllers
  
• All doors in Sunny Meadows now have hands in VR when grabbed
  
• Added a Christmas tree to the lobby
  

• The Intern badge now has a visible button to change the badge
  
• Decreased the custom difficulty reward reduction from 80% to 60%
  

• Keybinds will no longer reset after closing the game
  
• Cameras will no longer be very dark
  
• You can no longer place equipment on walls behind door frames
  
• Interaction photos now work for radios and telephones
  
• Having “smooth monitor view” set to off will no longer render a black screen on your monitor in VR
  
• New players can now get past level 1 if you did not level up in the last game you played
  
• Potential fix for getting “failed to load” if you fail to connect to the unity services server
  
• Content page now displays the “Payments” section
  
• DOTS no longer clips inside the surface it was placed on
  
• The stats will no longer show a 15% sanity loss after dying in singleplayer
  
• You can now pick up the brown suitcases in Sunny Meadows
  
• You will now always get a burned crucifix evidence photo before an interaction photo
  
• Crucifix interaction photos will no longer fail, if it was used by the ghost when placed
  
• Haunted mirror camera no longer uses SSAO
  
• The willow front window fingerprint will no longer be facing outside
  
• Fixed Phantom and Oni flash rates during hunts
  

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord : https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Thanks,
[h3]The Kinetic Games Team [/h3]

• Reduced glossiness of one of the female ghosts
  
• Slightly moved the cookie in the red tent in Camp Woodwind
  
• House door frames now have collision for motion sensors, salt etc.
  
• We now support monitors up to 360Hz (240Hz previously).
  
• Reduced the amount of bloom in the photo camera photos
  

• The ghost will no longer eat the cookies before they have all been collected
  
• If your level was reset to level 1 but you still had equipment and money your level will now be back. If it is not, please contact our modmail on discord and we can help you there.
  
• The ghost can now interact with small objects on the floor of Camp Woodwind
  
• New players will no longer get stuck in an infinite loop
  
• Rooms will no longer drop to freezing temperatures after the weather changes to Snow
  
• Edgefield reflections will now be accurate
  
• Sunny Meadows chapel wall scratches will no longer cast shadows
  
• A dirt patch in Sunny Meadows will no longer have a white square around it
  
• Sink particles should no longer go through the sink in Sunny Meadows
  
• Grandfather clock’s hands now look correct
  
• You can no longer place DOTS projectors inside several ceilings
  
• A house in Tanglewood Drive is now facing the correct way
  
• You can no longer place objects through wall mounted TVs
  
• If you are dead and Santa eats the cookies, you will no longer transition to snowy weather (unless you revive), overriding the dead visuals
  
• Reviving, will now correctly set any weather changes whilst you are dead
  
• Rain and snow will no longer stop when exiting Bleasdale or Grafton houses
  
• SMAA and MSAA quality settings now default to their proper values, and not “off”
  
• You will no longer get “failed to load” on your player profiles if the Unity services server is blocking your IP. This means however that you will not be able to earn the Holiday event without a VPN.
  
• SSAO is no longer being calculated on cameras, CCTV and video cameras (also boosting SSAO performance).
  
• Glowsticks now stay at full brightness for 60 seconds instead of 10.
  
• Some handprint textures are no longer surrounded by a black box
  
• You can now take a crucifix photo when the ghost uses it without having to put it in your inventory first
  
• You can no longer take multiple crucifix photos by taking it in and out of your inventory
  
• The fuse box interaction photo on Prison and Highschool will now work
  
• Prison will no longer have sunrise reflections throughout the map
  

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord : https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Thanks,
[h3]The Kinetic Games Team [/h3]