Phasmophobia News

• Foggy weather has been temporarily removed while we work on a new system and will return looking better than ever with the VR rework early next year
  
• All Cursed Possessions will now only have
• one* spawn point each, meaning only 6 spawns in total per map to learn. Finding them will be more intuitive too e.g. Summoning Circle found in basements or attics
  
• In Prison, Asylum and School; Cursed Possessions will be placed only in the
• first* room to make them more useful
  
• Demon’s description has been updated to better reflect its weakness
  
• The Yurei ability will now only close one door, instead of all of the doors near the ghost
  
• Yurei should now stay in their room more reliably when smudged
  
• Hantu will now always have Freezing Temps evidence guaranteed on Nightmare
  
• The Hantu breath can no longer be seen when you are dead
  
• Increased the maximum wander distance range slightly so ghosts don’t get trapped in larger rooms
  
• Tarot cards are now easier to use in VR
  
• Prison computers now change their colour to green when lights are on, and red when off
  
• Adjusted the room number in main menu for Asylum as it was showing too many rooms
  
• Candle smoke particles have been adjusted
  
• Updated to the latest LIV SDK to fix a VR crash
  

• Fixed a consistency issue with Thermometers to make them more accurate
  
• Fixed a bug where you could grab broken Ouija Board pieces in VR
  
• Fixed a bug where you could attach cursed possessions to your belt in VR
  
• Fixed a bug where certain sounds wouldn’t be audible on the Parabolic Microphone
  
• Fixed a bug where the Demon’s early hunt was stopping instantly
  
• Fixed a bug where the Yurei sanity drain ability wasn’t working consistently
  
• Fixed a bug where some Cursed Possessions breaking would trigger hunts with their normal grace period
  
• Fixed a bug where the Voodoo Doll could fall behind the oven on Tanglewood
  
• Fixed a bug where the Voodoo Doll’s heart pin wasn’t working correctly
  
• Fixed a bug where if the Haunted Mirror spawned on the wall in Grafton, you couldn’t get photo rewards from it
  
• Fixed a bug where using the Haunted Mirror would sometimes show the incorrect room
  
• Fixed a bug where you could get photo rewards from a smashed Ouija Board
  
• Fixed a bug where you could cancel the “hide and seek” countdown by saying “goodbye”
  
• Fixed a bug where you could get photo rewards from a tarot card deck with no cards left
  
• Fixed a bug where drawing the Tower or Hanged Man card as your last wouldn’t do anything
  
• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t drop the tarot cards instantly after drawing one
  
• Fixed a bug where the Tarot Death card wasn’t triggering a Cursed Hunt and adding duration to further hunts
  
• Fixed a spelling mistake on “The High Priestess” card
  
• Fixed a bug where using a Summoning Circle with The Twins would make the ghost teleport to the twin location when starting the hunt
  
• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t light Summoning Circle candles in VR with a lighter
  
• Fixed an issue where the summoning circle wasn’t draining sanity for VR players
  
• Fixed an issue where the music box wasn’t draining sanity for VR players
  
• Fixed a bug where ghosts could flicker lights that had smashed
  
• Fixed a bug in Asylum where you couldn’t see with Night vision cameras
  
• Fixed a bug in Prison where several showers didn’t have handles
  
• Fixed a bug in Maple Campsite where one wood knock sound would play three sounds in a row
  
• Fixed an invisible collider on the ceiling in Ridgeview dining room
  
• Fixed a bug where you could hear footsteps with the master volume set to 0
  
• Fixed a bug where a ghost appearing with DOTS could spawn it inside of walls, making it very hard to see
  
• Fixed a bug where you could still see green reflections after a DOTS had been picked up
  
• Fixed a bug where you could still see red reflections after the red-light ghost event
  
• Fixed a bug where piano interactions weren’t giving photo rewards
  
• Fixed a bug where objects used by the ghost weren’t always registering on the Parabolic Microphone
  
• Fixed a bug where you could place several items on the truck ramp whilst its closed
  
• Fixed a bug where you could teleport out of the truck, whilst its closed, via the ramp in VR
  
• Fixed several bugs where the ghost was leaving EMF without doing anything
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost could interact with the rocking chair multiple times at once causing the sound to overlap
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost would give EMF 2 when attempting to flicker a light that was turned off
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost would give EMF 2 when attempting to teleport an object in your hand
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost would give EMF 2 when attempting to move a mannequin
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost would give EMF 2 when attempting to write in the ghost-writing book when it didn’t have the ghost-writing evidence
  
• Fixed a bug where you could not hear the ghost footsteps on the parabolic microphone
  
• Fixed a bug where Candles would blow out in heavy rain if another player walked outside
  
• Fixed a bug where the voodoo doll would not start a hunt if you used it with no sanity after the heart pin was used
  
• Fixed a bug where the haunted mirror would close when holding it if another player walked outside
  
• Fixed a bug where several cursed possessions were significantly increasing the hunt duration in multiplayer when they broke or were fully used
  
• Fixed a bug where the voodoo doll would force an interaction per remaining pin when used with no sanity
  
• Fixed a bug where the voodoo doll pins were not pushing in the same pins for each player
  
• Fixed a bug where the voodoo doll would use every pin if you had no sanity when another player with sanity used it
  
• Fixed a bug where one of the ghost events did not work with the tarot cards which caused the devil card to not do anything
  
• Fixed a bug where dropping and grabbing the voodoo doll in the truck would stop you from being able to close the truck or view the cctv monitor
  
• Fixed a bug where some hunts and ghost events would have no sound if they started quickly after another one
  
• Fixed a bug where the mirror effects would sometimes stay active after the mirror was broken
  
• Fixed a bug where the Voodoo Doll VR holding rotation was wrong
  
• Fixed a bug where the Willow living room fingerprints were on the wrong side of the window
  
• Fixed a bug where there was no loading screen when exiting Maple Lodge Campsite
  
• Fixed a bug where the Poltergeist ability did not work unless you moved the objects first
  

• You can no longer ask the ghost to play hide and seek with the Ouija board during a hunt
  
• Voodoo Doll heart pins will now trigger the hunt instantly, instead of after the animation
  
• Several improvements with how the ghost navigates to you during a hunt
  
• Hantu’s freezing breath will now only be visible in freezing temperature rooms
  
• The ghost can no longer choose Asylum hallways or staircases as it’s favourite room
  
• The mirror’s view into the ghost’s room will now keep rotating instead of resetting each time you look at it
  
• Several improvements to how the ghost wanders
  
• Lowered the chance for the ghost to wander
  
• The cursed possessions can no longer be used outside the location as there is no risk
  

• Fixed a bug where the ghost could not kill you if you were stood in some open closets
  
• Fixed a bug where you could stop the “hide and seek” question hunt
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost could get stuck on top of the black car in Ridgeview
  
• Fixed a bug when holding the Ouija Board as it broke would make you unkillable
  
• Fixed a bug where the Summoning Circle was only draining 20% sanity when the ghost spawned, instead of 16% per candle
  
• Fixed a bug where lighting the summoning circle during a hunt would reset the hunt
  
• Fixed a bug where the Music Box was always spawning on Asylum
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost was always wandering between floors
  
• Fixed a bug where the ghost was able to get far away from its room if it wandered multiple times in a row
  
• Fixed a bug where the Tanglewood kitchen sink’s water wasn’t aligned correctly
  
• Fixed several font and missing character issues
  
• Fixed a bug where a blue bucket’s handle was disappearing when you moved away from it
  
• Fixed a bug where the Ouija board was instantly breaking when used by a VR player
  

Early access horror game sensation Phasmophobia keeps adding content regularly across 2021, including seasonal-appropriate fare like Halloween’s Nightmare update that added Slender Man. Christmas is no exception it seems, as sightings of a ghostly version of Santa Claus have recently been reported after the mysterious Cursed Possessions update happened recently.

The patch was teased a couple of weeks ago with some vague notes alluding to a Christmas [REDACTED] Update and a “strange new ghost type”. We weren’t sure what that meant until recently, when people started getting terrorized by the ghost of Santa Claus unexpectedly. Cursed Possessions also adds ghostly items to the game such as voodoo dolls, summoning circles, Ouija boards, and music boxes.

As the update indicates: "Several sightings have been noted of cursed objects, in locations where a ghost is haunting. These must be the cause of ghosts being trapped there. You might be able to use these to your advantage, but be careful, we don't know what they're capable of." Other sundry Christmas touches, such as holiday decorations and snowfall, are also now live in the game.

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The Phasmophobia Cursed Possessions v0.5.0 update has now launched and alongside the titular items, the patch brings with it a new "elusive, mysterious, copycat ghost" - and a far more seasonal surprise. Be good for goodness sake, because Santa Claus has come to town.

Phasmophobia has been teasing its new Christmas update for a while now, with talk of Summoning Circles and even Tarot cards. The full Cursed Possessions update is out now, which brings Phasmophobia up to version 0.5.0 and adds five of these sanity-draining items that can help or hinder the player - including a Music Box that ghosts sing to, a Haunted Mirror, and a Tortured Voodoo Doll.

In a surprising move, Kinetic Games has also added a tricky new ghost-type called The Mimic, which the journal describes as an "elusive, mysterious, copycat ghost". It mirrors the traits of other spirits and other than Ghost Orbs there is no easy way to identify it - using the evidence provided it's more a matter of working out what it's not, which is extra hard with the new Nightmare difficulty.

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