Phasmophobia News

Phasmophobia devs are teasing new ghosts and fans already have theories

The team behind Phasmophobia, Kinetic Games, is teasing two new ghosts that are coming to harass would-be hunters in the game - and players are already building theories about what these spirits are. Furthermore, it looks like players will need a new type of equipment to deal with them.

Developer Kinetic Games promised "big things ahead" in a tweet a couple of weeks ago for fans of Phasmophobia, but it was light on details - that was literally the entirety of the tweet, those three words. We already know the team is planning a "large overhaul" of the game, along with a re-balance of difficulty, but other than a new evidence type a lot of the upcoming August update in the development Trello is 'redacted'.

The new tease, as posted on Twitter, shows two new spirit types from the ghost hunter's diary - with a lot of words blurred out, including the names and a piece of new equipment. However, at least a few letters can generally be made out, and that's enough to set internet sleuths on the case.

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Phasmophobia's upcoming equipment overhaul looks especially spooky

Thank goodness we're now well past the point of me apologising for still talking about a game from last Halloween and into the part of the year where I'll be unapologetically looking forward to this Halloween. Phasmophobia, the co-op ghost sleuthing simulation that I've yet to stop playing since last year, is getting a sizable update this month as spooky season creeps closer. There are even more new ghosts coming, redesigns for tons of your equipment, and "sprinting adjustments" which I believe must mean I'll be hoofing it out of houses faster than the current crawl.

Looks like there's something - or some things even - important on the horizon for Phasmophobia. Developer Kinetic Games has tweeted a tease on the horror game's Twitter channel that suggests it'll be worth keeping a weather eye on the studio's channels, as it looks there'll be some exciting news to come in the not-too-distant future.

"Big things ahead," Kinetic has tweeted, along with a Phasmophobia hashtag. That's it - just that one little hint - so we're completely in the dark (heh) about what these big things might be right now. We can of course see on the game's public Trello board that there's some other exciting content to come, such as a bunch of reworks for things like progression, objectives, levelling, equipment, and difficulty - the latter of which we reported on following a dev Discord Q&A a few weeks back.

There are also things in the backlog, like a core systems overhaul, "horror 2.0" (new ghost events, death animations, and the like), and other bits. But, as we know from before, the team at Kinetic doesn't always put everything on the Trello board, so there can be some big surprises in store for players.

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Update: 0.2.11.0

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

Fixed a bug where the Sound Sensor graph bars could go higher than the monitor.
Fixed a bug where the ghost could always hear host players if they were talking when push to talk was turned on.
Fixed a bug where the Thermometer wouldn't always give values for the correct room.
Fixed a bug where disconnecting from server timeout on the main menu gave no error message.
Fixed a bug where the language selection and photo sensitivity warning didn't show until you reloaded the main menu.

[h2]Changes[/h2]

Mares can no longer turn lights on to help with their strength.
Slightly increased the volume your microphone has to get to for the ghost to hear you during a hunt.
Removed the high volumetric lighting setting due to a bug causing it to not work. Medium is now changed to High.

[h2]New[/h2]

Yureis now have a special power to lower your sanity similar to other ghosts.

Minor Update: Voice Chat Changes