Phasmophobia News

• The Easter 2024 event has begun, it will be around for 2 weeks, so get investigating and earn those exclusive rewards!
  
  • More information can be found in-game
    
• ID cards have had a facelift!
  • All badges now have a unique background when using that badge’s ID theme
    
  • Prestiges 11-20 have animated backgrounds to match their badges
    
  • Several colors have been adjusted
    
  • VIP and Artist have received new Badge designs
    
  • Volume slider colors are now the same as the EXP bar colors
    
• Headphones are now visible when listening through the parabolic microphone
  

• The middle lines of the ID card have been removed to make space for the new background designs (funds / ready status)
  
• A ready sticker will now appear on the player ID card when that player is ready
  

• Fixed several Lobby-Equipment desync issues between players
  
• UI will no longer overlap when applying a locked difficulty
  
• You can now complete the “Survive with starter items” daily challenge
  
• You can now place a video camera on a tripod more than once in VR
  
• Parabolic microphone III will now determine the direction of sounds properly in VR
  
• EMF Reader III will now determine the direction of EMF spots based on your screen position (non-VR only)
  
• Shop gamepad buttons no longer still activate when not focusing on shop
  
• The VR cursor is now in the correct position when highlighting Thermometers
  
• You now get insurance when you die in Amateur or Intermediate difficulty
  
• Hovering over the corkboard in the truck no longer appears as interactable
  
• The thermometer tiers now highlight correctly when hovering over them
  
• Tier 1 upgrades are no longer locked in the inventory manager when you are at the required level
  
• Ambient Occlusion will now correctly turn off when the setting is disabled
  
• Firelights will no longer blow out as soon as they are turned on again after being blown out by the ghost
  
  

• One of the lobby effects after completing the event may not be visible in every lobby
  
  • Leaving the main lobby and rejoining may fix the visual, until you return from a contract where it will break again.
    

• 3 separate pages for more intuitive usage
  
• Easy buy options for controller
  
• Renamable loadouts
  
• Player-specific colours for supplied equipment
  
• Quick shortcuts to navigate between screens to unlock equipment
  
• Full tutorial for each page
  
• Shortcuts for gamepad users
  

• You can now customize each player's color for many areas in the game:
  
  • Main menu stickers
    
  • Shop interface
    
  • Sanity screen in the truck
    
• You can now customize your cursor
  
  • Shape
    
  • Color
    
  • Opacity
    
  • Size
    
  • Additional options when highlighting objects
    
  Note: VR players can only adjust their highlight cursors colour and opacity

• You can no longer receive a photo of a DOTS ghost while it’s not inside a DOTS Projector's light
  
• You can now rotate the Sound Sensor III whilst placing it
  
• Greatly improved the DOTS Ghosts AI navigation, this will result in more consistent evidence across the board
  
• Reduced the brightness of the Journal
  
• Reduced the volume of various sounds
  

• Improved the AI pathing for the Phantom and Wraith abilities
  
• Ouija board will now break if you do not have enough sanity to use it instead of answering a question then breaking
  
• The shop screensaver will no longer appear and disappear when walking into/away from the shop screen in non-VR
  
• Fixed a ghost AI navigation issue on the Tanglewood living room
  
• DOTS Ghosts AI navigation will now work correctly when you are in the same room as the ghost
  
• Ghosts can now correctly interact with all telephones
  
• The grandfather clock ghost interaction now works correctly
  
• The sound sensor “offline“ text is now translated for non-English languages
  
• You can now swap to the 'Blocked Players' page using the gamepad shoulder buttons
  
• The Sunny Meadows Apocalypse sticker will now show during single player
  
• You can no longer back out of the menu with a gamepad while the Journal is open
  
• You can no longer use the Main Menu left and right UI arrows while the Journal is open
  
• The Haunted Mirror will now correctly break straight away if you do not have enough sanity (20%)
  
• Gamepad 'Local push to talk' rebind tape is now the correct image
  

• VR players can now prestige
  
• Sound sensor III can now have its shape changed in VR
  
• Motion sensor II can now have its shape changed in VR (while placed)
  
• Up and down arrows now work in the VR journal
  
• You can swap between hold and toggle grab types again in VR
  
• You can now drop the Sound Sensor III in VR
  
• Fixed a lag spike when a VR player joins the game
  
• The VR Journal sounds can no longer be heard from far away
  
• Spirit Box 3 VR text voice recognition now works
  

• You will no longer get a black screen if you had an error before the 0.9.4.2 patch
  

• Added the Unity Gaming Services notification system to be compliant with the EU Digital Services Act
  

The rise of Lethal Company late in 2023 somewhat took over the co-op horror game conversation, but one of its most defining games, Phasmophobia, has a big year planned, and one of its most-requested upgrades is set to arrive "sometime next week." Boasting an 'overwhelmingly positive' 96% Steam rating from more than half a million reviews, Phasmo still stands tall even among the ever-growing crowd of scary multiplayer games such as Labyrinthine, The Outlast Trials, Escape the Backrooms, Demonologist, and Devour.

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