Phasmophobia News

Welcome back, we've got some news for you.

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Below is the current list of fixes we have ready for you, there are many other bugs still left to fix which we will be getting more patches out for soon while we work on 0.8.0.0 alongside these fixes.

• Hantu will no longer get exponentially faster if they enter a room between 3 and 6 Celsius
  
• Moved a candy bucket in the upstairs bathroom on Ridgeview so VR players can reach it
  
• Objects will no longer desync when a player leaves the game
  
• Players will now disappear when they leave the game
  
• You no longer get more rewards when skipping the reward animation in some cases
  
• The challenge “Complete objectives in” will now show the map name after the value has changed
  
• After the reward screen, you will correctly see your new level and experience in the lobby
  
• Leaving a lobby through the journal will now remove your equipment from the lobby
  
• You can no longer light a smudge stick you aren’t holding, with an unlit lighter
  
• Applying a server browser filter now resets your page back to 1
  
• Weekly challenges will now display the progress correctly after a reset
  
• After the next reset, the weekly challenge “Complete an objective in random” will no longer be able to select the “random” map
  
• Photos are now much more accurate at detecting ghosts
  
• The Mare light switch ability stat will now sync between all players
  
• The volume will no longer spike when leaving a game
  
• The training “Are You Sure?” UI will now disappear after clicking yes
  
• The lobby radio voice will no longer spike in volume when joining a game
  
• You can now light smudge sticks that you haven’t grabbed
  
• Equipment will no longer spawn before everyone has loaded in if a player leaves or disconnects during loading
  
• You can now light non-grabbed smudge sticks with a candle
  
• VR players can now change other player volumes
  
• VR players can now place sensors
  
• The report button is now clickable in the VR Journal
  
• The player cards in the VR journal will no longer clip into the journal
  

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]

• The language filter now saves your previously selected language
  
• Spirit is now selected in the journal by default
  
• You can now sprint when dead, when sprinting is disabled
  
• The distance walked and sprinted stat will no longer count movement when you are dead
  

• Improved performance of the Anisotropic graphics setting
  
• The bone will no longer spawn in an unreachable location if it spawns inside the large tents
  
• When opening the Journal with a gamepad you will no longer navigate over to the main menu UI
  
• Gamepads can now navigate the correct direction when selecting a right arrow in the journal
  
• Gamepads will no longer lose the ability to navigate the journal after pressing most option buttons
  
• The server browser page number now updates and displays correctly when applying filters
  
• Ghosts can now kill you if you are hiding inside a drawer
  
• You can no longer put on multiple head cameras if someone else was to return theirs
  
• When someone else puts a head camera back in the truck, the head camera model now correctly disables
  
• You can no longer hear any sound in the menu when your master volume is set to 0
  
• The “Are you sure?” UI will now disappear if you exit the journal while on that page
  
• The language selection when playing the game for the very first time will now correctly say “voice” and “text” for each option
  
• Fixed an issue where the shop UI would remain on after un-focusing it
  
• The abilities used stat will now increase when the Moroi curses someone
  
• Moroi will now only curse with a parabolic microphone when hearing a ghost whisper
  
• Moroi will now curse you when getting a response from the spirit box
  
• Placing equipment after placing it back in the truck, will no longer cause the equipment to move after placement
  
• The haunted mirror will now render all visible objects
  
• Potential fix for the microphone being set incorrectly when you have multiple output devices in Windows
  
• The sound sensor legs will no longer collide with the player
  
• Prison exterior doors are now unlockable after hunts
  
• You can now use the lighter in the lobby
  
• Motion sensors, dots and sound sensors are no longer detected during a hunt, when in your hand
  
• You will no longer hear footstep audio in the lobby when your volume is set to 0
  
• The microwave interaction photo will now work
  
• Fuse box sparks will now appear in Prison and School, when the difficulty settings are set to broken
  
• Potential fix for ouija response challenge not working
  
• UI arrows no longer appear for cabinets in some situations
  
• UI arrows now fade in and out correctly
  
• The photo evidence text will no longer overlap the stars in some languages
  
• You can no longer right click to turn on the DOTS, motion sensor or sound sensor which makes the ghost track you during a hunt
  
• Jack o' lanterns will now play the light sound effect on the correct floor and will change volume with the master volume
  
• Vive Cosmos joystick input will now work
  
• VR can now use all scrollbars and sliders
  
• The VR Journal and Walkie Talkie will now reset their size when dropping them. A full fix for this bug will be coming soon
  
• VR players will no longer get caught on sound sensors attached to the belt
  

• The “Restricted Area” now has the correct room name instead of “Basement West Corridor”
  
• The ghost can no longer do ghost events in the basement west corridor, restricted area, courtyard corridor, female wing and male wing
  

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]

• The house fuse box switch now animates
  
• If your save file corrupts and the backup fails to load it will now reset your save file
  

• The ghost will no longer find non hosts if the host talked during a hunt
  
• Significant CPU performance improvements
  
• Player physics are now reverted back to before the last hotfix due to several issues
  
• The private game screen will now correctly show “NA” instead of “US”
  
• Cursed Possessions will now work for all players every game
  
• The shop screen left loadout buttons will no longer be covered by the navigation arrows if you have a 4:3 aspect ratio
  
• Fixed an issue causing severe physics lag which was affecting movement and screen rendering
  
• Removing an item from your loadout will now save your loadout
  
• FireSource.Update() will no longer spam in the player log, causing fps drops in some cases
  
• Candles will no longer play smoke from both the base and the wick
  
• Placing a candle will no longer jump forward in some cases
  

• The ghost will no longer get stuck in several rooms
  
• Steps will now render correctly
  
• The bookshelf in the female day room is no longer invisible
  

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]

• You can now interact with the lobby cabinets to get a closer view of its contents
  
• You can now place the bowling pins
  
• You can now remove your votes on the contract board
  
• The sunny meadows boilers now have a burning loop sound
  
• Added a VR option to change between toggle and hold grab type for doors
  
• Two extra cabinets have been added in the lobby for future trophies
  
• Added sparkles to the gold apocalypse trophy
  

• The shop and cabinets in the lobby have been moved, to make access easier for VR players
  
• Improved lobby ball physics
  
• The server browser language filter will now default to "Any" instead of your voice language setting to allow you to see all servers by default.
  
• The “US” region will now say “NA” to match the region selection
  
• The warning before resetting your save file is now much more obvious
  
• Text plaques in the collectable cabinets should now be easier to read
  

• Various bone spawns, ghost orb spawns and AI navigation fixes across all maps
  
• You can now ready up on a map that you have not unlocked
  
• The microphone volume bar will now work in the lobby when you are in a server
  
• Added missing Bleasdale foliage
  
• The Bone objective will now always count
  
• Pumpkin stickers will now only show your local progress, and not the hosts
  
• Loading a custom preset will now update the left and right button properly
  
• Insurance will no longer say $0 if you click skip
  
• You can now skip the end game animation whilst your ID card is animating
  
• Non hosts will now see the bone room in the game stats and when asking Ouija board question
  
• Halloween event sounds will now accommodate your volume settings
  
• Having no microphone, will no longer break applying your settings
  
• A sound will now play correctly when the ghost opens a washing machine door.
  
• You can no longer get stuck on the corner of the small blue tent in Maple Lodge Campsite
  
• The EMF reader will no longer get stuck in some cases
  
• The "most deaths to" stat will now be localized
  
• The randomizer will no longer select 0 or 50% sanity drain speed
  
• You will no longer be teleported inside the map if you fall out of the map in Edgefield near the truck
  
• Newly joined players will no longer get the wrong difficulty
  
• You will no longer lose the settings for the last game that you played
  
• Voting a new map now unvotes an already voted map
  
• Players will no longer stay in lobby when leaving the game
  
• Unlocking maps and equipment now happens as you unlock them
  
• All candles will now have the lit sound effect
  
• Lighting the summoning circle will now drain the correct amount of sanity
  
• Summoning circle and pumpkin candles can no longer be turned on with left click
  
• Candles will now blow out if they are on the VR Belt and you walk into heavy rain
  
• You can no longer see VR players radio when they are dead
  
• The VR movement direction option will now work
  
• All of the VR options are now visible
  
• VR snap turning will now set the correct angle and will now go to 90 degrees
  
• VR players can now place cameras on tripods if they are not the host
  
• Equipment placed on the VR Belt will no longer face the wrong way for other players
  
• VR teleport locomotion can now be used to move around on Sunny Meadows and Camp Woodwind
  
• You can use teleport locomotion to move into the Halloween event lobby circle
  
• VR Teleport will now work on the lobby staircase
  
• VR equipment holding positions will no longer break if they were placed back in the truck
  
• You can no longer teleport from the Tanglewood garage to the van
  
• The lobby uv torch will now be rotated correctly when held
  
• The candle, ghost writing book, video camera and sound sensor will no longer drop to the floor when placed on the VR belt
  

• Increased performance when inside the building especially when in the wings, courtyard or basement
  
• Wall crucifixes will now leave scratches on the wall, and interaction photos will now work
  
• Hiding spot in the utility room now has collision
  
• Fixed some missing room names
  
• Wall crucifixes will now give interaction photos
  
• Some door fingerprints are no longer floating
  
• The cheese slice will now react to physics correctly
  
• The bookshelf will now disappear when the hiding spot is blocked, in the female day room
  
• Objects will no longer get trapped inside the toilet sinks
  
• Ghosts can no longer spawn on top of tables
  
• Adjusted the position of the locker blockers in the morgue, so that they don’t clip through the wall or doors
  
• You can no longer get stuck or be safe from the ghost behind a small bench in the courtyard
  

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]

• The Jenga tower will no longer fall over at the start
  
• The Halloween ghost photo no longer has to be the first ghost photo
  

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]