Phasmophobia News

The Apocalypse Challenge is now live!
Earn yourself 3 unique trophies for your collectible cabinet, just by playing the game!

To earn the trophies, simply do the following:

• In Single-player, complete all 4 objectives and get a ghost photo in Sunny Meadows Mental Institution with the following Custom difficulty multipliers:
  
  • 15x or more: bronze
    
  • 20x or more: silver
    
  • 24x or more: gold
    
  • Show off your trophies in your display cabinet!
    

You will not need to send a recording or screenshot, everything is done in game automatically

• Redecorated the Menu Room for Halloween! More will be added soon including an in-game event!
  
• Re-added the reset save button back in with a warning
  
• You can now toggle your character on the main menu home screen
  

• Resetting your save will now provide an “Are you sure” before continuing.
  
• Resetting your save will now only be possible when not in a lobby
  
• Adding/removing an item from your loadout will now automatically save it
  
• The “save loadout” button has been removed
  
• It will now be more obvious which loadout you currently have selected
  
• You are now required to write a small description to submit a player report
  

• You can no longer report a player twice within 24 hours (using the ID card report button while in a game, after already reporting them in the menu)
  
• The game will no longer suffer from a memory leak which was causing unplayable fps and crashes
  
• UI arrows will now scale better with lower resolution monitors, and for 4:3 aspect ratios
  
• Resetting your save now reloads the main menu, fixing UI displaying pre-reset values
  
• You will now lose equipment when you die
  
• The invite code will now remain hidden when returning from a game in a public lobby
  
• Maps will now unlock correctly, in line with the “Level unlock” screen
  
• The ghost's name on the statistics page will now be localized
  
• Fixed a bug where Vosk voice recognition wouldn’t work due to an empty voice models file
  
• VR Belt items will now face the correct direction
  

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 some news for you.




From now on, while playing Phasmophobia, you will earn 1 of 10 random Steam Trading Cards!

Our trading cards are based on the in-game Cursed Possession: The Tarot Cards!



Earn or buy all 10 trading cards to unlock the exclusive badge, and then level it up to an exclusive foil badge! The badges are a great sneak peek into the icons we'll be using for our new Prestige system, coming at some point next year.





Finally! You can now spend your hard-earned Steam points on some Phasmophobia emotes, avatar borders, and profile backgrounds!

This is only the first wave of items featured in our steam points shop, and more will be added in the future!



We hope you enjoy these new additions and adding to your steam collection!

Thanks
The Kinetic Games Team

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• Replaced the “change” button in difficulty selection with arrow buttons to make navigation easier
  
• Moved the lamp, glowsticks, clipboards, and boombox in the lobby room so that VR players can reach them easier
  
• Moved fuse box icons so they're easier to see on the map
  
• Significant performance improvements to weather, especially light rain
  
• Lowered the volume for heavy rain and thunder
  
• You will now be defaulted to the first loadout
  
• Adjusted the lined paper’s brightness
  
• Player volumes now start at 50%
  

• You will no longer get stuck on the main menu if a game starts while you are on the shop or contract vote screen
  
• Fixed several bugs with the lobby UI
  
• Player bodies will now always disappear when they leave
  
• You will no longer be set to unready when there are minor lobby changes
  
• The blue ball in the main menu will now be thrown properly
  
• The invite code will no longer show for single-player and public games
  
• You can now buy equipment if you have the exact amount required
  
• The challenge clipboards will now be held in the correct place in VR
  
• VR head and controller movement options are no longer inverted
  
• You will now be given your equipment back if you crash
  
• The voted map will no longer be set to random if the host leaves
  
• The voted map will no longer show the wrong map
  
• You can now click all main menu UI on 4:3 aspect ratio
  
• The Recent Players list will now add players when it fills up
  
• Camp Woodwind: You can no longer be killed when outside the gate
  
• Camp Woodwind: The ghost can no longer spawn behind the tables in the games tent
  
• Camp Woodwind: Fires will now extinguish when walking out of the truck when in heavy rain
  
• Camp Woodwind: Leaf piles will no longer disappear when moving away from them
  

• Significantly lowered the RAM usage
  
• Hallway doors will now have fingerprints in the correct position
  
• Removed the black box in the courtyard steps
  
• Increased the size of the collider for using the fuse box handle
  
• Scratches now reveal behind the wall crucifixes
  
• Wall crucifixes are no longer usable by players
  
• Removed a wheelchair in the basement storage to stop players getting stuck
  
• Renamed nurses room to match the map text (Infirmary)
  
• Removed infirmary from Female Wing restricted map
  

There are still many bugs to fix which we are working on getting done as soon as possible. We are aware there is currently a memory leak which causing very low fps after playing several games, we are looking into a fix and will get it out as soon as we fix it.

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]