Phasmophobia News

The holiday event is now over!

• Removed Holiday event and decorations
  
• Reduced the brightness of the lights in the Main Menu collection cabinets
  

• The ghost can now walk through the courtyard doors in Sunny Meadows
  

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 fixes for you!

We hope everyone enjoyed the holidays, we're now back from our break and are working hard on fixing any major bugs left over before we put our full focus on to new content.

The holiday update will be ending on the 9th! Make sure to have collected your trophy before it is over. If you are in a country with IP restrictions such as Russia and you are not getting the Holiday trophy, you will need to use a VPN to connect to our cloud save servers and replay the event on one map.

• “Get the ghost to walk in salt” has been added as a daily challenge
  
• You can now change speaker modes between Mono, Stereo (default), Quad, Surround, 5.1 and 7.1 in the audio settings. Once changed, you must reload the main menu or load into a location
  
• Ghosts and players can now move the large metal trays in Sunny Meadows
  
• Coal in Sunny Meadows now have new sounds when dropped or thrown
  

• Improved sanity drain accuracy when in light and dark areas
  
• You can no longer complete the apocalypse challenge in multiplayer mode while solo or after other players leave
  
• You can now place crucifixes in VR, so you can see the range indicator
  
• While using text voice recognition, you can now click back and “goodbye” without waiting for the delay
  
• While using text voice recognition, you can no longer activate the ouija board while the spirit box is turned on
  
• Moroi hunt speed will now change if you lose sanity during the hunt
  
• Adjusted the light above the front door in Edgefield
  
• Improved accuracy of reflections in the Edgefield hallway
  

• You will no longer get colour banding when FidelityFX is turned off
  
• Rain will now work again on all maps
  
• The bone will no longer spawn in unreachable locations
  
• The thermometer will now show the correct temperature if you look into a different room and do not move your mouse
  
• Tripods will no longer get stuck in some areas when dropping it
  
• Swapping out equipment with Q whilst placing equipment, will no longer lock your movement
  
• The Tanglewood outside light and woodwind tree fairy lights will no longer keep flashing after a hunt has ended
  
• You will now be able to move if you die when holding an activated spirit box with text voice recognition
  
• Some journal buttons’ clickable areas are no longer overlapping, making them easier to click
  
• Jumping to the ghost page in the journal, then navigating back, will no longer swap to negative journal page numbers
  
• Leaf piles will no longer “pop” in detail when moving towards or away from them
  
• Ghosts will no longer spawn inside of or on top of blue beds
  
• You can no longer get stuck in the blue tent on Camp Woodwind behind the sleeping mats
  
• Removed some light leaks in Prison and School
  
• Blue privacy screens will no longer have weird gaps in them
  
• The truck’s map buttons will no longer render on top of transparent objects such as candle flames
  
• You can no longer add locked items to a lobby when using loadouts
  
• Truck ramp texture is now affected by the anisotropic setting
  
• Graphic settings now apply correctly
  
• Cookies no longer count as multiple cookies when 2 or more people collect them at the same time
  
• Rugs in Grafton Farmhouse will no longer have a grey texture under them
  
• BHaptics will no longer keep playing, if they were active when you were dead
  
• BHaptics room haptics will now stop when leaving the room, for example: a room with an active car alarm
  
• You can now take a photo of the black keyboard interaction and fingerprints
  
• Moved a bin that was clipping inside a wall in School
  
• School’s paper clips will now have the correct material, and not be clipping with the desk they are on
  
• Removed several areas of leaking fog in the following maps
  
  • Ridgeview
    
  • Tanglewood
    
  • Edgefield
    
  • Bleasdale
    
  • Grafton
    
  • School
    
  • Prison
    
  • Sunny Meadows
    

• Adjusted shader for privacy screens in Sunny Meadows
  
• Several improvements have been made to the ghost’s walkable area
  
• Newspapers, food baskets, cheese wheels, apples and potatoes now have colliders
  
• Beds now have the correct colliders so objects will no longer get lost inside them
  
• Added an invisible wall in West Foul Linen to stop players getting stuck
  
• Increased the size of colliders for hedges in the Courtyard so objects will no longer get lost inside them
  
• You can no longer throw items through the exterior window walls
  
• Removed duplicated beds, wardrobes and other props when the hiding spot is blocked
  
• You can no longer walk along the floor trim of the Courtyard to get pushed under the map
  
• Cloth on beds will no longer be black on one side
  
• The Female Day Room will no longer have floating books if the hiding spot is blocked
  
• Potential fix for items teleporting from Hospital Room 3
  
• You can no longer get stuck in SM restricted (female wing only), between the bed and the blocking bookshelves
  
• Added some clutter to block a safe spot in the blocked entrance stairwell
  
• The fountain water shader will no longer have visual artifacts
  
• Fog will no longer render through the beige privacy screens
  
• The ghost can no longer walk-through sinks or freezers in the Kitchen
  
• Several fingerprints are now back in the correct place on doors
  

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]

If you have the bug where your profile badge says "Failed to load", please make sure your PC system time is correct by setting it to “Automatic”. You will fail to connect to our server if your system time is wrong by more than one hour.

• Improved the fingerprints shader to work better when under UV and normal light
  
• Increased brightness of glowstick during the first minute of its activation
  

• Rain will now collide with the floor in Sunny Meadows instead of 3m above it.
  
• Fog in Prison is no longer inside of A Block and is more performant
  
• Fixed the Ouija Board not breaking if a dead player is nearby
  
• You can now see the Holiday trophy after reloading the main menu
  
• Photo cameras will now be glitched again when the ghost is nearby for events and hunts
  
• Fingerprints will no longer have weird squares when placed on transparent surfaces
  
• Fixed the ghost getting stuck on a table in the servants dining room in Sunny Meadows
  

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]

• Fixed a bug some people wouldn’t back up their save file, get badges or be able to obtain the Holiday trophy. If you were using a VPN to fix this before, you no longer need to use it.
  
• You will no longer get an infinite black screen if you loaded the game for the first time and then quit without playing
  
• The Haunted mirror can now see ceilings again
  
• Fixed foliage lighting in Grafton, Bleasdale and Sunny Meadows
  
• One of the female ghost models will now have the correct visual on the DOTS Projector
  
• Sunny meadows: Adjusted the following hiding spots when they get “blocked”
  
  • Female Bedroom 4, the bed will now move
    
  • The Manager's Office wardrobe will now move up against the wall
    
  • The cardboard boxes in the Supply Room will now disappear
    
  • The Operating Room’s privacy screen will now disappear
    
  • Male Room 1’s bed will now rotate towards the wall
    
  • The bookshelf in the Female day room will now have collision
    
  • Hospital Room 2’s privacy screen will now disappear when not blocked
    

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 an update for you.



Firstly we'd like to apologize. In our haste to remove money and XP farmers from the game, we penalized our Custom Difficulty goers way too harshly and bypassed the core concept of what custom was originally advertised as "Play your way".

In the long term, we will be rebalancing the entirety of Custom Difficulty's reward multipliers, to make sure that they are fairer, not overly rewarding when lower risk is taken, and stop cheesy tactics to farm easy rewards.

Today, we're removing the -60% reduction for Custom games, and adding the following until the rebalancing is finalized, early next year with 0.8.1:

• Custom Reward Multipliers will now have a maximum cap of x15, displayed with the actual multiplier beside it in brackets.
  
  
  
  
• Incorrectly identifying the ghost type will lower your multiplier to the next default difficulty (rounding down). E.g. 5x > 4x or 3.7x > 3x
  

• Some Ouija board questions have had their sanity reductions increased, as they were much too powerful for the sanity trade-off
  • Ghost location – 50% (Previously 40%)
  • Bone location – 50% (Previously 20%)
• The Haunted Mirror's sanity drain has been adjusted, so that you can't entirely avoid the sanity drain with a ~1-second peek and still reap the reward. This should also encourage slightly longer peers into the paranormal realm.
  
  • The Mirror will now drain a minimum of 20% sanity per use
• Adjusted player freezing breath visuals so it will no longer block your view when walking too close to it
  
• Smudge Sticks will now visually animate much more accurately with the timing of their gameplay effect
  
• Improved Smudge Sticks' smoke effect
  
• Adjusted several inconsistent text capitalizations in English
  
• Rebaked Sunny Meadows
  

• Removed several sky light leaks in the following locations:
  • Willow
    
  • Tanglewood
    
  • Edgefield
    
  • Ridgeview
    
  • Grafton
    
  • Sunny Meadows
    
• The DOTS and death room ghost will no longer be the wrong ghost model
  
• The reset save button will now work
  
• Sanity will now stop draining when you are in a lit area
  
• Snow will no longer fall inside the Bleasdale attic
  
• Willow front room window fingerprints will now be photographable
  

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]