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

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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

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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

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• 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

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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

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We’ve made the decision to increase the rewards for custom difficulty by changing the reward reduction from 80% to 60%. We have plans to add harder official difficulties in future content updates to help balance the game progression.

We are aware of a bug causing the Holiday trophy to not be obtainable. We are looking into this however for now you will need to use a VPN. This is a top priority for us and we hope to have this fixed as soon as possible.

• Added support for HTC Vive Focus 3 Controllers
  
• All doors in Sunny Meadows now have hands in VR when grabbed
  
• Added a Christmas tree to the lobby

• The Intern badge now has a visible button to change the badge
  
• Decreased the custom difficulty reward reduction from 80% to 60%

• Keybinds will no longer reset after closing the game
  
• Cameras will no longer be very dark
  
• You can no longer place equipment on walls behind door frames
  
• Interaction photos now work for radios and telephones
  
• Having “smooth monitor view” set to off will no longer render a black screen on your monitor in VR
  
• New players can now get past level 1 if you did not level up in the last game you played
  
• Potential fix for getting “failed to load” if you fail to connect to the unity services server
  
• Content page now displays the “Payments” section
  
• DOTS no longer clips inside the surface it was placed on
  
• The stats will no longer show a 15% sanity loss after dying in singleplayer
  
• You can now pick up the brown suitcases in Sunny Meadows
  
• You will now always get a burned crucifix evidence photo before an interaction photo
  
• Crucifix interaction photos will no longer fail, if it was used by the ghost when placed
  
• Haunted mirror camera no longer uses SSAO
  
• The willow front window fingerprint will no longer be facing outside
  
• Fixed Phantom and Oni flash rates during hunts

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• Reduced glossiness of one of the female ghosts
  
• Slightly moved the cookie in the red tent in Camp Woodwind
  
• House door frames now have collision for motion sensors, salt etc.
  
• We now support monitors up to 360Hz (240Hz previously).
  
• Reduced the amount of bloom in the photo camera photos

• The ghost will no longer eat the cookies before they have all been collected
  
• If your level was reset to level 1 but you still had equipment and money your level will now be back. If it is not, please contact our modmail on discord and we can help you there.
  
• The ghost can now interact with small objects on the floor of Camp Woodwind
  
• New players will no longer get stuck in an infinite loop
  
• Rooms will no longer drop to freezing temperatures after the weather changes to Snow
  
• Edgefield reflections will now be accurate
  
• Sunny Meadows chapel wall scratches will no longer cast shadows
  
• A dirt patch in Sunny Meadows will no longer have a white square around it
  
• Sink particles should no longer go through the sink in Sunny Meadows
  
• Grandfather clock’s hands now look correct
  
• You can no longer place DOTS projectors inside several ceilings
  
• A house in Tanglewood Drive is now facing the correct way
  
• You can no longer place objects through wall mounted TVs
  
• If you are dead and Santa eats the cookies, you will no longer transition to snowy weather (unless you revive), overriding the dead visuals
  
• Reviving, will now correctly set any weather changes whilst you are dead
  
• Rain and snow will no longer stop when exiting Bleasdale or Grafton houses
  
• SMAA and MSAA quality settings now default to their proper values, and not “off”
  
• You will no longer get “failed to load” on your player profiles if the Unity services server is blocking your IP. This means however that you will not be able to earn the Holiday event without a VPN.
  
• SSAO is no longer being calculated on cameras, CCTV and video cameras (also boosting SSAO performance).
  
• Glowsticks now stay at full brightness for 60 seconds instead of 10.
  
• Some handprint textures are no longer surrounded by a black box
  
• You can now take a crucifix photo when the ghost uses it without having to put it in your inventory first
  
• You can no longer take multiple crucifix photos by taking it in and out of your inventory
  
• The fuse box interaction photo on Prison and Highschool will now work
  
• Prison will no longer have sunrise reflections throughout the map

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Welcome back, we’ve got an update for you.

With all of the recent paranormal interference, the weather around certain locations has become more hazardous and intense! Ghosts have been haunting locations longer and longer each night, with some disappearing just before the sun comes up. Will you brave these new conditions?

With this update comes a host of small features, improvements, and options! Additionally, there will also be another larger update in the near future (8.1) to add more features and surprises!

If you are currently forcing DirectX10, please disable it as that will possibly cause issues and crashes!


From now until Early January, you can take part in the Phasmophobia 2022 Holiday event!

• Earn yourself a Unique Holiday Trophy for your collection as well as an exclusive Holiday ‘22 ID card and badge!

Find out more information by clicking the Holiday Sticker on the main menu



With the addition of Custom Difficulty, we’ve seen so many exciting, unique and challenging games being created, but we’d like to redirect what the purpose of Custom games is, and there are several reasons why:

• We’d like Custom Difficulty to be primarily used for fun and interesting games, with unique twists, similar to other games with a “Custom games” mode, without the worry of how much you’re getting out of it.
  
• It’s very difficult to balance each option’s rewards to have a corresponding and fair reward multiplier. Because of this, it’s incredibly quick to create games that are potentially much easier or faster than their default difficulty counterparts but give the same or even more rewards, which makes the default modes redundant.
  
• With our analytics and player data, we can see that the large majority of players still play Intermediate and Professional.
  
• Having a set reward per custom option makes them very fragile and limits what we can change for the default difficulties, or any future difficulties we’d like to add to the game.
  
• Lastly, with the large upcoming changes with Progression 2.0, we’d like experience and money to be gained fairly for every player, and try to avoid any cheesy reward tactics if we can.

Because of these reasons, we’re making the following changes to Custom’s rewards:

• Custom Difficulty will now have an 80% reduction applied to the reward multiplier

We know this is a huge change, but this should separate custom games into a challenge and fun mode, and keep the default difficulties as the main route for character progression.

In the second part of this major update (coming soonTM), we’ll be adding something special for those wanting a regular, harder challenge than Nightmare and something super special!

Note: Current and future challenges (like the Apocalypse Challenge) will still be accessible in Custom and still grant trophies for your collection.

To compensate for the above changes, we’re adding some additional rewards for playing well in the default difficulties, which will reward players who have the sharpest eye for ghost identification.

We’ll also be changing the rewards for secondary objectives, to encourage players to complete the primary objective each game instead of ignoring it.

• Added “Payments” page to the journal
  
  Investigation bonus
  
• If you can identify the ghost correctly and escape alive, you will double the money and experience you earn for the primary and secondary objectives you complete during that contract!
  
  Perfect Investigation bonus
  
• If you manage to complete the above but additionally; collect the bone, and fill your journal with 3-star photos, you will gain an additional sum of money and experience on top of the Investigation bonus!
  
• Secondary objectives have had their rewards reduced to make way for the Investigation bonuses

Note: Investigation bonuses are affected by the difficulty multiplier!




With every update, we like to look into which ghosts need some love. We found that some ghosts needed some buffs and some needed changes to help with low evidence runs!

• Hunting ghosts’ model flickers are now synced across all players (which should also help hunt photo reliability)
  
• When hunting, ghosts now affect lights at the same range as equipment, if on the same floor.
  
• Raiju – 15m
  
• All other ghosts - 10m

Wraiths have been adjusted to match their journal description better

• Wraith will never step in a salt pile
  
• Updated journal weakness

Obake have finally remembered how to shapeshift!

• During a hunt, Obake have a 6.66% chance each time it flickers to shapeshift into a different ghost’s form. They will then return back to their original form.
  
• This is guaranteed to happen at least once per hunt, so keep your eyes peeled!

The legendary Revenant has been left behind in the ranks of the new threatening ghosts. So, we’re finally returning some former glory to the speed beast, and adjusting how this ghost hunts, hopefully placing them back on the podium!

• Instead of slowing down instantly after losing line of sight, Revenant will keep their increased speed until reaching your last known position
  
• Their speed will now decrease gradually over 2.7 seconds (0.75m/s) instead of instantly

As Goryo have a history of disobeying their roaming changes, we’ve finally put an end to the over-exploring ghost

• Goryo can no longer change favorite room or roam long distances

Hantu’s secret ability’s visuals have been adjusted

• Hantu cold breath will now play in any room during hunts if the breaker is off
  
• Hantu cold breath visuals have been improved

• Yurei can no longer use their ability when there is no door in its current room

• The Unity rendering pipeline has been updated to URP, spreading some of the load to GPU usage, increasing CPU performance, and allowing us to access new features!
  
• Fog has returned!
  
  • Fog will now only be where it makes sense and has received a visual overhaul
    
  • Locations will start at the same temperature as Clear weather (8-15°C)
• Sunrise weather has been added
  
  • Locations will start with temperatures between 10-18°C
• Weather effects have been completely recreated from the ground up
  
  • Rain and snow have received large performance increases and improved visuals
• New graphics options have been added
  
  • Sky light – For enabling sun or moonlight in each location
    
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
    
  • Fog quality
    
  • FidelityFX 1.0 – AI upscaling for better performance
    
  • (Only compatible with AMD RX 400 GPUs and newer / Nvidia GTX 10 series GPUs and newer)
    
  • Anti-Aliasing options – You can now choose between FXAA, SMAA, and MSAA. VR players can only choose MSAA
• You can now place crucifixes
  
  • When placing the crucifix, you can now see the range of its effect on the environment
• All post-processing effects have been adjusted and improved
  
• Added a text option for voice recognition. This will show UI for selecting what question to ask on the Spirit Box and Ouija Board
  
• If you swap to a new PC or reinstall windows your save will now revert to your personal cloud backup

• The Smudge Sticks’ burn effect has been improved
  
• The Haunted Mirror’s effects and visibility have been improved
  
• Improved glowstick model and effects
  
• Transparent objects and effects will now receive shadows from lights
  
• Resetting your save file will now wipe your cloud backup
  
• Improved performance on campsite maps
  
• Fingerprints have been moved on Willow doors to be more consistently placed
  
• Radios are now interactable with the breaker off
  
• All players must now be further than 5m from the Ouija board before it breaks, instead of just the person who activated it
  
• The Ouija board will now auto-deactivate when walking outside the map.
  
• Sanity pills no longer disappear when using them. Instead, they now drop on the floor and are no longer useable
  
• Improved all candle wax effects when lit
  
• Improved two hiding spots in Sunny Meadows; one by the restricted area door and in the one restricted wing
  
• Small tent cloth is now translucent

• The ‘average sanity’ objective will now complete at the same time for all players
  
• The bone will no longer spawn inside other objects
  
• Tripods no longer count as electronic equipment after removing a camcorder
  
• Willow windows are now the correct way round
  
• The weekly challenge timer will now reset at the same time as the challenges themselves.
  
• The “Complete daily challenges” weekly challenge will now only trigger when a daily challenge completes, instead of when it progresses.
  
• You can no longer scroll to another item while placing something
  
• The ghost's room will now show on the board in the truck in training
  
• The Deogen spirit box reply will now work if you are not crouched
  
• The morgue door VR grab point is now in the correct position
  
• Hitting the crouch button, then physically crouching in VR no longer pushes you enough into the floor that the ghost cannot kill you
  
• Computer monitors in prison no longer turn on when the power is off
  
• The "ghosts repelled" stat will now count if you are not the host
  
• In Sunny Medows, the female hallway light switch will no longer toggle the utility room’s light
  
• Journal on/off buttons are much clearer to understand
  
• The EULA accept button will no longer be clickable until you scroll to the bottom
  
• The objects moved stat will now correctly count poltergeist throws
  
• Your inventory will no longer break if you grab more than one item before joining a game
  
• Room reflections will now be accurate after turning a light on and off quickly
  
• Russian and Ukrainian fonts will no longer have grey boxes around most characters
  
• VR death room spawn position is now correct

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
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Welcome back ghost hunters, we've got some news for you.

The autumn sale has now begun with a 20% discount! During this sale you can nominate your favourite games for an award and we would really appreciate your vote for this years Labor of Love award!



While we don't have any new content for you just yet, we are well into the beta testing for the 0.8.0.0 update. We currently do not have an ETA however we hope to be able to give you one very soon!

We will soon have some development previews for you though so you can get a sneak peak into what the next update will have.

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
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Welcome back ghost hunters, we've got some news for you.

The 0.8.0.0 URP update is well under way and will soon enter beta testing. The update will be a major graphics overhaul and will improve the performance across all hardware, especially for the CPU.

Until then we will be releasing bug fix patches if there are any major bugs found so please keep reporting them.

The patch notes for this update are below. This includes a major change to how the save file was being backed up which should completely fix the issue where you needed to contact us for a new save file if your save file corrupted then reset.

• Added a cloud backup for save files. If your save file corrupts it will now revert to this instead of a local file backup

• The tripod will no longer count as an electronic if you place it
  
• The money spent stat will no longer increase when you add equipment in the lobby
  
• Ukrainian will now be abbreviated as UA instead of UK
  
• The Banshee and Moroi ability used stat will now work
  
• You can no longer kick the wrong player
  
• House candles will now block an Onryo hunt and will blow out in heavy rain without having to put them into your inventory first
  
• The haunted mirror will no longer count for the use cursed possessions challenge twice when using it
  
• The Oni, Wraith and Yokai will now correctly change their activity based on their traits
  
• The Goryo will now have half the chance to wander instead of double (for real this time)
  
• The Moroi ability used stat will now count when other players are cursed
  
• Other players equipment will now be removed from the lobby when they quit
  
• The voodoo doll will no longer float when thrown
  
• The bone will no longer spawn on the room above where it supposed to be
  
• Light switch EMF photos will now be named correctly

If you experience any issues or want to give feedback, please join the official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
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