Let dead players select the ghost type

[piemeister]

Playing with my friends, we're trying to iron out the mechanics but in 3 games I've died twice. The first time I had the ghost selected so I got half rewards but if you die before you can lock in a ghost type you can't get ANY xp or money. When it takes a pretty large amount of XP to even sniff another map and equipment is incredibly expensive this is a really dumb mechanic that should've been an obvious holdover from Phas. In a team puzzle that takes TIME to sort out and the risk of death is ever present why punish players for dying before figuring it out?

[RYSLYK]

Agreed.

[ELDEN LORD]

are u checking ur sanity? i ahvnt died once seems pretty hard to die. jsut be more careful

[piemeister]

Originally posted by blinkninja1:

are u checking ur sanity? i ahvnt died once seems pretty hard to die. jsut be more careful

That's not the point of the post. Dying is a part of the game and disallowing rewards if you die before the investigation can finish gives me absolutely no stake in the rest of the game. In Phas dead players can help A LOT with unfinished investigations but it must be stressed that there is an incentive to do so-- half cash and XP. In this game if you die before you lock in a ghost that's just it. No XP, no money. So why bother?

Imagine if Call of Duty didn't give you any XP or progress of any sort if you go negative in a given multiplayer match even though it is a normal occurrence. That's what this game does.

Dying is A. possible, no matter how easy it is to avoid, and B. locks the dead player out of rewards if it happens too soon. The actual difficulty of the task doesn't matter it's just a dumb design choice. Imagine an investigation on the hardest settings that takes 40 min to complete but you die 10 min in and before you can pick a ghost. The rest of your team not only enjoy the spoils of victory while you get nothing-- you get nothing no matter how much you contributed or how long you sat and watched. And that's ridiculously stupid.

[ThreatDesigns.tv]

How come we are allowed to hear the dead players though?

[piemeister]

Originally posted by ThreatDesigns.tv:

How come we are allowed to hear the dead players though?

Because this game is an inferior albeit better looking Phasmophobia clone.

[Fuel75]

Or perhaps you get 33.333% XP and cash, for each of the 3 correctly selected findings, before your death. Which will not be rewarded, if you leave the game before it finishes.

[Thorstorm]

+1
If your friend succeed we should at least get a % of the rewards.

[piemeister]

Bumping this thread because its common sense. The grind is way too slow to lose out on everything. This last game the ghost didn't pop a 2nd evidence until after it hunted and killed me! And we're on easy!

[Grifynne]

Ya, I agree. Just had this issue. I died and get nothing can can do nothing. You should get something for your time, even if it's less than the living ghosthunters get.

[TTV: Reylenne]

I agree

[Acerbic]

Originally posted by ThreatDesigns.tv:

How come we are allowed to hear the dead players though?

You can hear the 'demon' you're hunting, can't you? Why shouldn't you be able to hear dead players? We're ghost/demon hunters attuned to the paranormal; it's stupid you can't hear dead players in Phas.

[5][Reaper]

I definitely agree here, I've died twice in maps that my friends guessed right and got the money/xp and I got nothing, this will definitely be something that makes me quit playing. If your team guesses right and gets out you should share in the money/xp. I mean, you contributed up until the point that the game rolled the dice and chose you to die...just bad.

[Borfoid]

Originally posted by Acerbic:

Originally posted by ThreatDesigns.tv:

How come we are allowed to hear the dead players though?

You can hear the 'demon' you're hunting, can't you? Why shouldn't you be able to hear dead players? We're ghost/demon hunters attuned to the paranormal; it's stupid you can't hear dead players in Phas.

You shouldn't be able to hear dead players like they're still alive because you can't hear the ghost like they're alive.

I found that a bit of a crappy thing. It's useful, for sure, and I know you can just use a 3rd party voice enabled app to bypass game restrictions but it really doesn't make any - in world - sense that you can hear a live player and a dead player in exactly the same fashion.

If you could hear them through the spirit box and it was distorted or you could pick up the board and they could signal to you what they wanted to tell you - that would make sense.

But not like it is now.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

I agree. Also remove dead players from speaking to alive players. It just makes the game way too easier since you or they can tell you where ghost is spawning or moving to now.

[Mystic]

Originally posted by Bearded Lonewolf:

+1
If your friend succeed we should at least get a % of the rewards.

Absolutely agree with this! I hope they do add something for dead players to do - game is pretty boring if you die and have nothing to do and won't get any rewards after the game is finished. Just feel like I'm wasting time at that point.