Game is super grindy

[Potion Seller]

The items are far too expensive. You get 600 bucks a minimum if you get the correct ghost. But my god you gotta save up so much to even just get a candle. Why make it so grindy?

[NoTact]

I get around 6600 for a completion of Hospital on hard, it feels a bit grindy at first, but it gets better. If you have a couple friends you can do the Daddy Money strat, one person pays for it all, go into a hard mode map in hospital and Daddy Money always has a crucifix, after 1st hunt, Money doesn't enter the building and is on camera or "Door Duty" where you call out a hunt (Text chat is global, i recommend using if using in game voice like we do). We used this strat to build up enough to buy the lighthouse and all the additions, 3 sets of gear for everyone and now we just play.
If the one who brings the gear dies, someone else takes over next time to let that person recover money and we just cycle through. But protect your money with a crucifix and it gets way easier to save up for everyone.
Hope that helps, Good luck out there!

[Potion Seller]

I appreciate the response NoTact. But even getting to level 3 for the next map is just, taking forever...

[[W] Viepyr Gaming]

From what I've heard, the devs are working on making things cheaper and a host of other improvements. I'm sure you can find out more details if you hop onto their discord server.

[Kobi Blade]

Originally posted by Potion Seller:

I appreciate the response NoTact. But even getting to level 3 for the next map is just, taking forever...

Level 3 is around 5 hunts, seems about right number to move to the next map.

[Felvira]

I agree it feels very grindy at the beginning when you're trying to figure it out. But once you get to the point of completing every objective and exorcising the ghost, you get $1200 on easy mode. I think that's a decent amount, it keeps things from being too accessible and easy but you can still get what you need. I do think the xp grind to get to other maps could be a lot better though.

[Sarra]

Agreed. Totally grindy, took me 4 hours to get to lvl 3 at least... but I will say it makes me appreciate what I have compared to Phasmo. It took forever to get this damned candle, I'm not gonna lose it. My buddy was lvl 600 is Phasmo, more money than he could ever spend, so equipment cost was pointless.
They should reduce the cost, but also keep the money low as well

[Nokturnal]

Originally posted by Sarra:

Agreed. Totally grindy, took me 4 hours to get to lvl 3 at least... but I will say it makes me appreciate what I have compared to Phasmo. It took forever to get this damned candle, I'm not gonna lose it. My buddy was lvl 600 is Phasmo, more money than he could ever spend, so equipment cost was pointless.
They should reduce the cost, but also keep the money low as well

Yea, I just think it could be more realistic with the prices, like a lighter and candle shouldn't cost so much. There already are candles in the levels you just can't use them far as I know like you can in Phasma. Crucifix and Video Cameras costing a good amount is fine with me, they're not necessary most of the time and just a luxury item.

I think the best way to balance photo cameras is have like a low cost one with very limited amount of pictures it can take (like a disposable camera), a higher cost one with the ability to take more pictures and then like a really expensive one that has like built in extras on top of having the higher amount of film. (like better lighting effects, ability to set it on a motion sensor or something) It'd be like an end-game camera you can use but cost so much you don't want to lose it.

Could even use the way the film is processed to create different gameplay effects for them. Like the lowest cost one (disposable) you wouldn't know if you got the pictures you needed until you finished the mission and processed the film. The middle cost one could be a Polaroid, so it has more film but a slower picture taking time and you have to wave the picture around for awhile before you can see if you got what you wanted on it. Then the highest cost one could be digital and you can see the pics instantly and also take them quick.

[RileyX]

I wouldnt mind paying a lot for items, but only if we won't lose them so easy or never.

[Kobi Blade]

Originally posted by RileyX:

I wouldnt mind paying a lot for items, but only if we won't lose them so easy or never.

Then what would you spend money on?

[Oddy]

You get 600 for finding out which ghost it is, 1200 if you excorsice the ghost. And that's only on the first map.

[bubasikus]

really it's not grindy. Dont play the first map, play cyclone, it requires 0 equipment (1 pill to be safe to do the exorcism, unless its an oni) and gets decent money.

[TEAK]

The game can seem grindy when you're not familiar with the ghost and their behaviors; thats normal.

I know you're saying that you're having some trouble getting off the first house so I want to try and help you do that.


Here is a short guide:

When you go into the house take your EMF, UV and your flashlight 1st.

These Items help a lot in the beginning.

The EMF will go off when you are near the ghost room.

Focus all your attention to this area and room that share a wall with the room you got the emf reading. Don't worry about some room on the other side of the house. This wastes time and cost you sanity.

Listen for light switches flicking and doors moving near this area.

If you hear the light switch flip check it right away,
if there are no fingerprints, open your journal and strike out the evidence and eliminate that evidence. UV light done.

Drop your EMF here and go back to the tent and bring in your "canvas" and "ESG".

These take a lot of time to give evidence so get them in the ghost room where the activity is and go back to the tent for your Ecto glass and Spirit Box,

So hold your spirit box and ask question while you're watching your ESG and Canvas. This way you are covering multiple things at once. You can even place your EMF Roach near the canvas so you can watch the activity also.

If you get some EMF activity, pick it up and walk around the room a bit to see if you get a 5 reading. If not. place it down and keep talking to the spirit box and watching the other items.

Give yourself a few minutes in the house and go check your sanity, if you are in the 50%-60% range, maybe take a guess based off the evidence you have and leave,
You might guess the ghost correctly and get money but the goal is to not die and make your grind longer.

Once you're more comfortable, maybe stay in the house and chance looping the ghost through the living room and kitchen area; the other areas are dead ends.

Just watch your sanity and don't risk it too much in the beginning and you will level pretty fast as well as make some money.

Save up for sanity pills first though they keep you in the game longer and just do what side objectives you can without buying candles and cameras in the beginning.

There will always be those exceptions to the rule like Revenants but this will work for you most of the time.

Teak

[Tanyon]

Literally 16 hours played and I have all clothes for both sexes, all locations and all other tools etc unlocked and I have like $25k left over... it seems grindy at the beginning but man eventually you get $4k minimum per map and over 100xp.

[shmodzilla]

If you do the extra tasks it really isnt that grindy. I don't even worry about losing items now so i just take everything, its worth having.

[Rico]

Game became annoying to play in Hard after update.