ESG Ghost Reaction

[Rat]

Maybe it's just me, but anytime I get a ghost that needs ESG, EVEN ON EASY, It takes WAY TOO LONG for them to react. I don't mind the ghost being tricky or trying to do things that makes it take longer. However, having a whole team of 4 in a round for a whole hour, then all of us dying, and it still hasn't shown anything on the ESG while even the dead players watch, is kind of annoying. Maybe if the radius of it gets tweaked, or if there's a better phrase to say to get it to activate.

This game is amazing, and I hate that my fun and awesome games with friends, get ruined by one game with a ghost who needs ESG.

[Copper]

It's possibly bugged. One time my friend was seeing the ESG T-Pose through the camera when out at the tent but it wasn't showing up in person at all. It's so bad that if it comes down to ESG as the last clue and you can't find the other things it's very likely ESG. It's become "Well we've tried these other things so much It's gotta be ESG" It's easier to prove the things it's not than to find ESG.

[Killjoy]

I've learned to take two ESGs and place them around the room near where I think the ghost is most active and then sometimes in the middle. They have been proccing a lot more to me since the newest patch

Also don't forgot, the Goryo will not show itself when anyone is in the room with it similar to how the Goryo acts in Phasmo where it will only reveal DOTS when its via camera and no one is in the room. Demo Goryo you can at least stand outside the room at a short distance away to see if it reveals itself that way

[Throbb]

Use the following voice commands: "manifest" and "show yourself". I've had zero issue with ESG since last patch.

[Copper]

I would say the Goryo not appearing on ESG with players nearby would explain why that friend could only see it through the camera but 2 of us were in the house standing around the ESG and to us it wasn't doing anything even looking right at it but to him it was visible through the camera and we were looking at it at the same time.

[Hellsmoke]

Originally posted by Throbb:

Use the following voice commands: "manifest" and "show yourself". I've had zero issue with ESG since last patch.

Doesn't work, tried it several times over the past two days and haven't gotten it to work even once on command.

[bubasikus]

yea they buffed by 10%, not sure what it means but i see no difference. Does it mean it interacts within a circle 10% larger or?

[DiasFox]

ESG and painting are still gonna waste your sanity timer as usual. Unless you are lucky enough the ghost decides to give it for free.

[Rat]

Originally posted by Throbb:

Use the following voice commands: "manifest" and "show yourself". I've had zero issue with ESG since last patch.

Unfortunately those haven't been working for me our my ghost hunting group. I might try the video camera method another mentioned, though that'd be an expensive route to get a base piece of gear to work properly.

[Killjoy]

I actually just had a ghost in Hospital that I got wrong due to ESG still not working super well. I want to chalk it up to a fluke as since the update I've had zero issues getting this evidence. However, I had two of them placed in the corridor of the Hospital (ghost was by the CRAZY room) and tried several different spots with no evidence from it, so I picked what was left and did a full clear only to lose out on half the earnings.

I'm hopeful they will put a range indicator or something on the device itself, the only thing I have to go on is that sometimes when you put the ESG down it spins faster? I'm trying to figure out if that means its in a more likely spot to capture the evidence or what

[pApA^LeGBa]

Can´t say it´s any different for us since the patch. ESG is still a waiting game. Using voice commands, having 2 ESG´s and moving them around from time to time doesn´t help at all.

Boring. If it wasn´t for Marias Room, i would play something else already, because waiting isn´t fun.

[DiasFox]

Even the fulu talisman isn't helping much.

[Copper]

Coming back with my own confirmation I was able to see ESG on the camera by staring for a bit. The t-pose is super fast like only lasts a second. I also watched the ghost walk over the ESG since I think it had started hunting and the t-pose quickly popped up and went away shortly after i watched it walk over it. This makes me think that the reason ESG isn't working very well is because the ghost being over the tool doesn't last long enough for a in person reaction but you can see a rapid blink of a reaction through the camera. Possibly it just needs the time shortened for how long it takes to proc the ESG when the ghost is in range and how long it lasts once it proc's. I'm not positive on the mechanics of how it works since I'm just a player, for all i know it could have something to do with multiplayer ping and synchronization issues but what I can say I confirmed for sure myself you can see the t-posed ESG reaction blink super fast on camera on occasion. These brief blinks don't appear in person.

[SharkHead]

Yeah, since last patch i can not see any kind of difference on how the ESG works. I keep saying "Manifest" and "Show Yourself", but theres absolutely no response whatsoever. The 10% buff probably wasnt enought i suppose

[Kal]

Fingerprints are guaranteed on door/lightswitch touch, ectoplasm will be on the wall as soon as the lobby loads up. The ghost will respond to the ghost box almost immediately. EMF 5 is moderately short, sometimes it can take 1-2 minutes.

The three pieces of evidence that are currently awful are; Freezing temps, Easel Painting and ESG. It can seriously take 10+ mins to get those.

It's an ARTIFICIAL GAME LENGTHENER.

You almost certainly need one of those three pieces of evidence, very few cases that you dont. So it's likely you'll spend more time in the game playing it. It's a very well used strategy that game designers use to have more people in their game, because more players means better stats, views and potentially streamers.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Originally posted by Kal:

Fingerprints are guaranteed on door/lightswitch touch, ectoplasm will be on the wall as soon as the lobby loads up. The ghost will respond to the ghost box almost immediately. EMF 5 is moderately short, sometimes it can take 1-2 minutes.

The three pieces of evidence that are currently awful are; Freezing temps, Easel Painting and ESG. It can seriously take 10+ mins to get those.

It's an ARTIFICIAL GAME LENGTHENER.

You almost certainly need one of those three pieces of evidence, very few cases that you dont. So it's likely you'll spend more time in the game playing it. It's a very well used strategy that game designers use to have more people in their game, because more players means better stats, views and potentially streamers.

And then there is the maria riddle. A lot wouldn´t be playing anymore without it as normal games just tend to be waiting games.

The ESG alone doesn´t keep people ingame, infact it drives people away cause it´s boring.