Wrong Ghosts

[ABseNce]

So I was Hunting with a new player im level 200+ and we had all three pieces of evidence which were Fingerprints, Freezing Temperatures and EMF Level 5 after staying in to get a picture of the ghost we locked it in and the screen said we were wrong and it was infact a wraith so I'm really confused and would like some insight on this.

[Emurinus]

If it was a Wraith then EMF 5 is wrong; you should've gotten Spirit Box instead. I can only assume someone was either deceived by the truck board or misread EMF 4 as 5.

[Chris]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

If it was a Wraith then EMF 5 is wrong; you should've gotten Spirit Box instead. I can only assume someone was either deceived by the truck board or misread EMF 4 as 5.

It is possible to get false evidence, It happens quite often as someone with probably amongst the most experience in the game I can confirm ive had many games with 4-5 pieces of legitimate evidence that ended up causing issues

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Chris:

Originally posted by Emurinus:

If it was a Wraith then EMF 5 is wrong; you should've gotten Spirit Box instead. I can only assume someone was either deceived by the truck board or misread EMF 4 as 5.

It is possible to get false evidence, It happens quite often as someone with probably amongst the most experience in the game I can confirm ive had many games with 4-5 pieces of legitimate evidence that ended up causing issues

False evidence only occurs if you aren't properly paying attention or if a bug occurs. Each and every ghost requires 3 pieces of evidence; no more, no less. I don't know how or why you're getting 4-5.

[Dadanya]

I had a feeling that at first it was minus then after a couple of minutes it disappeared and the ghost turned out to be completely different

[Tyler Zeta]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

If it was a Wraith then EMF 5 is wrong; you should've gotten Spirit Box instead. I can only assume someone was either deceived by the truck board or misread EMF 4 as 5.

Seen many people misread an EMF 4 as 5 or they think 10c is freezing temps.

[MuscleBearGamer]

Originally posted by Chris:

It is possible to get false evidence, It happens quite often as someone with probably amongst the most experience in the game I can confirm ive had many games with 4-5 pieces of legitimate evidence that ended up causing issues

I have never ever had more than 3 evidence in any run whatsoever.

Only times more than 3 decides to pop its head up is when people misinterpret things and think they are evidence.

Like some people thinking the footsteps that occur after a ghost walks through salt and show up with UV are fingerprints when they are not.

EMF 4 being read as EMF5, or people not watching carefully enough to the activity screen on the van and seeing a regular EMF 5 reading and thinking its the one that indicates EMF5 when its not.

People not looking carefully enough and thinking the freezing breathe orbs are ghost orbs.

People not knowing what the freezing temps are on the thermometer and incorrectly assuming freezing temps.

Other than those I have never seen 4-5 legitimate pieces of evidence in any run.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Ghost:

Other than those I have never seen 4-5 legitimate pieces of evidence in any run.

this can happen, but not in an unmodified game, it's also a symptom of when a hacker/ modder has placed more than one ghost on the map.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by Tyler Zeta:

Originally posted by Emurinus:

If it was a Wraith then EMF 5 is wrong; you should've gotten Spirit Box instead. I can only assume someone was either deceived by the truck board or misread EMF 4 as 5.

Seen many people misread an EMF 4 as 5 or they think 10c is freezing temps.

The only way to actually get freezing temps if you're not using the thermometer, keep an eye on your own breath after all, the air in your own body is hotter than the air outside of your body.

[Myth Alric]

False evidence is practically unheard of. The last time I remember hearing of fake evidence was when prison first came out and there was permanent fingerprints on the door and it was fixed in like a day.

It is almost certain someone misread the EMF, or someone said "I got EMF" meaning they just got a reading in general but others thought they meant EMF 5. You can kind of tell EMF by sound but I always confirm it. If you don't see that red light, it isn't EMF 5. Also, I always say "EMF 5" and never say "I got EMF" to avoid confusion. Usually there is no need to mention getting EMF in general, but if you got it for the objective, or are trying to find the ghost room, it might be brought up.

[Downwithpeace]

My first thought would be if it was the new player that saw the EMF 5 but during a hunt and mistaking it for a reading.

When I hosted my friends the EMF reader wouldn't work correctly for me. It would only show me a reading after someone else with an EMF got a reading, other players would sometimes hear my EMF reader go off but there would be nothing showing for me. Don't know if a bug and fixed or issue with me hosting but when a friend started hosting the EMF worked fine for me. Having had issues with other detection devices before it wouldn't surprise me if your EMF reader bugged out.

[Ryo]

Well, I had one case where the thermometer showed freezing temperatures (for a few seconds), but the ghost ended up not having anything to do with that at all.
That was the only time we ever had something like that happen, though.

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Ryo:

Well, I had one case where the thermometer showed freezing temperatures (for a few seconds), but the ghost ended up not having anything to do with that at all.
That was the only time we ever had something like that happen, though.

It dropped below 3.0C, correct? If it's greater than or equal to 3.0C (or ~37.4F) then it's not freezing.

[Lord Alucard]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

Originally posted by Ryo:

Well, I had one case where the thermometer showed freezing temperatures (for a few seconds), but the ghost ended up not having anything to do with that at all.
That was the only time we ever had something like that happen, though.

It dropped below 3.0C, correct? If it's greater than or equal to 3.0C (or ~37.4F) then it's not freezing.

Anything below 0C is freezing. That is how you really know when it goes below 0

[Onii Chan]

Just a simple glitch/bug.

[TabatumBA!]

I confirm that the three of us played on a private server, we received three clues, but in fact the ghost turned out to be different. There is a video recording of the game.