Lost soul here

[Ordon Draconis]

Love this game!!! But utterly, utterly lost.

My friends and I only play around Halloween. So, have never played with strangers, and only have 2 sessions behind us. So, nooby.

But I can't see how anyone can win. For example, I just played the tutorial again (getting muscle memory with all the starting gear). They literally tell you where the ghost is. So, I race in and set up the video camera, the book under the light switch, and the DOTs between the lightswitch and the rocking chair. Run back, have the EMF, UV, and spirit box in hand.

Instantly, I see spirit orbs. check. And for the next *20 minutes* I'm in the dark, staring toward the DOTs and the BOOK, cycling UV, EMF, and taunting into the spirit box.

3 times the lights get flipped on. No UV fingerprints anywhere. The BOOK gets slid around twice. Blank. The rocking chair goes nuts twice. No twitch on the EMF ever.

The ghost had to step on the book to use the lights, it had to pass the DOTs to go from lights to chair. It had to pass through my body for most of that as well.

*20 minutes in the dark* - in any mode other than training, I would have long since died. And with only 1 device hit, you can't even guess what you're dealing with. Suddenly, for no reason, at 20 minutes, the EMF jumped from 1 to 5 for a split second. (With the list now narrowed, I took the guess that the 3rd evidence was the easy to miss DOTs, and was correct).

Again, even on amateur, I would have died long before that point.

And, yeah, that's what our group experiences. Add hunting and wandering ghost, and unknown start room, we get hunted with almost no data found. So, I'm baffled how you all level, or get gear, or avoid losing it all every other run. And we play small maps on amateur!!! (We win about 1 in 4, with 2 deaths every run).

Again, not complaining: LOVE this game (to DEATH). But utterly baffled....

[thrythlind]

My suggestion is too look up Insym on YouTube, he pretty much streams Phasmo daily and updates the VODs to his YouTube afterwards.

He does a lot of goofy challenges but also does a lot of bug-hunting, investigation into how the game works, and does a lot of explaining tactics and tricks on how to play.

[galacticcorgi]

Use your video camera to watch DOTS and book from the van. angle them to be on-screen. Ghosts lift the book to use it and the ghost is much more obvious on night vision. Also, they roam. they will not always stick to their room. And if the ghost tosses the book without writing, I don't think it CAN be the book. So use your EMF and such to find where it's hanging right now.

[Heimeri Klein]

Well usually the person who brings the gear stays in the van at least in my crew. Another thing is we pay attention to what the ghost in particular is doing is it moving around a lot, is it staying in a specific room, is it making duplicate movements, is it only appearing on camera when we leave the building? Each ghost as a specific tell if you watch them enough. Getting good at this game is kinda like most games trial and error you'll get there at some point.

[Jon Lynn]

Originally posted by Ordon Draconis:

Love this game!!! But utterly, utterly lost.

My friends and I only play around Halloween. So, have never played with strangers, and only have 2 sessions behind us. So, nooby.

But I can't see how anyone can win. For example, I just played the tutorial again (getting muscle memory with all the starting gear). They literally tell you where the ghost is. So, I race in and set up the video camera, the book under the light switch, and the DOTs between the lightswitch and the rocking chair. Run back, have the EMF, UV, and spirit box in hand.

Instantly, I see spirit orbs. check. And for the next *20 minutes* I'm in the dark, staring toward the DOTs and the BOOK, cycling UV, EMF, and taunting into the spirit box.

3 times the lights get flipped on. No UV fingerprints anywhere. The BOOK gets slid around twice. Blank. The rocking chair goes nuts twice. No twitch on the EMF ever.

The ghost had to step on the book to use the lights, it had to pass the DOTs to go from lights to chair. It had to pass through my body for most of that as well.

*20 minutes in the dark* - in any mode other than training, I would have long since died. And with only 1 device hit, you can't even guess what you're dealing with. Suddenly, for no reason, at 20 minutes, the EMF jumped from 1 to 5 for a split second. (With the list now narrowed, I took the guess that the 3rd evidence was the easy to miss DOTs, and was correct).

Again, even on amateur, I would have died long before that point.

And, yeah, that's what our group experiences. Add hunting and wandering ghost, and unknown start room, we get hunted with almost no data found. So, I'm baffled how you all level, or get gear, or avoid losing it all every other run. And we play small maps on amateur!!! (We win about 1 in 4, with 2 deaths every run).

Again, not complaining: LOVE this game (to DEATH). But utterly baffled....

Hey man, I'm basically still a noob too, I have only one friend who plays rarely. I'm not looking to become some leet pro player who can solo nightmare(no disparage to those that can and do....)I know some basics and "this n' thats" about the game regardless and would be happy to help, so if you trying to take a chance and play with a stranger sometime, send a FR and we can see how it goes. I'll hunt with ya and just have some fun an scares..maybe a few screams lol. ^_^)b

[Kaisoku]

EMF range is very short, were you testing the rocking chair, switches, by walking up to them right away?

For spirit box, make sure that the microphone icon is lit (top left) so it hears you, and the X lights up to indicate it heard your question, but didn't get an answer.

Book.. Well, sadly that 100% a chance thing. If there's a lot to interact with nearby, it is possible it will keep interacting with other things.
Moving stuff that can be picked up out of the room can help sometimes.

DOTS is similar to book, though some ghosts interact with it more, or only interact when there's no one there (have to put the camera facing it and check via van, or from another room if the layout allows).
Also dots is hard to see with your eyes.. It runs fast, and barely visible. Nightvision on video camera sees it really well though.

Not sure what all is in tutorial, but checking temps (low with the power on means the ghost was there very recently), and if it is below 0 celsius, you should see your breath: thats freezing temps evidence.

Hope this all helps!
It will become second nature once you see successful responses (much like how you probably understand ghost orbs now).

[Donohue]

Feel free to add me on steam and I can help you with an amateur run or 2 and explain some stuff in real time when im on. They've updated the mechanics a lot since last year and im not sure how up to date the tutorial has kept.