Ouija Board location answers in Nightmare mode

[Deathwing1306]

Hey, I have been playing Nightmare for a while already (this also happens on Professional) and I realised that the Ouija Board is 100% useless.

For example: I have played Grafton Farmhouse, I found the board, I asked a question "Where are you?" and I got an answer "Living Room". So we went to living room, placed camera there, dots, book and everything. Nothing was happening, then the hunt started. I ran into the bedroom and 2 my friends ran upstairs. One of my friends got killed upstairs... why ? Because the stupid Ouija Board is useless. When I asked the board later, it answered with "Upstairs" something. It was actually in the attic or what is it in the other end of the house where breaker usually is.

I thought that the ghost changes rooms SOMETIMES and not every 2 minutes and not to the other end of the house.

[HeartClock]

The Ouija board tells you where the ghost currently is, even if you ask where their favorite room is.

Keep in mind that ghosts can roam outside of the ghost room.

[Deathwing1306]

Originally posted by HeartClock:

The Ouija board tells you where the ghost currently is, even if you ask where their favorite room is.

Keep in mind that ghosts can roam outside of the ghost room.

I know, but why are they moving EVERY 2 minutes into a room on the other end of the house ?

[HeartClock]

Originally posted by Deathwing1306:

I know, but why are they moving EVERY 2 minutes into a room on the other end of the house ?

Because some ghosts tend to roam a lot and far from their ghost room. Also, if I remember correctly, ghosts can clip into a room that is above or below where they are.

[Emurinus]

This isn't a Ouija Board problem at all. You just happened to get a ghost that wandered into the living room while you were asking it the first time.

[Deathwing1306]

Originally posted by Emurinus:

This isn't a Ouija Board problem at all. You just happened to get a ghost that wandered into the living room while you were asking it the first time.

But it's happening every single game. That is the problem, I wouldn't care if he moved once or twice during the game into some room close to the first one, but they are moving everywhere every few minutes.

[Emurinus]

Originally posted by Deathwing1306:

Originally posted by Emurinus:

This isn't a Ouija Board problem at all. You just happened to get a ghost that wandered into the living room while you were asking it the first time.

But it's happening every single game. That is the problem, I wouldn't care if he moved once or twice during the game into some room close to the first one, but they are moving everywhere every few minutes.

That still sounds like it's due to their roaming. On small maps, it's not uncommon for the ghost to travel around much of the house. This is especially true for pesky hallway ghosts. That said, it's generally retained to one floor unless the ghost is a far roamer (which is indeed a PITA).

IIRC, the devs do plan to reduce roaming a bit to help alleviate it, but I can't remember where this was said.

[StaticR]

afaik the banshee, wraith and phantom all have hidden abilities that involve moving to a random player's location. In the case of the wraith they can straight up teleport to them.

Also ghost roaming is about player walking speed. They move around very randomly but they can cover quite a distance if they choose to.
Each ghost except for the goryo also have a very rare ability to roam extremely far, pretty much to anywhere in the house.

[thrythlind]

The wraith actually teleports, the devs have specifically debunked the phantom having an ability, the banshee might have a teleport.

[Recon]

You have to ask 'whats your favorite room' to get the correct room. but keep in mind, some ghosts lie. you can tell whos lying if you ask it a few times and get different rooms each time. if you ask twice and get the same response twice then chances are good thats the room

[StaticR]

Originally posted by Recon:

You have to ask 'whats your favorite room' to get the correct room. but keep in mind, some ghosts lie. you can tell whos lying if you ask it a few times and get different rooms each time. if you ask twice and get the same response twice then chances are good thats the room

No, "what's your favorite room" always returns the room the ghost currently is at, not the preferred room. This has been debunked before and can easily be tested by asking a ghost during a hunt a bunch of times, the answer will constantly change depending on what room it is in. Ghosts lying on the ouija board also isn't a thing, they always tell the truth. That's just a band aid argument to explain away the answers not being consistent with the misconception. All location questions relate to the ghost's current location, not any preferred one.

Originally posted by thrythlind:

The wraith actually teleports, the devs have specifically debunked the phantom having an ability, the banshee might have a teleport.

The things that have been debunked are the phantom shapeshifting (used to be in the game but removed) and the phantom being summoned from the ouija board (book straight up lies there) The other things from the book are true, as well as the hidden ability that it sometimes can roam to a player and that it blinks much more slowly during a hunt. These have been confirmed afaik.
Banshee doesn't have a teleport but afaik when it uses it's hunt ability it roams to it's target player before initiating the hunt.