Did anything change with ghosts?

[Kes_style]

We haven't played Phasmafobia for 2 months and decided to make a stream of it like previously. But were disappointed... at the highest level of complexity we had 1 hunt in 5 games in total, ghosts were quite passive, proves were always projector and ghost orbs. Did anything change in recent updated that we missed?

[SabotageTheFool]

"Cursed possessions - yep, we checked guides about them and tried to use those items, the problem was mostly about finding them, especially Taro cards."
https://phasmophobia.fandom.com/wiki/Map
Click on the map; it shows all positions, they are always in fixed positions.
"Understand - yes, I think we need to extend our range of evidences (not only limited with regular ones) for more accurate guesses."
The thing is; you pretty much never need to guess. The wiki also has a good page on understanding behaviour differences for each ghost; like an Oni will never do the smoke appearance ghost event, Goryo's DOTs (which it will always have) only show up on camera, not to the eye; not spirit box = not moroi, not freezing = not hantu, not dots = not Goryo, not fingerprints = not Obake, Shade can't hunt or do high EMF actions if you're in the same room as them. Basically every Ghost has behaviours you need to check.

[Kes_style]

Originally posted by SabotageTheFool:

"Cursed possessions - yep, we checked guides about them and tried to use those items, the problem was mostly about finding them, especially Taro cards."
https://phasmophobia.fandom.com/wiki/Map
Click on the map; it shows all positions, they are always in fixed positions.
"Understand - yes, I think we need to extend our range of evidences (not only limited with regular ones) for more accurate guesses."
The thing is; you pretty much never need to guess. The wiki also has a good page on understanding behaviour differences for each ghost; like an Oni will never do the smoke appearance ghost event, Goryo's DOTs (which it will always have) only show up on camera, not to the eye; not spirit box = not moroi, not freezing = not hantu, not dots = not Goryo, not fingerprints = not Obake, Shade can't hunt or do high EMF actions if you're in the same room as them. Basically every Ghost has behaviours you need to check.

Wow, thanks for that - it appears this information is missing in Wiki page of my locale, but presents in English.

[SabotageTheFool]

Maybe you could work on translation of pages then :D

[Syncourt]

Originally posted by Kes_style:

Gonna take into considerations your suggestions above, and also considering Parabolic Microphone as more useful item on that map.

Definitely!
It's one of the most useful items in medium and large maps unless you come across the ghost hotspot while doing the first run to turn the power on. I tend to use it on the farmhouses too just to make things a bit quicker.

On Maple Lodge I typically drop my camera and candle at the footpath intersection on the way back to the van, grab the parabolic microphone and thermometer, go back to the path intersection and swap the thermometer for the camera, then crouch inside the nearby red tent next to the lamp and use the parabolic mic to pinpoint the ghost hotspot.

Once I've got it I swap the mic for the thermometer and head to the hotspot to pinpoint the ghost room.

[Hans]

Originally posted by Kes_style:

We're using "in-real-world-room" as we're sitting together :D As for the truck - yep, normally 1 of us puts all items for the team and another one puts nothing, so that he can be brave enough and not afraid of losing anything due to death (though we both have 10k$ already).
That may be the problem though indeed - we don't see our sanity level on nightmare, so probably it's close to 80-90 for the one sitting in the truck, and smth like 20-40 for another one (due to lack of interactions with ghost). Probably we should stop using that "safe" strategy and dive to the real nightmare.

A. Stop communicating outside of in-game voice chat. There are some ghosts that get 'agitated' from increased voice activity from the players.

B. Don't have a dedicated van guy. Just don't. One guy sitting at 100% sanity will make three players have an average sanity of 33% when the other two are at zero.