Jumpscares

[Sinneki]

You know what I really wish to see? Truck campers get jumpscared. I think people who sit in the truck and watch cameras all day should have to at least deal with jumpscares. It would make it more interesting. Like the ghost walking up and looking into the screen or something. Just a fun idea to possibly take into consideration?..

[Stabby_Widdershins]

Nah.
Just because they're in the truck does not mean they're not doing a needed job.

Plus, jumpscares are lazy; They work off surprise. Loud noises, sudden movements, and the like.
They are less 'jumpscare' and more 'jumpsurprise' and stop being effective after the first few times.

[WolfLink0370]

Yeah they are 100% NOT going to do jump scares.

Their Trello strongly suggests they plan to go with the psychological horror route, with things like hallucinations already planned to come with the horror 2.0 rework that is on deck after the progression overhaul. Jump scares do not fit that sort of theme like at all.

And there isn't even a jump scare in like that in this game anyway...
"Oh but what about when you die... that's a -"
...Let me cut off any retort there in advance by saying that what you experience when you die is straight up a death animation... it's too slow for a *jump* scare. Trello once again backs this fact up with the acknowledgement that specifically "new death animations" are also planned with the horror rework.

[Maya-Neko]

They're already punished by having their investigation time quadrupled and therefore with less income.

And those, who're already too scared to go into the house will most likely not be motivated to do so by also getting scared within the Van

[eki234]

Me gustaria que si haya no digo a lo loco, pero si que haya una posibilidad baja de screamer.
Por otro lado me gustaria que haya una opcion o dificultad que el fantasma te ataque afuera de la casa

[VexingWeeb - Discord]

I like the idea. Not jumpscared as they put it, but they had said the ghost staring into the camera or something. im not sure how to work that into the game though. Maybe if it's possible to only make it visible to the camera's view and not in person. it also gives a way to help find the ghost room as placing several cameras around the house to find out where the ghost is would be a viable way to figure out where the ghost room is or if the room changed, the person in the truck might have an opportunity to see the face on another camera .

Sitting in the truck staring at the camera at the moment honestly feels useless unless you're looking for orbs (but you have the hand held cameras for that)

[||Shox||]

Originally posted by kassie is hot:

You know what I really wish to see? Truck campers get jumpscared. I think people who sit in the truck and watch cameras all day should have to at least deal with jumpscares. It would make it more interesting. Like the ghost walking up and looking into the screen or something. Just a fun idea to possibly take into consideration?..

nope mate this is a bad thing also you seen a different game thats doing the cam jumpscares XD

[Vanessa]

The truck being a designated 'safe zone' is integral to the investigation area being scary. If you could just get spooked anywhere, there's no respite and you will become desensitized. The whole game is now less scary.

Besides, people who suggest that ghosts should be able to attack or jumpscare people in the van always seem to do it out of spite for people who stay in the van out of fear. Like... so what? It's a horror game, let people be scared. Being scared is the fun of it. If you're playing public lobbies and getting upset because people are playing inefficiently and think the developers should sacrifice the horror aspect of the game just to 'nerf' a strategy you don't like randoms doing, I don't know what to tell ya.

I think we should go the other way and make it more viable to have someone watching cameras. Scary things can happen, but they should be passively observed from the van and not happening to the monitoring player.

[Atlessa]

Originally posted by VexingWeeb:

Sitting in the truck staring at the camera at the moment honestly feels useless unless you're looking for orbs (but you have the hand held cameras for that)

Also to test DOTS with that one ghost (forgot what it's called) that only appears on camera, and not in person.

Originally posted by VexingWeeb:

I like the idea. Not jumpscared as they put it, but they had said the ghost staring into the camera or something. im not sure how to work that into the game though.

I like this idea. Maybe it could be a Djinn (or one of the other electricity-adjacent ghosts) ability to sometimes appear on the truck screen, but nowhere else. Sorta like the banshee scream on the Paramic, but visual.

[Vanessa]

Originally posted by Atlessa:

Also to test DOTS with that one ghost (forgot what it's called) that only appears on camera, and not in person.l.

Goryo, though even in that case you can just sit outside the room and hold a video camera, which is the only way to confirm without a shadow of a doubt that it ONLY appears on the camera.

[ElDouillo]

I don't think that players in truck should be punished, but I definitely agree that some things should happen from outside of the building. Like seeing a ghost in a window, having interference on the camera by the distance and maybe some disturbing images on the monitor from time to time. As said above, some ghosts staring at the camera might be a cool addition.

[JammyGuns]

250 hrs and counting but personally the day this game falls into the jump-scare trope is the day I'll stop playing... The beauty of this game is, and has always been, the subtly and unpredictability in which it delivers its horror.

[Rootiga]

I think jump scares sound awful, but the idea of ghosts looking into cameras or interacting with them sounds great

[Lexiebeth]

I don't know about jumpscares, but I also wanted to suggest this. Ghosts looking into the camera as a rare event only viewable from the van monitor, not something violently scary, but it would add a nice creepy vibe when you're monitoring in the van. I also thought it might be cool if, very rarely, the ghost could crack the lens of a video camera, not to where it's completely unusable, but a slightly obstructed view. I think these could add to the passive creepiness of the game :)

[Sinneki]

Just read the posts. Yall right. Just the idea was funny. IDK why but the truck didn't cross my mind as a safezone LOL

[7Dslade]

Jumpscares aren't Phas, soz.