Immersion breaking spirit box

[MephiroX]

I would pay money to have the option to use the old sounds on the spirit box. The creepy voices on the old box added to the atmosphere. Hearing a streamers voice come out of that box is like being slapped in the face with a cold wet towel. For people who tend to idolize others it might be nice, but as someone who watches streamers for the entertainment I find the new sounds incredibly immersion breaking.

I understand the wish to reward the people who made your game popular, but why ruin the immersion in a horror game for it?

[Ornie]

lmao your brain cant reach the imagination, this is perfect immersive,they use a cheap box that have google AI voices ... this is great i dont understand how dont u get it

[🜃Retro🜁]

>Implemented more accurate to IRL Spirit Box
"MUH IMMERSION, I WANT SCOOBY DOO VA"
I don't think you know what any of you want lol

Let's just be honest, if this was flipped around to where they went from a more accurately operating Box to one featuring spooky voices going "Imma get 'cha!" like it used to be, there'd be a thread full of people saying this same exact thing calling it "Cringe, BRO" and crying about immersion.

The entire streamer thing is a non issue for most normal people not terminally connected to Twitch or Youtube.

Devs honestly need to pull a Hakita and just ignore everyone regarding updates at this point unless it's balancing or game breaking issues.

Now, give me my clowns~

[Silver_KSA]

Originally posted by josh:

Originally posted by Silver_KSA:

"Actual" ghost voice ? wait, is there a reference for this in real life ?

yes, look up "spirit box" or "ghost box" on google, that's what they're basing the spirit box in game from
one vid as an example https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7hzA4Qh7nUU - you can even hear some music come out of it to show that it's just sweeping radio frequencies, and the ghost is meant to be trying to communicate using them.

Thank you for your reply.

Form where I see, it's a made up video .

The old sprite sounds box feel much better for me, They make the ghost sounds more human than AI.

PS: There are no ghost in real life ( A person who died and came back as ghost ) I am 9000% sure about.
However, there are Jins /Devils who can speak like human. look around for it, you will be surprise !

[Rhia]

Originally posted by Silver_KSA:

Originally posted by josh:

yes, look up "spirit box" or "ghost box" on google, that's what they're basing the spirit box in game from
one vid as an example https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7hzA4Qh7nUU - you can even hear some music come out of it to show that it's just sweeping radio frequencies, and the ghost is meant to be trying to communicate using them.

Thank you for your reply.

Form where I see, it's a made up video .

The old sprite sounds box feel much better for me, They make the ghost sounds more human than AI.

PS: There are no ghost in real life ( A person who died and came back as ghost ) I am 9000% sure about.
However, there are Jins /Devils who can speak like human. look around for it, you will be surprise !

regardless of how real or fake the video is, that is how the item referred to as a spirit box works, its basically just changing radio stations faster than people can, like the scan feature in your car cranked up to 10X+ the speed

[🜃Retro🜁]

Originally posted by Silver_KSA:

Thank you for your reply.

Form where I see, it's a made up video .

The old sprite sounds box feel much better for me, They make the ghost sounds more human than AI.

PS: There are no ghost in real life ( A person who died and came back as ghost ) I am 9000% sure about.
However, there are Jins /Devils who can speak like human. look around for it, you will be surprise !

Regardless of if it's "Made up" or not, this is how they operate, by rapidly scanning frequencies while people listen for bits of dialog they then conflate into "evidence" of the afterlife.
When in reality it's just a bunch of snippets of nothing and people looking for what they want.
The modern day spirit bottle, table tipping or hat game as it were.

This is video of the "P-SB7T", one of the popular models featured in game doing exactly that.
https://youtube.com/shorts/h8S38nCPV2Q?feature=share

And just like snake oils of old, you can buy this very cheap and simply circuit bent radio for way too much everywhere online to test for yourself lol

[GuineaPrince]

Originally posted by Kougeru:

I agree. They should hire some random voice actor instead of a streamer.

This demonstrates the whole crux of the argument.

The bulk of complaints in this thread don't seem to mind that the radio uses radio snippets for the ghost to communicate. Some do miss the creepy ghost voices. But the loudest response in this thread knows that it's big Phasmo streamers that the devs enjoy and are specifically allergic to that, squealing like a dropped baby even though it ultimately just sounds like radio voices 🤷

[thrythlind]

The spirit box is absolutely made-up nonsense, in the terms of how it is used to communicate with ghosts.... but the ones you can buy off ebay, specialty merchants, or wherever definitely function like the one we have now. Because it's exactly the open-to-interpretation nonsense that pseudo-science has depended on for centuries.

As a note: A call it psuedo-science not because I disbelieve in ghosts (I'm undecided leaning toward belief). but because ghost hunting as a whole is riddled with credulous and passionate amateurs alongside with a number of convincing frauds. Most of whom have heard the term "scientific method" but rarely have more than a passing familiarity with what that actually is.

[shiny_dirk]

i was immediately put off by the changed voicelines, and also quickly told my friends i find that highly disruptive / immersion breaking.

i do like ideas that include content creators in a game, as a tribute to their support. ive seen it being implemented very nicely in star valor for example.

but the old voices fit into the enviroment, while the new ones do not. thats the part that puts me off at moment. its the coherent experience being disrupted.

- obviously thats a subjective statement. but it should make enough sense.

[Sora]

yeah the streamers are all cring

[KingKickAss]

Originally posted by Sunshine:

Originally posted by KingKickAss:

Streamer references in video games are cringe.

Completely agree, Tarkov takes the cake here, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate that.
But in this case it ain't so bad. Personally I didn't even know these snippets are from streamers, it could as well be from some radio program.

But it should definitely not become more. If we ever find clear streamer references in game I'd be really annoyed. This streamer catering is cringe and cult like. It's just other normies playing games, there's no reason for some of them to have such cult followings...

Guess what?
https://phasmophobia.fandom.com/wiki/Potato

[Sora]

streamers getting all the love is really sad imo, they could AND HAVE put out community votes and you can safely see that it doesnt matter what we vote on. If most of the streamers say hey we dont/do like it thats what they are going with. Even if the community vote is say "does like it" if streamers dont we wont get the update. The only time this didint happen was with the custom games update where they got so much backlash they had to change it back.

[thrythlind]

Personally, the only thing I wish is that the clipped voices were a thing all ghosts could do... and the spooky voice was only Spirit-Box ghosts.

I'm in favor of there being non-evidence interactions with all the main tools.

If spirit box behaved like a real-life spirit box for all ghosts and gave creepy voices for spirit-box ghosts that would be great.

similar to how EMF 2-4 or temperatures from 0-5 degrees are non-evidence interactions. or how video cameras can catch moving objects on camera

UV used to have one with footprints... which actually I appreciate that change because it makes certain rooms easier to deal with... but it would be nice to start seeing use cases for all the gear even in no-evidence runs.

[crystalier]

i prefer the new ones because it honestly startled me like really gave me a flight response

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Detective:

That's so cringe that people try to appeal to realism in this game, where you literally investigate a ghost. The game was never about realism, so why would you make a point of it now. If we could have better and more terrifying ghost voice acting instead of bad mix of streamers voices and other ...orons

it's also cringe to hate streamers for doing what one is doing themself: playing a video game.

Like, ultra cringe. Like WoW horde players thinking Alliance players are losers. Yeah, they're losers for playing WoW. Just. Like. You.

[GRRz|Snake]

yeah, i prefer the old spirit box as well with the creepy voices :/