FREEZING TEMPS MECHANIC CHANGED!!!

[NaCl]

I see a lot of people getting confused about why they're getting "freezing temps" for every ghost, even those that don't have that evidence.

That's because they changed how freezing temps work.
Used to be, you only saw your breath when you ABSOLUTELY had freezing temps.

But that's different now. Now your breath does not indicate freezing temps. Rather, your breath indicates that you are in the presence of a ghost. The ghost room will ALWAYS show your breath now, regardless if it's freezing or not. You might also briefly get breath if the ghost roams or teleports to you, although I'm not a hundred percent sure on that one.

So you use your breath to find the ghost room. If you see your breath in one room, the ghost is in there. Breath now ALWAYS shows in the ghost room.

Then, you get a thermometer, and test the temperature of the room. If the thermo reads below a certain number, then you've got freezing. If not, then it's not freezing temps. It might also take some time for the ghost to make a room cold enough, so test more than once.

Keep in mind that the T1 thermo needs time to work. So throw it in the room, and come back and check it later.
And keep in mind that certain weather conditions will show your breath regardless.

I just wanted to try and clear things up for the people who are confused about this. Cuz getting frustrated like that is no fun.

[Kaisoku]

Any temperature below 5 celsius (or 41 fahrenheit) will give the breath.
Snowy weather will start you off with that everywhere. Sunset will be warmer I believe.
Turning the breaker on will warm up everywhere inside, but the ghost will counter that and lower the temperature.

There's a trade off and strategy here:
Breaker on = easier to find where the ghost is, because the rest of the house will be warm (depending on weather), while the ghost's position will lower the temps and likely bring it lower than 5C.
Breaker off = easier to get freezing temps, because the ghost won't be fighting the warming of the house. It can lower to below 0C (32F) easier with the house being colder.

A potential strategy would be to turn the breaker on, find the ghost's location, get set up with the lights on, then turn the breaker off to make it colder faster to test for freezing temps.

Something that may be making things harder for finding freezing evidence: the GHOST lowers the temperature of the room ITS IN. This means if it's ghost room is a small walk-in closet or bathroom, it could wander in and out of that room so frequently that it's never quite lowering the temperature enough to go below freezing.
Turning the breaker OFF can make it easier for that roaming ghost to lower below zero, possibly even in both rooms if it's moving back an forth fast enough.

I honestly need to do that more, especially with the tier 1 thermo. It's sooo slow sometimes. I'll forget about the trick until the ghost turns off the breaker and THEN we see the temperature go below zero.. *smacks forehead*

[weiss]

Originally posted by Kaisoku:

Any temperature below 5 celsius (or 41 fahrenheit) will give the breath.
Snowy weather will start you off with that everywhere. Sunset will be warmer I believe.
Turning the breaker on will warm up everywhere inside, but the ghost will counter that and lower the temperature.

haha yus.
am still not completely used to it and catch myself thinking "wait, why is it cold in the van?"
since snowy weather does this now too. aka me thinking wtf does the ghost in the van x3 but then remembering that the freezing stuff got changed xD.

[HeavyTeemu]

And Freezing temperature is not the only one. There seems to be confusion about DOTS and EMF as well based on my experience with my main group.

I dont know why my group had troubles with EMF since it is obvious when it hits 5. But still sometimes someone would make a false EMF report during events or hunt.

Also. My group had a player who constantly reported false DOTS evidence. It turned out he shined DOTS at their own or other players cold breath and took that as an evidence.

Seeing all these threads about false evidence makes me think that maybe they are doing something similiar.