We can never find the ghost room?

[Chicken]

Any tips? We split up with a few pieces of equipment and nothing ever seems to work, leading to a boring event until someone finally dies.

[MansLaughter]

Thermometer is your friend. Especially Tier 1. Look for dropping temps in a particular room. A bit reductionist, but generally that is where to start

[Emurinus]

The Thermo and EMF reader are your best friends for this. As long as the breaker is on, the only cold rooms will be the ones the ghost frequents, and any EMF signals you get will tell you that the ghost is nearby, or at least active.

Of course, ghost orbs will tell you the ghost room if you find any. Beyond that though, you don't need the ghost room in order to figure out the ghost. Evidence collection often happens when the ghost is simply nearby doing stuff.

[WolfLink0370]

Sound sensors can help a fair bit too - I wrote them off in prior updates, but in Ascension they actually transmit any sounds they hear to the truck. it doesn't necessarily help with identifying where the ghost is exactly, but they help by narrowing the search area.

Each sound sensor has a default range of five meters, and can have it be doubled to ten meters in the truck by interacting with the arrows on the sound display... tier 2+ allows the option for the range to be tripled to a massive 15 meters, and tier 3 can have it's mic arms positioned in different ways before placing, allowing for more focused listening angles.
In the right positions, you can have one tier 2 sound sensor potentially cover an entire floor of a smaller house if set to max range, and the High School can be fully covered if each sensor is positioned in the middle of each hallway, with some overlap.

Their only real drawbacks are that, as stated previously, they do not completely isolate the exact ghost room on their own... additionally, they do pick up the ambient sounds that don't mean anything, such as floorboards creaking.

[[TKC]olT3lo]

Give your T1 thermometer a bit to calibrate to the temps in the house. Sometimes you can miss the room if it was the first you were in and it hasn't had time to level out.

[Cloudkiller]

First thing to do is make sure you have the breaker on if you are playing on professional difficulty or higher. Use the t1 thermo to find the ghost room. look for items that seem to be out of place. For example, a dinner plate being on the floor.

[Watcher Rat]

For smaller properties, I always take in the video camera, UV, and either the EMF reader or the T1 thermometer. Keep your ears open and listen for doors, thrown objects, and more, and you can locate at least the general area before you even get there sometimes.

For larger properties, the same tools work well, but if you have the T3 parabolic mic, you have an amazing locational tool as well (though it does pick up ambient noises too).

Either way, as you look, make sure to ID some good hiding spots along the route, so if it takes longer than usual to find the ghost, you have a place to duck into. If you're good at remembering to turn it off, you can wear the T2/3 headgear so you don't need a flashlight as well.

[Codester]

Thermometer to find room is the 100% easiest sure way.
You can find it earlier by making early events and appearances happen by saying it's name and asking it to do things.
Watch for signs like thrown objects, moved doors. ect. Pay attention to those areas early.
You can use the parabolic for clues super easily as well, just be careful that you don't get Cursed by a morai. That being said, if you do hear the curse (whispering in tongues) then congrats, you have already figured out which ghost it is lol.
There are many ways to find it.

But soon as you start, check where the breaker is, turn it on IMMEDIATELY, that should be the absolute first thing you do when you enter a house, while on the way check closets you pass by for potential hiding spots if you're bad at looping. Do some intro searches and investigation, after a few minutes whip out the thermo if you haven't found them, if you enter a room and the temp goes up, that's not it. The second you find a room that starts dropping, stay there for half a minute and see if it continues dropping. Practically every single ghost in the game will give you cold breath if you have found the favourite room, but in order for this to work, as I said, you MUST have the breaker on or you will get incorrect readings.
The readings will also differ if it is snowing outside, or if you are in the camp, then you need to make sure that the temperature you're looking for is even colder than the normal cold being given from weather influence.

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Codester:

Thermometer to find room is the 100% easiest sure way.
You can find it earlier by making early events and appearances happen by saying it's name and asking it to do things.
Watch for signs like thrown objects, moved doors. ect. Pay attention to those areas early.
You can use the parabolic for clues super easily as well, just be careful that you don't get Cursed by a morai. That being said, if you do hear the curse (whispering in tongues) then congrats, you have already figured out which ghost it is lol.
There are many ways to find it.

But soon as you start, check where the breaker is, turn it on IMMEDIATELY, that should be the absolute first thing you do when you enter a house, while on the way check closets you pass by for potential hiding spots if you're bad at looping. Do some intro searches and investigation, after a few minutes whip out the thermo if you haven't found them, if you enter a room and the temp goes up, that's not it. The second you find a room that starts dropping, stay there for half a minute and see if it continues dropping. Practically every single ghost in the game will give you cold breath if you have found the favourite room, but in order for this to work, as I said, you MUST have the breaker on or you will get incorrect readings.
The readings will also differ if it is snowing outside, or if you are in the camp, then you need to make sure that the temperature you're looking for is even colder than the normal cold being given from weather influence.

the breaker is automatically on for the lower difficulties, right? And is the breaker in a random room every time?

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by Chicken:

Originally posted by Codester:

Thermometer to find room is the 100% easiest sure way.
You can find it earlier by making early events and appearances happen by saying it's name and asking it to do things.
Watch for signs like thrown objects, moved doors. ect. Pay attention to those areas early.
You can use the parabolic for clues super easily as well, just be careful that you don't get Cursed by a morai. That being said, if you do hear the curse (whispering in tongues) then congrats, you have already figured out which ghost it is lol.
There are many ways to find it.

But soon as you start, check where the breaker is, turn it on IMMEDIATELY, that should be the absolute first thing you do when you enter a house, while on the way check closets you pass by for potential hiding spots if you're bad at looping. Do some intro searches and investigation, after a few minutes whip out the thermo if you haven't found them, if you enter a room and the temp goes up, that's not it. The second you find a room that starts dropping, stay there for half a minute and see if it continues dropping. Practically every single ghost in the game will give you cold breath if you have found the favourite room, but in order for this to work, as I said, you MUST have the breaker on or you will get incorrect readings.
The readings will also differ if it is snowing outside, or if you are in the camp, then you need to make sure that the temperature you're looking for is even colder than the normal cold being given from weather influence.

the breaker is automatically on for the lower difficulties, right? And is the breaker in a random room every time?

its on for lower difficulties yes, and it is semi random - every map as a couple preset spots where it can be

[BuzzardB]

Originally posted by Chicken:

Originally posted by Codester:

Thermometer to find room is the 100% easiest sure way.
You can find it earlier by making early events and appearances happen by saying it's name and asking it to do things.
Watch for signs like thrown objects, moved doors. ect. Pay attention to those areas early.
You can use the parabolic for clues super easily as well, just be careful that you don't get Cursed by a morai. That being said, if you do hear the curse (whispering in tongues) then congrats, you have already figured out which ghost it is lol.
There are many ways to find it.

But soon as you start, check where the breaker is, turn it on IMMEDIATELY, that should be the absolute first thing you do when you enter a house, while on the way check closets you pass by for potential hiding spots if you're bad at looping. Do some intro searches and investigation, after a few minutes whip out the thermo if you haven't found them, if you enter a room and the temp goes up, that's not it. The second you find a room that starts dropping, stay there for half a minute and see if it continues dropping. Practically every single ghost in the game will give you cold breath if you have found the favourite room, but in order for this to work, as I said, you MUST have the breaker on or you will get incorrect readings.
The readings will also differ if it is snowing outside, or if you are in the camp, then you need to make sure that the temperature you're looking for is even colder than the normal cold being given from weather influence.

the breaker is automatically on for the lower difficulties, right? And is the breaker in a random room every time?

It has several specific locations it can be in. You can see where it is on the map in the truck though if you don't know the layouts.

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by BuzzardB:

Originally posted by Chicken:

the breaker is automatically on for the lower difficulties, right? And is the breaker in a random room every time?

It has several specific locations it can be in. You can see where it is on the map in the truck though if you don't know the layouts.

worth noting, you cannot see it in the truck on nightmare and above.

[Watcher Rat]

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

Originally posted by BuzzardB:

It has several specific locations it can be in. You can see where it is on the map in the truck though if you don't know the layouts.

worth noting, you cannot see it in the truck on nightmare and above.

True, but usually by the time you're on nightmare+, you also know where it can and can't be ;)

[COAT]

Breaker on, keep an ear out for sounds like items dropping, doors opening.

"Give us a sign" and later on "show yourself" over local mic usually works for me.

Usually seeing my breath is a good hint on where we should start.