This game is way too hard?

[Neneyaya]

Hi, guys, me and a friend try to play at this game in 4 hours and multiples game session we find 0 time the right ghost.

We play in amateur on the first map, evidences are broken, some never happend, we get killed multiples times with 0 evidence on the first difficulty mode, sometimes we spend like 10/15min without a single thing working, emf, dots, spirit box, etc etc on AMATEUR difficulty.

So, if someone can help us please? Maybe it's the difficulty? Maybe we don't set the things right? We both played the tutorial, we know how to setup the camera but something is clearly not working right for us.

Thanks in advance for your helping and sorry for my bad english.

[Snir]

have you even done the tutorial

[Neneyaya]

We both played and finish the tutorial like i say in the 3rd paragraph

[underscores222]

This game, even with the tutorial, is not very new player friendly. That being said, the community is very new player friendly, so come back to ask questions here and you'll get some answers.

The most important thing to learn is how to tell where the ghost is inside the house. As part of the game, the ghost will have a specific "room" that it likes to be in. It can move out of that room, but it will always return there AND spends most of the game inside it.
Normally, there's a couple ways to find the ghost room. Firstly, the ghost makes the area around it cold, so a thermometer is a huge help. Look for a room that has colder temperatures than the rest of the house and you've probably found the ghost.
Likewise, the ghost will toss stuff around. Take an EMF reader with you to check if a door's been moved or an object's been thrown. You can also usually tell if you see something on the floor that normally shouldn't be there (plate, cup, etc)
Related to that, when the ghost touches things, there will be a noise (item being thrown, door touches, window knocks, etc) so if you're paying attention, you can hear what direction noise is coming from to narrow down where you should look.

Finding the ghost is important, but keeping your sanity up is also important. Most ghosts cannot hunt when your team average sanity is high. Make sure you turn on the lights to keep your sanity up and keep you safe during your investigation. There's a couple tricks to this - most maps limit the number of lights you can have on at once and the ghost can turn off the power breaker, so always look on the map in the truck to see where the breaker is before going inside (it's a green box with a lightning bolt) - usually in the basement or garage.

Once you find the ghost room, take your evidence items inside and start checking for evidence. A lot of this game is random chance, so it can take a bit before the ghost decides to write in the ghost book or touches a door. Always check any evidence type multiple times to make sure you actually got it - when that makes sense. Ghost writing is pretty hard to mistake getting, but UV is sometimes tricky and EMF 5 is just a nightmare to get sometimes.
Ghost orbs only show up in the ghost room, so it's very important to be sure you're in the right place or you'll never find them.

There's so much more to this game, but that depth of knowledge will come with time. If you want a bunch of spoilers, check out the wiki. It will tell you in detail about each ghost and all the items, but that can also spoil the fun of not knowing, so beware.

[Sam]

Originally posted by Snir:

have you even done the tutorial

Have you even read the post?

[Maya-Neko]

Without meaning it as an insult, i highly doubt that you're able to tell, if an evidence item is bugged or not without ever finding a ghost and i would rather assume it being user error. What you're doing wrong though is hard to tell without any proper informations.

The most common mistakes i see by beginners is, that they're often failing at identifying the ghost room correctly or are way more hectic than necessary (like moving stuff around constantly and not giving the items time to do their job, especially the thermo and book) and on top of that often doesn't realize, that staying in well-lit rooms keeps sanity up. Especially the later one can easily extend your investigations by enough time to allow even T1-items find the ghosts evidence multiple times throughout an amateur run.

[steventirey]

Are you actually using the tools right? Placing the book down instead of just dropping it. Using the spirit box while alone (some ghost do respond with others in the room, but others don't - just get into the habit of using the spirit box alone) with the lights off. Shake the UV stick for better light. Ignore the EMF board in the truck. Seeing your breath is not an indication of freezing temps. Place the tools in a well traveled location - they each have their own range, and areas where the ghost is more likely to go make it easier to get the evidence.

[Myth Alric]

The ghost has reduced activity and might not be able to do some things with the lights on. So when you find the ghost room, you might have better luck if you leave the lights turned off in that room.

[feral]

They changed this game way too much. I definitely do not recommend playing it to anyone anymore. Demonologist by far is better and it's more like a party game. You still get your spooks and jumpscares in but you're not literally causing brain rot trying to figure out what the ghost/demon is. I wish Phasmo didn't feck their game so hard but after taking all my monies and my ♥♥♥♥♥ I'm team Demonologist until those devs f up.

[Emurinus]

There's barely information to work with here, but I'll try my best to help. For future reference though, please try to detail what you guys are doing to make it easier to everyone else to know what's going on.

For starters, none of the game's equipment, much less evidence equipment, is broken. Annoying and tedious, absolutely, but not broken. It takes time to get evidence with this tier of equipment so you will usually be spending quite a bit of time in the house.

Here's two key pieces of info that will help you out a ton in the game:

1. The ghost is a physical, but invisible, entity that roams the map and will do activities wherever it's currently located. This means that it is not confined to a single room, and can very easily appear in other rooms doing other things even when it isn't hunting. You will see this more often on higher difficulties especially at lower sanities.

2. You do not need the ghost room to gather most of your evidences. While the ghost room is best described as the nexus for the ghost's activity, the only evidence that absolutely requires the room is ghost orbs; everything else can be gathered simply wherever the ghost happens to be at the time. Some evidences, like freezing temperatures and ghost writing, may be found more easily in the ghost room, but other evidences like ultraviolet (UV) and EMF can often be found in the many places the ghost visits. Don't be afraid to move with the ghost if needed, though, since you're on Amateur mode, that shouldn't be necessary too often!

Now for some info on the T1 evidence items. I'm only going over a few that are usually annoying to deal with-

EMF Reader-

• EMF 5 will only occur on interactions that normally cause EMF 2 or 3; there is a 25% chance for those to cause EMF 5.
  
  
• EMF 4 (ghost events) will never trigger EMF 5.
  
  
• The needle on the T1 EMF reader is unreliable, so sometimes EMF 4 spikes look like EMF 5 cause they tickle the 5 towards the end. To tell if you actually have EMF 5, the needle must consistently stay within the red zone on the right side of the meter, and it will also screech rather loudly. There is a future patch to make this more consistent and reliable to read, but for now, that's the best way to describe it.

Freezing Temperatures

• DO. NOT. USE. BREATH. TO. CHECK. FOR. FREEZING. TEMPS! This relic method no longer works as of the last major update as breath occurs at 5C or less. Cold breath, at best, will tell you where the ghost likes to hang out the most; just note that on snowy weather, you're gonna see you breath outside and in the van too, and around the whole house too if the breaker was off for long enough.
  
  
• Freezing temps are dictated by the weather, breaker status, and the ghost itself. When the breaker is off, the house cools down to the ambient temperature of the weather outside. This can be sped up by the ghost being in the room too. Since Amateur mode starts with the breaker on, this will often cause temperatures to take a while to drop. Since you're new though, I'd recommend not turning off the breaker intentionally until you get used to managing your sanity.
  
  
• The Thermometer, at Tier 1, is completely accurate. This means whatever the temperature says on it is the actual room temperature. Non-freezing ghosts will never go below 1C on the thermo.

DOTS

• Try to light up the room as much as possible with DOTS. Due to the limited lights of the T1 DOTS though, I recommend getting two of them and crisscross them by either facing each other, or point them both towards a part of the room.
  
  
• When you're in the same room as the ghost and it enters "DOTS mode" (the period in which you can see it in DOTS), they have a tendency to walk towards a player. Use this to stand in the greens lights and see if the ghost will walk towards you. Best of luck if you get a Goryo though cause this method will then be entirely invalidated.

There's more I wish I could write, but this post is getting long enough and will take too long to finish. In the meantime, I would recommend watching videos and reading guides for more in-depth analyses on the game.

Originally posted by Neneyaya:

Thanks in advance for your helping and sorry for my bad english.

Your English here looks fine to me to be honest.

Originally posted by misoferal:

They changed this game way too much. I definitely do not recommend playing it to anyone anymore. Demonologist by far is better and it's more like a party game. You still get your spooks and jumpscares in but you're not literally causing brain rot trying to figure out what the ghost/demon is. I wish Phasmo didn't feck their game so hard but after taking all my monies and my ♥♥♥♥♥ I'm team Demonologist until those devs f up.

Oh, is Demonologist finally not a bootleg Phasmo?

[The Nugget]

Take Light, Thermometer, Book.
Walk through house watching thermometer, when you find the room where the temp drops, drop thermometer there, place book using F key (Not drop with G).
Go get Salt and Glow stick from the van.
Drop them at the room,
Go get Camera (not video) and Ghost Box.
Drop them at room.
Pick up salt and use F to drop 2 x salt piles,
Pick up glow stick and activate with RMB,
Pick up Camera.
Close all the doors and lights out, leave your torch on.
If ghost walks through salt take a pic. Use glow stick to get Ultraliolet, on the salt.
Any writing in the book ?,
Any Ultraliolet on a door that just moved?
6 Finger on a palm print? your all done.
Set up DOTS and a video cam and go to van and watch.
Not got enough evidence yet?, use the Ghost Box with lights out.
No salt prints after hearing footsteps?, your done.
15 mins is not long enough for most ghosts.
Collate the evidence pick a ghost.
Keep the glow stick on you, if the ghost hunts use the stick to navigate as the ghost can't see it.
Happy Hunting !

[Mister Cebion]

Something i like to use is this website. Helpfull information and a great information tool for new ppl
https://tybayn.github.io/phasmo-cheat-sheet/

[ScareCrow369]

Don't listen to any of them the game is rigged plain and simple, also if you feel like you're having a miserable time on it there's no harm in uninstalling it giving it a trash review and moving on that's what I did. The tutorial is about as helpful as a blind man with no connection to reality at all. Dear sweat lords leave them alone they aren't going to invest their personal lives into a $15 title like all of you have, none of you are Insym so just leave them be. Phasmophobia could have been a much better game but sadly ghosts were given "abilities" vs the player that's given NONE along with having to grind to unlock a d*** photo camera which should have been STANDARD. Steam discussions is the new Reddit.

[ScareCrow369]

Originally posted by underscores222:

This game, even with the tutorial, is not very new player friendly. That being said, the community is very new player friendly, so come back to ask questions here and you'll get some answers.

The most important thing to learn is how to tell where the ghost is inside the house. As part of the game, the ghost will have a specific "room" that it likes to be in. It can move out of that room, but it will always return there AND spends most of the game inside it.
Normally, there's a couple ways to find the ghost room. Firstly, the ghost makes the area around it cold, so a thermometer is a huge help. Look for a room that has colder temperatures than the rest of the house and you've probably found the ghost.
Likewise, the ghost will toss stuff around. Take an EMF reader with you to check if a door's been moved or an object's been thrown. You can also usually tell if you see something on the floor that normally shouldn't be there (plate, cup, etc)
Related to that, when the ghost touches things, there will be a noise (item being thrown, door touches, window knocks, etc) so if you're paying attention, you can hear what direction noise is coming from to narrow down where you should look.

Finding the ghost is important, but keeping your sanity up is also important. Most ghosts cannot hunt when your team average sanity is high. Make sure you turn on the lights to keep your sanity up and keep you safe during your investigation. There's a couple tricks to this - most maps limit the number of lights you can have on at once and the ghost can turn off the power breaker, so always look on the map in the truck to see where the breaker is before going inside (it's a green box with a lightning bolt) - usually in the basement or garage.

Once you find the ghost room, take your evidence items inside and start checking for evidence. A lot of this game is random chance, so it can take a bit before the ghost decides to write in the ghost book or touches a door. Always check any evidence type multiple times to make sure you actually got it - when that makes sense. Ghost writing is pretty hard to mistake getting, but UV is sometimes tricky and EMF 5 is just a nightmare to get sometimes.
Ghost orbs only show up in the ghost room, so it's very important to be sure you're in the right place or you'll never find them.

There's so much more to this game, but that depth of knowledge will come with time. If you want a bunch of spoilers, check out the wiki. It will tell you in detail about each ghost and all the items, but that can also spoil the fun of not knowing, so beware.

The fact that you had to write a book for them is sad indeed, the game still sucks and it's still rigged where the ghosts can throw off false evidence and even Insym has confirmed this!!! Stop lying to people!!!

[Mister Cebion]

Originally posted by ZelgiusVoid:

Don't listen to any of them the game is rigged plain and simple, also if you feel like you're having a miserable time on it there's no harm in uninstalling it giving it a trash review and moving on that's what I did. The tutorial is about as helpful as a blind man with no connection to reality at all. Dear sweat lords leave them alone they aren't going to invest their personal lives into a $15 title like all of you have, none of you are Insym so just leave them be. Phasmophobia could have been a much better game but sadly ghosts were given "abilities" vs the player that's given NONE along with having to grind to unlock a d*** photo camera which should have been STANDARD. Steam discussions is the new Reddit.

First of all.... lol

2nd: I agree that the t1 stuff aint easy. For beginner its realy hard to get into it for sure but i cant understand your hate.
Its a game with a learning curve where you have to know/learn what ghost abilitys are, where you can hide etc.
In the next update they will let you unlock tiers faster (ppl are salty about this too lol)

3rd. Ppl enjoy diffrent games and you are not the target of this game so..... why bother?

[Trooper Bri]

Originally posted by ZelgiusVoid:

Don't listen to any of them the game is rigged plain and simple, also if you feel like you're having a miserable time on it there's no harm in uninstalling it giving it a trash review and moving on that's what I did. The tutorial is about as helpful as a blind man with no connection to reality at all. Dear sweat lords leave them alone they aren't going to invest their personal lives into a $15 title like all of you have, none of you are Insym so just leave them be. Phasmophobia could have been a much better game but sadly ghosts were given "abilities" vs the player that's given NONE along with having to grind to unlock a d*** photo camera which should have been STANDARD. Steam discussions is the new Reddit.

You have a long, hard life ahead of you with a mentality like that. Fair warning, kid.