Ghost writing book BUGGED!

[Immortal]

Our ghost writing book has provided nothing when it should have, is anyone else's book failing to work?

[Myth Alric]

So I think it is possible for it to bug, because occasionally that seems to happen where you get no result. However, the some times it seems like the ghost just doesn't want to write in the book and it takes a long time before it does, especially if it isn't very active.

So it is kind of hard to tell if it is just low activity or a bug. It does happen some times though.

[capdaflag]

It's not bugged, you got to have it in the precise location for the ghost to write in it.

[Tantalus]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In other words, just because a ghost can write doesn't mean that it always will. I've had it happen with the book and several other tools, too. I seriously hope it's not a bug, because it's one of the best parts about this game: it keeps you on your toes.

[TotalTriscuit]

If the ghost type doesn't write in the book, you won't get writing. Same reason you won't always get a Spirit Box voice, EMF5, freezing temps etc etc

[Shooty Manz]

As far as I have seen Ghost Writing is one of the items that is not bugged. It could be a rare bug, who knows, its early access. But the ghost only has a small chance to write in the book if it is a ghost that has the requirement for ghost writing.

Basically you have to first locate the ghost room 100%. Don't assume you have the ghost room because you saw the temp drop to 11 degrees Celcius once. Make sure. We had a game today where the ghost was actually in the foyer but a lot of evidence, EMF and sounds/movement looked like it was coming from an upstairs room. Turns out it was false readings going through the floor when the ghost was below us doing stuff. Temps may not give off anything at all until you piss the ghost off a bunch and call its name or lower your sanity. So keep that in mind.

Once you DO find the ghost room, throw the ghost writing journal in. Throw 2 in if you have 2 as it increases the odds that one of the books will have ghost writing. Can be put anywhere in the room as far as I have seen.

Each time the ghost rolls to "interact" with an object, the ghost writing book will be considered for one of those objects. You just have to play the waiting game with it and its why I usually find the ghost room and throw the ghost journal down first. That way while I'm going in and out of the room all game it will eventually write in the book. Again, just have to wait and sometimes piss the ghost off a bunch.

We've been able to get the ghost to write in the book every time we've needed it to. We've had a few times as stated earlier where we got a false positive for what room it was and spent all game stumped. Once we confirmed the location we got the ghost writing within a few minutes.

Just make sure you double and triple check with all your evidence.

[Crowski]

We haven't gotten any of the ghosts to write in the book for the past couple of days playing. Not sure if bad luck or bug, having the book placed where all the other interactable are objects and getting nothing from it :<

[Shooty Manz]

Originally posted by Crowski:

We haven't gotten any of the ghosts to write in the book for the past couple of days playing. Not sure if bad luck or bug, having the book placed where all the other interactable are objects and getting nothing from it :<

Again, can you confirm you 100% are placing it in the same room as the ghost? Is it in the room you are seeing ghost orbs or freezing temps?

Hard to give advice or call it a bug if we don't know for sure. There's a lot of conjecture and false flags people are throwing around with this game because there is quite a bit of randomization to the game. :\

It really could be bad luck. I have had games where it was a ghost writing ghost type but it took like 10 mins to write in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ book. Most times it doesn't take that long though.

[Deceptive Pastry]

Book is just RNG as long as you have a ghost type that writes. Put two down in the ghost's room to improve chances and put them down early. Keep saying "give us a sign" to get activity and hope it chooses the book as the activity. It is possible to just have really bad luck for 20 min straight. I wouldn't completely rule out a bug. I have seen a video of someone trying to use the spirit box, solo run, ghost's room, lights off, said nothing detected multiple times despite the ghost turning out to be a Jinn. But if you're having problems with it every time, you're not waiting long enough or aren't in the right place.

[нιт◈ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ]

If the ghost is in a room with a lot of light and it hates light it might not write.

I've had a ghost refuse to write because of the car alarm going off in the garage which is haunted, soon as we get the car keys and turned off the car alarm it wrote lol.

Sometimes there is special conditions that need to be met, like saying it's name alone or together, lights, placement. There is multiple factors at play.

[Immortal]

Originally posted by TotalTriscuit:

If the ghost type doesn't write in the book, you won't get writing. Same reason you won't always get a Spirit Box voice, EMF5, freezing temps etc etc

the ghost type we got was a "ghost writing" type.

[Immortal]

Originally posted by Crowski:

We haven't gotten any of the ghosts to write in the book for the past couple of days playing. Not sure if bad luck or bug, having the book placed where all the other interactable are objects and getting nothing from it :<

We are the same, the last few days it just hasnt worked. I am aware of it being bugged if you place it on stairs but other than that it just hasn't worked for us at all.

[Immortal]

Originally posted by FER SIGMAR!:

Originally posted by Crowski:

We haven't gotten any of the ghosts to write in the book for the past couple of days playing. Not sure if bad luck or bug, having the book placed where all the other interactable are objects and getting nothing from it :<

Again, can you confirm you 100% are placing it in the same room as the ghost? Is it in the room you are seeing ghost orbs or freezing temps?

Hard to give advice or call it a bug if we don't know for sure. There's a lot of conjecture and false flags people are throwing around with this game because there is quite a bit of randomization to the game. :\

It really could be bad luck. I have had games where it was a ghost writing ghost type but it took like 10 mins to write in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ book. Most times it doesn't take that long though.

I've had 30 minute long games waiting for it to write and it hasn't, so I think it defs can be bugged, but often is just a time thing.

[Immortal]

Originally posted by TotalTriscuit:

If the ghost type doesn't write in the book, you won't get writing. Same reason you won't always get a Spirit Box voice, EMF5, freezing temps etc etc

no ♥♥♥♥ bro

[Ashley]

Ghosts might be a pain and not use the book even if they can write in it. If you're missing a 3rd clue, try to work out how the ghost is behaving and see if it matches something in the journal!

[Puddin']

Originally posted by Tantalus:

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In other words, just because a ghost can write doesn't mean that it always will. I've had it happen with the book and several other tools, too. I seriously hope it's not a bug, because it's one of the best parts about this game: it keeps you on your toes.

This is well said, but I am sure it's bugged for us because we have consistently found that it is ghost writing only by taking a picture of the book and finding it was an Interaction that way. There is nothing written in the pages, but the ghost definitely was supposed to have, so we correctly used it as a clue. Unless the ghost can interact with a book without writing in it, and we have extraordinary luck, the book isn't working for us.