Add talking to dead teammates through a parabolic microphone

[Sour_Chinese]

Usually someone always dies early and has nothing to do,
just to stare at the team for the next 10-20 mins.

Wish they were more ways to interact with the team as a ghost.

[Ellixen]

You used to be able to see the ghost while dead and I miss that so much. I understand why they removed it, but it was still fun!

[P1nkLem0n4d3]

It would lead to exploits, that's why it isn't ever going to be a thing.

[Shurenai]

They surely need to add something for dead people to do, But direct communication is a big fat NO. A dead player can basically stand in the ghost room or follow the ghost during hunts and do 95% of the investigation on their own in complete safety and if they can directly communicate they can just tell the other players the answer.

[Maya-Neko]

It's probably easier to just train to not have the "usual" early death than to wait for a feature like this (or just use Discord, if you don't want to care about the limitations of the ingame voice chat.)

[Trooper Bri]

Basic communications with your dead friends is easy without being a dirty ol' Discord cheater. ;)

Since the dead can pick up and throw objects, it's not hard to have a basic yes/no/maybe response to questions depending on where the dead toss items.

[goose™]

definitely not- for a different reason than those stated above.

one thing is that if someone were to play the audio of banshee scream, for example, they could make the game a whole lot worse for those playing in it.

I think *some* communication with the ghost would be welcome, but not such direct communication.

maybe some kind of cursed object or gear, though there'd have to be a drawback (example: the user loses 50% sanity, or the ghost has a 40% chance to hunt once this is used, etc.)

[AwaOs]

For communication:
The dead could use the Oujia Board to give hints to the living (With the cost of their Sanity)
The dead could also have some kind of "Energy Level" To use these objects.
Another Drawback could be, that the message received from the dead, isn´t the teammate but the Ghost who lays a trap.
Something like:
Living: "Where is the Bone?"
Dead player: "Living Room"
*Ghost intervenes*
Ghost: "Kitchen"
Then the Ghost could hunt from there as soon the Players are near the kitchen.

With said Energy Level as Ghost, even the Microphone wouldn´t be that overpowered anymore. Give the Ghost Player energy for around 5 seconds and that should be ok.

There is plenty of Stuff already in the Game that could be utilized if done correctly.

[TaintedTali]

Originally posted by Trooper Bri:

Basic communications with your dead friends is easy without being a dirty ol' Discord cheater. ;)

Since the dead can pick up and throw objects, it's not hard to have a basic yes/no/maybe response to questions depending on where the dead toss items.

This is what my group does too, dead players may get "summoned" to the van by alive players and get asked questions with yes/no/maybe answers :D

[goose™]

Originally posted by AwaOs:

For communication:
The dead could use the Oujia Board to give hints to the living (With the cost of their Sanity)
The dead could also have some kind of "Energy Level" To use these objects.
Another Drawback could be, that the message received from the dead, isn´t the teammate but the Ghost who lays a trap.
Something like:
Living: "Where is the Bone?"
Dead player: "Living Room"
*Ghost intervenes*
Ghost: "Kitchen"
Then the Ghost could hunt from there as soon the Players are near the kitchen.

With said Energy Level as Ghost, even the Microphone wouldn´t be that overpowered anymore. Give the Ghost Player energy for around 5 seconds and that should be ok.

There is plenty of Stuff already in the Game that could be utilized if done correctly.

hm, i think they shoudn't use the ouija board, but rather have a seperate item to use. dead players could easily trick or exploit that by purposefully giving an incorrect answer
i do think, however, that the energy system is pretty smart.

[Emurinus]

While there could certainly be stuff added for dead people to do, keep interactions with living players to an absolute minimum. Death is supposed to be a punishment, and letting dead players interact with the living can very easily lead to exploitation, which is why the devs have even gone as far as making dead players unable to see certain ghost abilities, or outright trolling the living players.

Originally posted by Trooper Bri:

Basic communications with your dead friends is easy without being a dirty ol' Discord cheater. ;)

Since the dead can pick up and throw objects, it's not hard to have a basic yes/no/maybe response to questions depending on where the dead toss items.

Funny enough, I did see a recent screenshot on Discord where a player spelled out Raiju to the living players. That's probably the furthest they should be able to communicate.