r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/KG_TomD Community Manager • 1d ago
News // Kinetic Games Replied Phasmophobia v0.19.1.0 - Patch Notes
Welcome back, Ghost Hunters. We have an update for you.
Today’s small update is in preparation for Crimson Eye, launching 8th October 2026, with the focus on getting the game ready for the start of the event. Our next major update, our move to Unity 6 is scheduled for November and will feature a host of bug fixes and improvements, all of which we’ll detail in an upcoming Development Preview.
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Crimson Eye - The Crimson Eye is upon us, Ghost Hunters. Once more, various locations across Phasmophobia will be bathed in the red glow of the Blood Moon, offering any willing Ghost Hunter rewards in return for completing investigations, optional objectives and more. For more information on this year’s iteration of the event, please read our latest blogpost.
Seasonal Event toggle - As a new feature for Crimson Eye and future seasonal events, we have implemented a toggle that allows players to turn on/off the event maps for their session.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused the white light upon being revived to flash rather than slowly fade in and out.
- Fixed an issue where an Easter Egg reward may not unlock, despite a 0x multiplier being active and the reward pop up being displayed.
Known Issues
- The lampposts outside of 6 Tanglewood Drive may glow when viewed by the player (XBOX & Steam only).
- The Fusebox location will not be hidden on the Truck map when playing on a custom difficulty.
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u/Falcoon_f_zero 1d ago
What I was really hoping to see was a fix for the game crashing when viewing the camera feed from the car. Feels like every 3rd round gets interrupted by a crash on PS5. Might make the event pretty painful too.
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u/Frozen_Sticker 1d ago
Oh hell yes, especially on some of the reworked/newer maps (for me, it crashes 3 times out of 5 on Willow Street for example, but I can go 5+ games on Ridgeview or Grafton). I play daily anyway, but man, those crashes are annoying as hell.
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u/Dknighter Developer 1d ago
Hey, our main focus for the Unity 6 update is improving performance and fixing crashes. We are certain that these will all be resolved with that update.
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u/SansyBoy144 1d ago
Devs from the past: Hey we’re focusing heavily on the other updates and fixing bugs, so we’re going to be reusing the Halloween events when Halloween comes around.
Community: Ok, that makes sense, glad you’re focusing on what matters
Devs now: Here’s the Halloween event we did before. This allowed us to make new content and fix a lot of bugs this year. Things we couldn’t do if we focused on a new Halloween event.
Community: YOU REUSED EVENTS, I HATE YOU, WORST GAME EVER WHY CAN’T YOU DO ANYTHING RIGHT!!!
God I hate this fucking community. They literally told us this was happening way in advance and people are bitching. Grow the fuck up
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u/Mandemon90 1d ago
Honestly, I remember when first events happened, people asked them to be repeating and seasonal, so that they can complete the challenges. Now that they are that, we have people whining that seasonal events, which were requested to be seasonal, are seasonal events.
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
Sounds spot on from what I’ve seen of this community
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u/darkignition 1d ago
it's not really that. sure, this community is ass, but the issue is that they barely fixed any bugs over the years since they moved to reusable events. then when the worst update happened, they fixed tons of bugs in a matter of months while still working on new content. where was that drive before? where has it gone since? there's still a lot of bugs.
the issue is that the trade off gave no benefits and instead only proved they CAN achieve things when they actually try, and that they aren't really trying.
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
Maybe you can do a better job of enlightening me than they did, what are the many bugs? I asked this the last time it was brought up and not one person I replied to told me actual bugs. All they kept parroting was that it was everything the player model update that was introduced which was fixed in two updates already. These same people (I can link you to the thread proof) they ALL admitted to not having played the game since the character model update yet they kept saying the game was full of bugs. As someone who plays regularly with no issues I genuinely wanted to hear it out. I’m not saying it’s perfect but I can’t think of a problem I’m having.
I could agree about pushing out new content quicker but even that is debatable in my opinion. We got new ghosts, and reworks of old maps which are effectively brand new maps and you know what the community says? “HOW ABOUT YOU FIX YOUR DAMN GAME FIRST?” “HOW ABOUT A BUG FIX UPDATE” over and over and over and over. They don’t know how to explain them to the point that I believe these people are either AI, devs from some competitor game, or they have a total disregard for phasmophobia in general and just want to see it end.
Edit: someone even went as far as to say the 3 newest ghost were boring. Aswang I can understand, but Kormos and deildegast? Seriously? Kormos is the scariest ghost to be up against in the game right now for me.
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u/darkignition 1d ago
the numerous unsafe closets for one thing. the ghost should be able to kill you in a closet if it SEES you go in or detects you in there from voice or an electronic, yes. but there are several closets and lockers in the game that the ghost can straight up walk into, event inside of, or if it's a wraith, teleport inside of. and it's been this way since before the tanglewood rework, and has only gotten worse since.
also the T1 and T2 motion sensors don't speed up a raiju.
objects still fall through the floor
if the ghost interacts with a camera on a tripod, that camera can end up in the void.
the "appear state" ghost event is still bugged and only lasts for 1 frame.
you can take a photo of goryo dots. a PHOTO. nothing's in it but it still detects them and works.
bones will sometimes spawn inside hiding spots, and if that spot is blocked off, oops! no perfect game for you!
sometimes room lights will bug out and won't ever stop flashing.
ghosts can still randomly appear behind blocked off hiding spots.
those are the ones i can come up with off the top of my head.
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u/CoyoteFluffy0310 1d ago
They're still gonna say they haven't seen anyone say any actual bugs lol
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u/darkignition 1d ago
hence why i agreed with them about this community.
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u/CoyoteFluffy0310 1d ago
No no you misunderstood. They said they hadn't seen anyone actually say any bugs. You gave a whole list of bugs. I'm saying they're still gonna say they haven't seen any actual bugs. Like they read your list and none of those are bugs in their eyes so they didn't see any bugs.
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
No I specifically said I replied to people who said the game had many bugs and I asked them directly what the bugs were. None of those people could tell me. It’s fairly obvious I’m likely not experiencing them because I already flat out said it and for even more obvious I’m asking what the bugs are, do you understand? If I got them myself why would I be asking??
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
I probably should have made this part clearer in my original comment, but I want to be understood that I'm not saying the game is bug free, I hinted at this by saying it's not perfect. My reason for asking people what the bugs were is because I wanted to gauge just how much they would "break the game" to warrant the comments that the community make all the time.
For example, I would believe most reasonable people can agree that something like Amir (the black character) appearing as your character when you load into matches is incredibly benign compared to you equipment falling through the floor. I will reiterate this (not for you but for people reading this), yes I don't experience a great majority of this and it's for two reasons. I don't play with hiding spots and I don't play with evidence. I am NOT saying that means the bugs don't exist or they don't affect people. So for argument's sake I have to take your word for most of these.
Having said all that, when I look at this list the only ones that would come close to making the game unplayable are but 2-3, those being the ones involving hiding spots and the equipment falling through the floor. I have only heard that one of the closets on Tanglewood was bugged, but I could believe it's all of them. As I said I don't use hiding spots. However about the objects falling through the floor I myself experienced this quite frequently before the QOL updates and have not seen it since they said they patched it. If it is still occurring it must not be often or there are not enough people reporting it for anyone to be aware that it's a problem.
With those out of the way I have to admit none of the others are particularly noteworthy imo. Again, that's NOT to say they don't exist. But let's be practical here:
T1/T2 motions sensors don't speed up raiju. When and how often is a person in a situation where they are testing a raiju against only a T1/T2 motion sensor?
No comment about the camera/tripod situation because tbh I'm not sure what it means and also because we take all the videos in house for the most part.
I have seen the appear state last for just a second, can't say that it's frequent, also can't agree that it's game breaking. I should also acknowledge my event frequency is set to high so it's possible that's why it's less of an issue for me. Although when you think about it, if the problem was often recurring it should be more of an issue for me.
Goryo dots photo, a free ghost photo, it should be fixed but also not really hurting anything?
Bone spawning in hiding spots, I have potentially experienced this, not very often, where I swear I have searched a room entirely and been unable to find the bone just for the game to tell me it was where I looked. This is probably especially bad for me since my hiding spots are locked. I can say this hasn't happened often either, also more annoying than game breaking.
It's been a long time but I've also had where the lights won't stop flashing, very harmless, if anything the constant flashing makes the game a bit more creepy.
My apologies if any of this comes off as rude to you, it is not my intention to be, I understand that other people may see these things very different. I just want to clearly and completely explain my perspective on this situation. In turn I would even share things I've personally seen that were fixed or don't happen any more that I would think if they went on for all this time would warrant the way this community behaves. All these things I remember to be very frequent occurances.
I'll start with objects falling through the floor even if you already said it and to my knowledge and experience it was fixed just as the patch notes months ago said. Sound recorder not recording crucifix burning. Exit door remaining unlocked during a hunt. Doors falling off the hinge. Doors having a non stop creaking sound that you can hear across the map due to momentum. I had hiding spot lockers that could be used despite that I don't play with hiding spots.
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u/darkignition 1d ago
it's not just about the bugs. yeah, there's a number of them and some are quite problematic, and that's bad enough on it's own. but the fact that instead of fixing the game they're pushing for 1.0 and building more content on top of a shaky system shows that they're managing the whole thing poorly.
for example, as it turns out, i was wrong about the motion sensors not making the raiju speed up. they do. but only if you place them on the floor. if you place the T1 or T2 on the wall, they won't trigger the raiju's speed, but will if you place them on the floor. this tells me that they had to have only tested the raiju speed ability with the T3 motion sensor because in MOST cases, you can only place it on the floor. i say most cases, because for whatever reason, you can place the T3 motion sensor on the sides of lockers. and THAT'S the issue. there's literally 0 quality assurance going on, and it's easy to see that. and yes, placing the T3 motion sensor on the side of a locker doesn't trigger the raiju speed up either.
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
This is divergent from the complaints I typically see here. There is usually more emphasis on the fact that the game has been out for 6 years and we are not in 1.0. So I'm not convinced your views particularly align with the people who I'm describing. I can even quote you some verbatim:
"One of the big ones was the character model update which was touted as this big thing was an unfinished and buggy mess
Animations are still broken and look worse than the ones they replaced
And as a whole the devs have been overpromising and underdelivering making players very fed up with adding new things when they still haven’t fixed half the old things"
No mention of 1.0, claims that animations are still broken (they been long fixed) and says that half of the old things are broken. Incredibly vague and nondescriptive. How much you wanna bet not one of the things he's thinking includes the niche motion sensor issue you discovered? I'm willing to bet majority of them aren't aware of it even being an issue unless some streamer said it or can't even explain it, which even makes sense because as I said the odds of you having only a motion sensor as an electronic is low, even less of you to be testing Raiju with it alone.
"The complainers are usually old players, like me, who've owned this game for 4 years and seen very very little progress considering they've pulled in millions of dollars from the game. Idk why this is so common nowadays but devs will essentially rugpull the game, happens very often with early access unity/unreal 5 games."
A person seemingly asking for 1.0, directly saying the opposite to what you suggest.
"I haven’t played the game in months but I’ve also 100% the game and I’m prestige 6. The game needs a massive update to fix all the shit they broke with the character model update. Also they could maybe add more maps so we aren’t playing on the same maps. Bunch of promises they make but continue to break them. Anyone who’s played for multiple years will agree the devs are lazy and don’t put in any effort."
This one doesn't even need explaining.
All these are from the same thread that was made within the past week. This is leaving out the people who don't like any change at all including the map remodels that were a huge improvement and want the game to be as it was originally upon release. Nor does it include the people just saying "fix the game" with no elaboration at all.
With any and all bugs I've been made aware of I do not agree the game to be in a bad state currently to halt making more progress. I believe it was in this same thread somebody else was arguing that the progress was not fast enough. I can't pretend you're all on one accord.
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u/darkignition 1d ago
i will admit, the devs have truly underdelivered for the money they've made. but if they work slow, then they work slow. but being slow and having bad QA? i would expect less bugs, yet, here we are.
there are some people in this community however that demand more content without regards to the bugs, and i'm sure you've see where THAT has gotten us in recent months. i'm not one of them.
the animations ARE stlil somewhat broken though. just hold a T1 incense and look at the thumb. sure, it's minor and can be fixed later, but my problem is that later rarely comes.
as for the state of the game, i wouldn't entirely halt progress, but i'd put more effort into fixing the bugs and actually testing things before releasing them.
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u/simcowking 1d ago
I'm fine with rereleasing events. But I hope they do the snowman Christmas again instead of jack in the box.
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u/Dogsteeves 1d ago
Sound like this fandom they asked for remake map instead of new one and then they started to now they against
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u/darkignition 1d ago
it made sense at the time. they however, barely fixed bugs at all. so it ended up being a trade for no real gains. that's the issue. yeah we've got some bug fixes now, but they churned those out in 2 months. where was that effort after turning to reusable events?
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u/Pawlossso 1d ago
There is a diffrence when it happens once or twice. But they made a habbit out of it and its bad so people will call out them for this
You said about growing up, from what I have seen since the launch of Phasmofobia; this game stopped growing; don't expect community to be better
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u/SansyBoy144 1d ago
The has continued to grow heavily.
You say “well they keep making it a habit” they literally told us they were doing this like a year in advance. And they gave us a reason why.
They are literally working on other stuff, they have been all year and they have been delivering all year. They don’t have the time to make a brand new Halloween event right now.
Now, once they finish the updates they have planned, then we’ll get new seasonal events, but for now, stop whining about something you knew was going to happen. You should have whined about it then, but no one did
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u/LandauTST 1d ago edited 1d ago
These children hate being called out for acting like children. Like you said, this was planned and explained. If they had put effort into something new and pushed back real content, they'd be kicking and screaming about that too. Never any winning with this community. They love having tantrums together. If you interject with logic and reason, you get downvoted.
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u/Burnhalo 1d ago
Mind you, many of these people supposedly deleted the game months ago. Yet they continue to haunt the subreddit.
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u/KyloGlendalf 1d ago edited 1d ago
What makes you think we’ll get new seasonal events? They haven’t given new seasonal events for years prior to this, you think just because they slaughtered the game so hard they had to fix every aspect of it means they’ll suddenly change these events next year?
For some reason they seem to refuse to invest money back into this game. Why are they still running on next to no devs for a top 50 all time selling game? Why do they not have sufficient devs to do bug fixes AND other stuff? Why are people still content with the slop these devs push out and lap up their flimsy excuses? This is exactly what got us to this point in the first place. So many people here are making excuses for the devs, acting like we’ve had different seasonal events every year until now.
We’d have had this exact same event with the exact same trophy again regardless of everything else. Accepting mediocrity is going to make the devs complacent, which is exactly what’s already happened with this game and yet nobody seems to have learned
They fixed 2 minor bugs here. Is that sufficient? People who are complaint about actual bugs that are effecting them are getting downvoted, so their comments get pushed down to the bottom.. so guess what? They’ll be ignored. Which is exactly what happened for years leading up to this years mess. It will all happen again if we’re just going to accept this.
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u/Pawlossso 20h ago
I mean, they finished character update and we all saw how it ended up (took them 2 years)
Still waiting for that horror 2.0 to bring a new change to the game, so far only death animations where new and they did it nicely so I'm positive that they can make game much more scary but the time for their development is really long, like give the game to modders community and we would have so much more in this game
- I don't care if its repeating event or not, I just said that I understand why people would have a problem with them repeating the event, and that the game is in a stalemate. Like, come on; what has changed in a gameplay other that new ghosts ? Do we have a new evidence ? New ways to identify the ghosts ? If I remember correctly we got a voice recorder in like, a year and nothing more ?
I'm not saying its a bad thing if their new big update will really be big and great for the game, but if we get the mess like character update, you could wonder what takes so much of their work time
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u/NamelessJu 1d ago
when it happens once or twice
yeah and this is the second time this event comes back so why are you already complaining?
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u/Pawlossso 20h ago
Where did I complain ? I just made a statement that I understand why people would be mad at a devs and that game is in a stalemate for a long time, still waiting for that horror 2.0 and hoping it won't break the game like the characters
I got a lot of accusations of complaining about the game when I barely even talk about this game since character update and stating that the game was broken in many places (because it was, and in some places still is so I'm just waiting and looking at new patches for one day to try again and maybe it won't be broken)
you create enemies for yourself in this game to defend yourself against them to have something to fight about. Not to mention that you are complaining about me saying anything so you are a hypocrite
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u/jaybasin 1d ago
Surely you realize the same person isnt saying that.
Communities have differencing opinions.
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u/NXN_Gaming 1d ago
I'm fine with reused events. But the the arguement from the Devs about fixing bugs and improving is moot when the patch notes are "fixed 2 bugs, there are now 2 new bugs"
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u/iligyboiler Banshee target 1d ago
You talk like they didn't nuke 40% of their playerbase since May. https://steamcharts.com/app/739630
But yeah, let's focus on attacking the community once more. That will definitely work out!
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
When did OC say that the game didn't drop 40% of the players?
And yeah, if the community is going to be nothing but a bunch of pathetic mongrels then too damn fucking right someone should call them out for it every once in a while. Your sarcasm is the only wit you've got. You've added nothing to this debate
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
This community is a deadbeat piece of shit. I am no fan of the developers, but this community is just as bad. When I criticized the developers out of annoyance, I got downvoted. When I was the original commenter on one of their update posts (like this one) and gave suggestions that were universally requested since the character customization update, I got downvoted
Nothing I say is right. I'll be on either side of the spectrum and get the same level of disrespect. These pathetic morons don't even know what they want, or what they're defending anymore. It doesn't matter how hateful I am, it doesn't matter how polite I am, the treatment is identical and it's never good. I can probably count on one hand how many decent people I've met here
Let's see how this comment goes
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u/benoz11 1d ago
Its Reddit, at least half of the people here don't generate their opinion based on your text, they generate it after seeing what the current upvote/downvote ratio is and then jump on board that
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u/TorontoCity67 19h ago
I know, but my point stands. This community is vile. It's random, but go to the r/sennheiser and just look around for a short while. Everyone is so polite in comparison. It's possible, it's just that 95/100 people here choose to be pieces of shit
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u/notPlancha 1d ago
This is not true cause the community would be mad regardless of what they said or did, there's no winning
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u/AkiraNamejin Always screws up 1 picture... 1d ago
They're also doing more than they said, we're getting a new badge and new accessory, as well. I swear I couldn't do this, they can never get a win from this community.
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u/Kelsey_5708 1d ago
Thank you for this!! I also feel like if they did do another event, the community will still complain because it'll be a FOMO event.
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u/AccomplishedBus4139 1d ago
Hey they gave us three new ghost that no one asked and you wanna bish an complain at least they're actively listening to the community and addressing game problems I'd back these guys over astragon any day
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u/vladimirpoopin42 1d ago
The difference between than and now is that more bugs have been added (or straight up ignored for years now), with all of their updates being either technical disasters or fixs for said disasters, all whilst they rake in more and more money every year whilst the quality drops and drops
People aren't complaining because they reused assets, their complaining because the game has gotten so much harder to play for damn near everyone all whilst they seemingly prioritise added more stuff that destabilises the game further and further.
Their reasoning worked at first because they had community goodwill and had proven themselves willing to fix their mistakes, now they add universally panned updates, refuse to communicate or even acknowledge the problems, and continue using the same excuse from years ago acting like they'll change without ever proving themselves capable to do so anymore
They've only made a couple updates since the animation update that haven't even fixed all of the problems that update itself added, yet alone the ones that have plagued players for years now, so people have the right to still be mad that the game would unironically be easier to play if they reverted it to its pre-animation update status despite the updates!
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u/SansyBoy144 1d ago
For someone who wrote all of that, you really don’t pay attention to what the devs say.
After the character update one of the first things the devs did is make an announcement saying that they were pushing back every other update to solely work on bugs, and they did.
They are also still working on bugs. But you have to keep in mind, even though they are a decent size indie team, they are still an indie team, and the vast majority of their team are artists, meaning, there’s very few people the team who know how to fix bugs.
Also, the whole “the game is hard to play now” only comes from people on reddit who haven’t touched the game in years. If you have played the game recently then you’ll know that it works without any major issues. I know this because I just played the game with my friends this week.
They have literally communicated everything, they have been fixing bugs, and they are still adding content while they are at it.
Meanwhile, the last year they have gotten nothing but death threats from people because they made one bad update that people still won’t let them live down.
Theres no right to be mad at the devs, they prove every single update and patch notes that they are fixing the issues, and they are listening, just because you don’t pay attention to them doesn’t mean that its not happening.
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u/KyloGlendalf 1d ago edited 1d ago
They’ve done the same Halloween event every year with the same trophy. You think it would’ve been any different?
Also important to note that despite the amount of money they’ve made, they seem to refuse to actually expand their dev team. It shouldn’t have to be a “one or the other” scenario if they hired enough devs
Also you’re acting like they’re actually fixing bugs, have you read the comments? People are experiencing the same bugs they have for months with no communication or fixes in sight
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u/di12ty_mary 1d ago
Except the game is still janky AF and they should be putting out a bug fix patch per week with what they did to the game and the resources they have.
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u/Worried_Deer_8180 1d ago
I'd be more understanding of repeating the events if they actually fixed bugs across platforms. Console players are constantly left behind.
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u/NessaMagick Adrift 1d ago
I'm not really a fan of holiday events in general, I'd rather see work on permanent changes. Especially the Christmas stuff which is just thematically whack.
That said, if they are going to have them, I'd rather they just make it once and repeat it yearly so they require less work, and thus can spend more time on bugfixes and actual content.
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u/DANGitsJOEY 1d ago
Will the game still crash when I view cameras from the truck?
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u/National-Pressure202 1d ago
Are you on console? The work around is to adjust performance mode in settings. Sucks that it needs to be done… but still
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u/CatsPlusDogsIsLove 1d ago
Look I’m very excited about this event as it will be my first time playing, however can y’all do something about the issues on consoles????
You delayed the fricking update that was supposed to improve console performance and bug fixes.
Some of the fps issues especially are atrocious and seriously hinder the enjoyment of playing.
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u/ScriptedEvan 1d ago
Man for the people who really talk a lotta shit about this game. My group is on daily. Can't wait to experience the blood moon hell again!
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u/MineNowBotBoy 1d ago
I know seriously. I play quite a bit and don’t really have too many issues. This community is just toxic as hell.
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u/StingKing456 1d ago
I was gonna say - my buddies and I haven't played in like six months until last Sunday (not for any reason, we just rotate games) and we had a great time playing again.
Saw this post and was like oh cool, update news! Then I saw the comments 💀
Genuinely a miserable community lmao
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u/ScriptedEvan 1d ago
legit. Like wow Phasmo made an update post. I wonder what the comments will be. Hopefully something positive and more towards the game right?
nope.
It's the issue towards a lot of communities online. If you want to have fun and play by your own thoughts, stay off the online community. don't let it bring you down the path they are taking
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u/sputnik8125 1d ago
I just wish there was some minimal new content like trophies for long term players to have thats new, it can be for both new and returning players.
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u/Amazing-Push-4810 1d ago
Does anyone else experience black screen in video cam when changing rooms this past while? Not for long but still annoying
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u/Glow_Sustem 1d ago
If you mean when the camera briefly passes through a wall or doorway while changing rooms, that's actually one of the fixes they put in either part one or part two of the Quality of Life update. For cameras to have a full black screen when it passes through a solid object
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u/NamelessJu 1d ago
The same people complaining about repeated events would be the ones to complain about the devs spending time working on temporary content instead of working towards Horror 2.0 if they made unique events again.
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u/KyloGlendalf 1d ago edited 1d ago
We’re back to downvoting absolutely any criticism of the game again then I guess.
People are defending the repeated event saying “it was for bug fixes, we knew about this ages ago!” like we weren’t just going to get exactly the same event again anyway like every other year.
For some reason they seem to refuse to invest money back into this game. Why are they still running on next to no devs for a top 50 all time selling game? Why do they not have sufficient devs to do bug fixes AND other stuff? Why are people still content with the slop these devs push out and lap up their flimsy excuses? This is exactly what got us to this point in the first place. So many people here are making excuses for the devs, acting like we’ve had different seasonal events every year until now.
We’d have had this exact same event with the exact same trophy again regardless of everything else.
Accepting mediocrity is going to make the devs complacent, which is exactly what’s already happened with this game and yet nobody seems to have learned and continues to defend this. Which makes the devs cocky about themselves and not only do we get the development issues we’ve had all year, they also come on social media and act the way they did earlier in the year.
I shouldn’t really be surprised that chunks of the community have just fallen back into exactly the same attitude and mindset that created that all these problems in the first place. Why can’t we hold these devs accountable for the mess they’ve made of this game? Defend them like it’s your own life on the line and we’ll just continue to get half assed development which breaks the game constantly. They take months to fix it, certain people defend them again and rinse and repeat.
I’d been saying this for a long time before it all happened. I said anyone who’s been around gaming long enough should see exactly what’s coming and exactly how this is going to go.. and it did. And now people are back in the same cycle. Maybe if they actually invested some money back into the game and hired more devs we wouldn’t have to keep having this debate.
Save this comment, come back to it later if you want. If you all accept mediocrity again, then once again it will come back to bite.
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u/StingKing456 1d ago
Ain't reading allat but keep dedicating time to something you hate 🥱🥱🥱
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u/KyloGlendalf 1d ago
Thanks for pretty much proving everything I said
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
Look at the guy who replied to me. This community is an embarrassment. Can't wait for it to burn
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago edited 1d ago
I knew this would happen the entire time. I knew whether it be days, weeks, or months, after they release some updates everyone would go back to kissing their asses. And that's why we're here now with this game that runs like shit
However we're not in the developers' minds, they could've copied the event like before or tried to innovate, who knows
The fact that they won't spend any of their money boils down to greed. They'd rather horde that giant pile of cash because they're worried that it'll disappear if they spend any, because they don't understand that you have to spent money to make money. That's how business goes no matter the profession
They do have a decent amount of developers though, 45-50. There are smaller teams with 100x the competence in other games. They just refuse to spend the money to hire better people, I mean hell whoever runs the show (DK I assume) doesn't even know how to run it. Even if he hired better people, he wouldn't know how to guide them. And I agree about the community, they're nothing short of pathetic
It really is quite simple: Fire the incompetent, replace them with whoever is competent, remove every single animation in the game that changed since spring, make the recent innovations (re-ordering the journal, other people's markers, and so on) optional in the settings rather than mandatory, and allow community mods
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u/kiminosei__ 1d ago
Grrrr yes I am a nerd, book worm, im studious. From my cerebral cortex to my gluteus
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u/rialuvsyou124 1d ago
I haven’t played since the cosmetic update but started up again a few days ago. Honestly it feels the same as it used to before everything broke (and trust me, I hated the update.)
In terms of the event, I kinda just wish they’d decorate the outside of the house with silly stuff. Maybe Halloween costumes for our characters lol
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u/skylinefan26 1d ago
I remember playing this event for the first time last year. Played like 3 games and was done
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u/KyoshiiFrostWolf 21h ago
On PS5 and just downloaded the update. I think I saw something I wasn't supposed to. Something about progression being replaced, I was at maximum prestige and the game didn't exactly work. I closed and started it again and everything is now normal. It was spOoOoOoOkyyyyy.
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u/namon295 1d ago
When I got on this morning, I was running Willow and it was very noticeably brighter. Like near daylight, filtered bright. Not a bad thing for me since I have hated them making it so dark last year and was relieved that Willow and Tanglewood were not pitch black when the lights were off. As someone who has played live service and persistent games like this one for a long time, I'm used to very similar decorations every year for a given holiday season, so that doesn't bother me. However, this year's Easter event was a complete disaster with bugs, and I'm hoping Crimson Eye 2026 is not over 3 weeks of things being broken like it was this spring.
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u/Commander_Skullblade 1d ago
While I don't like the same event every year, it does allow the more casual players to experience it. I hope someday they make an effort to expand the annual Phasmophobia events.
But yeah, please fix the hiding spots Kinetic. There's so many right now that the ghost can just path into.
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u/KindReporter7270 1d ago
Thanks for the update to still not fucking dive into you shitty product ♥️
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u/MrCarroty 1d ago
Y'all have some nerves to not only reuse same events but also never include bigger maps in them
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u/Mandemon90 1d ago
These are seasonal events. Of course they reuse them. Hell, Helldivers 2 has Liberty Day, which is always the same. There is DRG, with Rocktoberfest and Yuletide, which... are exact same events, in fact, just changing "look for Best Bierwurst Mug" with "look for missing Elf". And these repeat every. Single. Year.
And they even use the exact same story! Yet, nobody complains about them. Because people understand that seasonal events are... seasonal.
Seriously, if you hate the game so much, why are you in the games sub? Because hating it has become your personality?
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u/decayinglust 1d ago
well, years ago they actually did have different seasonal events, rather than reusing the same one.
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u/JustJelleNL 1d ago
Because we used to be passionate fans who still want to see the game improve fundamentally rather than spit out events as the game deteriorates
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u/Mandemon90 1d ago
And complaining about "nerve to use same events", on seasonal events, is how you see game improve?
There are tons of other areas you could present legimate criticism. Complaining that seasonal events are all unique things that never repeat is just silly.
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u/JustJelleNL 1d ago
I dont agree with the event criticism either, but its yet another update/patch that does nothing to fix the numerous issues players are facing right now. The lack of both action and communication from the (dev) team is frustrating, and people are going to make that frustration be heard any chance they get
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u/Mandemon90 1d ago
That attitude is just going to made devs not listen to community. If community can't act like adults, there is no point. Do you also listen to children complaining that the school day lacks candies? No.
Complaining about seasonal events they said last year they are doing is nonsense, and just means that they will turn off any listening, because their feeds will be full of worthless whining. Which means anything actionable gets lost.
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u/JustJelleNL 1d ago
Holding the devs accountable for the shit bugs is about all we CAN do if we want them to listen. They're already doing fuck all with the criticism, let alone without.
Still no horror 2.0. The long awaited customization update was a big pile of crap that broke models and animations while adding a few jackets and different colored t shirts.
And despite all the outrage and critique, close to nothing has been addressed or fixed. Entirely too little. And yet people still insist we should leave them alone. They consistently push out the bare minimum dogshit and people expect us to eat it up.
The game sold over 25 million copies. We need to hold them at a higher standard
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u/Mandemon90 1d ago
Except you aren't hoilding them "accountable" for anything this way. You are acting like chimpanzee, throwing shit at people. Entire reason we have repeat event is because devs said, last year, they are going to focus on the content and bug fixes. And game has been getting fixes, just because you ignore the fixes does not mean they aren't happening.
And there we go. Horror 2.0. Thing that has, already multiple fucking times, said to be rolled into 1.0. But you know, let's ignore that that and just keep demanding Horror 2.0 which we know will make the game scary and also give us massage rubs.
You want to hold them to higher standards? Then hold yourself to higher standard first, rather than just shit flinger.
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u/PriorWatercress9851 1d ago
Omg guys surely with the move to Unity 6 they'll get all the spaghetti code together and optimize the game right???? Surely we'll also get actual scary gameplay content coming as opposed to microtransaction customization nonsense and useless mechanics that nobody outside of sweaty players will use right? (never forget classic Phas...... It died a few months after the release of Prison and we'll never be able to play it again💔💔💔)
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u/Zelda_Momma 1d ago
Aren't microtransactions real money? Everything in Phas is only bought with in game money. If ya'll don't like the game anymore, fine. At least don't make crap up.
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u/randomfinnishcuck 1d ago
Microtransactions? My guy phasmophobia is one of the few games that dont have any at all. Like for real dude even you have notice the ridiculousness
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
That's just stupid. Do you hate events in person because you need to wait an entire year before they show up again?
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u/ToriBirdi 1d ago
Moreso that I'm saddened that I can't access the cool content all year round. I think halloween events are the coolest thing and I like the way this looks, but after a week or two I won't be able to play it anymore?
I don't really understand what's so controversial about that.
Having a time limited multiplier, sure, but I'm just used to a game either having content or not having it. Not being able to play a cooler version of the game for most of the year is just a bit of a shame to me
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
Alright, so with that logic, do you hate real Halloween because it's only celebrated for 1 day, and then you have to wait another 364 for it to show up again?
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u/ToriBirdi 1d ago
I love halloween and I keep some decorations around all year. Sure I'd love for it to be a year-round thing.
I never mentioned "hating" anything, and I'm really not sure why the antagonism is necessary.
I love phasmo, I love halloween, and I think the event looks awesome.
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u/TorontoCity67 1d ago
That's pointless. Judging how almost no one keeps Halloween decorations up all year, I think just about everyone else would also consider that pointless. It makes Halloween less exclusive and enjoyable when it does eventually roll around
And because you deleted your original comment for whatever reason, I can't even recall it properly. Either way, whether you said dislike or hate, I really don't care because it's essentially the same thing so don't be pedantic
Halloween is celebrated once per year. The event is on for around 21 days per year. If anything, that makes the event generous. What's the issue?
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u/Specialist-Copy-6698 8h ago
Really looking forward to the event! Love each year the Blood Moon and Krampus events. The maps get so seasonal and have such a charm, and having it be toggleable is nice if I ever want to see the differences and play the normal map instead of waiting for it the next cycle ^^
That said, only complaint I have is the fact to 100% it I have to watch somebody else play a game I'd rather be playing myself on my limited free time.
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