This patch is insane! You can no longer use the activity chart to find the EMF 5, which is a huge nerf to professional play. AND they made the ghosts wander more which is also a massive increase in difficulty! Overall I think this is a good change but it’s going to be much harder and require some getting used to! Let me know what you think about the patch in the comments below! Much love and see you during the streams! 😀
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The #phasmophobia patch notes for v0.25.3:
Fixes
1. Fixed a bug where the Non-VR loading screen wasn’t covering the entire screen on super ultra wide resolutions.
Changes
1. Increased the Parabolic Microphone distance from 10 to 30 meters and the width from 3 to 6 meters. This is supposed to be used to give you the general direction the ghost and not exactly where it is.
2. Reduced the size of the Parabolic Microphone model to give you a better view on Non-VR.
3. School: Lowered the volume of the phones.
4. Removed some ambient sounds from being read by the parabolic microphone and sound sensors that were not caused by the ghost.
5. Slightly increased the ghosts chance to wander on all difficulties.
6. The Activity Monitor will now show an estimated value rather than the true value. This will prevent you from discovering EMF Level 5 without using the EMF Reader.
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The paramic ended up being completely broken on this patch. But after the stream DK released a hotfix so we will be testing the EPIC MEGA BUFFED PARAMIC tomorrow! Make sure to follow over at https://twitch.tv/insym to see it live!
This was the hotfix v0.25.4:
Fixes
1. Fixed several sounds that were not being heard by the parabolic microphone. Some sounds are missing but will be added in future updates.
2. Fixed a bug where sounds were not being heard by the parabolic microphone and sound sensors if they had played twice.
Changes
1. Improved how the parabolic microphone and sound sensors hear player voices.
i think DK watches his stream and his youtube channel lol
Watch them add night vision goggles so you can see in the dark for a limited time
So happy they removed the EMF 5 from the board. I mentioned before that, it makes the EMF reader just an objective tool. Now it's the intended purpose. But fingerprints are not always instant. No idea where that myth came from but, it's not true.
Ah, cant wait on paramic test video
Congrats on reaching 100k!!! Been here since you were at 23k on youtube, keep up the great content it's always fun to watch
I’m glad that they fixed the emf 5 on activity shit, ‘caus using math in a horror game I believe is kinda fucked..
Is that just me?
It feels cool that some of us watched him make the thumbnail
i don't think i'll ever need to check the emf activity in the truck at all now… i honestly kinda liked looking at it when i just couldn't get the emf reader to go off at all.
Yeah, after watching the mic episode and then this, the devs definitely watch your videos and tweak the game to mess with you. I'm sure there's other players out there saying the same thing as you, but it feel like beat for beat what your video discussed as problems.
Your 1000% increase guess was actually a little short lmao. It's actually about 1200%. Insane
Sadly, the emf monitor still can spoiler a bit the EMF5. If u get 4 increase at beggin and end of activity avg, anf in between are small triangles that try to hide that emf5, but front-end still display it obviously.
How's the Parabolic work?
thats fucken stupid theres a glitch on the emf reader when it goes to 4 never a 5 so thats why i use the activity thing so check for the emf 5 thats fucken stupid they should just fix the emf 5 reader bug !!!
I joined the server you’re in but it’s the same it doesn’t show the most recent patches it just shows me patches back from December
they just watch your videos and makes changes in the game 😀
Clearly they want the parabolic to work how everyone thought it was supposed to work. As a sweeper tool that you use to get the general location, then narrow it down with the thermo. That's going to be even more important with the thermo nerfs.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE ACTIVITY MONITORRRRRRRRR
I've tested it just now. It's still inconsistent with the readings especially in the asylum. I've got like a 22.5 on the right wing upper floor but the ghost room wasn't there, it was on the left wing ground floor.
Why am i just know seeing this… thats a prob for me! Ive yet to play the game, and how this is going to be… im not ready!!! XD
Dude, they patch damn fast because you are streaming it. One of your spectator is the admin. So yea. Try not stream for one day and we see if they do anything.
quick math the new range is around 900% bigger
So many patches dude
remaining exploits:
– looping the ghost
– taking 8754857 valid photos using a board (looking at you o_o )
– fingerprints through photo (before knowing they were there)
Thats just my opinion ofc . I think you wouldn't notice fingerprints by a clean photo of the wall/door, unless the UV light was making it visible for the photo. For gaming purposes it could be annoying having to position a UV light for that, so maybe once you revealed the fingerprints the proper way, you can take a photo and game will register it even without the uv light. But not before.
second point is just me wanting to extend your photo challenges, my favourite ones 😛
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ps- Ive been impressed by how fast DK has been updating the game. I really hope everyone realizes how much effort he has been putting into this!!
Next update incoming, camera will no longer register fingerprints unless they have been revealed by a uv light. 😅
You've been showing DK all the little tricks to nerf.
I love that the devs are doing their best to add difficulty. You YouTubers make the game look too easy 😛
cute Pikachus in the background 😀 what's with the Pikachu? is there any side story about them? 😀
it's been a while since they are sitting behind you 😀
Parabolic Microphone increased 6x (600%)
Next patch will be: you cannot make a photo of fingeprings without being discovered by a UV light before LOL
To be fair, EMF reader has been really good to me lately, if it's an EMF 5 ghost, it will show it. Not sure if I'm getting lucky with the RNG or if I just finally learned how to use the reader properly lol.
are these patches only for beta?
I like the phone change. High school is my favorite map and the phones basically being heard globally (and going off in 95% of games) had a tendency to giga shorten games.
Look at ansym using board+emf reader and its getting nerfed next patch(perhaps)
Dk literally out here nerfing Insym >_<
I was still able to find EMF 5 without the EMF reader but it's much harder to get it
devs: I'm about to end this man's whole career