Welcome back to Phasmophobia! In this video I do some testing with Smudge sticks! I’ve recently seen a lot of people die right after using a smudge stick, so I wanted to find out if there was something wrong with them. Turns out it’s not broken but we are just EXTREMELY unlucky! I hope you enjoy! Much love and see you during the streams 😀
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NOTE: This video was recorded on Phasmophobia update v0.5.1.2
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Thanks to you, Insym. I've been able to build my strength and buy phasmophobia. This game is crazy entertaining with friends and scary, but i love it. If i wouldn't watch your videos, i would not know about this game. Thank you 😉
15:22 yes, the ghost does teleport to you for the devil card to do an event. If it then hunts immediately after the event is over, it will hunt from where it teleported to. guess how I know this 🙂
The curse of edgefield
There is a bug, where if you are not host there is a delay after smudging before it works. It is fairly short, like a second but it exists. I have died after having lit my smudge stick, and I could literally see the smoke burning as I die and there is a burnt smudge stick on the ground after the hunt. I have also had it where I lit a smudge stick and someone else died after I smudge, because there was that short delay. The craziest thing was I was once hiding in a closet with someone on nightmare and the ghost threw open the door and I smudged, and they died but I didn't.
Insym got a new dope haircut,it looks very good
YAAAAA! road to 400k baby!
I don’t understand how what happened in the video is related to the smudge stick problem.
Smudge effect on ghost lasts for 5 seconds, so last smudge by Insym was on 11:39, he left the room and the ghost was roaming smudged for 5 seconds, until he clearly started going for Insym on 11:44, and Insym just walked back without using smudge stick again so he was killed.
I understand that sometimes when you smudge the ghost it randomly walks to the same direction you’re going, especially in dead-ends, but Insym didn’t die here because of that 🤷🏻♂️
I had the feeling too that it doesn't lower speed after breaking line of sight sometimes, no matter if smudged or not. I try some testings, but didn't find any clue when it happen… Maybe sciencesym find it out^^
They’ve been smudged so many times now that they’re starting to like the smell. *sagely nodding*
400 K!!!
Yesterday I not only died after have lit the smudge stick, but I was on a room and my body showed up on a corridor, same happened to a friend on the same house. Earlier the same day I used the smudge stick and survived. But it failed me a few times
Some speedrunners or just gaming afficionados do games blindfolded. It would be interesting to see you attempting a literally blind run, using only hearing and chat help. Everything else is game, any difficulty, you can use your eyes in the truck, but nothing that will give you direct vision inside of the house (so no videocams). Chat trolling optional. Obviously it's gonna be hard and hilarious 😀
I've been thinking a bunch about this lately, and got the idea that what if instead of the ghost roaming in random directions when smudged, it would start walking back towards its ghost room while the smudge effect lasts and then start to search for the player again when the effect ended? That way you wouldn't get ultra-boned by a ghost randomly deciding to roam in the same direction as the player who smudged it.
This glitch happened to me and my friend yesterday
Some people in the comments stated a good explanation: It often happens when you're in a dead end with only one way to escape. When you smudge the ghost it will start randomly walking, but because there is only one way out of the room there is a pretty big chance the ghost will walk in the exact same path as you. So that can often get you killed!
Ive actually never happen to me before
Naw you’re literally in a cursed street house that’s why Kapp
Not really related to this video but on your level one video recently you were trying to to things level ones would do but when I was level one I didn't know how to dots work so me and my friend would see the run on the dots and we wouldn't mark it down so we would always be wrong and not know why lol
Hes a ghost, so I think k he gets the clip pass
It does look like the smoke has to come in contact with the ghost before it turns. If the ghost stay in the smoke it goes bonkers trying to get away and it will leave the room. The pathing of the ghost seem to be to leave the room in the fastest way it can find. So standing still would make the ghost come closer to you before the smoke hits it. If you also run to the closest exit of the room, the ghost will do the same.
If you know about tiles in game design you could say that it makes the tiles the smoke is in scare off the ghost. And the AI say it should seek the exit of the room.
I love how he went into the second game expecting death for science, and just dumped items. rich boi xD
its happened to me as well like 3 times in the past 5 days. one time i was running with some friends and i stayed behind to take a photo, and when i went with them i literally saw the ghost's head noclipping trough mine, yeeted out of there so fucking fast.
PS: congrats on 400k!!
Didnt CJ say at some point that they made the smudge sticks repel the ghost while it's burning, not just the beginning and end? I feel like he said they did that to make it easier to actually smudge the ghost. If that's the case, that's why in the second game you could repel it from seemingly so far away. You didn't smudge the ghost when u lit it, but rather the ghost walked into the burning smudge and repelled itself
Congrants on 400K, I've been watching you since level 500 ❤
This happens to me a lot. Even in Grafton or any maps with large rooms. It will still definitely follows me as I smudge even if I keep on holding the smudge (as Psycho tipped).
Yesterday in a run i had the ghost run away from me after smudging it, idk if thats a bug either but thought it was interesting
i was wondering about it yesterday but maybe i didn't smudge the ghost well or my friend was slow (as always xD), me and my friend were hidden in the lockers but for some reason i couldn't close very well the doors so it spotted us, as soon as the ghost opened the doors i smudged it and run away but my friend died anyway XD
This has been happening to my friends and I. It's irritating but hilarious at the same time.
I noticed you kept the flashlight on during the smudges. Is it possible the ghost is blinded by the loss of Line of Sight because of smudge, but is still attracted to the fact that electronics are turned on? This would cause it to have a general "ping" of the direction it should go in to find you.
Ghost:Hunts to scare players
Insym: 🙂 a hunt!! This will be a fun time.Come here bitch.
I'm hoping you answer. I play this game with 3 people like twice a week. We seem to die whenever it's escape a hunt with smudge or without. We only get away like 1 out of 4 times. We also get stuck on a few objectives like take a photo or get it to hunt. We just stand in the room or house for like 20 min without anything happening and we're all at zero sanity. Any advice?
15:24 he already forgot that ghost teleports when doing ghost events, wraith has that natural ability but the tarot cards can force ghost to come to you for ghost evets. I could be wrong but heres my theory, Wraith has this naturally but tarot cards forces all ghost to teleport to you for ghost events because the ghost can do natural ghost events teleportation upto a certain distance but tarot cards removes that limit
Smudge sticks have BEEN broken in my opinion.. Since the Halloween update lol I would smudge and the ghost would still kill me.. HAPPENED ALL THE TIME! I even saw it happen to psycho the other day when he, you, and cj played lol So there is that and NOW you have it where THEY SIT ON YOUR FACE SO YOU CAN'T RUN!! 😅😅
Yes they are broken. Also they dont work if someone used one before you. This needs a fix ASAP!
Ayo Insym Has it ever happened to you that someone typed something in the netherlands language?(In the twitch chat/ youtube comment section)
If not ima be first.Ik kan gelijk nie stoppe met je videos te kijke het motiveert mij weer videos te make en Phasmophobia te spele.Groeten van de viewers van vlaanderen in België en Nederland.
The ghosts are just waiting out Borrowed Time.
About the smudge stick, yes it happens a lot to me and if I don't die, one of my pal will…I think it's the distance which the smudge stick have effects that changed and we are not used to it yet?!
Yes Smudge is broken , even for the objectives. Ghost don't give a Sh** about Smudge anymore
I was told awhile ago that emf 5 can only trigger from an emf 2 interaction, can an emf 3 interaction also trigger it?
congrats on 400’000 subscribers!
This happens to me all the time and I lose so much money 😩😄 Also had it where it’s killed me within about 2 seconds of lighting the smudgy, so defo something buggy going on I think
how can you talk during a hunt?
I definitely have been killed by smudging the ghost and then it just roams in the same direction as I'm going, or worse, towards me.. I think the smudge should just make the ghost walk in the opposite direction of the player, so if it's chasing you from behind, it will go back the way it came for a few seconds.
I think something they could do is make the ghost pathfind back towards the ghost room for the first 1 or 2 seconds of being smudged, then go back into wandering mode for the rest of the smudge stick duration
It just occurred to me that you can figure out raiju for certain on nightmare mode w only 2 evidence, bc obake has forced fingerprints
Nobody's going to talk about the fact that there was a freakin' nacked man in the nursery?!?!
I had similar situation yesterday at Willow! The ghost spawned in kitchen (I was standing between to bedrooms) and he targeted me. Then I did smudge him and ran to garage where I had another smudge prepared behind that blue tool cart in corner. I grabbed the smudge stick and again tried to smudge the ghost and then I tried to ran out and hide in master bedroom behind chair. I barely stepped out of garage and got instantly killed.