In this video I cover the Developer Q&A for Phasmophobia from the Official Phasmophobia Discord. It is a very broad and general Q&A that gives a good idea of the type of new content and aspects that the developers want to add to Phasmophobia. I hope you also enjoyed hearing my thoughts on all the answers (sorry for rambling hahaha). Much love and see you during the streams!
Official Phasmophobia Discord: https://discord.gg/phasmophobia
Our Community Discord: https://discord.gg/Insym
Trello board containing future update information: https://trello.com/b/9QrnqQ1j/phasmophobia
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Timestamps/Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Future Development: 1:03
New Gameplay Features: 7:07
Art and Animation: 10:17
VR: 13:58
Outro: 15:07
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The first part is mostly about the Future Development cycle of the game. If you want to hear about the future content they plan on adding you can skip to the following chapters:
New Gameplay Features: 7:07
Art and Animation: 10:17
Hope you have an awesome day! <3
@INSYM PLEASE READ THIS AND GIVE THESE INFO TO THE DEVS PLEASE
MY PHASMOPHOBIA DREAM UPDATES:
-HUNT CURSED/ATTACHMENT OBJECTS OF GHOST HAUNTS/ GHOST ITEM (GETS ANGRY WHEN PLAYER STEAL THEIR CURSED ITEM/OBJECT) NEW FUN OBJECTIVE AND CHALLENGING FOR PRO PLAYERS
-ABLE TO BUY 200K WORTH OF VAN TO INVITE MORE PLAYERS IN ONE LOCATION (CAN'T INVITE MORE PLAYERS IF VAN IS ONLY FOR 4 PLAYERS BUT CAN BUY NEW VAN/CAR FOR 6 PLAYERS)
-NEW PLAYERS SHOULD START WITH CAR (2-3PLAYERS ONLY) AND LIMITED STORAGE FOR THEIR EQUIPMENT
-CUSTOMIZABLE CHARACTERS
-MORE RANDOMIZEABLE GHOST MODELS (FLOATING WITH NO FEET) – DODGES SALT AND DOESN'T PRODUCE FOOT STEPS
(CRAWLING AT CEILING) ABLE TO LOCATE OR ABLE TO SEE PLAYER HIDING BELOW THEM (DEV SHOULD ADD HIDING UNDER THE BED OR USING SPECIAL CLOAKING 1-3 TIMES USE ONLY OR GHODT WILL LEARN/REMEMBER YOUR TRICKS
-SPAWNING ANIMATION FOR GHOST
NEW ITEMS TO LOCATE/FIND THEIR BODY AND DELIVER THEM TO THE VAN
-SHOVEL (DIG THE RIGHT LOCATION) GHOST GETS ANGRY WHEN YOU RUIN THEIR HOUSE TOO MUCH
-BAG FOR DEAD BODY
-HAMMER (SMASH STONES/WALLS) TO GET THEIR MUMIFFIED SKELETONS OR BODY
-MORE GHOST VOICE
-MORE GHOST
-MORE INTERACTION/CONVERSATION
-SILENT GHOST THAT DOESN'T DO THE GRUDGE NOISE
-LAUGHING GHOST
-CHILD GHOST THAT HORSEBACK YOU QUIETLY
-GHOST THAT KNOCKS
-GHOST THAT BANGS LOUDLY SO THAT IT COULD SCARE PLAYERS
-GHOST THAT DOES HISSING NOISE
-GHOST THAT SCREAMS (DISEMBODIED VOICE THAT SOUNDS LOUD AND FAR BUT IT'S NEAR JUST LIKE AT PARANORMAL VIDEOS)
GHOST THAT TRHOW STUFF AT YOU
GHOST THAT SCRATCHES YOU (PLAYERS CHARACTER WILL REACT FROM SCRATCHES) *GASP *OUCH *IT HURTS
GHOST THAT PUNCHES PLAYERS
GHOST THAT PUSHES YOU AND FALL DOWN ANIMATION/RAGDOLL (UP TO DEVS)
-CREEPY GHOST THAT FOLLOWS YOU BEHIND AND NOT MAKING NOISES
-GHOST ANIMATIONTHAT SIMPLY PEAKS AT THE CORNER
-MORE GHOST KIDS
-GHOST INCAPABILITIES (BLIND,NO ARM, HEADLESS, HALF BODY, MISSING ONE LEG (SLOW) PREGNANT GHOST CRAWLING(SLOW) NO ARMS (NO FINGERPRINTS)
-MORE GAMEPLAY:
YES IT'S ALREADY BORING ONCE THEY FOUND OUT WHAT KIND OF GHOST IT IS.
NOW THAT THEY FOUDN OUT WHAT IT IS, THEY SHOULD NOW FIND WHERE THE GHOST BODY LOCATED OR THEIR PORTAL LIKE MIRRORS OR ITEMS WHERE THEY SPAWN.
AFTER DIGGING OR FINDING THEIR BODY OR THE ITEM THAT IS CURSED, GHOST WILL HAUNT VERY LONG, AND SOME GHOST SHOULD LET PLAYERS OPEN THE FRONT DOOR. (PLAYER WHO GOT THE OBJECTIVE WHICH IS THE ITEM OR BODY WILL MORE LIKELY GET TARGET BY THE GHOST AND TEAMS SHOULD SUPPORT HIM/HER GETTING THAT ITEM/BODY TO THE VAN/CAR.
-SPECIAL GHOSTS – THESE GHOSTS ARE UNIQUE MODELS AND NOT NORMAL GHOSTS. THEY ARE THE DEADLIEST AND MORE DANGEROUS GHOST. THEY ARE CALLED NEPHILIMS WHICH LIVED FAR BACK OLDER THAN JESUS CHRIST. AS OLD AS EGYPTIANS. THEY ARE ANCIENTS. 6-8 PLAYERS TO INVITE. ANCIENT GHOSTS TEND TO USE OTHER NORMAL SPIRITS TOO LIKE IN REAL LIFE. THEY ARE THE MOST POWERFUL SPIRITS AMONG NORMAL SPIRITS.
ANCIENT GHOSTS SHOULD BE RARE SPAWN AND HARD TO ENCOUNTER. SO IT COULD BE MORE FUN AND PLAYERS WILL TEND TO PLAY MORE GAMES JUST TO ENCOUNTER THESE SPECIAL GHOSTS. THE MODEL FOR THESE ANCIENT GHOSTS SHOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM NORMAL GHOST. THAT DOES NOT LOOK HUMAN AT ALL. JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE.
NEW ITEM:
-HOLY WATER (SLOWS GHOSTS TO THE APPLIED HOLY WATER)
-BIBLE (DECREASES TIME OF HAUNTING BUT WILL HAUNT MORE OFTEN AFTER THE EFFECT) – PLAYER WHO USED THE BIBLE WILL MORE LIKELY GET TARGETED.
-ARTIFACT ROOM (ITEMS OF GHOST /MUSEUM /ACHIEVEMENT ROOM)
I was so scared that the developer will just go away with the big cash when it was popular. I can't even put it in words how good I feel that this game is not a let down. A refreshing awesome horror and coop.
Wait what state you live in
No mod option for phasmo is a crime
after game went out officially it would make a game fresh for everyone. Some group of friends want to have more ghosts on single map? Done. They want start with zero sanity? Done. They want to be chased by Thomas train? Done. Community mods are amazing and can make game fresh for anyone.
Imagine phasmo vs mode with a player as the ghost. They'd just never write or use spirit box and never do interactions and just wait for the sanity to passively drop the search every hiding spot and kill one by one or even chain hunt……. That sounds so cheasy and boring af imo. You'd never figure out the ghost before dying lol
I love that this game is growing so much! It would be cool to have even more choices for character models. I have a friend who is Indian and he hopes that one day they make a medium-toned avatar that he could play as.
What if "themed horror" could be tied to names. Like you see "David David" on the board and you just know it boutta get crazy
On the nature of hopes/ideas for future I'm hoping to see… I've put most of these in the suggestions channel in the Phasmo discord (sorry… this is long, I've been accumulating a LIST over time):
Gear:
Tech
Stand up lights you can place in a trail (maybe max of four or six) that are light independent of the breaker, make it easier to leave off the flashlight.
Microphones, so you can hear different locations from the truck
Bag (increases carry limit, but getting into the bag is slow)
Space Heater (warm up a location independent of the breaker… really only if they could produce more hot/cold interactions, otherwise this is only useful for Hantu, and detrimental for identifying Freezing ghosts)
Speakers/Noisemakers (Allows someone in the truck to decoy a ghost, but is a one-shot, after it gets used, the batteries die, also doesn't help if the ghost sees someone)
Occult
Seance Candle (black or red) – burn it to call a ghost to a room, increases the chance of the ghost appearing, one shot use
Ofuda – placed prior and acts as a wall for the ghost, but burns 6 seconds after contacting a hunting ghost, basically a pre-placed Smudge in some ways, but doesn't set wander mode
Ghost Money (ie Chinese culture, not sure that's the proper term) – burn to appease a ghost and prevent it from roaming for a long while, but won't stop a hunt and the hunting ghost will leave the area
Holy Water – Throw at ghost to slow it down during a hunt
Aid
Cat – Follows person around, has a chance to detect a present ghost and will meow or hiss if it does so, maybe meow if ghost leaves, hiss if ghost arrives
Spirit Guide – Friendly ghost, produces a small number of friendly ghost events modified by difficulty and map size (stop a hunt, recover sanity, point in the direction of ghost or ghost room or bone). Always does it's events when a player is around. Visual element to things like stopping a hunt or recovering sanity, what events it does are random, not controlled. Spirit Guide model, if it manifests, is random but generally not terrifying looking.
Evidence
I'd like to see Spirit Box, Ghost Writing, and Video Cams get non-evidence style things they can see the way UV light (footprints), Thermo (lower temps but not freezing), and EMF (any incident) do… video cameras sort of have this with being able to see interactions and things being teleported or thrown…
For spirit box, maybe the current one-word always the same voice would be any ghost, but long drawn out sentences in the voice of the ghost model (better ghost model uniqueness) or animal growls for animal ghosts (see other wishes below) would be Spirit Box evidence
For Ghost Writing – any ghost does certain writings, but Ghost Writing ghosts always do very unique things tied to their model.
Ghost Powers
Ghost that can interrupt it's hunt in order to lull players into a false sense of security. For purposes of the puzzle aspect, make this something that any ghost can do, but one ghost does a lot more frequently, or else twice in one hunt…
Ghost that doesn't trigger hunting signs (flashing lights, broken comms) for the first couple of seconds OR until it first has line of sight on a player.. basically have it trigger when in same room as player and/or after a couple of seconds to confuse people with whether or not its this ghost or just it happened to start hunting right then.
Ghost that could possibly kill two players at once… if both are close enough too each other when it reaches one of them in a hunt
Ghost that causes doors in its line of sight to slam shut (again, for puzzle purposes, maybe something that always can happen but more frequent with this ghost)
Ghosts that interfere with investigator gear (sensors fall off walls, tripods knocked over, etc)… (again, for puzzle purposes, possible any ghost, but more common with this sort)
Ghost Events
Locking doors (make the other keys come back and have a use)
Slamming doors
St Elmo's Fire
Ghost on TV
Bleeding walls
Writing on walls
Ghost Models:
Animal ghosts (hounds, cats, birds, goats, etc)
Inhuman ghosts (oni, demons, misshapen horrors, assume any ghost type could have that model though)
Ghost Model Hope:
With Ghosts getting thematic scares, hopefully that means Ghost Model rather than Ghost Type otherwise identifying too easy, then Ghost Models getting their own powers to make things more difficult as well. So then each ghost would be really unique because you're matching the Model's power with the Type's power.
Maps:
Outdoor maps
Ship maps
Cubicle farm / Call Center
Church and Graveyard (Indoor/outdoor elements)
Ghost Town
Campsite
Library
Warehouse
Police Station
Subway line / underground shopping stretch (ie, that one scene in American Werewolf in London)
Other:
Have other things to pick up rather than the Bone… replace Bone with "Anchor" or "Fetter" and have Bone be one type of Fetter/Anchor with others being like a diary, pendant, toy, or what not… have each Fetter/Anchor be unmistakable as anything else so limited pool of assets that are ONLY used for anchors… but just adds more character to the ghosts and allows for creating unique lore.
oh, didnt know you were dutch
My friends grow tired of the game recently even playing it only on weeknds, But i wish the games takes a good way to improve . So i can say HA! to Them
11:58 odds are, those features would exist but not be tied to a ghost type.
The question I have on my mind is will there be a time where there’s a very small, rare chance of getting more than one ghost in a mission. What I’m thinking is it would be only on a harder difficulty such a professional, and it would only be able to happen on bigger maps with more space because if it was to happen on a smaller map it would be extremely unfair rather than fun and interesting. It also would make a lot of sense for bigger maps to have more than one ghost present, such as asylum and maybe a large cemetery or amusement park/fair or a big park or whatever location or building could be coming in the future, and it would help in changing things up from time to time so it’s not always the same thing over and over again. Just something I’ve been thinking about.
Yesss! This is what I was wanting from this. Having more unique passive events like moving objects, doors, and other creepy events will bring the overall phasmophobia atmosphere to the next level.
When I first played phasmo it was in vr, it was such a trip because I didn't know what to expect. Now that I've seen most things its not so bad. It will be nice to feel uncertainty again.
I would love a feature where the ghosts have a random chance at standing there and staring at you directly into one of your video cameras as you're flipping through them on the computer
I don't know if i should say it here, but I think we should be able to find some items we can buy in larger maps. Would make sens to find a crucifix or a in a flashlight (maybe not working correctly, fade or blinking) or things like that, idk. And I think a bible should do something with the ghost activity or something happening. (maybe there's already something and we don't know yet, or I am the only one who doesn't know XD). And I would LOVE one day to have a map where it's a big spooky castle. I'm just imagining some helmet moving where you look on an armor. Or adding things like thunder in a map or two, it could be in every map but randomize. I do not know the direction they want to go in tho. It's hard to make unique abilities and not guess the ghost type. Maybe in some rare occasion, a ghost could switch two players position.
There's just soooo much potential.
But a cool ghost ability could be: It goes super fast when there's a lot of items, but it doesn't answer much too or vice-versa!
or it can see through lockers if the player doesn't hold an item from the house. And answers only to people who takes a photo-holder (don't know the name in english), etC.
While I still enjoy the game. I think it needs a bit more challenges. Like in some maps. Instead of one power-supply for the lights, we could have multiple for different areas. Or something we have to do to stay hidden, some kind of ritual or idk.
You mentioned as a streamer that VR is sort of problematic, but what's your opinion on playing Phas in VR without streaming in mind? Do you find it scarier and more immersive?