NEW UPDATE Coming in 2025 - Sound Recorder, new Bleasdale, AND MORE! - Phasmophobia

[@UnholyRoman]

As a guy who works in a grocery store, I am saddened that there is no haunted Store map on this game. So many possibilities..

[@thegoldenfloof3343]

Polters on a store map would be wild

[@shadows0033]

As an office worker I think an office map would be so cool too

[@JamesCraigHeath007]

Any building that is usually populated, and you explore it deserted = super spoopy

[@kermit545]

i was gonna mention hospitals but we kinda got that wih sunny meadows but i still think a smaller hospital would be super cool

[@cxrsedcats]

a mall would be insane

[@lks19]

The first frame is absolute cinema.

[@hotdogboatman]

Fnaf jumpscare

[@jazzestardust]

Lmao I thought the same 😂

[@EatYOuRNuGGeT]

lmao

[@WheelsOnReeels]

Bros stuck inside my phone

[@nicolegleason5727]

I can’t 😭 everything is cinema 😭

[@absoutezeo2126]

I think that if the video recordings work similarly to how the audio recording functions in Conrad, it'll be great. Like you said, having a "record the last XX seconds of footage" explanation would be perfect for the realism sticklers while still being fun and requiring the player to be proactive with recording evidence.

[@markwilson7013]

Yeah, it would be interesting if after taking a sound recording you can go back to the truck and maybe perform a spectrum analysis of it and look for some new clues in there. It would open up new ghost types as well if needed.

[@theohmyohmygah]

@@markwilson7013this would be a crazy new feature ngl

[@deinodinosuchus]

YES. some ghosts act so rarely so being able to capture, say, DOTS, would be SO difficult because often there’s just a flash of it before it’s gone.

[@TheaArtsFox]

now that Tier 2 is UV Glowstick, i hope they change the Tier 3 UV Flashlight, for a form of UV Lamp... that can be placeable, in walls or ceiling and that need no shaking to work and that maybe cover a whole room with it... I mean, mostly to have a better sense of " evolution" in the tiers... because feel like a regresion go from range but narrow, to wide but no range, to range and not so narrow. and would be also weird go from needing no reload to shake, if they make the Glowstick tier 3 insteas. XD

[@MR_FIAT]

i think making the T3 one placeable like the T1 DOTS would be a an easy change that would make it allot more usefull without having to redesign the entire item maybe make its light beam a bit wider aswell.

[@Cougarkit]

Yes! I won’t even use the T3 UV since the glow stick is op

[@MR_FIAT]

@@Cougarkit I personally dont like the glowstick because you have to manualy re-activate every once in a while and its range is pretty short, from a progression perspective they should have buffed the T2 UV instead of swapping it with the glowstick. and make the T3 UV placeable like the T1 DOTS and make the beam wider so it effectively fills the room with UV light when placed well.

[@AidenHardy596]

I don't want the T3 to be placeable because DOTS and video camera are already placeable. Ultraviolet becoming yet another placeable would be boring

[@adamwalker3560]

@@AidenHardy596 But the glowstick is pretty much a placeable anyways. Just drop it on the floor. And besides, as long as a potential T3 UV placeable doesn't cover an entire room, you will likely still have to move it around. Also, video camera is easiest and fastest to use while holding it, not on the ground.

[@pure1counterstrike]

the Bleasdale screenshots remind me of some old haunted manor... god damn I'm excited!

[@TarsonTalon]

Haha..."LISA, BLEAS!"

[@lawrencelopez9839]

I dunno why they couldn't just keep old bleasdale and add this as a new map though.

[@ghoulishtheories7979]

@@lawrencelopez9839​​⁠ - Agreed. I thought they should have added a button to each map that has had a *_major_* rework/overhaul, so that you could pick between “Original/OG” Bleasdale, and the upcoming reworked Bleasdale, which already has a different “tone” with the modern-stylized aesthetics, and custom-made assets they’ve been working on. I still wish we could have kept the option to play the OG Asylum. (First map that genuinely freaked me out when I first started playing with friends after unlocking the map.) Also, I would have liked being able to play both variants of the map Maple Lodge Campsite. I don’t mind them leaving out minor reworks such as the minor changes in Tanglewood throughout it’s time. It would be a waste to have two versions of that map, as the changes are basically minuscule. I’ve seen quite the number of people wanting this change, and would absolutely love it. Even calling the OG variants “_Legacy_ Asylum”, and “Sunny Meadows”; along with “_Legacy_ Maple Lodge Campsite”, etc.

[@NadoriKaija]

....they said the photo values were PLACEHOLDERS.....so it's not going to give that low amount. It was only there as an example because they haven't balanced the figures just yet.

[@baris9031]

I'd love to see an audio overhaul as well. kid ghost models should sing in a creepy and childish voice, random creepy laughs (maybe as an event) and specifically lower the damn heartbeat volume, i find it so hard to concentrate on other audio lines when the loudest thing i hear is the heartbeat (and its not realistic either)

[@alkimos55]

I'm thinking that will come in the Horror 2.0 update. A general overhaul of ghosts and how they spook the player has been planned for ages now... And now that the console crap is done with, we'll hopefully get it sometime soon-ish.

[@LewisLawlor]

I've experienced the child like behaviour before, some sing, some laugh and I'm pretty sure I have some say "come play with me" or along those lines, every time I pooped my pants

[@Labyrinth6000]

I really wish they overhaul multiplayer rooms due to the major issue of people getting kicked so often. Be able to switch between a private to public server to invite friends then invite random people. Have the team leader be able to give their role to another person who’s more experienced so their higher level gear gets prioritized. Lastly and most important, create server tags to specific what kind of round your playing and what people you’re looking for (Beginner friendly, Nightmare run, prestige only, custom mode, etc). That way it’ll save everyone time, reduce the odds of kicking, create a less toxic environment, and make multiplayer much more fun and tolerable.

[@Jbillion7]

This ^

[@bailley582]

or just play singleplayer and ignore allat

[@Boobmates]

Yea the multiplayer is a joke! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jamiethompson6463]

Perfectly said. Hey devs this person's comment. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Kadmanx]

That’s one thing I remember from years ago that ruined the game for me a little. Spending 20 minutes for everyone to kick you from lobby because you’re not high enough level or whatever the case was frustrating as hell.

[@hitmaneoin]

Insym ranting for minutes about the low photo reward values while it literally says on screen right beside him 'Above values are placeholders only'... lol

[@thedaviscurry]

I wish they would just add the new Bleasdale as a new map called like 'the Old Mansion' or something so we could still have old bleasdale too

[@domhopper7402]

Something that I do want to mention about your complaint with wanting the game to just be fast-paced is that kinda ruins the purpose of an "investigation" genre game. Investigations are supposed to take time to do and if you push it to be too fast-paced then that effectively turns the game into an "action" game rather than an "investigation" game since investigation games thrive on slower-paced gameplay. Also I really think that the sound recorders should be able to be paired with the Parabolic Microphone so that special sounds that only the Microphone can detect can be recorded for higher values such as the Banshee's scream which should give a major amount of money since it's the only ghost type out of the 24 types that can make an extremely unique sound like it does.

[@samwarren6008]

He didn't really mean fast pace but less tedious. That doesn't make it less of an investigation game but just more fun. Like what is more investigative about leaving a camera to capture all the activity automatically or having to do it yourself? Having to do things yourself is more investigative and fun. I think by fast-paced he just meant hands-on and more exciting.

[@sonawhite8813]

Have to agrehave to agree woth OP here. We were farming the speedrun weekly challenge and it made the game boring as all time. I probably wont touvh phasmo anymore till the uodate happens. What the game would need is hust things to do while u wait for eveidence to appear. With the new media system the only downside is still needing to be in the van to check cam evidence safely. The van part is now actually hurtning the game imi

[@sonawhite8813]

​@@samwarren6008hands on and fast paced are leagues away as words though.

[@simplyfitness892]

I feel like already the game is too fast. Any mode with three evidence we get completed within the first two-three minutes.

[@yourunclesteve3315]

I hope they eventually add some sort of thermal imaging camera, you see them used all the time in ghost shows, I think it would be cool to see in the game. It could work like the parabolic mic where you just have to see the ghost through the thermal's screen or something.

[@Soandnb]

Make it the T3 Thermo and update the T2 to be as fast as the T3.

[@twobladedswordsandmauls2120]

​@@Soandnb I'd prefer it if they made the T3 a better analog thermometer because that makes more sense (really, any ghost hunting equipment that doesn't have to use electricity probably shouldn't at its highest tier); but a thermal camera is still way better than getting freezing temps by measuring the room's humidity. I doubt it would actually tell you exactly where the ghost is, as the ghost lowers temperature over the entire room and is probably transparent to IR; but just being able to tell, at a glance, that the room is a specific temperature is already incredibly valuable.

[@Blitzcreeper239]

​​@@twobladedswordsandmauls2120 Was thinking about thermal cams too, it's not just really quick to spot freezing ghost rooms or ghost rooms as a whole on large maps, you can also see when the ghost roams.

[@JonTanski]

19:15 the tea room looks like it was just straight inspired by umbridges room in harry potter and the order of the phoenix. i love it

[@hovichi]

yesss omg i just rewatched the series for the holidays… if the room was oddly pink that would just straight out of the film

[@jinxx1859]

I'm also going to miss the farmhouses when they're gone. I have a lot of memories on them with friends getting killed, doing crazy things, getting lost in the darkness... I remember wanting to live in Bleasdale as well. Although they're a little odd they have a certain charm to them that you can't get everywhere. I don't think the new farmhouses are going to have that charm, but I trust the devs to create new spaces that have their own amazing features.

[@AHH_monsturr]

yes I love the farm houses... sad they are changing them.

[@motikrisis9340]

I’m not gonna lie I also love the farm houses, but I have absolute confidence that the devs will give them the new aura that all maps since release have gotten, hopefully we can all make new memories on them

[@Bignut7718]

The devs should add a community maps system with maps and custom challenges made by other players. That would resolve the need for frequent map updates. Obviously it’d take a while to get everything working properly, but I can totally see that being beneficial in the future

[@SavRagesAt]

I think you may be looking at the video recording the wrong way. I think of it as more for the immersion value. It makes more sense to be able to record activity that isn't static, for evidence that the ghost removal team would use to further corroborate the type of ghost it is. I do think you're right about it being bad if you can place a bunch of them though. It should be capped at no more than two recorders. But the concept of being able to record a room for Goryo dots while you're doing other stuff within the map and can't constantly be watching for Goryo cam dots, would be amazing. It will also serve to provide proof to other players about what you were able to confirm, in case they want to verify it themselves before locking in the ghost answer. Just my two cents.

[@Charbified]

My friends and I have basically given up on Phasmo recently, so hopefully this brings us back in. We were just so disappointed in the community events because they had basically no interaction like the previous holiday events (and when we tried to do Blood Moon event it was broken in multiplayer and we couldn't do it anyway). We're PC players, and we just felt completely ignored this previous year because they were working exclusively on the console update which frankly, we did not care about in the slightest. Fingers crossed all this new stuff isn't going to take too long, because it'll be nice to actually have some new stuff again.

[@AncientOutlaw]

Be prepared to be attacked. People think this game is just fine. It's faaaaaaar from it.

[@Charbified]

@@AncientOutlaw I mean the game is FINE. You can have a lot of fun with it but obviously the more you play it, the more you have to kinda make your own fun. There are a few weekly challenges that are just not very fun to do, in my opinion, but there are some fun ones (and obviously custom settings can be fun to mess about with) but the overall gameplay loop hasn't changed much in quite a while... and Point Hope was a massive let down (Again only my opinion, but I just don't find it fun to play). Followed by Blood Moon, where you didn't need to even do anything for the event to get the reward (and it barely played different than a normal game), and followed by the Krampus event... again... same let down. I think we just had three duds in a row and it just really made us lose our enthusiasm, which is honestly sad? But if anyone is really attacking other people for that then they truly are sad and need to sort out their life.

[@motikrisis9340]

@@AncientOutlawHonestly the game is fine. It’s just on a little bit of a slow bit right now because so much time got spent on console updates. I’m glad that lots of my friends are finally able to play but all the time we could’ve been changing up the gameplay loop is starting to catch up and it’s getting repetitive

[@azael1633]

The Game is "Fine" that's the problem, nothing unique becuase nothing changes. They implement stuff that doesn't alter gameplay which is a safe and stable move but it means the game gets stale after awhile. No new ghosts, SMALL maps (or changes to big ones), new modes (I personally as a game dev think a game mode where 1 player gets to play the ghost could be hella fun) or simply new gear. The blood moon and current winter event in my eyes where a total let down.. nothing special about "play the game".

[@eatmyfaceoff1]

@@azael1633 So make the game and show em how easy it is?

[@TheEmbrs]

21:27 I believe (and this may be wrong someone correct me if it isn’t), in Phasmo lore isn’t the reason that you are identifying the ghost so that the people who come after you can safely remove it?

[@CSKefka]

Yes, you need to identify the ghost so the ghost removal team knows how to handle the situation

[@u6gold]

Is that actually true because thats what i always pretend it was, thats kinda cool on my part

[@nanopi]

I hope the sound recorder can be combined with the parabolic microphone so that parabolic microphone sounds get recorded as unique evidence.

[@Silverwidows]

7:00 they could design it so video evidence only counts when someone is holding the camera, to prevent people from just sitting in the truck or leaving it pointed at an object

[@Extremecl4ps]

But then you get the opposite problem of people having to act like sentries and not be able to do anything other than look at certain objects. It needs to have a balance

[@rRekko]

You could always set up a bunch of cameras around the place while you're gathering the hints and whatnot. The criticism about having to just wait is just for speedrunners who like to go in and get out super fast, spamming salt for perfect games and whatnot. The only thing this should affect is no evidence or 1 evidence runs, which only the minority of the player base plays those modes.

[@Extremecl4ps]

@@rRekko it’s not about speedrunning and so forth, it’s about having something to do. Playing as a unmoving sentry is what made other systems such as banshee screams and goryo dots boring and unfun.

[@ju5tahu5tl3]

@@Extremecl4ps This exactly. It's funny when people forget what makes games fun is the ability to choose how you do things, and not necessarily HAVING to do them in any particular way. Just saying.

[@LadyLucyna]

@@Extremecl4ps Not necessarily. If you have a camera near you, you could always just pick it up and film it before dropping it again and doing something else.

[@skykibo7289]

A haunted car wash would go hard, as someone who works at one, plenty of small and large rooms, there’s an attic, an upper attic, the whole creepy map special

[@1Pandemoonium]

I'd love for the new Bleasdale to be a new map, instead of replacing the current Bleasdale. I love the dark and dingy vibe of the current farmhouse maps, would be a shame to lose that.

[@Omugaru]

They are replacing it since the old Bleasdale uses a bunch of unity store assets. They want to move away from any and all of those and have everything be designed by their own artists. I asked CJ about it a while back on reddit and thats the reason he gave. Like it or not, its their reasoning for it. I dislike it myself. The map ends up so different that they could have been separate things. Now instead of getting a new map, we sacrifice an old one.

[@Poetrak]

I think with bleasdale being renovated with the new look, grafton is going to be a lot more decrepit with the new visuals

[@valnadis8577]

That's too bad. Like they did with asylum, instead of having it as a new map, they just replace it. I'd rather have more maps than replacing core maps.

[@strixt]

Farmhouses aren't usually run-down, decrepit, web-filled monstrosities.

[@ShekharDebasish]

They can add a thing that the video camera activates only when you are in the range of like 15 or 20 metres and will turn off automatically as soon as you leave the house to keep that game thing alive.

[@HoutarouOrekiOsu]

two Insyms at the end is so incredibly funny

[@alkimos55]

I agree they would need to make the video system more reactive, rather than proactive. Maybe give the player a button to record when holding the camera, or watching the cam in the truck, and have it also save whatever happened a couple seconds before, to make some quick interactions easier to catch. Then they can give each videocamera tier a certain amount of memory, so you can't just hold the record button throughout the whole round.

[@yourweirdplant]

They should make the recording system work by making it so you have to be holding the camera in order to record. They should also add in little visual cues that an interaction is about to happen so you could look at it. Maybe the door handle jiggles a bit before it starts opening, a cup or item floats for a second before being thrown.

[@kazumiyumi153]

All i want is character customization please its been 5 years lol

[@masonhoughton7885]

Hey we got armbands what are you complaining about 🤣🤣

[@kazumiyumi153]

@@masonhoughton7885 do you know the game demonologist? If you play that game you know what im talking about

[@lilchip85]

​@kazumiyumi153 you can't be this dense. He's literally on your side

[@deinodinosuchus]

for real like 3 white models and 1 black model for both male and female and that’s it… there are more than 2 races

[@Lively_1185]

That locked room in the lobby (with a tweaking ghost), was supposed to be the character customization room based by CJs words during the one Insym live stream. I don't know what video though.

[@subury253]

Horror 2.0 went on vacation

[@fbi6482]

Horror 2.0 is scheduled for release in 2035

[@Dangergray75]

I actually hope they make an improvement on what the photos are of when you take a picture. Because I hate taking a perfect photo of a ghost 2 feet away and then realizing it’s 2 star photo of salt

[@Furiac.]

the console stuff really does take a lot of work so hopefully theres a lot more updates in 2025 like you said.

[@jaeger6161]

I hope they increase the amount of photos you can delete then, because if dupes now don't contribute to a perfect game, sometimes taking pictures of fingerprints on the doors and burned crucifex it comes up as interaction first so alot of photos will need deleting to gain all the uniques

[@twobladedswordsandmauls2120]

Or perhaps just preventing duplicates from being saved at all, or just making it so that duplicates will automatically be replaced with unique photos if there is room.

[@jaeger6161]

@twobladedswordsandmauls2120 yeah, that could also work

[@Pesmergah]

Being able to choose between classic and new map versions is all I want for 2025, give me back my asylum damn it! :D

[@Anti-Villain-Wolf]

It would cool if they added a graveyard, or cemetery map

[@stampynate0007]

11:44 it would be cool if the sound recorder could hear the banshee scream

[@adamwalker3560]

Wait, Grafton will have a cornfield?? For anybody who isn't familiar with them, cornfields are one of the creepiest, unintended mazes ever. People have legitimately gotten lost for days in cornfields only a couple hundred meters in length and width. The size in that garden looks tiny, but still, if that is able to be a ghost room, it will be the hardest ghost room in the game immediately.

[@whatlovemeansv3]

first asylum, then maple lodge and now the farmhouses 🫡 nice to see the game evolve but i rly miss old maple lodge and ima miss these maps (I started last year)

[@Argacyan]

video & audio recording are things I talked about when this game was very new & people told me every reason under the sun for why it shouldn't be done

[@Dthomas5816]

Literally, everyone has been asking for those things since the game came out...

[@epicphail2926]

I doubt that

[@ShiningQuasar13]

I think the video is a good thing. Because the camera works even if you don't catch it at that moment which means there really isn't much skill involved. Like a video camera being placed in a spot and capturing something is the point at what we already do sometimes with orbs and such and it just means you will have to actively angle it to catch not only the room, but other objects in frame or you'll miss it. Big issue off the bat is if the video camera records the same thing. Which will happen. So the number of removable evidences will need to go up.

[@EclipsisCorvus]

Wonder if Horror 2.0 or whatever they were calling it is still in the works, that's been in development for like two years iirc?

[@muhtashimshabab2248]

Yeah but their office was in a fire and the console took too long. Hopefully after bleasedale and Grafton get their updates we can focus on horror 2.0

[@ChocyDino]

I don't think they started working heavily on it, they just said that it will come in the future I think

[@horrorcult1322]

I'm not really that excited considering I know the track record with these devs. I just hope that that new journal system isn't incredibly tedious when it comes to perfect games or filling it in. Edit: i do find it funny how everytime we get something for this game it just feels like a rework. I wish we got some actual fun and new engaging content to do this in game.

[@lawrencelopez9839]

the downside I think is that since video and sound recordings take time compared to photos it can make games longer which can be nice but can be boring if it's added minutes of just waiting.

[@thegothaunt]

Looking forward to catching EVPs on the recorders!

[@mooshmallocactus]

perhaps for the video recording concerns, you just have limited recording time. you can still look through the video camera constantly (if you are looking for dots or ghost orbs you don't want your video storage to be filled while waiting) but you can turn on recording and just document a few select instances, and like I said, you have limited storage so you can't just "set it and forget it" (also I think an abandoned mall would be an amazing map for this game!)

[@SophisticatedHermit]

The most basic solution for the video recording problem is to treat it as always recording but function as a photocam functions right now: Have the button press "save a clip" of the last few seconds if the camera was pointing at the interaction and require you to actually physically interact with the camera to do so.

[@kalez238]

For the videos, they could add that you have to "clip it", which any time something happens, either when it is in your hand or in the truck, you have to press a button and it grabs the last few seconds. Otherwise, yeah, it becomes a set it and forget it, or an impossible task of trying to get it the moment it happens (which could also be fixed with making longer interactions)

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

i'm glad to see insym cover this, he's been my go to phasmo info and opinion guy.

[@Fwooofy]

9:50 "I am the yap master, I like to talk about this game" That is why I came to watch this video. I read the patchnotes myself already, so im just excited to see your reaction, and hear your thoughts and feelings on it~ Someone who is good at the game, loves to play the game, is friends with the devs and plays with them, your many opinions is why we are here lol

[@ra1drzyt]

Below the Media section, it says the values are placeholders so probably higher im-game but not included in multiplier

[@laevateinx9163]

I think it sounds like the video camera "waiting game" concern that Insym has might not be a worry, it seems like it might be used for stuff that isn't that fun, like the examples he gave, waiting for dots and such and the Audio recorder might be a way to alleviate waiting for Banshee screams as well as a nice little bonus way to passively gain some new audio replays. I don't know but I'm excited to see the update with you all when it arrives.

[@panzerlite8108]

Watching this Game grow since day one has brought me such joy.

[@Sammi.2021]

Maybe for the video cameras, they can add a record button that only works if the player is holding it and then just have it do a live feed to the truck if it's placed. That way the player would have to be inside the house and interact with the environment to fill slots in the media tab.

[@missmorgan5994]

So excited for all of this! I rarely play on Bleasdale, but might be more willing to if it’s going to look this good! Also love the idea of the garden with outdoor ghost rooms. Anyone else waiting for Insym to read the part where the photo values in the picture are just placeholders so not actually what photos with be worth?? lol 😅😅😅

[@Xmvw2X]

Video will be hard, right time right place kind of requirement that makes implementation really hard. I can't see it being all that viable unless it happens a LOT, or the devs specifically implement precursor cues for people to recognize and prep for the recording. For example, a door open might have a precursor of a handle jiggling sound or perhaps there are more footstep sounds on the map that you can follow around. If it goes towards a door, you might expect and anticipate an event might happen. The only other thing you might be able to do is create longer events that can heard, recognized, and travel to this event. A door touch might be 10 to 15 seconds of a ghost literally fiddling with it back and forth, knocking, etc. This provides time for people to react and collect evidence. And I certainly don't mind longer behaviors that a half second event. This is the only way video could work intuitively in actual gameplay. It's the time and place problem, and you have to create an environment that counters the shortcomings. Otherwise, like you said, the collection process will instead become heavily automated and not part of YOUR experience. It will have happened outside of your scope and kind of be meaningless other than a setup process you are forced to do every game in order to get all the points. Now you're just required to spend 5 minutes every game doing setup which in itself kind of a gameplay prison. Forcing people into a gameplay loop is not something you want to do.

[@EbonyRubberWolf]

I think the video camera thing is a great idea for involving the truck in the game more; it promotes someone staying in the truck and rewards being overwatch PROVIDED that actual recording is done FROM the truck interface rather than on-site, and it invites the possibility of future updates of particular ghosts targeting the cams for scare effects (and possible Sanity drain or even DANGER!) with possible unique evidence for Jinn/Raiju/Phantom. Plus, video monitoring =/= recording, I imagine recordings will be for X seconds and each time you record it takes up a 'slot' in your media pages.

[@Fujiisamaa]

Raiju having a unique effect on video cameras when recorded during a hunt would be sick.

[@nicolasmartinetti20]

I hope that we will be able to record also a Banshee scream or a Deogen breathing

[@Thungon]

18:55 This looks like it is the downstairs room immediately adjacent to the Foyer, opposite the staircase. It was a deadend before, but now it says it is also attached to Utility!! So no more circling the whole house to get to that breaker spot!!

[@CarboneCat]

My brother and I just had our first Attic Ghost, which was a Mimic (we get a lot of them). At least, we didn’t had a Ghostwriting nor DOTS ghost. It a crazily big room that makes placing evidence tools complicated, although it’s eerie. I’m curious to see how it will turn out after its makeover. As for the media system, I like the idea of actually filming the interactions. I hope it will be rewarding enough as, right now, we take photos for fun or when an objective asks for it.

[@Krillin_Plays_94]

I feel an easy way to do the video cam system would be to apply dashcam rules. The cam is always rolling, but the only captures that count will be if you hit a button to "clip" an interaction you caught on camera, maybe like the last 5-10 seconds?

[@ImEcchi]

Finally they say something instead of posting idiotic things on social media. I keep blasting them with the “Update the roadmap it’s 2 years behind” on every single post. If you fallen behind be open and say so, I don’t care if that happens. But update the roadmap, 2023 we were suppose to have Horror 2.0, new models, character customization and we’re heading into 2025. I love this game but the absolutely horrible communication and slow updates makes me sad af since I was a 15k+ level player. I did use speed leveling strats but still. I know how the game works and can play it at a high level or screw around and die in 2 seconds😂 Please communicate with the community instead of posting dumb social media posts about holidays and irl events. I don’t care. I only care about the next patch, even a post about “we’re taking a vacation so no updates.” would be an amazing post because I know they are communicating. And nobody argue “They are an indie company”. Stardew Valley has something to say about that.

[@danhonz4715]

I agree 100% with this post. I have lost all faith in this dev team to do anything within a reasonable time frame. That 2023 roadmap, did it in for me, once they didn't do what was promised. I don't want to hear it from any of the Phas dev bootlickers "it's hard to make a game" "blah blah blah. That excuse is old. Either the devs actually start working on their game and provide content, or the they will lose a lot of their player base.

[@willkasner8418]

Super excited about this update, even though we just started playing when the console release happened. Thanks for the great explanations about the changes

[@1745pacman]

For the video evidence you need to hit a record button, also need ghosts crawling on the walls n ceilings.

[@jamiethompson6463]

Yes!!! I agree with this.

[@kuttispielt7801]

I hope they manage to make the farm houses more unique. I keep mixing them up because they are so similar.

[@ArtForSwans]

Gosh I think we've been waiting for this update like almost 2 years now. It felt like we were never going to get the photo system rework and video recordings lol. EDIT: I think if Phasmo video cams worked like the ones in Content Warning, it might preserve that skillful gameplay. Imagine holding a video cam and a polter throws a cup. You could do a trick shot where you point the cam at the thing while it's still in midair and record it flying through the air. This would still make tripods useless but idk, I think it'd be fun to have a bit of Content Warning in Phasmo :D

[@Manpag]

I don't know if the audio recorders are going to be an addition or a replacement for the sound sensors, but the vibe I get is for these changes to not only fix the photo system, but also give use to items that no-one uses. Sound sensors are trash, few people use tripods, and the T1 headgear is useless solo. If recorders replace sensors, headcam works for solo video recording, and you can do "set and forget" if you want, then all of those items have much more use.

[@lolololol7573]

Ngl I like how the dev keeps going with Phasmo. Many creators give up on their games even though there's a decent playerbase. Though, 17k constant players is pretty good for such an indie game.

[@LucasShrock]

Phasmophobia is not an indie game 😭

[@MephyFaust]

@@LucasShrock yes it is, the studio doesn't have a publisher and began with a single dev without the contributions of a publisher. Indie != cozy games.

[@MephyFaust]

@@LucasShrock give you a hint, indie is short for "independent"

[@LucasShrock]

@@MephyFaust indie refers to popularity. Something indie is also something that means it isn’t as popular.

[@VanderPants-in8lt]

@@LucasShrock5 seconds on Google could have saved you some embarrassment, here’s the definition that doesn’t care how a few people “use” a term… “An indie video game or indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games”

[@sen314bot]

That's so sweet that they are adding content creator's pets. Immortalizing a loved one for their community.

[@ericzimmer6896]

about the video recording thing you said " you can just set it and forget it" photos need to be manually taken and you can have cameras that transmit an image to a screen but are not recording. i have a few of them IRL. so they need to make the left mouse button the record button and only accesible from the person actually holding it. this would then mean you need to risk being in the room with the ghost for it to become evidence.

[@Castia158]

"Looks like we have a chicken coop!" *we harvest shadows flashbacks*

[@ovni2295]

I think the way they can make the video camera system work is the camera has to be close to the activity and the activity has to be center frame. That way you are being more deliberate with your filming choices. However, set-and-forget for cameras is already a thing in the game. You put a camera in the ghostroom and wait for DOTS.

[@whodabomb]

I think it would be recording last 10 or so seconds of video or something like that and maybe you would have to be holding the camera to balance it out and maybe something similar for sound recording otherwise it would be a waiting game. But it is hard to balance things to appeal to everyone

[@Ness_and_Sonic]

It looks like Bleasdale is getting the same treatment the Spenser Estate and RPD got. I kind of liked the old version of Bleasdale because of how dark and creepy it was thanks to the wood textures for the walls. Maybe Grafton will keep this so the two can be compared for the future. As for the level 3 sound recorder, I suspect it will have the sound wave visible or even a spectrogram (or Spector-gram if you're into wordplay) of the sound that's recorded.

[@zehsofficial]

The sound recorder with the casset tape seems like it would be the tier 1 since it's older and the one in the middle looks more advanced since it has a screen like the ipod.

[@mishelleyamata5984]

I like the idea of the video recorder being used more. Unfortunately, not everybody has a mind that goes 100MPH like insym, lots of us enjoy the occasionally wait, rather than constant drip feed of things to feed the ADHD. XD

[@seastruck5410]

I just bought this game a week before Christmas and been obsessed with it I’m glad it’s still getting updates me and my buds are having fun.

[@austinin]

Very excited for what they have planned for 2025, I also hope that the team has a lot more time to be able to bring out cool content like this more frequently. Feels like its been over 2 years since anything new, besides the bloodmoon weather has been brought into the game thats actually game changing.

[@CaptToilet]

They better have more frequent updates. You release on consoles, you increase the playerbase. You better start releasing stuff every couple months in a game like this. We will see but if any of this doesn't start hitting by Spring I expect player counts to drop hard.

[@Soandnb]

@@CaptToilet making a game is challenging work, especially a game like phasmo with a bunch of systems all working together.

[@ninjafrog6966]

people are so entitled nowadays. if a game doesn’t receive an update damn near every week at this point, people get mad at the developers. jfc, play a different game if you can’t stand the thought of a game going 5 minutes without being updated

[@CaptToilet]

@@ninjafrog6966 Nothing entitled about it. I have plenty of games to play. This is about trying to get this developer to realize that releasing small little content updates every 2 years and expect it to keep their game alive is the wrong way to go about it.

[@IchbinX]

I dont mind you setting a camera down, and letting it collect evidence for you. Thats how it is "in real life", with ghost investigators. I think it adds immersion. PS: Not like my opinion matters. The devs will only ever listen to Insym. Insym "speaks for the community".

[@ChocyDino]

I never knew Phasmo was a 1:1 replication of real life??? Idk about you but I would prefer to play a better game over one that's super realistic (not that Phasmo is realistic)

[@IchbinX]

@ChocyDino Some of us are different. We don't like being reminded it's a vidya game. We get enjoyment out of immersion.

[@ChocyDino]

@@IchbinX If you don't like playing a video game because it's a video game then go ghost hunting irl

[@IchbinX]

@ChocyDino If I don't share your opinion, I can gtfo? Gotcha.

[@Loonfuzzy]

I agree about the video working like a camera and recording the last like 5-10 seconds if you like click a button or something And it would force you to use the video camera instead of being able to passively get it

[@serenagilbert1483]

Once the devs have some free time after all this work and a much needed break we NEED a big church/cathedral map with a small side cemetery and/or a massive cemetery map with like an office/morgue building and mausoleums! A catacomb/crypt map would also be insane! Phasmo is such a great game there’s like endless potential and i can’t wait to see how the devs expand this game and express their creativity 🤍 Love all that theyre doing already though, great work :)

[@A_mega_idiot]

Im really worried about the new photo system. I like the idea of getting unique photos, but cmon. I get not farming 10 pictures of a door being creaked open, but there should be different interaction types. Because if im playing, it opens a door I get a picture okay thats unique first one of the game. Then it turns off a light switch, okay thats a different type of interaction; oh no its a duplicate so thats just $1 for me noticing the switch. Even right now its frustrating to get a ghost event and just read "Interaction" rather than "event" or other.

[@themelonwizard2642]

Hope you had a great Christmas Insym!!

[@jeffp6615]

I'm pretty sure you read off that the photo values are just place holders.

[@CakeorDeath1989]

I play with three other people, and we've noticed that a lot of the time, it feels a lot like three people doing all the stuff and the fourth just stood there being kinda useless. Having more functionality with Video Cameras and the addition of Sound Recorders gives players more things to do. What myself and my play group are kinda looking for are *roles.* Like, with the update, I'll play the role of the sound guy, and will be grabbing a Sound Recorder and a Para. Another of my friends can be the camera person. So I'm pretty happy with the planned update.

[@TurtleSushiTV]

That one guy talking photos, right here 😂

[@ryankersell2505]

I would like to see dowsing rods in the game somehow. Like if you turn on the sinks or something it would lead you towards the ghost room. I could see it being really good for nightmare mode where the ghost is constantly moving rooms.

[@RavenSteele17]

Personally I think ghost’s should do more stuff than just pick up a picture or cup. If I can pick up stuff let me bring equipment on the ground to my friend. Give us more options than just walking around and sitting in the truck. Yes in discord you can still give info but helping as a ghost would be nice.

[@muxikowo]

phasmo in its current state has taught me why having multiple currency types is so important in games like this. it's unnecessarily difficult to balance a perfect game bonus when the only currencies in the game are cash/xp. the best solution imo is adding a third currency which you can usually only get from perfect game bonuses. a visually interesting and flavorful token like cursed dubloons or whatever. the unique reward would mean players can't mathematically determine how much perfect games are worth to them. do you want those shiny dubloons? then it doesn't matter how much longer a perfect game takes, you're gonna go for it. lock cosmetics behind dubloons and you've created an evergreen reason to aim for perfect games.

[@goosedogtransam1020]

Here's how much hope I have in the devs listening to their community......RIP Tier 1 Thermo - 2024

[@Alesa111]

OMG that's gonna be so epic!!! i hope it will be soon !! and cant wait to find your petson the plates!

[@PitchBlackRoses]

I am pretty sure the "Placeholder values" Means the prices are placeholders.

[@2-DLordOfForgot]

Not meant to be mean......But. The Yapping Dutchman shall be the new nickname

[@Dark_jr4]

Values are place holders

[@SeñorAgave]

Video and audio recordings can have a storage limit, so we have a limit of just how much we can record

[@shippox3]

Video cameras could be very fun. For night vision make it the special button. Like head gear. Then interact will record a set time. Same for watching it on the pc. Tiers can have different memory card sizes so you can only record a set length of time. Tier1 - can record for 2:30 Tier2 - 5 mins Tier3 - 10mins Could also implement a prior recording time say 2 seconds, followed by 8 seconds of live recording. That way you can capture before and as it happens. Or if you use a cursed object you can capture the action and reaction of it. Could possibly count as two pieces of evidence or a greater reward. High risk high reward.

[@dm-qy3yu]

happy to see we agree on this. dev should really put out more content/updates! im a huge fan but promises gets tiring after years of almost nothing

[@instakillgaming]

The fact insym has an actual thermal and it works better irl

[@nikkolitesla]

they should do something where you can 3d scan your own house to try and implement into the game as a custom map and eventually have a ranking system for maps to permanently be kept in game.

[@TheRubberDuck77]

For the video evidence, I'm thinking it will be you have to hit record, like it's not always recording, just live streaming to the van, and you have to hit record then it's like you said, it saves the like last 10 seconds, maybe the higher the tier the bigger the buffer gets? So you don't have to be as quick on the draw to hit record?

[@ghosthunter0404]

Honestly put me in touch with the game developers I got some crazy ideas for new items and game modes but also ways to make better harder challenges for teams and or solo players wanting a higher risk higher reward and longer game. 1 idea is to allow for a multi page system with 3 ghost evidence pages allowing for you to also click at the top to tell the book what room you are claiming this ghost is in and having up to 3 different or possibly the same ghosts all on 1 map in different rooms or even the same room depending on difficulty. For each ghost you get correct you get the standard money plus whatever amplifier you added to the round and an added multiplier at the end of times 3 more xp and momey if you get all the ghosts correct however if you get ghosts wrong you start losing that multiplier and if you don't get any of the ghosts correct it's looked at as a failed mission and you have to pay money as a team. But for 1 of those contracts to make sure everyone has enough for that penalty there will be a fee that all players must pay to start that mission if you fail you just don't get the money you wager on your success back. Thats 1 game mode id want to implement as for new items. I'd go with specialist items for every prestige you get in the game a new item is unlocked that you can always purchase regardless of how low of a level you are in that prestige 1st item would be a bundle of a purchasable black light bar which can be placed on a wall floor or just dropped in the room with purchaseable batteries. The batteries will have a timer and when they run out you would have to take back to a charge station in your vehicle to allow them time to replenish thier energy. Secound prestige a portable flood light with cable running from your car with state of the art led lights that a ghost cannot destroy you can wheel it within a select range of your vehicle and have infinite light without risk of losing sanity unless encountering ghosts or a hunt. 3rd prestige would be a utility belt with the ability to hold all of your flash lights black lights and salt without using up your 3 hand slots allowing a player to enter the field with thier nvg's, lighter, flashlight, blacklight, salt, and whatever 3 other items they would like to take with them down range. Those are just a few of my ideas I would want implemented to of course reward those high level dedicated players of the game and give a reason to lower ranked people who just prestige for the first time a reason to continue playing the game and not getting bored because they already earned everything once and have to do it all over again. Basically hard work gets you great rewards. Other things I have in mind are ways for those who die to either have a chance at life they can earn themselves from beyond the grave or even new ways even your fallen comrades could still be useful other then just throwing random items around. New vehicle addons more upgrades to your personal command center when in the lobby waiting to start a game, extra items on maps such as light bulbs in drawers to replace light bulbs a ghost might have destroyed, to possibly new scary ways ghosts can interact with thier scrounging to even causing damage to the players ie a ghost threw a knife at you you can take damage and need a bandage to heal yourself, a ghost moving a couch in front of a door cutting off ways for you to escape and many more but with a couch moving and such you will also be able to move it back but it would take time. I'm just saying most experienced players have an easy time with ghosts these days and I would definitely make them have to think 2 steps ahead on what a ghost could possibly do that could make them have to think of more then the regualr strategy to get away.

[@taylorprice509]

They really gave the tea room the Dolores Umbridge special 😭

[@powerman984]

best way to do the video stuff is to make the cam only active in the hands of the player like the photo cam is, make it only work when then player is holding it and it will be like the photo cam and you can't just put it down and afk

[@asmiraalicevic690]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INSYM🎉🎉🎉🎉