How to Make Phasmophobia Look 10x Better

[@ArtistLunatalia]

They could probably fix the cursor really easily by giving the white ring a black outline. Then you'd only see the colour ring that contrasts with the background, but not have to change anything dynamically.

[@VibeASMR]

Been saying this for years. Ghost orbs used to be really hard to see back in the day and I made the same recommendation. Good call.

[@MultiSmartPlayer]

Im saying this Direct to the developers in the discord channel but I dont have the expected attention so IDK what to do more.

[@scribdfukkyu9630]

or let the player pick the color of the cursor

[@jayplash24]

Just make it opaque and let you choose the colour, a colour like purple will never blend in to the things ur looking at

[@WhoCares-zn8gp]

Big brain idea

[@ATKIN2]

Figured i'd write a list of the things that were covered in the video if anyone needs to refer back to this. Video Settings: Brightness: 1.8 Fullscreen Mode: Fullscreen (Personal Choice) VSync: Off Anti-Aliasing: MSAA MSAA Quality: 8x Fidelity FX Super Resolution: Off Texture Resolution: Full Sky Light: On Fog Quality: High Shadows: Soft Anisotropic: On Ambient Occlusion: On Bloom: Off Film Grain: Off Chromatic Aberration: Off Game Settings: FOV: 90 Cursor Brightness: 500% Keybinds: Journal: Tab Local PTT: Mouse Button (If possible) Global PTT: Space Special / Flashlight: R Anything left out is either unchanged or personal preference. Hope this is useful

[@ShOrTs-hj9yp]

Someone please like my comment or reply to this guys comment so I can remember

[@ATKIN2]

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[@Bayyyro]

its crazy to me how game devs never think about how bad the default settings are. most players dont know anything about pc settings and wont ever touch them, so when game devs do this, it pains me edit: best example is tf2 imo

[@glutentag5853]

maybe that's the point? Every player has different settings that suit them, so if they make the default settings so bad then more playeres will find their favorite configuration (this is how I cope)

[@HallowedError]

Cities Skylines 2. They tell you to turn off a bunch of crap instead of just changing the default

[@deliriouscheeto]

Wdym most people don't know settings 😭 pls tell me that's not true

[@Bayyyro]

@@deliriouscheeto it is true!

[@viralshark]

@@Bayyyro every pc player ive ever known, knows to tune their settings. im not sure ive ever met anyone who wasnt aware of this.

[@Malao558]

I'd like if some of the video settings could become sliders instead of toggles in the future. Things like Bloom and Chromatic Aberration can look good, but they're applied pretty heavily and look kind of ugly (especially the chromatic abberation). If we could manually make the effects more subtle it could help the game look a lot better.

[@WynneL]

YES. And Film Grain, too! I like this sort of effects when judiciously applied, but right now Bloom is a choice between hurting your eyes and losing a lot of lighting realism, while Chromatic Aberration makes me feel a bit like I'm on acid. 😂

[@ThavmieI]

5:50 text "voice" recognition is very usefull, because you can spam it and get response much faster than would with regular voice commands. Sadly, it's bugged as hell, so opening it once can lock your screen with those texts, unable to rid out of it, which is specially funny, when Ouija board breaks and you're stuck with questions, unable to even move your camera, only run in frozen position.

[@mcawesome9705]

you can't spam it, there's a cooldown

[@nanaten3]

@@mcawesome9705 yeah a 3sec cooldown compared to the voice recognition which has the same cd but sometimes doesn't picks up your voice properly

[@mcawesome9705]

@@nanaten3 it's definitely not the same cooldown, voice recognition can be used a lot more rapidly

[@zazzrazzamatazz9970]

I use text input simply so my neighbors aren't hearing me say "Where are you? How old are you? Are you friendly? How old are you?" all the time...

[@xitzcheyx]

I ask the silly questions, however ive stopped because im paranoid my family is gonna think im weird hearing "Where are you?" "Are you naked" "How many pickles can you fit in your ass" etc

[@cptn.penguin902]

I'm soo happy about your keybind rant! Cause I've been complaining about the default keybinds ever since I started playing. The only difference in my keybinds is, I use "Q" to drop items, cause that's what I'm used to from Minecraft, lol

[@13sedian]

I changed it on my mouse wheel, so much easier.

[@zombiex227]

I dont mind voice activation, lets me hear people scream when they get scared, very funny

[@assetaden6662]

it gets annoying tho. I don't mind hearing people scream when they're scared, but constantly hearing the TV in the background or someone talking is just ugh.

[@nanaten3]

yeah, push to talk makes no sense in scary/horror games

[@noahm.8899]

I personally like lower FOV such as 65-75 because it just feels way more immersive in my opinion and it's easier on my eyes. Having it set to 80-90 FOV actually gives me motion sickness and feels harsh on my eyes. But hey, to each their own, the game has settings for a reason

[@powrsh119]

I also like a lower FOV in general in Phasmo, but on the other hand I enjoy playing on max FOV with an ultrawide game window to just be able to see all my surroundings, makes the game easier to play

[@kaisokusekkendou1498]

I was going to comment this, yeah. I put my FoV a little higher, but when it comes to "tunnel vision", having the FoV at such a high range makes what's in front of you so far away and has this wall-eye effect when you turn (it zooms closer at the sides). I think it's just what people have become used to, and how desperate they might be to get that slight more side angle of vision (seeing what's next to you, or above/below). FoV 70 tends to be like "looking through a window into the game" for a 1080p resolution, so it makes sense that it would be the default. I don't understand devs that don't add a FoV (or especially a AAA company), because field of vision is the one thing that can make it so people physically are unable to play the game. A very critical setting.. I wouldn't even release in Early Access or demo without a FoV unless you don't care about pushing players away with a bad first impression.

[@derGlasdrache]

Yeah, I think I play on FOV 65 or so 😅 I'd really like it if the FOV slider would just do that - widen the field of view - without distorting everything, in my opinion everything looks so ugly on high FOV. That's why I keep it low in every game. I really don't care if I have disadvantages, if the alternative means to make the game less immersive.

[@yaral4]

for me low fov makes me nauseous and feels me sick

[@LiteralRuler]

It gives me motion sickness to have it lower than 90

[@assetaden6662]

Giving an option to change your crosshair color will solve the issue of the white ring being visible only on a black background. Or change it to green, it's the most viewable color against all colors (plus you don't see much green in the game itself).

[@sidekickz2180]

I have been getting frame rates of like 4711 lately lol. I will def try your tips! Update: my game looks WAAAAY better now! Thanks man! It's like a whole new game!

[@nanopi]

At default 1.0 mouse sensitivity, Dots Per 360° is exactly 3600 for Steam Flick Stick and Gyro to Mouse. If you touch that slider at all, it will never be exactly 1.0 again. (the number displayed is rounded)

[@yukioacumora4430]

How do you calculate that sorta thing?? I love gyro but every game I use it on never feels consistent no matter how hard I try to pair them together. I'll get close but there's always at least a little difference between game to game and it's annoying.

[@nanopi]

@@yukioacumora4430 I am able to just measure it, by aiming my mouse at a spot, then turning a full 360, aiming at the same spot and then see how many pixels my mouse moved. if it lands close enough to a number like 3600, 4800, 5454, 6545, 7200, I try and move the mouse by exactly that number and if I do a perfect 360 rotation and it looks like nothing happened, then I found the number to put in Steam Controller layouts.

[@nanopi]

@@yukioacumora4430 there is also a Mouse Sensitivity website that has the calculations for many games. You can put in your game's exact sensitivity, ask it to use "Counts" as your preferred units, put in some mouse DPI to get the calculation going, maybe some other settings like FOV if required, and it will give you the 360 distance value to use as Dots Per 360.

[@amorrious]

Insym is such a meal time youtuber, if im eating, im watching him

[@Gnics22]

Same. My lunchbreak is always when he uploads a new video. Its always so nice to watch his videos while i eat

[@rina_ai13]

Same! 😂

[@WynneL]

Even though I know my stuff fairly well, I'm so glad I watched this! Film Grain doesn't even show for me, so it's off now. Next, I turned on Soft Shadows and HQ Fog because I thought the Medium I used on my old PC in the States as "good enough." It's truly not, what a dramatic difference! After playing around with the settings some more, I think TAA is the best anti-aliasing quality for my setup (although it does get a bit weird from some angles), but I wouldn't have even thought to try it if you hadn't posted this. I also use R for Run/Sprint in most games because it strains my small hands to pinky-hold Shift all the time, so changing from J to Tab made an INCREDIBLE difference. Thanks!

[@nunyabidness323]

I don't recommend V-Sync because if a monitor and a game are having trouble syncing up, then V-Sync can lower your frame rate significantly to try to find a point where they can.

[@qazxsw21000]

V-Sync is usually recommended to not be on if you don’t need it. Instances where you might need it is with larger resolutions where it can cause screen tearing, for example.

[@NomDatBass]

For some ppl tho, eliminating screen tearing can be worth a lower framerate. I'd say it's a case-by-case basis on whether or not Vsync is worth using.

[@Sligili]

It lowers the framerate to ur monitor refresh rate, u won't actually notice it. If anything it will feel smoother as it helps keep a stable frametime. Adds input lag aswell.

[@qazxsw21000]

@@Sligili not really. It prevents the monitor from grabbing buffered data while the buffer is still being written to. This is where screen tearing comes from; the monitor is grabbing a mix of old and new data

[@HoutarouOrekiOsu]

If you have a good PC that's able to get more frames than your monitor's refresh rate = you can turn VSYNC ON to prevent tearing or GPU getting loud bad PC with low framerate under 60 = always OFF

[@valkenhayn412]

Idk how hard it is to do, but they could just put the crosshairs (mouse cursor) set to negative. so it will always be visible no matter what. No need to code any color changes depending on background, just make it show the negative of what's on screen

[@csih2119]

wrong, every pixel of the cursor would have to ask the underlying pixel what colour it is and then change its own.

[@deadpancherry8658]

It's not hard ​@@csih2119

[@JoSan3]

Love that Fahrenheit roast lol

[@OddNodsTactical]

1.27 look at the screen in the background IT PERFECTLY HIT THE CORNER RIGHT AT THE 800K CONGRATS MAN!!!!

[@ScrubCityMayor]

I love that Insym had to set up Phasmo on another PC and thought “hmm I should make a YT video of this” so smart and helpful

[@memepotater9503]

7:50 just make it invert the background, like the Minecraft cross hair

[@sharingheart13]

Because my thumb likes resting on the Space Bar, that's the key I use for sprinting. My favorite Sesame Street button is G for Global Push to Talk. It's a bit of a distance, but I rarely run into a situation where I find something I need the team to know about when they aren't in regular Push to Talk distance, so it's easy for me to stretch my finger to G when I just want to tell them that one quick thing.

[@lloydyno1]

i use space to sprint too, i use shift for push to talk

[@dugoatboy]

One additional change Insym didn't mention was to change inventory swap to the second side mouse button (there's two, at least on my mouse, one for inventory swap, one for local push to talk).

[@SoraKaito22]

I have my second mouse button set for secondary use personally, useful for placing things down, especially music box, i never really need to cycle through my things desperately during a hunt, just turn flashlight off and book it

[@dugoatboy]

@@SoraKaito22 true, was thinking more cycling quickly to camera for a photo. Also realized there’s two buttons behind my scroller so gonna rethink my mapping anyway

[@07_channel]

I use my mouse buttons as local PTT and "special", namely because I tended to fat-finger the T key when reaching for F, especially with the changes to tier 2 and 3 headgear. If you have the extra buttons for it, I definitely recommend giving it a try, it was game-changing 😊

[@roloep85]

Haha OP gamer! I love the sarcasm! I can't wait for Insym to review the new lighting settings!

[@GryphonsLegacy]

As a leftie, J for journal works just fine for me since that's the half of the keyboard I actually use. Literally the only keybind I DIDN'T change.

[@Pocketz85]

You fixed my microphone issue! Had to reformat a few months ago and started playing Forewarned and Phasmo again. I couldn't get my mic to pick up in game, even though it was working in Discord. Windows defaulted to an old microphone input. It was starting to drive me crazy. Thank you! Cheers!

[@Littlepup93]

I use J for journal because the last thing I want to do is open my journal while in the house in case something happens. When I need to go in and check stuff off or consult the book, I step out the front door first so I know I'm safe. Tbf, I'm also very new to the game and am terrified of getting hunted.

[@-Keith-]

Insym: goes off the rails about people using J for journal and T for special. Me: "I feel personally attacked." Thank you so much for pointing out the chromatic aberration though. I was wondering why I was always seeing double in the corners of the screen at all times.

[@sheriffzard5149]

I'm pretty sure for 'dynamic color changes' to the cursor just requires them to change the hue filter of the cursor to a negative color.

[@FemNate]

The rant about J being for Journal because f*cking Sesame Street logic had me sitting here clapping 😄👏💯 Ctrl is crouch, Shift is sprint, and Tab is inventory/journal. PC gaming standards to live by.

[@Atticusshrader-rs6kz]

Thank you for showing us this amazing video and I just got phasmophobia. This is gonna help slot thank you very much Insym.

[@legendisplaying356]

Congratulations for 800k 🎉

[@HamserOfficial]

by the way V-Sync is NOT the best option for other games like fortnite. It WILL make ur game delayed

[@Bryai]

I'm so used to dbd that i changed my crouch button to ctrl lmao. Thank you for the help btw its so much better

[@dogdaytortured]

congratilations ! 800K INSYM!!!!

[@furyzenblade3558]

7:30 Why don’t they give the cursor something like an invert/ difference mode filter that way its visible against any “background”

[@coldwin3849]

I really appreciate when people that are big proponents of a game really rip into bad game dev decisions instead of just blind dev worship.

[@Drunken_Hamster]

So, the thing about the field of view. Given the range it has and how it looks, I'm like 75-85% sure it's the vertical field of view, which means the width of it scales with your monitor width. 70-80 is actually the "correct" setting most people should have, with 90 being, effectively, a fish-eye lens. Kinda like setting minecraft to "quake pro" which for ME at least, is not that playable.

[@Oscylot88]

90 is minimum FOV I'll use in a game lol, crank that shit to 120 !!!!

[@Drunken_Hamster]

@@Oscylot88 Pretty sure 90 degrees vertical on 16x9 screens calculates out to 120 horizontal.

[@glacity]

I only play casually with my friends, so I actually prefer open mic because it's more immersive and sometimes funny to hear people scream.

[@azdabomb]

Ragesym talking about TAB for the journal was hilarious

[@alexst3232]

Congratz on 800k

[@oldellie3131]

Every new PHasmo player needs this info

[@killerash13]

Shadow resolution is very important ! You need to have it at least high otherwise you will have lights from downstairs coming upstairs through the floor(corners) you might see some with high so if you can turn it to very high but at least high

[@racism_CEO]

thanks for this, but can you also make this guide for VR?

[@Noahjg777]

I put my flashlight toggle on an easy to hit button on my mouse. It’s saved me so many times being able to toggle flashlight quickly.

[@StarlightUltra]

Congrats on 800k insym!

[@epikmb24]

The default keybinds are definitely weird. I rebound a few of them, but didn't think of remapping the journal key. Thanks for your keybinds!

[@vergilaj1213]

"One of the first things you should do when you download this game is change EVERYTHING" -insym 2023

[@Kaltsit-]

I’m glad I found out the meta key-binds for Phasmo.

[@tomaliothetomato439]

Gonna be applying this next time I get on

[@userhasdied2704]

i like how he gets progressively more and more annoyed as the video goes on, watch the start of the video and just skip to controls. the mood difference is funny

[@erikac.9464]

Thank you, I changed it and wow, what a difference.

[@cptn.penguin902]

You forget to mention one advantage of turning off the Skybox setting, which is that it makes the dirt in the Asylum staircase disappear xD

[@HexaMelonN]

thanks, and congrats on 800K!

[@captainngoose]

My biggest complaint is the damn lighting. They basically don't allow anyone to talk about it on the subreddit.

[@pokethejerrbear]

Thank you for the tips. Can't wait to try it on the console update

[@semdevries3241]

Congratz on 800k subs!

[@SacapuntasDeMetal]

Thank you, nice video, i loved your explanations, and now my game looks sooooo better

[@hazelyuh]

Well done on 800k!!!

[@nicktravis6230]

Omg. I tried these keybinds. Absolutely gamechanging. Now test it for CS and all my other games lmao

[@mayaneko1094]

I can see the advantage of seeing more with 90 FOV, but at the same time, the view gets warped and stuff moves across the screen faster and that's what makes me motion sick. I can still watch videos with 90 FOV, but mostly because i don't need to look at it for 2 hours straight^^ As for the radio buttons, i put them on my mouse (button 4 and 5), which feels quite natural to me by now^^ On top of that, i've also set the journal to mouse 3

[@stillcyj]

congrats on 800k insym!

[@cursedimageseveryday5559]

Full fleshed out raytracing would look so good in this game I can tell. Lighting and darkness are such a big part of this game afterall. And even maps aren't that big so it wouldn't cause that big of a performance drop

[@Obedthian-UK]

*sees the ghost for a second* "Oh it's a revent!"

[@blubbamoja]

Can you show us all the game intended hiding spots and all the other secret hiding spots?

[@blubbamoja]

And how hiding spots work, show your typical go to spots

[@Lainlegend]

I dont know why but turning off bloom just now after watching this video is the best thing I did.. SO MUCH BETTER!

[@myzthicc]

Congratulations on 800k! Been here for years through many trials and tribulations, and I’m prepared to stick with this channel through millions more. Huge respect and very deserved milestone.

[@nicholaswong605]

Congrats on 800k subs insym

[@LovedByR6S]

Ty insym with these settings i can play sunny meadows... before my game just crashed

[@Mrcatguyy]

Congrats on 800k!

[@armxnduqui]

Insym was so mad about J being the Journal keybind that I got actually scared

[@romano1661]

Vsync helped me a lot, it was going wayy up to 200 fps and I was having frame drops. Now its running 144 with no drops and no screen tear

[@RosaLev9]

I use my back key on my mouse for flashlight and forward for radio. It makes it SO much easier to chat with friends while running around, and you can quickly shut off flashlight when it's hunting =)

[@exep9lite878]

Congrats on 800k subs🎉🎉🎉

[@candycoatedroxx]

just curious: do you ever play on controller? the cursor sensitivity for menus REALLY sucks and some of the keybinds are a a little weird, i’d love to hear your thoughts!

[@billersun]

congrats on 800k insym

[@fakenickib6245]

I have recently been getting more immersed into things, and lower FOV really really helps with that (Even though irl fov is probably like 110) 80 FOV, shit i may try 75 today, makes the game more immersive And the T1 camera visible

[@ihass22]

At 10:00 it's so funny when he said he'd bang you and leave is soo funny😁 😂 😅😂 also happy 800k insmy

[@diabloein]

i set global PTT to one of my mouse buttons and sprint is my other mouse button. space bar for me is local PTT.

[@SwervingLemon]

Wish you'd crank the brightness even more for broadcast. Thanks for the tips, though!

[@maxialma546]

Ty for the video and the Q item swap advice, actually i didnt know that existe and my mouse scroll a little shitty and i always suffer for that

[@KzuuMC]

happy 800k subs insym

[@visceral6078]

If you don't have a crap microphone you can absolutely use voice activation rather than push to talk. Push to talk is awkward and boring because when it's enabled people just don't talk. I like to actually hear my friends laugh, shout, or scream. Voice activation captures genuine reactions. However if you have a crap mic then absolutely use push to talk or else you're just gonna get yourself or other players killed.

[@takumeme545]

Well yeah, if you're with friends use it all you want. But randoms shouldnt

[@nanaten3]

@@takumeme545 L

[@foxyaus]

Sum of this helped ❤ thanks V-Sync locks my game to 30fps for sum reason so that stays of for me lol the brightness was the most helpful part lol ❤

[@KhaosInductionCreator]

I agree on the AA setting, I despise TAA in any game, I just don’t like the way that it blurs the scene when moving/looking around; it may be less jagged and sharp along the edges of objects but it reduces the image quality while moving

[@YourToastIsMine]

it looks better already! Wow thanks

[@zmajsmp8580]

bruh you commented 1 minute after the video dropped and already set it up and tried it and commented

[@E96]

​@@zmajsmp8580He's speed

[@JG-te7hk]

Geeze Insym. LMFAO Take a chill pill for that journal keybind. Anyway we cant used WASD while ready journal, so it's okay to remove left hand from those keys to press J. don't need to overreach with your thumb.

[@CABakerGaming]

teachersym is back

[@alicehoman7761]

ngl I feel called out for using the sesame street method to remember the controls, I don't play many keyboard games so I'm not used to where buttons are and that's the only way I remember 😁

[@migwi17]

I was just wondering if they fixed the bugs on Windows Voice Recognition mode, haven't played in so long.

[@groblivsochbauggr]

the best advice to be given to any gamer, is to not settle for the default

[@purefoldnz3070]

does this method also add some new maps?

[@daedro]

Also, about MXAA antialiasing, in short, it's an equivalent of supersampling, so by changing this to x4 with 1080p resolution, you basically playing game in 4K. This is VERY heavy for PC, and that's why usually game rendering systems can't even use MXAA anymore.

[@TyBraek]

I could never figure out how to use the headcam… there really needs to be a prompt when you equip it.

[@justalpha2396]

A lot of the times when devs make the default settings for games it's designed for a specific artistic vision. For example the fov default making the hand look more normal than on higher ones. It's not always bad but a lot of the times it isn't practical for actually playing

[@ubermorph2555]

MSAA is fairly outdated and looks good but is very intensive in comparison to TAA which will provide much cleaner and smooth results with a much lower FPS impact. MSAA will look sharper and have no ghosting but TAA is softer and almost completely eliminates jagged edges. Either is fine it is a preference but I think TAA is overall better.

[@eddielombardo]

I would just recommend someone finding what key binds work comfortably for them. Also, pretty standard to get a mouse with multiple buttons which is very useful for games like this.

[@assetaden6662]

I think everyone should get mice with 2 extra buttons on the side, it literally makes your life easier by a mile. Not only in games. Wanna go back to the page you came from? Click on a mouse key without moving your hand\mouse to the other part of the screen.

[@TheCoffeeCat]

Insym, my settings were exactly like yours, I'm the kind of gamer who first and foremost tampers with all the settings to optimize the experience. Just a caveat - my brightness was at 2.5. I also HATE bloom, grain and chromatic aberration.

[@MainHook]

"First thing you sould try, after installing, it's changing everything" xD

[@peko2299]

5:06 I think crossplay still currently has an affect, I'm pretty sure that if you have crossplay off then you cant play with people who have it on.

[@DioBrandoR]

WOW finally not 1h or above logne video