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Phasmophobia adds two new ghosties that I don’t want to meetTo find them you’ll need to be talkative and chilly
To find them you’ll need to be talkative and chilly
I picked upPhasmophobiaagain for the first time in a while this weekend, and man, I’m bad at it! I’m not up-to-speed on how to properly identify the current ghosties, and now there are already two more for me to run away from. On Friday, developers Kinetic Games added the Yokai and Hantu spectres, who both sound rather awkward to pin down - but hey, sometimes challenges are fun even if you know you’re doomed to fail them. The devs have also hired a couple extra people to help out with production too.
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The Hantu (which is the Malay or Indonesian word for spirit) moves faster in cold areas. That doesn’t seem ideal, because I thought areas of paranormal activity were cold because of the ghostly presence. So, uh, I hope you packed a mini-heater?
In the patch notes, Kinetic Games detail a few other new additions, such as two new daily challenges. The first is to capture a 3-star ghost photo, and the second is to snap a pic of dirty water. That second one used to be a mission objective butgot removed because it was rubbish. Hopefully this time around it’s a little easier to complete, but if not, at least it’s only an optional daily challenge.
On top of that, players will now be able to sell items they’ve bought but don’t want for 50% of its original price, there’s a new small map named Will Street House (which has no closets or lockers to hide from ghouls in, terrifying!), and the devs have added a profanity filter for player and server names to catch out the ne’er-do-wells.
Then as well as the in-game newness, there’s some outside-of-game newness too. The solo developer of Kinetic Games, “DKnighter”, has hired an artist and a programmer to work with him on Phasmo. They’ll start working on future content “very soon”, plus they’ll be helping DKnighter make improvements to existing stuff too.
If you’re interested in the other long-term things the devs are working on, do check out thePhasmophobia development Trello board. Kinetic still want to make a couple of bigger maps - an apartment building and a mansion - as well as add stuff like night vision goggles and smashable items.
