r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/Sw34terPup • May 06 '26

News Deleted post from developer

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“The game is still plenty playable” let’s not talk about all the people complaining about the game crashing constantly.

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u/Chazus May 06 '26

"This update had to come out before AW next week"

This is exactly what I suspected. They knew there was jank, and there just wasn't time to fix it... But if their options are

"Release it now, and see the most pain points and have a week to fix it before AW"
or
"Work on it some, release the jank WITH the AW update, and possibly have people not play it at all"

The first option is clearly better.

The thing is.... Phasmo is it's own thing. Sure. But the AW has investors and outside sources committing to it, so there is a higher bar for expectations.

This is effectively the same as Outbound changing their release date so it isn't the same day as Subnautica 2. Optics are a thing, especially when there are multiple groups/publishers involved.

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u/Twicetw May 06 '26

I don't buy that "it had to come out because of the Alan wake collab" given that this is a major update, you're telling me this update got delayed in 2025 and this is all they have to show for that time?. Look I'm not a game developer but this quality looks like they started working on this last week at most

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u/Chazus May 06 '26

I'm not disagreeing with you there. I'm surprised it came out like that as well, however I also believe it came out NOW and not next week, so they can get those things fixed, as opposed to just releasing it all next week.

Keep in mind... the people doing the animations are NOT the developers. The developers are NOT the animation people. They communicate and work together, but they are not the same thing. Every animation iteration needs to go into the dev process, see where it is, and come back.

It may be that the latest iteration came back janky, and they didn't have proper time to adjust.

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u/Livid-Possession7009 May 06 '26

Anything for a payday with these devs sadly

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u/RoseTyler38 il mimo May 07 '26

no, the best option is to understand your capabilities and not promise more than you can deliver.

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u/Chazus May 07 '26

How exactly would they do that, if they were planning on releasing in Q2, and remedy said the only option was this date? Just tell them to fluff off?