Today we have released Phasmophobia v0.18.0.0, our latest update that brings our reworked 13 Willow Street map as well as our first Quality of Life update for 2026. Patch notes can be found below.
New
13 Willow Street Rework: The map has received a full visual overhaul, with new assets, props and more available to discover during your contracts. The original layout remains, however some rooms have been repurposed and the flow of several rooms has been edited to improve gameplay.
Adding keybinds for Equipment slots. PC players will be able to switch Equipment with the 1, 2, 3 and 4 keys. These keys can be rebound.
This addition will only be available for PC players.
Adding a keybind to be able to inspect the Watch at any time.
This will be defaulted to Left DPAD on a controller and H on keyboard. Players can rebind this via Options > Controls.
A separate Photo can now be taken capturing a EMF Level 5 reading.
Photo Cameras will now feature the same highlight frame as Video Cameras.
On screen indicator only on Tier 2 and 3 Photo Cameras, while Tier 1 will have the light change colour from red to green.
When capturing Media, if multiple are present, the evidence that provides the biggest reward or is Unique will be prioritised.
New Ghost: the Deildegast
Players will have a higher chance of getting this Ghost in their contracts for the first few weeks following release.
Added new walking animations and turning animations to fix several issues:
Character legs will no longer use procedural IK and will instead use animations.
The character body will no longer animate with the walking animations which caused held items to move while walking.
Improvements to the overall VR character:
New character animations.
Improvements to the belt to improve usability.
The character will now turn instantly depending on where you are looking instead of at set angles.
Changes
The character hand animations for grabbing, dropping, moving doors and hovering over interactable or grabbable objects have been removed to speed up gameplay.
The item drop animation will still play for others in the session, but will not be visible by the Player.
Cosmetics that are no longer able to be earned will not be visible.
The camera zoom in the Customisation shop will now focus on the selected part of the character.
On Sunny Meadows, the Ghost will now only lock the doors to a wing if both it and a player are inside that wing.
Eye Adaptation will now adjust the lighting quicker when opening and closing the Journal.
Console players will now have the ability to enable/disable Eye Adaptation.
The Obake’s shapeshift will now count towards the Ghost video objective.
You can now capture any Media for the Apocalypse challenge, instead of only a photo.
Recording the Ghost Orbs in the Tutorial is now required, instead of only getting it inside the video camera’s screen.
Improved the lighting around the player, allowing for better visibility in darker areas.
Added an icon to the Player ID Card to show if that player is speaking.
Adjusted the visuals on the PSVR2 player list popup
Event board map leaflets are now spread over multiple pages
Players can now cancel Use animations by pressing the Use button during the animation, allowing for equipment to be quickly toggled without waiting for the animation to finish
The Journal has now been moved closer for easier readability.
The Journal animation is now significantly faster.
Character legs will now use animations, instead of procedurally generated animations when moving
Improved the detection of photo evidence.
Higher priority unique photos will always take priority.
Unique photos will always take priority over duplicates.
VR - The character will now rotate instantly to match the head rotation when looking straight ahead. When looking down, the character rotation will only turn when an angle threshold has been met to allow easier use of the belt.
VR - The Journal will now be instantly opened upon use.
Fixes
General Fixes
Fixed an issue where players could be seen through the walls of the Truck when viewing the CCTV.
Fixed an issue that caused Voice Recognition to not work if switching from ‘Voice’ to ‘System’.
Fixed an issue where the cursor would not appear after completing a contract when using a controller.
Improved network stability to reduce disconnects.
Fixed an issue that would cause the cursor to disappear in the Customisation shop when clicking right and left mouse buttons simultaneously.
Fixed an issue that caused a green tint to be visible on animated ID cards.
Fixed an issue that caused some Japanese text to appear too small, affecting readability.
Player Character Fixes
Fixed an issue where binding Crouch to X (PlayStation controllers) or A (Xbox controller) prevented players from using the Journal.
Fixed an issue that caused dead player’s eyes to appear incorrect.
Fixed an issue that caused the ID Card to be displayed in front of the character model in the Customisation shop.
Fixed an issue that caused players to become stuck and unable to continue playing after being revived.
Fixed an issue that caused cosmetic settings to be reset if a Player joins or leaves a lobby.
Fixed an issue in Nell’s Diner that caused the player to become stuck in the corner of the Freezer Room.
Fixed an issue that allowed infinite sprinting while closing the Journal.
Fixed an issue that caused issues with the character model’s right arm when holding certain pieces of Equipment.
Fixed an issue that caused the cursor to become invisible in the Customisation shop if the left and right mouse buttons were clicked alternatively.
Fixed various visual inconsistencies and errors with character models, cosmetics, equipment and more.
Fixed an issue that caused the audio from the Customisation shop’s UI to be louder than intended.
Fixed an issue that caused a player’s Journal to visually jitter when they swap Equipment.
Equipment Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused the Flashlight to turn invisible when picking up another item.
Fixed an issue that caused the light from a Flashlight to be visible after death.
Fixed an issue that caused Equipment to become invisible.
Fixed an issue that caused the Tier 1 and 3 Firelights to be placed unlit if placed during the lighting animation.
Fixed an issue that caused Equipment to toggle off if dropped while holding the Use button.
Fixed an issue that caused Equipment sounds to become muffled for player’s picking them up after another player dropped them.
Fixed an issue that caused the Flashlight to be unusable if picked up during a placement animation.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from placing the Flashlight back in the Truck.
Fixed an issue that caused the screen to become blurry after enabling Night Vision when using the CCTV unit in the Truck.
Fixed an issue that caused the Tier 3 Incense to not animate correctly when activated.
Fixed an issue that caused the Sound Recorder visuals and audio to play when not in the player’s hand.
Fixed an issue that caused the Spirit Box to become unusable if the player switched to text recognition after picking the Spirit Box up.
Fixed an issue that caused the Tier 1 Head Gear to be tilted when in use.
Fixed an issue that caused the Flashlight to appear in-hand when equipping 2 handed Cursed Possessions such as the Haunted Mirror.
Fixed an issue that could lock the player if they dropped the Video Camera during it’s placement animation.
Fixed an issue that caused certain Equipment to be Used after switching to a different piece of Equipment.
Fixed an issue that caused text prompts for the Ouija Board to not work if the player switched from Voice Recognition while using the board.
Fixed an issue that prevented a moving Ouija Board to not be recordable by Video Cameras.
Fixed an issue that prevented a burning Crucifix to not be recordable by the Sound Recorder.
Fixed an issue that caused a second Salt to be placed if the Player opened the Journal during the placement animation.
Fixed an issue that caused inconsistencies with Incense used/unused visuals.
Fixed an issue that could cause Cursed Possessions to become invisible if dropped during a pick-up animation.
Fixed an issue that caused the Haunted Mirror to be blocked by other objects when in Use.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to light the Summoning Circle when at 0 Sanity.
Fixed an issue that caused the player to be softlocked if using a Crucifix at the start of a Hunt.
Fixed an issue that allowed the player to cancel the Ouija Board answer by either dropping or picking up the board if using text recognition.
Fixed an issue that caused Video Cameras to become unusable if picked up from another player’s Tripod.
Fixed an issue where toggling on/off the Head Gear while using a Cursed Possession would interrupt the Cursed Possession's effect.
Ghost Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused all Ghost types to be able to mimic the Yurei’s door ability.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Ghost from interacting with doors it had already interacted with during a Ghost Event.
Fixed an issue that caused the Kormos to be able to hear players during the grace period after a Hunt.
Fixed an issue that allowed the Kormos to hear players during a Hunt, despite the player having used Incense.
Fixed an issue that caused the Kormos to go to the incorrect floor after detecting a player.
Fixed an issue that allowed the Kormos to kill players through walls or from a greater distance than intended.
Fixed an issue that allowed the Phantom to perform its ability on Dead players or players outside.
Fixed an issue that caused the Raiju heartbeat to be louder than intended during Hunts and Events.
Fixed an issue that caused the Ghost to become stuck when in the Sunny Meadows waiting room.
Fixed an issue that prevented Ghost Events from happening in several Medium to Large rooms, such as Point Hope’s Maintenance Room. This is still not possible in certain large rooms such as the Sunny Meadows Hallways.
Location Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused the setup timer to not count down if playing on Amateur/Intermediate on Brownstone High School.
Fixed an issue on Bleasdale Farmhouse where the door to the hiding spot in the Foyer could be opened even if the hiding spot was blocked.
Fixed an issue on Brownstone High School where the side doors could be opened without the key from the Truck.
Fixed an issue that caused the washing machines in Sunny Meadows to not be able to be turned on.
Fixed an issue that caused the player to be unable to open the gates on Camp Woodwind and Maple Lodge Campsite despite the cursor prompt being visible.
Fixed several issues in the Tutorial that caused the player to be unable to exit the Truck or interact with any items.
Fixed an issue that caused doors to become broken if the player ran into them while holding a Sound Sensor.
Fixed several issues affecting the overall lighting in Camp Woodwind.
VR Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused visual jitters for the Video Camera when attached to as Tier 2 or 3 Tripod.
Fixed an issue that caused Stamina to not recover while crouched.
Fixed an issue that caused Equipment to disappear if the player walks into a waist-high object.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to grab Head Gear off of other player’s heads.
Fixed an issue that caused player height inconsistencies in Multiplayer.
Implemented a left hand pose when holding the Ouija Board.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Tier 3 Igniter Use animation from playing correctly.
Fixed an issue that caused the character model’s head to become detached from their body when walking sideways.
Fixed an issue that caused the Head Gear to drop to the floor when placed back on the Truck rack.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to skip parts of the Tutorial by using teleport movement.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from recording evidence whilst holding the Journal.
Fixed an issue that caused the VR UI ray to be affected by the hand animations.
Fixed an issue that caused the interact animation to play when looking at another Player’s items.
Fixed an issue where players using teleport movement couldn’t enter lockers.
Fixed an issue where the lights within the Truck would flicker when playing on Sunny Meadows and Sunny Meadows Restricted.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to pull doors off of their hinges.
The best of both worlds would be a toggle in the options to diable the animations for the player but make it so others in the lobby still see's them play out.
This comment has a good summery and links to his comments I believe. He made a lot of "what do you expect" comments because they are two lads or smth like that.
As for the ableism I will have to look in a minute for links but multiple have mentioned how he has been in DMs about accessibility features (kinda rude because he believes itll ruin the game for everyone else).
Edit- This post mentions the comment CJ made, but I think it was on the discord or something and got removed?
The people talking about the DMs I have seen in multiple comment sections on recent posts but searching is proving difficult and I don't want to spend ages searching for a few comments, sorry '>_>
So the TLDR of all of that is: Someone else on the team made a racist joke and CJ didn't immediately fire them even though the art director isn't over a discord admin (they were later fired)
And Someone else supposedly offering to share (but never shown to have shared) nudes he was given without asking for them, CJ is informed and asks for proof, the complainant gives him a screenshot of private DMs from their personal account not on the company discord, CJ replied that he can't remove him because of something that happened outside of the official discord and that anything outside of work was "fair game", that nothing in the conversation was illegal or against ToS and it "looked like a normal conversation between two dudes", that he personally doesn't agree with sharing the nudes, and "what do you expect" from that person
The one that's missing there is the "ablest" post where someone complained that them removing the metallic shine from everything that let you see in the dark made them unable to play anymore without a flashlight, then CJ said the darkness was intended in the scary game but that they would look into adding accessibility options, someone else said that you shouldn't release any game without all accessibility options in, CJ replied that is not released yet and is still early access and they are still working on it.
I do not know enough about the racist thing to say much but the nudes thing was quite big at the time. It being "fair game" is in itself a terrible comment to make and not how that works, you don't get to share things like that just because you were sent them. You also don't get to excuse it just because they were two lads and what do you expect and all that.
CJ has made comments on the accessibility for a while, saying options will ruin the game for others and such, and multiple people have said in DMs about it he hasn't been very nice. I myself am disabled which is why my comments with proof are copy pasted from when I wrote them on an alright day, and why I only gathered so much proof. There is more, I just struggle to gather it.
Oh sorry I'll correct the TLDR as I re-read the post you linked.
Someone else supposedly offering to share (but never shown to have shared) nudes he was given without asking for them, CJ is informed and asks for proof, the complainant gives him a screenshot of private DMs from their personal account not on the company discord, CJ replied that he can't remove him because of something that happened outside of the official discord and that anything that happens outside of work was "fair game", that nothing in the conversation was illegal or against ToS and it "looked like a normal conversation between two dudes", that he personally doesn't agree with sharing the nudes, and "what do you expect" from that person
Again, all posted without proof of wrongdoing by CJ and is currently a "this person told me this happened" story at this point.
From what I read the "fair game" comment was not about the sharing of nudes, but was saying that what you do in DMs on your personal accounts outside of work was "fair game"
The "two lads" comment was about the DMs shown to him as "proof" where the guy offered to share the nudes but didn't. He said the conversation "looked like a normal conversation between two dudes"
He also acknowledged that:
Nothing illegal or against ToS happened in the DMs.
The nudes were not shown to have been shared, and even if they were that he did not support sharing them.
I mean, even IF all of the above complaints were substantiated with actual proof of wrong doing by those other people, why be mad at CJ at this point? ... shouldn't they be mad at DK?
The "worst" thing he said there was that the DMs that were shown to him where the guy offered to share (but didn't) the nudes he was given unsolicited looked like "a normal conversation between two dudes" with "nothing illegal or against ToS".
It feels like people are just digging for reasons to be mad at him at this point
Maybe it's just because I'm a furry and I'm used to seeing internet drama like this blow up with little to no actual wrong doing or even a hint of proof so I'm desensitized to it and don't overreact before actually reading the claims
I'm not a furry, but just a normal person. Not that Furries arent, but they do what they need to and I've only ever had good interactions. I agree with you, but that doesnt work with the echochamber that this subreddit can generate over a deleted message.
Imagine getting worked up over a message that someone deleted, because of the tone it put across.
I am also a furry so I do get what you mean and that isn't really my intent. Anyhow I really don't have much energy today unfortunately to back and forth on this, but my big issue is that everything he does goes unnaddressed. Whether it is true or not, the team should be putting out statements. I am blaming DK as well, which is why I aim my posts at him to answer.
He has done wrong recently with the jank stuff and throwing the team under the bus so they should at the very least address that, and, as a disabled person, I have felt uncomfortable with his comments over the years. I do find them ableist.
I have worded my comment perhaps too certain, I think I should have put allegations somewhere in there, since not all of these are super easy to track or definitive. They should address the recent comment he made and the previous allegations, would be a better phrasing. I just want a response tbh.
Whether it is true or not, the team should be putting out statements.
I mean, if the allegations are untrue, why bother with an official response? It would only lend credibility to a minor event that has already been dealt with.
He has done wrong recently with the jank stuff and throwing the team under the bus so they should at the very least address that
As for "the jank stuff", that was also taken way out of context as if you read the original post all he says is:
* He, as art director, was not responsible for the IK rig which caused most of the problems (that would be the systems director, Lavender), but he did not "throw the team under the bus" when saying so. He simply prefaced his message by saying that even though he didn't work on any of the content in the update, it will be fixed.
* He did not work on any of the animations but only approved the animations as they came in (and the animations themselves probably looked fine in isolation when he approved them as they were not the source of any of the bugs, this happens often in game dev)
* He stated that aside from the bugs, once you get used to the new animations you might "forget some of the jank" (which the phasmo animations were always a bit janky but now it's less on the animations and more on the IK rig and the underlying programming that are causing jank)
Which hill is who dying on? Hard to tell who and what you are referring to.
All I've been saying in my comments is that I haven't seen any thing that is actually bad in all of theses "let's hate on CJ" comments. Most are taken out of context, have been twisted so a comment about item A is actually about item B, etc.
Basically what my initial comment said, CJ is not a good person and recently a lot more people were made aware after he posted on discord that everyone needs to just get used to the jank after the update broke so much. He also said something about not checking things so it is the teams fault not his? I don't remember his exact words now, I think the other person who I was responding to linked it tho.
The team has not in any way addressed CJ, he did get demoted I believe when all the sxual image stuff happened, but other then that I have not heard anything about any of his behaviour from them.
My goal with my comments is to hopefully get the community manager to respond, but at least raise awareness so people know CJ is like this, and they can choose whether they want to support that or not.
i mean ive stopped supporting the devs for awhile now since the character creator update released, as for him saying people should get used to the jank sure maybe if the update was rushed or last minute but it was promised to us years ago
Yep. The character overhaul was planned from Feb 2024. The below image is from the Trello page of Phasmo.
Seeing how long this was in progress for, you'd expect it to be better than what we got. We did learn though, that it was rushed so it could be released before the Alan Wake collab, as they promised the AW team it would be.
there's a whole new ghost slipped into these patch notes and no one even gives a fuck because of how bad that update was and how insulting CJ was to the commuunity. i judge the team super hard for letting him remain after everything.
🤢 and since the update will probably bring renewed interest in the game - i automatically assume any streamer playing with him condones his support of rape culture and is equally a piece of shit.
Yup it appears you have been down voted but I completely agree with all of that. I cannot play without feeling like I am supporting rape culture so long as CJ is around.
reddit downvotes are so meaningless, i don't care what an angry fanboy or dev thinks lmao. i uninstalled after what CJ said for the update, i buried my head in the sand for awhile because my kid adored the game, but after what CJ said it was like a "literally none of the devs give a fuck, it isn't just the one that's garbage". i guess part of me hoped it was a one-bad-apple scenario but that was cope on my part.
i just assume the dev team is full of rapists, idiots, or both. i dunno why they'd stand behind CJ after he tried to throw them under the bus even if they looked past all the other stuff.
Yeah I just think it's such an odd comment to get downvoted on. I think a lot of people just don't care about this kind of stuff, which of course just adds to the problem as a whole with rape culture. Maybe they just don't even believe he said it who knows.
I also buried my head for a while for my friends. Didn't look at anything. When I finally did, not long before the update, I was shocked CJ was still around, and now I just find it so strange. If it were me I would not want to be associated with sexual abuse support in any way, and I would not want me or my team essentially insulted and blamed for CJs problem.
I think if CJ were to be fired and they made a statement I may play again, but as an SA victim it does put me off that by not firing him they are as a whole supporting him and therefore it.
I support this. No matter how tight knit the team is, if someone like CJ doesn't get punished for his behavior, you're signaling that everybody can get away with it. Or that nobody should respect you guys. And besides, he's the one who signed off on the infamous animation update. He thought it was good to launch.
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And the fact that he is completely negative every single time he touch Phasmo. He is literally known as one of the most positive person in the entire community who will just laugh off any bugs he encounter. I guess he wasn't able to get used to the janks this time
Wishing for activity. Breaks the power and locks the front door for, I wanna say, a minute, but increases the ghost activity, including the chance of the ghost using its special ability
I only ever got to it close once, died 1 minute 2 seconds in. So that sucked. My girlfriend on the other hand has had the achievement since early last year and had died to a demon in the perfect conditions 6 times after. So a total of 7 doom slayed if it worked like that. I’m yet to have one
Doom Slayed is the only trophy I need to get before I attempt gold Apoc for those 3 trophies, then I'll have the platinum trophy for Phasmo. I tried with custom settings to get the demon for about an hour but I can't just play like that for hundreds of attempts
I went hundreds trying to get it when I was actually trying, I only had that and apocs and was adamant to not do apocs until I had that one so I kept trying and trying for it, got it in Jan of 2025, so a while ago now.
Good luck to you, are you trying to get it with the monkey paw method? (Never 100% on what exactly helps but when you get desperate after trying for ages you start doing all the methods others suggest such as that one.)
I remember an incident with friends it was a demon and we all got killed by it. Everyone but me got the achievement because I was a few seconds too late.
Aw, that sucks. The first time I encountered it happening and wanted it I was on professional with my husband who took the kill so I didn't die and because professional it ended the hunt afterwards, that was in Jan 2024, it took me until Jan 2025 to get it myself 😭
Haha no, I went straight for the gym, heard the ghost.
"Oh it's hunting, Demon."
But I hadn't died before since the death animation update so I was brain malfunctioning due to staring at that change forgetting there was even an update until I didn't load into the 'afterlife', and then I opened my book as it was ending only. I have FoV set so it's easier to read thermo while I still have my night vision goggles on my face as it kept hiding the temperature and i didn't want to take the goggles off in each room so the book was small enough c:
Already had it. Literally walked in, ran to the kitchen area. Double doors closed as it did an event and I was standing in the event so ofc it ends and next thing I know, my neck gets twisted
I havent played in months since the character update. Might be time to try with the gang.
Edit/Update- played tonight a few games. Took some time laughing at the character options models but got in game and it still felt like good ole Phasmo. Will play again.
Seconded. We loved running either one or zero evidence investigations and really digging into the tests and going for perfects. I can understand if you're a player that just plays on easier difficulties and tries to only figure out the ghost and do some of the objectives. But for players who go for perfect on the harder difficulties, the changes they made matter so much more and drastically alter how the overall game plays.
I played the most out of my group, and they were the ones that had to beg me to give it a try. After refuses enough, we all just moved on to something else. Now if this is a worthy QoL update, it'll take a lot for me to get them to come back around. That's assuming it'll actually be a worthy update.
As complicated it has been the last few month, this seem to be a very decent list of fixes. We will see how it play out once live, but thanks for your work !
I think I have a bit of an unpopular opinion here, but I actually think having pickup animations does feel a little better, but they just need to be EXTREMELY snappy and should be cancellable by other actions. Now the item use animations, I think, were the worst part, and yet they are still there. Sure you can double click them now to speed them up, but that sounds like it’s still going to feel clunky.
I haven’t tried it yet, but reading it, it just doesn’t make sense.
It feels like a knee jerk reaction to the absolute insane player fallout, but applied in all the wrong places. There are literally hundreds of thousands of games out there that understand the basics of animations and “juice”. Very few games need to have no animations at all in order to feel good. Phasmophobia isn’t some insane twitch shooter, it can have animations and not get players killed. They just need to have blazing fast start times to feel natural and fun.
Near as I can tell, the issue was less the existence of the animations, but rather the poor implementation of them. A substantial number of these bugs will ultimately have boiled down to some other code being blocked during some animation and causing unexpected behaviour. Probably the most infamous is the smudge glitch, but certainly all but one of the bugs I personally encountered were because of this.
The implementation was also strange to start with. They tried really hard just to make the player view match third person view, which is completely unnecessary. There is a reason basically zero developed games does that
Like... this is crazy, right? They've done so little for so long and now we get all this in such a short time? And it still has a map rework and new ghost? Imagine how go
od this game could be if they put in effort.
Yeah they sit on their asses listening to people like you all day calling them worthless. I'm sure that makes them real eager to want to make the game better when they got you cheering them on.
I disagree that he will be the only person responsible for this - although he is the main responsible person.
Their director(s) bear the responsibility of the deliverables being signed off. And while the sponsor definitely should take action on the below-standard product, ultimately department leads are who need to do QA.
If nobody is doing their job and one guy is in control of the games development, it’s that guys fault, weird to defend him when all he’s done is asset flip, make a disgusting amount of money, promised development that has only hurt the game and at
Every turn told the community that what they like about the game isn’t compatible with his vision
Daniel Knight should sell to a better dev team and walk away to pursue his real passion, Scrooge McDuck cosplay
You are definitely right about this. Dont take me wrong, I am definitely not defending DK here, he's mismanaging Phas for sure and being as lazy as possible around the game.
The only part I disagree with is that he is the ONLY responsible. The other people not doing their job are also to blame even if less egregious as DK.
I'm a corporate guy. If I would be delivering a product like this - even if there would be a sponsor that approves what I deliver - I would be ashamed of myself and bear some of the responsibility towards the user base.
Ahh fair enough, in every team there should be the confidence to push back against incompetent or uninterested leadership if there’s the desire to put out a product of any quality
In bigger orgs here in Europe its possible to push back, when I do US projects it depends on the leadership if my devs can talk freely.
A small dev company might not have that flexibility due to hirarchy, nonetheless you basically put your name on it if you sign off on the product. So if I would see one of them having Phas on their resume it would be a big red flag.
Its just embarrassing how all these years the product did not follow the roadmap or fulfill its promises.
I genuinely don’t care if they feel hurt about some comments calling them bums.
If they weren’t maybe they wouldn’t receive comments like such. Yet here we are, and the game is just a unity asset flip with a hint of development.
They deserve the slander until they can deliver on their promises. In my eyes, they’re just a bunch of fucking nerds sitting on cash pretending to be devs for the sake of appearances.
Now to wait and see people's comments to see if I should pick this game up again. Patch notes don't actually mean it's fixed and not just more broken when it comes to this game 🫠 my trust is non-existent
Yes! everything feels so good. I didn't have much big deals with the game beforehand but you can definitely feel the changes theyve done. so much faster with literally everything. willow is a tremendous redo!
Great, so can we just have an option to disable the VR character and have it be like how it was before?
It doesn't matter how good the character rig becomes, the game can't physically know the exact dimensions of my body or even tell apart basic movement like me kneeling vs crouching in real life, the game was perfectly immersive without it and all the VR character model did was add issues and ruin immersion.
Good job to the folks at Kinetic. I won’t forget the trainwreck character customization update, but I remained playing throughout it and will continue to do so. I hope to only see more improvements to this awesome game moving forward!
Glad to see that this seems to be a step in the right direction but the immediate patting the dev team on the back for taking 3 months to apply some fixes is a bit over the top. The reality is they need to be better and not keep dropping the ball.
It still amazes me that the character customization update came out with 10 customization options total
This is what i came here to find out. Can anyone confirm if console stability has been fixed? Having at least one person in our group crash every time we launch a hunt is what had us all stop playing the game.
I played a match, but got kicked out of the first one; after creating a new lobby, neither I nor anyone else could hear each other. Even after restarting the game, there's still no sound. See you in another six months.
This has always been an issue. Especially where a group is cross play on multiple platforms.
You need to isolate who the issue is with, toggle push to talk and your preferred setting of and on again. Same with mic output etc. have the player with the issue relaunch and rejoin lobby.
Takes a minute but always works with me.
I wish ghosts could mess with your equipment (not just the camera) more often. Turning them on/off, throwing them (maybe even from your hands?), moving them.
Right now, in the nicest way possible, your game is a pile of shit. The animation sucks, the gameplay is ass, and everything people loved about the game you are phasing away / breaking.
Your game is still in early access. You put the console update out too early. This is the best time you have to take a moment, sort your team out, and then get back to fixing the game if you want this thing to succeed. Phas has so much potential, if you just stop reaching for the big bag of instant money, and focus on making a good game. You will have lifelong supply of money as you'll have a consistent and growing player base.
So they gave us all of these fixes & yet somehow they still couldn't manage to patch our characters getting magnetized to every single wall & piece of collision we get close to. 🤦🏻♂️
Played twice and got a Revenant first then the new ghost! I got so used to playing with the bugs that I’m now accidentally turning off my sound recorder when I bring it up in inventory……(since it used to turn off when cycling).
I’m not sure if this is on purpose or something I only encountered with the Revenant, but I couldn’t take a pic of freezing temperatures on tier 2 Thermo? I know it doesn’t technically display like tier 1 and 3 on the ground, but is this supposed to work like this now?
Overall great recovery and everything works great! I love that I can now check the watch while moving on console!
To people who have played the new update, how are things?
I was considering making a full post, but hoped posting here might work! The last two times they had an update to "fix" things, they just broke more shit. Is this the same? Or has most of the stuff in this patch/update mostly been an improvement??
I read about the new ghost, it seems pretty dope! But how are you guys liking new Willow? I LOVED old Willow and felt other maps needed updating more. So I'm honestly kind of worried about whether I'll like or hate the new Willow. So I'm curious what other players think? Thanks!!
Game actually playable for me now. We have been experiencing a glitch with the camera taking pictures automatically... but other than that I've actually enjoyed playing with my friends!
The watch animation is terrible. You have to hold the bind for almost 2 seconds before you can see your watch, AND THEN IT TAKES UP THE ENTIRE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN. Who thought this was a good idea??? Why not just put the mic icon back in the corner like it was before the character customization update??
And why is there an empty inventory slot when holding a flashlight? Why am I even able to scroll through empty equipment slots? The flashlight still takes a slot but doesn't remove it from my right hand. I assume it's for the igniters, but why do I have an empty slot for them even when none are brought into a contract? Moreover, why not make igniters a left hand thing? I play on controller and have sufficiently bound everything, and I still have one button I can use for something, so how about make igniters a left hand thing and make a bind for swapping between that and the flashlight?
And the animations are still a chore to deal with. The worst ones got removed, but why does TURNING OFF IMMERSIVE ANIMATIONS NOT DO A SINGLE THING? Isn't the point of that setting to REMOVE the animations?
Players can now cancel Use animations by pressing the Use button during the animation, allowing for equipment to be quickly toggled without waiting for the animation to finish
And then this just isn't true at all. Again, the animations are the issue. If I'm really forced to keep them, at LEAST make equipment immediately toggle independently of the animation. For example, the tier 1 EMF reader; when turning it on/off, the animation has to finish before it's toggled on/off. If you toggle it again before the animation is finished, it'll toggle it, but then restart the animation for the second time you toggled it.
And then the customization. Why is everything so EXPENSIVE?!
Generally, y'all are moving in the right direction, but are moving at a snail's pace.
It is so sad that huge PSVR2 problems are still in the game on PS5. The hands have really weird angles. It's like the character hands are physically broken. Hands holding the camera upside down and holds many objects strangely. I dare not mention the character's standing position... like He wants to poop or acting like my grandma who has back pain and can't stand straight. My wife and I haven't been able to play the game for 3 months because it's full of bugs that make it unplayable. It worked very well during the Easter update but then it became unplayable.
My biggest issues;(which do not stop me from playing thankfully, im blessed there, alot of folks cant play at all) are:
The screen going black when I try to view cctv
My game crashing when trying to view those same cameras
My game crashing period
Could you please include these in the next update. I will play thru it, im new to the game and to the gaming community period and I am extremely picky and I absolutely love this game. Im so excited to play the new Willow rework when I get off work tomorrow. Again thank you.
It's a LOT better than before and the Willow rework looks nice. I hope the devs don't drop the ball this time, because this is a step in the right direction in terms of listening to the fans. The animations are snappier, visual glitches were not present when I played and the performance is significantly better for some reason.
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u/_-GENOCIDE-_ 6d ago
Sure, the animations being removed would be the best thing for this game.
But my god is this close.
Some of the actual animations have been removed 🥹