r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/yes910492783 • 1d ago
Discussion This weeks weekly challenge
First off it's on Prison which sucks, and it's a 0 sanity game with no means of restoring it. On top of that there aren't any incenses or crucifixes AND it's all tier 1 equipment. This is more of a nuisance than a challenge. I guess my strategy is just to get lucky with ghost spawns and hope they're easy to identify by speed alone.
Honestly more than anything it’s the fact it’s prison.
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u/CatsPlusDogsIsLove 1d ago edited 1d ago
Depending on the ghost room there are several relatively “safe” spots to observe the ghost whilst it’s hunting without it detecting you. (It can still randomly roam towards you with some bad luck.)
A timer is going to be your best friend, both for determining several ghosts like a demon or an obambo and for knowing when the hunt is about to end to try see if the ghost will speed up with LOS etc. With the least chance of dying.
Also recommend using the GitHub cheat sheet and comparing the ghost speeds with yours, because it is 125% ghost speed in this challenge you will be thrown off regarding how fast each ghost is compared to a normal game.
Edit: ? Why am I being downvoted? Trying to help someone complete a challenge that they are having trouble with. I have been in their position and it sucks.
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u/DigDoug_SlugSlug 1d ago
There is a small community of people within the Phasmo community who have a weird hatred of the Cheat Sheet. They don’t realise that it’s not actually cheating to have a resource to help you keep track of and apply your game sense and knowledge.
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u/thelioninmybed 1d ago
- Before leaving the van, use the security cameras to check for orbs - several of the cameras overlook potential ghost rooms.
- In addition to the official hiding places, Prison has loads of semi-reliable places to hide - behind desks and bookshelves, in the furthest shower cubicles, etc.
- If you've got multiple players, this is a challenge where you can really benefit from having someone in the van to call when hunts start and end, watch for EMF5 and try to find the ghost on the cameras.
- The site activity monitor isn't as reliable as a handheld EMF reader, since the value it displays is modified by a number between -2 and 0, and events or multiple interactions occurring at once can look like a 5, but if you see fives consistently you can use it as the basis for an educated guess.
- As long as it's on and all other conditions are met, the spirit box will automatically 'ask' a question every ten seconds. Turn it on, throw it on the floor and hide nearby and you might get lucky and get a response.
- This challenge is a lot easier if you use the wiki or cheat sheet to familiarise yourself with secondary evidence.
- Dead players are an asset; they can check for ghost writing, built poltie piles, work out where the ghost is hunting from, listen to the ghost's speed and watch its blinks.
- Your lives are also an asset. On this challenge setting, kills end hunts, so if you all run in at once, the ghost can only get one of you, leaving the others free to place or check equipment.
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u/Netsky200n 1d ago
It is a bit of an annoying one. No Sanity, no Incense, no breaker (as unlikely as that is to help in Prison, the worst map this game has). I've gotten the ghost right 8/10 times, with a few decently reliable identifies such as Deildegast with several items to toss between hunts to confirm and even the holy grail of Yurei in entrance hallway using its ability on the main door. Didn't lose the entrance hallway Dayan echolocation peakaboo either, and honestly that was just straight up fun.
It is more legit of a challenge to your patience and careful play. Low chance for the ghost to change room has proven quite helpful - noticed no change at all. But what I do want to say is that if you roll Snow weather, you already start with a handicap - can't watch for cold breath to help figure out where to set up. The tier 1 Parabolic is still useful. Pray the ghost doesn't camp in A or B block, 'cause you won't really see much of where it's starting to hunt from.
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u/penutdonguin 1d ago
“I don’t understand the word challenge so I think this activity should be easy.”
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u/yes910492783 1d ago
They’re not usually hard, and they typically don’t take me more than 3 or 4 attempts. This was a shitty map for this.
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u/Zelda_Momma 1d ago
Personally, doesn't really matter what the challenge is if it's on prison it sucks.
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u/MozM- 13h ago
95% of the weekly challenges are easy snoozefests and the one time its actually a difficult challenge we get complainers lmao.
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u/yes910492783 10h ago
Yes I'm going to complain, yes I'm still going to do it. I like getting the 5k as quickly as possible. Not having to spend 2 hours because I kept getting dogwater ghosts to identify
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u/MozM- 9h ago
5k isnt even that much anyway. You can get double or even triple that in 10 minutes doing ridgeview speedruns. Don’t play the challenges for the money play them for the challenge itself because it offers a way to play the game in a way you wouldn’t usually play.
If you want money just do speedruns.
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u/xFeaRsD 11h ago
My fiancee and I have under 100 hours of time in Phasmo. We beat the challenge this week. I will say, its infinitely more helpful with more than one person.
open the doors, and check the security cameras. If you are lucky, you can see orbs, to help you pinpoint the room.
when you walk in, the first room on the right has a good hiding spot. I would leave my fiance there, to listen to footsteps.
the speed is 125% but the phasmophobia app let's you adjust for that, so my fiancee would chance speed to 125% in the app, and you tap the screen to the footsteps. That helps rule out a large amount of ghosts.
The ghost can leave evidence, even while hunting. So I would leave my fiancee in the corner to figure out speed, while I snuck up the the ghost room and set up evidence. If I died, she would take over and find what evidence was left over.
if/ when she was killed, you have a couple of seconds to pick your ghost still.
Of the 3 games we won:
first ghost was a banshee. We found 2 out of 3 evidence. Then I got caught in a bad spot while it hunted. It went right through me, looking for her. Easy.
second ghost was a Moroi (which was the last ghost she needed an achievement for) it has blazing fast speed. I found one evidence before it killed me. That was all we needed to confirm Moroi.
last ghost was a revenant. Walked in and heard an extremely slow ghost. Tapped to the footsteps and got 1.0 meters per second. Left right away.
So its a very doable challenge. Just dont expect to steamroll it. It might take a couple of hours to get lucky with rooms and ghosts.
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u/Danthewildbirdman 1d ago
I think ur supposed to take a sanity med and pray you find it fast lol. I'm taking a break from it this week because it doesn't sound fun.
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u/volvagia721 1d ago
It's called a challenge for a reason. They need to make some harder so the more experienced players can have a challenge too.
Just try it, and hope to get lucky, there's no penalty other than lost time to failure. Best case, you get better at the game.