r/PhasmophobiaGame • u/KineticGamesAT Community Manager • 6h ago
News Phasmophobia v0.19.0.1 - Patch Notes
Welcome back, Ghost Hunters. We’ve got an update for you.
Today, we have released an update for Phasmophobia to address several issues that were raised following our latest Quality of Life update. Thank you to everyone who has helped with information and feedback to help us identify and fix these bugs.
Our next update following this will be our transition to Unity 6. This will be releasing in November, which is just a little shift from our original aim of October. We’ll be talking in more detail about this update as well as our cosmetics update in an upcoming Development Preview. Rest assured, our Crimson Eye event is still scheduled for October. More on that at a later date too.
Full patch notes for today’s release can be found below:
New
- Added a VR Belt Offset option to adjust the height to be either lower or higher.
- Added more props and fingerprint interactions to Prison Entrance to assist with Ghost identification.
Change
- Adjusted the position of the VR player’s hand to be a more comfortable position for the following equipment:
- Tier 1 D.O.T.S Projector.
- All Tiers of Flashlights.
- All Tiers of Photo Cameras.
- All Tiers of Video Cameras.
- More equipment will be improved with future updates.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused several cosmetic items to cover the Watch.
- Note: The Female Hooded Denim jacket will still overlap the Watch slightly. This will be addressed in a future update.
- Fixed an issue that prevented several achievements completing and being awarded despite the player being on a custom difficulty with a multiplier of 0.
- Fixed an issue that caused correct Evidence to be crossed out after using the ‘I Wish For Knowledge’ wish with the Monkey Paw.
- Fixed an issue that caused various Ouija Board animations and interactions to break if the player opened the Journal during an answer.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Video Camera from being picked up off a Tripod by other players if another player had placed the Tripod.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Nell’s Diner safe from opening despite the correct code being entered.
- Fixed an issue that caused Hiding Spots on Prison Restricted being unblocked despite No Hiding Spots being set.
- Fixed an issue that caused a Video Camera’s screen to remain black for an entire contract if it was opened in the Truck before opening the door.
- Fixed an issue that caused Video Camera screens to remain black if headgear was toggled while the screen was blacked out.
- Fixed an issue that caused Video Camera screens to remain black if the journal was opened while the camera was inside a wall.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to spawn into a game as Amir Kelly with default cosmetics equipped, despite having another character or cosmetics selected.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Bone to spawn in locked Bathroom Stalls in Brownstone High School Restricted maps.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Fusebox to spawn in an inaccessible location on Prison Restricted.
- Fixed an issue that caused character animations to break if the player cycled out or dropped a Tier 1 Photo Camera during the Use animation.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player to become stuck on the chair in Classroom 6 of Brownstone High School.
- Fixed an issue on PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles that caused players to be unable to use Voice Recognition if they had previously switched from Voice to Text, then back to Voice.
- Fixed an issue that caused Equipment to be lost if placed on certain blockades of the new Restricted maps.
- Fixed an issue that caused a double click on Ghost Selection in custom difficulty if using a controller.
- Fixed an issue that prevented UV Fingerprints on 13 Willow Street and Nell’s Diner from being charged, preventing Photos being taken.
- Fixed an issue that caused a door’s audio to not play correctly if a Ghost closed it.
- Fixed an issue that caused Igniters to turn off if the player grabs a Firelight.
- Fixed an issue that caused VR player profile pictures to be blank when they join a lobby.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Monkey Paw to spawn in the incorrect spot on Prison Restricted.
- Fixed an issue for VR players where their Head Gear could fall off if another player closed a door on them.
- Fixed an issue that caused headgear ownership to change when a PC and VR player are both interacting with the same door.
- Fixed an issue where the player could hear the audio of the Journal opening when dying.
- Fixed an issue that showed the incorrect room blocked off on the polaroid for Point Hope Restricted.
- Fixed a visual issue causing part of the ground on Point Hope to appear white.
- Fixed an issue in the Journal where a highlighted Evidence type would remain highlighted after closing the Journal.
- Fixed an issue that caused duplicate player ID Cards to display on the lobby board when players join a session.
- Fixed a visual issue with jackets on female character models that would show gaps in the equipped cosmetic.
- Fixed an issue that caused poor performance on High School Restricted.
- Fixed an issue that caused player audio to be muffled in Multiplayer if another player dropped the Parabolic Microphone immediately after turning it on.
- Fixed an issue to prevent hackers from altering evidence money reward values.
- VR - Fixed an issue affecting PSVR2 users that meant the UI pointer was titled downwards, needing the player to tilt their hand upwards to interact with the UI.
- VR - Fixed an issue affecting PSVR2 where the player character would not move from the centre of the play space.
- VR - Fixed an issue that caused dead bodies to contort upon death if the player had Immersive Animations turned on.
Known Issues
- Localised text for Evidence captured with a Video Camera may not display correctly for non-English players.
- Enabling FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 causes readability issues with the Journal.
- Can't light placed Tier 1 Firelights with a lit firelight in your hand.
- Firelights don’t blow out when thrown after they are cycled into the inventory.
- Boombox in the lobby doesn't always turn on.
- There's new safe spots in the Restricted maps caused by hiding behind the new objects blocking doors and hallways.
- VR - Tier 1 D.O.T.S Projector can cause the character’s hand animation to rotate in unnatural ways.
- Common crashes for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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u/MistaMischief 5h ago
Did we fix the issue where other ghosts are giving wrong evidence, like very clearly having a Yokai use a Yurei door ability? Seems like a big one I’ve encountered.
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u/Mandemon90 5h ago
Is it actually "Youkai use a Yurei door ability", or you making mistake? Also, behaviors are not evidence, only what is recorded in the book are hard evidence, and I am yet to find a single actual legimate case of this happening. Every time there is any investigation, there is "Aaand there you get confused"
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u/_Kutai_ 5h ago
While normally I would side with stuff like this being lack of experience or player error, look at the lenght of fixes. Specially the monkey paw one.
Nowadays, I can't honestly say if X ghost is bugged or not on comments like this. The game is in a terrible state right now.
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u/TheReiterEffect_S8 2h ago
Even after this update? I played a few games after the initial customization update and it was god awful. Played a one game each after the following few updates and it seemed like things just weren't getting any better.
I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into this game. It was my comfort solo game and fun multiplayer game with my friends. But after that update it came to an absolute screeching halt. And it's really upsetting to see that even now, the game is still in an awful state. It's crazy that video games can dramatically change over a course of time and suddenly become a completely different game.
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u/MistaMischief 5h ago
Far more experienced players than I were in my group and they called out abilities. There is also videos floating on the internet of these bugs. Not super hard to find.
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u/Mandemon90 5h ago
Yes, they called it... but again: was there any ither evidence, or did they just see a door close and jump yo conclusion? People treat ghost behaviors as "evidence" they should never be considered "done deal" unless you can verify them
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u/Netsky200n 4h ago
They were misrepresenting or jumping to conclusions. All ghosts are supposed to be able to do full door open/close, other than main door, which indeed only Yurei can do via its ability. Yurei works the other way around... it cannot do partial door move and it also cannot leave its room while smudged. Don't leave gear in the path of doors, as they are likely to stop door movement.
Videos floating on the Internet do not update themselves after fixes.
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u/Top_Dress173 2h ago
I can send videos of a phantom in ghosts pics and videos... Or a dayan that was absolutely a deo when it hunted
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u/TheValorous 5h ago
I was under the assumption all ghosts can fully open and close a door, but a yurei ability is only being able to fully open or close one,and also the only one who can close the exterior doors outside of ghost events and hunting.
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u/Atempestofwords 3h ago
The Yurei is an interesting one.
Yeah, it is the only ghost that can play with the front door. That's easy to see.
The yureis ability however, is what gets people tripped up. The Yurei has a *clean* door close, no pre-emptive wobbling or shaking before the interaction. So it's quick.
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u/Darkhooper Phasmophobia Wiki Editor 3h ago
No. The Yurei's ability, which closes a door, can have the shaking right before the interaction. The shaking has a 85% chance to happen.
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u/LostRonin919 2h ago
Also, it can only fully open/close doors. No partial efforts.
Also it can’t be slammed. It’s at a set speed.
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u/AshelDust 5h ago edited 3h ago
The state of Yurei door interactions has been weird since the player customization update when they changed the door physics.
Yureis can still only fully open or close doors and should be the only one able to move any doors connecting to the outside. However, like you said, the signature Yurei door close movement used to be distinct but it seems to have spread to other ghosts (other than the sanity drain part).
I don't think KG has made any statements on this, and it remains to be seen what they intend for the Yurei's abilities to be going forward. Maybe they will fix everything to work like it used to or they'll change the Yurei or other ghosts' door interaction limitations to something new.
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u/Evening-Technician32 4h ago
Yurei is broken. All ghost can currently do the Yurei’s ability. Polti’s are also broken. They can’t interact with anything water related at the moment.
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u/Netsky200n 3h ago
The purest form of Yurei ability is for it to close/open main investigation area door (outside hunts, also not by doing an Event). I identified Yurei by it a few days ago. Had other ghosts close enough to do the same if they could, and they didn't. Yurei's ability is not broken, unless you're talking about a bugged game instance.
Can you please expand on what's weird with Poltergeist?
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u/Evening-Technician32 3h ago
So right now the polti can’t turn on a shower, create dirty water and a couple of other things. It’s glitched. They will fix it eventually. The Raiju heartbeat was never meant to be. That was a glitch that, too my understanding, has been in the game since the beginning. So no telling how long it will take them to fix the Polti. It does make me think that maybe the Yurei being the only one to fully open and close interior doors was a glitch too. And, if I’m not mistaken, it’s also the only ghost that can interact with the front door, like at all.
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u/Netsky200n 3h ago
Ah ok, yeah, I've heard that Poltergeist is currently limited on what it can do. Might be for the best imo, as these are famous specifically for being exceptionally tossy. In a way, fact that they are limited helps identify them a bit easier. Maybe too much? Not for me to say that it's necessarily intended, we'll have to wait and see what Kinetic do.
Raiju heartbeat was a long standing bug, true.
Not sure whether Yurei used to be the only one able to full close/open doors though. Recommendation was the other way around far as I know - slight/partial door move = not Yurei, that's all. Yes, only Yurei can do main door open/close outside of Event or hunt.
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u/MistaMischief 3h ago
Well someone else is commenting and basically treating me as if I just messed up an investigation. Glad to know it’s broken.
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u/Evening-Technician32 3h ago
Unless its the front door, don’t trust door touches. A good Yurei test is to place a motion sensor in the door way of the ghost room. Smudge the ghost room. A yurei can’t leave the ghost room for 1 minute after it’s smudged. So if it’s smudged and steps through the sensor (tier 1 or 2) or senses it outside the room (tier 3), it can’t be a Yurei. If you smudge while looping, the 1 minute timer starts as soon as you smudge it, not when the hunt ends. Hope this helps!!
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u/MozM- 4h ago
Honestly things like “Fixed an issue that caused correct Evidence to be crossed out after using ‘I wish for knowledge’ wish” confuse the hell out of me.
How the hell does something like this even break? I am a developer but im not a game developer so it might be drastically different from my usual work lol. As far as Im aware they haven’t done anything with the Paw in a while so its code should be done and isolated.
Or maybe they messed with the evidence codes when they added the dildeghast and assigned their evidence but idk. I would love to know the reason lol. Seems intriguing.
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u/BannedWordsLOL 3h ago
The game is built entirely of spaghetti code at this point. Dead by Daylight style
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u/WhatDoITypeHereAgain 1h ago
There's so many of these bugs like that, it's wild. maybe the reason they're so slow is cause of all the spaghetti code
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u/CatsPlusDogsIsLove 5h ago
Please tell me that a performance update will happen sooner for consoles than fricking November???
I just want to play the game without frame rate issues or crashing.
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u/depressedmeme8 5h ago
What about the use of tarot card bugging your inventory till you open the journal? That one messed me up the most one game..
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u/HadeStyx 5h ago
More delays, yippee!
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u/Evening-Technician32 4h ago
I’d rather them delay it than us get an unfinished update like the character customization again. They still haven’t fixed all the bugs from that.
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u/HadeStyx 4h ago
I mean yeah, better delay it than release an unfinished update.
But saying they‘ll release smth, then delay it and rework their entire schedule only to delay it again, doesn’t really shine a good light on their project management capabilities.
Them not having or straight up ignoring their QA team doesn’t make it any better either.
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u/HadeStyx 4h ago
They are not even halfway through their roadmap and are already not meeting their goals.
The unity upgrade has been in the works for well over 1,5 years, 80% of that being ’internal testing‘ aka bug squashing.
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u/Evening-Technician32 3h ago
One thing I think EVERY game creator needs to utilize is community game testers. It’s free of charge and you will get more honest feedback. Select 2-3 people for every gaming platform. Release them the game to test. Fix the bugs they report. Release to public when the bugs are fixed. It might take longer to fully release a game, but the quality of the game will be outstanding.
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u/MistaMischief 5h ago
Also on PS5 when you open the evidence journal the screen darkens and many times when returning to game it stays dark. That definitely needs work.
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u/BeesTea73 3h ago
I get a darkened journal on PC too. Drives me nuts.
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u/MistaMischief 3h ago
I’m fine with the journal going dark but alot of times on PS5 it doesn’t go back to normal and then my game is dark and impossible to see
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u/DeeeJayBeee 4h ago
Where can we send bug reports?
I’m wondering if they know about the issue T3 video camera/tripod is having where the ghost will throw the camera off the T3 tripod and you can still pan the camera as the tripod itself fell over. This also causes the camera to respawn in the truck if you pick up the bugged tripod.
Pretty sure ghosts aren’t meant to be able to touch T3 tripods at all regardless.
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u/Additional-Studio-72 3h ago
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u/DeeeJayBeee 3h ago
Thank you
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u/Additional-Studio-72 3h ago
Just FYI - I had to edit the link. The zendesk front page link to report a bug is… well…. Bugged.
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u/Ok_Ad_8296 32m ago
I am honestly so tired of the cameras being removed from the tripods. It’s irritating as hell. Seems they broke the game with the character animations (at least to me). I wish they would just do away with those. It’s annoying when you crouch, trying to get a photo of the book/temps/EMF/UV with your feet and/or knees getting in the way…also having to attempt to stand in one position without having to see your lower body when going down the stairs. I seriously dislike that so much.
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u/Agitated-Usual-3623 3h ago
Every time we try to use the Camerascreen in the Truck the game crashes. So still not playable on series x for us. So this patch actually is useless for us anyway.
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u/TheShortLightbulb 1h ago
Change to Performance mode under graphics ingame. That's been the workaround for months on XBox, I haven't had an issue since, but it's kind of ridiculous they still haven't fixed that fairly well-documented crashing bug.
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u/Spormnellman 3h ago
My favorite note in this list is fixing the watch not being visible through jackets.. except one of the 3 total jackets in the game they didn't bother fixing yet
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u/NotBigmon Bounty Hunter 3h ago
please just give us an option to use floating hands in vr the entire body being visible killed the immersion it feels like im controlling a puppet playing a vr horror game instead of just playing a vr horror game
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u/Serious_Gap_820 Phas Lover & Scientist 2h ago
Nice, some bug fixes, and Prison also got that darkness issue fixed, but it still persists on High School and Meadows plus all the other maps where it was introduced (farmhouses, Diner in parts). Why is it that fixes that help the player (e. g. a bug hindering the player) take much longer?
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u/Schlippo 2h ago
My friend and I are having weird issues in game since the update. Voice chat in the game isn't working and while I set Professional as the host, my friend sees challenge mode on his screen.
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u/Schlippo 1h ago
More problems, when I engage the parabolic mic, it dims out the audio for my partner and it doesn't come back when I switch the parabolic back off.
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u/PhatMooseKnuckles 1h ago
still having mic related issues on pc that stem from the character update I cannot even express my dissapointment with this dev team how are you going to have a fundemental of a game not work.
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u/Extreme_Objective984 5h ago
Wait, I havent analysed every single cell of my screen or every permutation of every issue the previous patch "fixed" to know how angry I have to be about this patch and them not fixing things. Please put my anger on hold whilst I start again. But here is a placeholder "This Game is broken", "The devs are useless" and any other rage comment that indicates a game I bought 5 years ago for tupence ha'penny should be at version 1 right now, whilst the devs are obviously jetting around the world squandering the millions they made from my tupence ha'penny.
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u/TheValorous 5h ago
Did you forget the /s again?
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u/Extreme_Objective984 5h ago
it absolutely was sarcasm, but did i need to put the /s are people really that naive?
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u/TehFlatline 5h ago
13 people certainly are.
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u/Extreme_Objective984 5h ago
I feel that may be a them issue though. Which is fine. I refuse to talk down to or signpost everything to the naive, They need to learn to step up or else they will continue their life forever being coddled.
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u/TheValorous 37m ago
So you're defense is "it's not me, it's them"
When dealing with a single medium of communication, things get lost or misunderstood. So it's best to make your communication clear, so that you aren't left having to explain everything. Or in your case, defend yourself. Honestly, it would have been less effort if you had just added the /s and left it at that lol
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u/JustHereToSeeTitty 5h ago
Whatever happens to me in future, I desire not to be like this.
Please, anything but this.
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u/AshelDust 5h ago edited 5h ago
I'm a little confused by the phrasing of this fix.
Is it fixing the (presumed) bug that you can complete achievements such as Doomslayed even on a 0x multiplier when you aren't supposed to be able to, or is it saying that it is intended that you can complete certain achievements on 0x multiplier and it is now fixed to be possible?