Phasmophobia

• Randomizing a custom difficulty will now always give a random cursed possession
  

• Arabic player names are now displayed right to left
  
• Fixed a memory leak caused by having unicode characters with a broken sanity monitor
  
• Tripods no longer speed up Raiju after you detach a video camera
  
• The speed running difficulty challenge will now give all 7 cursed possessions instead of 6
  
• Improved statistics page text sizing on languages with long text
  
• Fixed a crash after leaving a game when using Vosk voice recognition
  
• The weekly challenges will now reset on Sunday instead of Saturday
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Several doors in all maps are now linked to multiple rooms for ghost events and monkey paw wishes
  
• The Sanity Survival weekly difficulty challenge now has the Nightmare hunt duration and no candles
  

• If you didn’t play for a long time your level and progress will no longer be wiped
  
• The ghost can no longer walk through the Maple campsite large tents
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing players to not be able to select a difficulty
  
• Ghosts will now open and close the doors in the correct direction
  
• You can now click the left shop buttons on 4:3 aspect resolutions
  
• Yurei will no longer lower your sanity if they used their ability without closing a door
  
• Yurei will now only count the ability used when it successfully uses its ability
  
• Potential fix for hunts starting when all players are outside
  
• Lowered the volume of the guitar sound
  
• Sunny meadows TV sound can no longer be heard across the map
  
• The Sunny Meadows male day room TV will now turn on
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Added unique descriptions for crucifix interaction photos
  

• The ghost will now always fully show when it starts moving during the start of a hunt
  
• Monkey paw tags now update live in the journal when grabbed
  

• The Monkey Paw tags can now be grabbed by multiple players in the same game
  
• The ghost in the dead room will now match the ghost model if it was male
  
• The host can now be revived with the monkey paw revive wish
  
• The see ghost negative effect will now end after the ghost event if you have a friendly ghost
  
• Improved main menu performance
  
• The revive stat will now only count when you are revived, instead of when anyone is revived
  
• Voice recognition will now work correctly for non-hosts
  
• Improved accuracy of the ghost crucifix hunt detection
  
• The loading screen tips are now translated correctly, if the language was changed in the same instance of the menu
  
• Removed black objects and weird lighting from the truck in High School
  
• Improved some translations in the shop
  
• Potential fix for “Loadout can't be added until flipping back and forth between loadout 1 and 2
  
• No more null references for “UpdateAddButtons” in all logs
  
• Fixed a rare bug where you couldn’t change difficulty
  
• Potential fix for keyboard EMF photo not working in Ridgeview
  
• The next time you open the game, your last difficulty will reset once, in order to fix many issues some users were having if they continued to play with the settings they had pre-0.8.1.0.
  
• Willow windows now have the new UV shader
  
• Sound sensors, motion sensors and DOTS will no longer be detectable by the ghost when held after being placed
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• The maximum reward value possible is now 15x
  
• Several options have had their rewards reduced
  
• The Apocalypse Challenges’ requirements have been adjusted:
  
  
  • Bronze: 6x+
    
  • Silver: 10x+
    
  • Gold: 15x
    
    
• Rules have been added to reduce rewards when two options are set to specific values, thus canceling each other out but still giving you a reward. Here are some examples:
  
  
  • 0 starting sanity with sanity pills 25% or higher
    
  • Faster ghosts but player unlimited sprint
    
  • Broken Fuse Box but Flashlights: On
    

• “Evidence Given” will now soft cap the reward multiplier. Rewards added above these multipliers will only add 50% of their values to the total reward;
  
  • 3 Evidence: 4x
    
  • 2 Evidence: 5x
  
  
• “Grace Period” 6s has been removed
  
• “Sprint Duration” and “Sprint Recharge” have been removed and will default to:
  
  • Duration: 3s
    
  • Recharge: 5s
  
  
• “Sprint” options have been changed to:
  
  • Off
    
  • On
    
  • Infinite

Insanity

Challenge mode

• 26 challenges have been added
  
• A challenge-specific loadout will be provided automatically, for free
  
• Completing the challenge 3 times on the specified map will grant a large money and XP bonus
  
• Each challenge will be available twice a year
  
• You will lose nothing if you fail or die
  

Monkey Paw

• Wishes can be found scattered inside Sunny Meadows Mental Institution and will be added to your Journal when found. These are not required to use the paw and are just a permanent note to help you remember.
  

• 0x – 1.9x Rewards: 5 wishes
  
• 2x – 2.9x Rewards: 4 wishes
  
• 3x Rewards or higher: 3 wishes
  

• Shop and Storage has been recreated, acting like an online shopping basket
  
• Added an “all equipment” loadout
  
• You can now tick “auto-add” to your loadout, to add it as soon as you join a lobby
  

• Strange symbols have been spotted in the warehouse, what could they mean? Get searching for an answer!
  
• Crucifix uses will now have new textures, effects and sounds when used
  
• Updated all UV shaders! UV effects will now be much more accurate and work when shining another light over the UV light. Additionally, UV effects will now fade out over time, instead of disappearing instantly
  
• “The Tower” Tarot Card will now additionally double all ghost activity for 20s
  
• Weather particles lighting have been improved and now work with the sky light, helping them look more realistic (no more ashy black snow!)
  
• All windows will now have new raindrop effects on them if it's raining, and additional sounds in all maps similar to Tanglewood’s
  
• Several foliage objects will now be affected by windy weather outside
  
• You will now receive an in-game message when a new game update is available to download
  
• A Broken Fuse Box’s sparks now bounce on nearby objects instead of clipping through them
  

• Reduced the range and resolution of several environmental lights slightly. This should decrease the chance of your shadows becoming overly pixelated when having lots of lights turned on in a location, and decreasing the chance of an object hitting the “maximum lights” limit (e.g. resulting in black floors or DOTS casting no light)
  
• The time between hunts will now be the same if the ghost uses a crucifix or if it hunts (20s for Demon, 25s for other ghost types)
  
• The ghost's room will no longer be visible on the Haunted Mirror when you use it at 0% sanity
  
• Ghost orbs can no longer go through walls into a different room
  
• Fog quality settings have been changed for better visual clarity across all settings
  
  
  
  • Low – Downsampling at 2, no shadows
    
  • Medium – No downsampling, no shadows
    
  • High – No downsampling, receive shadows
    
  • Blur has been removed
    
• Renamed Daily and Weekly Challenges to Daily and Weekly Tasks, to avoid confusion with the new Challenge Mode difficulty
  
• Several icons have been improved
  
• Improved and fixed the visuals of light sources on the PC monitors in Prison
  
• Improved the visuals of the collectible cabinets in the warehouse lobby
  
• Lighting a Summoning Circle candle with no sanity will now extinguish it instantly. Note: Lighting the 5th candle with no sanity will cause an instant hunt
  
• Saying "goodbye" on the Ouija Board no longer counts toward challenges
  
• Renamed the High School bathrooms to make it clearer where they are
  
• Failing to join a room with a password now gives a more descriptive error
  
• The night vision camera effect will now adjust brightness when entering and exiting foggy areas
  

• Ghosts can no longer interact with windows on the floor below them, in both Farmhouse locations
  
• Voice recognition will now work for all players if other players loaded in slowly
  
• Removed several safe spots in Prison, Maple Lodge Campsite, and School
  
• Several shaders and materials will now render correctly
  
• The Voodoo Doll can no longer stop hunts
  
• Using the Voodoo Doll, Tarot Cards, Music Box and the Summoning Circle will now count towards the “use Cursed Possessions” task
  
• Items will no longer teleport in the SM Courtyard when thrown in specific spots
  
• Patched up some holes in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard floor
  
• Removed an invisible wall upstairs in Edgefield
  
• Improved Anisotropic textures for radiators, rugs, outside ground, SM flooring
  
• Ghosts can now kill you on the blue beds in house maps
  
• Ghosts can now detect active electronic equipment if they were grabbed when active
  
• Voice recognition will no longer work if you have the ‘text’ voice recognition option enabled
  
• The Apocalypse stickers will now show in Singleplayer instead of Multiplayer
  
• A book in the Sunny Meadows Courtyard is no longer only a shadow
  
• Removed several shadow rendering issues in Sunny Meadows and Tanglewood
  
• Thaye will now have the correct interaction rate before aging
  
• Window knocks now count as an interaction for stats
  
• Tasks featuring “Asylum” will now display “Sunny Meadows”
  
• You can no longer sprint or move while in the death room
  
• Setting a preset for a custom difficulty and changing a cursed possession, will no longer apply that change to the actual preset difficulty, instead of just the Custom game you are editing
  
• Standing in DOTS light will no longer stop sanity drain
  
• You can now see your hands on your monitor when in VR and smooth camera is enabled
  
• Ghost orbs can no longer be seen with a photo camera
  
• The ball in the upstairs Ridgeview closet will no longer glitch when the hiding spot is blocked
  
• Ghost orbs in the outside "rooms" in Camp Woodwind will no longer be very high above the ground
  
• Video cameras will now receive the ghost glitch effects
  
• The “Sky Light” will now turn on and off accurately with your settings
  
• Lighter flame is now being considered for the Onryo hunt ability when blown out
  
• An Onryo will now have a higher chance to blow out a flame, the more players that are dead, instead of a lower chance
  
• Hunts will now end if all players are outside
  
• The haunted mirror will now drain a minimum of 20 sanity per use instead of 27
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• The wipe is needed to make way for the new leveling system, including prestiges, and will fundamentally change how you progress through the game. You'll unlock equipment and upgrades in a specific order, and that needs to work from the start. Sadly we cannot translate the new system to the current one, so a reset is the only way to go!
  
• Money and experience numbers will be adjusted, you will no longer level up every 100xp. Now, each level will require more XP as you progress and upon reaching the end of level 100, you will unlock the option to prestige and reset your progress, with the reward of a new badge and title for your ID card.
  
• Your current level will be saved and in the future, we will give you a unique badge for your player character to show off how far you made it pre-wipe. These will have different colors and materials depending on how high your level was. This will be the only way to unlock this specific badge, so get going!
  

• Some players don't like to use loadouts every time, and prefer to add equipment manually
  
• If you want to add or remove a few items quickly, you either have to use the current Shop menu, which can take too many clicks, or keep one loadout free for quick adjustments
  
• There is no way to tell what has been added to the lobby and what you may be missing
  
• Some of the details were confusing, and needed more context
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Placing the music box is now consistent with all other placeable equipment
  
• Difficulty apocalypse skull stickers are now only visible when in single player mode
  
• There is now an apocalypse skull sticker on the Sunny Meadows polaroid
  
• The microphone input visual is now only visible in multiplayer
  

• You can now place equipment in training
  
• Coolers in Tanglewood will now give fingerprints
  
• In Custom Difficulty, choosing "Random” Cursed Possession will no longer sometimes result in less Cursed Possessions than you should have when choosing multiple Cursed Possessions
  
• Voodoo doll no longer breaks physics when a VR player grabs it after a PC player has dropped it
  
• Sanity drain multiplier now shows the percentage
  
• Changing the cursed possession quantity after setting Apocalypse II or III will no longer corrupt your save
  
• VR sprint modes now display correctly in the journal UI
  
• Props and equipment no longer keep the VR highlight circle on when they are no longer grabbable (e.g. taking sanity pills)
  
• VR Movement type setting buttons will now display correctly
  
• Video cameras will no longer display white “flickers” of light sometimes
  
• “Locked” is now translated on the map/contract board
  
• The hoop easter egg now works in the new lobby
  
• Improved VR performance when playing with other VR players
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Removed Holiday event and decorations
  
• Reduced the brightness of the lights in the Main Menu collection cabinets
  

• The ghost can now walk through the courtyard doors in Sunny Meadows
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• “Get the ghost to walk in salt” has been added as a daily challenge
  
• You can now change speaker modes between Mono, Stereo (default), Quad, Surround, 5.1 and 7.1 in the audio settings. Once changed, you must reload the main menu or load into a location
  
• Ghosts and players can now move the large metal trays in Sunny Meadows
  
• Coal in Sunny Meadows now have new sounds when dropped or thrown
  

• Improved sanity drain accuracy when in light and dark areas
  
• You can no longer complete the apocalypse challenge in multiplayer mode while solo or after other players leave
  
• You can now place crucifixes in VR, so you can see the range indicator
  
• While using text voice recognition, you can now click back and “goodbye” without waiting for the delay
  
• While using text voice recognition, you can no longer activate the ouija board while the spirit box is turned on
  
• Moroi hunt speed will now change if you lose sanity during the hunt
  
• Adjusted the light above the front door in Edgefield
  
• Improved accuracy of reflections in the Edgefield hallway
  

• You will no longer get colour banding when FidelityFX is turned off
  
• Rain will now work again on all maps
  
• The bone will no longer spawn in unreachable locations
  
• The thermometer will now show the correct temperature if you look into a different room and do not move your mouse
  
• Tripods will no longer get stuck in some areas when dropping it
  
• Swapping out equipment with Q whilst placing equipment, will no longer lock your movement
  
• The Tanglewood outside light and woodwind tree fairy lights will no longer keep flashing after a hunt has ended
  
• You will now be able to move if you die when holding an activated spirit box with text voice recognition
  
• Some journal buttons’ clickable areas are no longer overlapping, making them easier to click
  
• Jumping to the ghost page in the journal, then navigating back, will no longer swap to negative journal page numbers
  
• Leaf piles will no longer “pop” in detail when moving towards or away from them
  
• Ghosts will no longer spawn inside of or on top of blue beds
  
• You can no longer get stuck in the blue tent on Camp Woodwind behind the sleeping mats
  
• Removed some light leaks in Prison and School
  
• Blue privacy screens will no longer have weird gaps in them
  
• The truck’s map buttons will no longer render on top of transparent objects such as candle flames
  
• You can no longer add locked items to a lobby when using loadouts
  
• Truck ramp texture is now affected by the anisotropic setting
  
• Graphic settings now apply correctly
  
• Cookies no longer count as multiple cookies when 2 or more people collect them at the same time
  
• Rugs in Grafton Farmhouse will no longer have a grey texture under them
  
• BHaptics will no longer keep playing, if they were active when you were dead
  
• BHaptics room haptics will now stop when leaving the room, for example: a room with an active car alarm
  
• You can now take a photo of the black keyboard interaction and fingerprints
  
• Moved a bin that was clipping inside a wall in School
  
• School’s paper clips will now have the correct material, and not be clipping with the desk they are on
  
• Removed several areas of leaking fog in the following maps
  
  
  
  • Ridgeview
    
  • Tanglewood
    
  • Edgefield
    
  • Bleasdale
    
  • Grafton
    
  • School
    
  • Prison
    
  • Sunny Meadows
    
  
  

• Adjusted shader for privacy screens in Sunny Meadows
  
• Several improvements have been made to the ghost’s walkable area
  
• Newspapers, food baskets, cheese wheels, apples and potatoes now have colliders
  
• Beds now have the correct colliders so objects will no longer get lost inside them
  
• Added an invisible wall in West Foul Linen to stop players getting stuck
  
• Increased the size of colliders for hedges in the Courtyard so objects will no longer get lost inside them
  
• You can no longer throw items through the exterior window walls
  
• Removed duplicated beds, wardrobes and other props when the hiding spot is blocked
  
• You can no longer walk along the floor trim of the Courtyard to get pushed under the map
  
• Cloth on beds will no longer be black on one side
  
• The Female Day Room will no longer have floating books if the hiding spot is blocked
  
• Potential fix for items teleporting from Hospital Room 3
  
• You can no longer get stuck in SM restricted (female wing only), between the bed and the blocking bookshelves
  
• Added some clutter to block a safe spot in the blocked entrance stairwell
  
• The fountain water shader will no longer have visual artifacts
  
• Fog will no longer render through the beige privacy screens
  
• The ghost can no longer walk-through sinks or freezers in the Kitchen
  
• Several fingerprints are now back in the correct place on doors
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Improved the fingerprints shader to work better when under UV and normal light
  
• Increased brightness of glowstick during the first minute of its activation
  

• Rain will now collide with the floor in Sunny Meadows instead of 3m above it.
  
• Fog in Prison is no longer inside of A Block and is more performant
  
• Fixed the Ouija Board not breaking if a dead player is nearby
  
• You can now see the Holiday trophy after reloading the main menu
  
• Photo cameras will now be glitched again when the ghost is nearby for events and hunts
  
• Fingerprints will no longer have weird squares when placed on transparent surfaces
  
• Fixed the ghost getting stuck on a table in the servants dining room in Sunny Meadows
  

The Kinetic Games Team

• Fixed a bug some people wouldn’t back up their save file, get badges or be able to obtain the Holiday trophy. If you were using a VPN to fix this before, you no longer need to use it.
  
• You will no longer get an infinite black screen if you loaded the game for the first time and then quit without playing
  
• The Haunted mirror can now see ceilings again
  
• Fixed foliage lighting in Grafton, Bleasdale and Sunny Meadows
  
• One of the female ghost models will now have the correct visual on the DOTS Projector
  
• Sunny meadows: Adjusted the following hiding spots when they get “blocked”
  
  
  
  • Female Bedroom 4, the bed will now move
    
  • The Manager's Office wardrobe will now move up against the wall
    
  • The cardboard boxes in the Supply Room will now disappear
    
  • The Operating Room’s privacy screen will now disappear
    
  • Male Room 1’s bed will now rotate towards the wall
    
  • The bookshelf in the Female day room will now have collision
    
  • Hospital Room 2’s privacy screen will now disappear when not blocked
    
  
  

The Kinetic Games Team