Kinetic Video games has launched Phasmophobia’s second High quality of Life replace, including a raft of recent Restricted maps, streamlined Proof assortment, VR fixes, and significantly extra methods to die.
Now dwell on PC and PlayStation (the Xbox launch is “to comply with”), the High quality of Life Half 2 replace builds on High quality of Life Half 1 which launched the revamped 13 Willow Road map again in July alongside a batch of different gameplay tweaks.
We’re getting a (long-overdue!) set of recent small-to-medium Restricted maps for Jail, Brownstone Excessive Faculty, and Level Hope, bringing condensed variations of the unique maps designed to hurry up investigations and add extra selection to runs.
Proof assortment has additionally been streamlined. Quite than manually checking the in-game journal, gamers can now inform whether or not a chunk of proof has already been logged immediately from their Photograph Digicam, Video Digicam, or Sound Recorder through light overlays and yellow LEDs.
Proof and ghost sorts chosen by teammates may also now present up for the entire workforce, reducing down on last-minute double-checking earlier than a hunt.
VR gamers get a extra responsive character rig that higher tracks real-world physique motion, together with a variety of community-flagged bug fixes. There are adjustments to loss of life, too: dying now turns a participant’s pores and skin greyer and their eyes mistier, and cuts their voice chat the second they’re killed.
The replace arrives a few months after Kinetic Video games confirmed Phasmophobia’s 1.0 launch had slipped from this 12 months into 2027, because the studio mentioned it was prioritising high quality over pace following a rocky reception to its Participant Character Replace. Kinetic Video games ended up apologising to gamers for points with its long-awaited ‘Participant Character Replace’, admitting it “missed the mark” and “did not ship on our guarantees to you”.
In quite a few patches and hotfixes launched since to handle the various points spawned by the newest replace, the studio defined the way it had been working via participant suggestions to offer “a a lot better expertise for everybody enjoying Phasmophobia”.
“We have learn suggestions from throughout the complete group. The frustration and disappointment has been clear,” the workforce admitted.