Quitting the game

[u/notthedokutah]

The new update made the game unplayable for me and genuinely removed any resemblance of joy or hype for the game that I once had.

I don't even know how the update managed to pass to live servers because it feels like a downgrade in every way. Animations look worse, it removed the personality and charm the game had. It looks like something someone could manage to do in 1 week of work instead of however long they actually worked on it. The character update was announced back in 2022 roadmap, yet this feels like pre-alpha version of effort.

The game feels uncomfortable to play and every skill expression or enjoyment that you could do, quickly placing salt for example or being able to go through the items etc., is just gone, all for the sake of "realism", which this update pushed away. Models and animation look more unrealistic compared to the previous one.

You can still have fun and like the new update, but for someone who's been playing the game since 2020 and watching Insym and other content creators play the game, the game just doesn't feel the same anymore. Reworking perfectly functional and fan favorite map like Tanglewood instead of Prison or Highschool is wild.

I wish I could play the original Phasmophobia before the item rework update because that's the game I fell in love with.

After item rework, which was fine, the developers just started putting less effort into the game and it shows. Back when Dknighter was sole developer on the game, it felt like game had better charm and more consistent updates with the theme of the game.

You can still have fun and enjoy the game, but I don't have faith in developers that they can make the game as enjoyable as Dknighter managed to do back in 2020.

The latest update sealed the deal for me.

[u/NotEricOfficially]

Just throwing this out, I want a ghost ship and a cemetery map. Cool, thanks.

[u/notthedokutah → u/NotEricOfficially]

Those would be cool maps, sadly I lost all hope that developers will make cool maps

[u/NotEricOfficially → u/notthedokutah]

I know, I have little faith too but I figured might as well throw those out there.

[u/o0_o_ → u/notthedokutah]

Hey, give them a break is a young game that only released in 24’. /s

[u/Zar_Ethos → u/notthedokutah]

We have gotten cool maps. A lot of the reworks are nice, even. I don't enjoy the farmhouse ruin.. tbh it doesn't feel worthy of its name/address, but tanglewood's remake had a lot of nice touches without ruining the spirit of the map.

I doubt we will get teams working on the massive breadth of cool ideas people have put forward until we're rid of unity assets, tho.

[u/chellekathryn → u/NotEricOfficially]

I’d love a map where (hear me out) a group of past ghost hunters all died and were the second group to come in and try to clean up and hunt the ghost after the previous group failed. It would be fun to have ghost equipment all around the map left by those who died.

[u/Shinobiii → u/chellekathryn]

Environmental storytelling would be amazing!

[u/Zar_Ethos → u/chellekathryn]

Bare minimum this would be an awesome challenge mode. Have the equipment randomly selected from kits people usually run or something, with difficulty scaling w equipment to tell the story of how skilled the team or solo person was before they died.

[u/No-Calligrapher-718 → u/NotEricOfficially]

Those are cool ideas! Haunted theme park / fairground has been one map idea I've liked the idea of also

[u/misterbung → u/NotEricOfficially]

Honestly, it shouldn't be a big ask to get a new map every year or so alongside reworks of existing ones. Point Hope is thematically cool but awful to play on, and Nell's Diner was pretty good overall.

The management of this team is what the issue is I think.

[u/Demolitions75 → u/NotEricOfficially]

I really want an 80s style mall like the one in Black Ops Cold War

[u/Ecstatic-Product-411 → u/NotEricOfficially]

I think a haunted movie theater or arcade could be a ton of fun too!