Phasmophobia QoL Tricks and Tips after playing 400+ hours for Old and New players.

QoL tips and tricks

 
Hello everyone! I recently just hit level 2000 and thought I’d share some QoL tricks and tips I picked up playing. 
 
1. Bind your Sprint to W in key binds. You never have to hold shift again. Downside is you can’t sprint backwards anymore, but you don’t really need that unless you’re trying to get a ghost pic during a hunt. 
 
2. Auto Run: (Steam Overlay Required) Hold W, Shift+Tab, Let go of W, and Shift+Tab again. Basically the game thinks you’re still holding the button. Perfect for big maps with long hall ways. 
 
3. Lack of Evidence is also Evidence. If you’re having trouble getting evidence you can try process of elimination instead. It can save you a lot of time with annoying shy Shades. 
 
Example: 
You need to make sure you have the correct room for this to work. If you have EMF 5 and Orbs, but can’t get another evidence use process of elimination instead. In this scenario the ghost is either Jinn, Shade or Phantom. Ghost Writing is sometimes a pain to get especially in a large room, but Spirit Box and Freezing Temps isn’t. If both of those don’t work there’s a high chance it’s a stubborn Shade. Sometimes Spirit Box is just being buggy so double check your pictures. If you take a picture and the ghost shows up in the picture it’s a Jinn(Phantoms don’t show up in pictures) and the Spirit Box is just being stubborn. 
The easiest way to find the ghost is just remember which evidences aren’t actually working so you can eliminate possibilities later. 
4. You can put your head cam back on the hook by press F on it. Kinda useless tip, but I only learned this quite recently. 
 
5. You can place things standing up by looking directly up and pressing G. This is good for marking which room the ghost is in with a UV light or placing a Book standing up facing a Camera so you can check Ghost Writing from the Truck. 
 
6. Fingerprints can be on doors, light switches, jail cells and windows. Even the broken windows on High School/Prison and the dirty boarded up windows on Asylum. 
 
7. The best way to find the favorite ghost room is just by listening. The ghost can interact with objects and appear in any room connected to it, but the actual favorite ghost room is the room the ghost makes those fat steps. It will not make steps in the rooms that it wanders to. 
 
8. When starting big maps check for orbs in these locations after you open the front door. 
 
Asylum: Main lobby and the big cafeteria. When you check the main lobby look at the door in the back with the window on it. I’ve seen a orb through that window and it saved us a bunch of time. 
 
Prison: Cell Blocks A/B, and Cafeteria. When checking Cafeteria look up top as well because sometimes you can see Orbs through the windows near the Wardens Office. 
 
High School: Main lobby and the Gym 
You can obviously check all the cameras, but these are common ghost spawn locations and easy to quickly check. 
 
9. The Popping Ouija Board sound. If you hear the Ouija Board popping around and know it’s near you ask someone else to come look that can’t hear it so they can grab it for you. 
 
10. The Wraith can start a hunt anywhere near you on the map. I’ve had a Wraith spawn on top of us at the threshold of the door to the truck on Asylum. If the ghost is a wraith don’t be fooled into thinking you’re safe on bigger maps just because you’re far away from the ghost room. 
 
11. Never try and out run a Revenant. If you’re being chased by one you are already dead unless you break LoS twice and then find a hiding spot. If the Revenant sees you go into your hiding spot it will come kill you because ghosts will always check the last spot they saw you. 
 
12. Banshees will turn into a normal ghost and kill anyone if their target is not in the house. 
 
13. Shades are boring and require 2 players to basically go afk before it does anything. (Rework shade please) 
 
15. Only the first ghost picture will give you money. Stop taking multiple pictures of the ghost! <3 
 
14. Stop taking pictures of broken salt mounds! You only get money for the footsteps the ghost makes after they step on the salt. If you see the salt separate and then hear the ghost doing the tango it’s safe to assume there are footsteps. You can only see footsteps after a ghost has stepped in salt. Make sure you keep either a UV light near or a glow stick down to see them. 
 
16. Ghost Writing: I’m still testing this, but I’ve had a fairly decent success rate. When you hear a foot step throw the book at the foot step. Sometimes the ghost will give you some art. 
 
17. Lockers and closets are the safest place to hide if you hold the door closed. It’s still much safer than hiding in a room , but not 100% safe if they see you go into it. In rare occasions you can get into a tug a war with the ghost and eventually lose control of the door. If that happens make sure you are quick to re-close the door. 
 
18. When a Ghost appears and you take a picture wait til your camera is off cool down then walk at the ghost. When the ghost disappears quickly take another picture and it will give you an Interaction Photo. 
 
19. Ghost Event objective is completed when a ghost breathes into yours or your teams ear. I’ve seen it complete in other circumstances, but I’ve not been able to figure out what happened. 
 
20. Don’t play with cheaters in public rooms. If you see someone fly/speed hack, have a level over 6000, or see anything that can’t be done by normal means leave instantly. They can crash your game if they don’t like you. I asked someone to stop speed hacking and he proceeded to close all of our games because we didn’t appreciate how special he was. I haven’t confirmed if it’s still a thing, but they used to be able to alter your save file. 
 
Last thing I’ll say is something you can do if you’re super lazy like me. Normally I don’t condone use of soundboards because how immature some people are with them, but assuming you’re older than 12 you can record your own voice saying things like “Give me a sign” or “Are you here?`” and then use them on a soundboard to get the ghost to do stuff. If you don’t play all night you probably don’t need this, but I’m sure a lot of us get pretty tired of saying the same thing over and over. 
 
I’ll be adding more to the list when I think of it. This is just from the top of my head. 
 

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