The Developers Sent Me the HARDEST GHOST in Phasmophobia 

The game has come full circle. We are now going room by room with the thermo to find the ghost once again lol

In my opinion, the DOTS pen is the most ass item in the entire game. Like hands down, no question. It’s only okay in VERY small rooms sitting on a counter or something. It’s basically useless. It was comical seeing you walk around the gym with it and I about lost my damn mind when you saw the ghost with it 😂

Brownstone always feels like it gets thrown under the bus. It is sometimes boring and tedious, but sometimes you also get amazing, terrifying ghosts.

I think the obsession for tier 1 items is because we skip the tier 1 items as quickly as possible to get to the next tier, by which case we never use the tier 1 items again so they force them into the weekly challenge to make us ise them. That's my headcannon anyway.

I love that you keep the devs feet to the fire, because believe it or not, they're dependent on you. you've sold a bunch of copies for them.

As a developer (not for this game obviously) I feel pretty safe saying this. Adding more developers does not do what you think it does. More developers doesn't scale all that nicely. Lets talk about it like from a content creator perspective. Specifically a "Lets play" perspective. Adding another video editor could easily mean an increase in the output of videos as long as there are more videos to edit. This is because, generally speaking. Each video is truly independent from the others. An editor making a change to video B has no effect on video A. That means video editors, generally, scale linearly with the amount of videos a channel can pump out. However, if instead of a "lets play" channel, we had a tale of adventure with an overarching progressing story. A change in video A could result in parts of video B, C, D, E, F, etc having parts of them that needs to be rerecorded and reedited. In that scenario, video editors do not scale cleanly and linearly. In fact, different video editors can introduce continuity errors as they don't necessarily individually know what happens in prior videos. This creates a whole new role where you need to hire people to proof videos and ensure said potential continuity errors are fixed before going live. This is what happens with development. New developer A touches Y system for halloween. Maybe he adds new ghost events. Old Developer X is also touching code on ghost events, maybe fixing bugs. Ahead of developer A finishing his changes Developer X pushes out a pull request and it's merged into production and pushed live. Developer A now has to update his code and potentially deal with what we call "merge conflicts". You can think of merge conflicts like continuity errors. Developer A and Developer X both made changes to the ghost events in the similar places. So now you have to figure out what the new continuity is (the new correct code that is a combination of both people's changes). This is a problem that can get out of hand very easily. Development isn't a simple straight forward process. Programming itself is actually a creative process. It's rare that 2 developers approach the same problem the exact same way. At a certain point you can essentially have "too many cooks in the kitchen". That's when you begin to split up teams by the systems they work on, rather than having teams work on overarching "projects". Extremely large companies with 1000s of employees generally work this way. There's a sound team, there's a physics team, etc etc. And none of this necessarily comes with an increase in speed on editing just 1 game. Rather it comes with a potential increase in output via working on multiple different games at the same time. Anyway, I hope that gives you some insight into why your comments about "Just hire another dev dedicated to this" don't necessarily hold up to scrutiny.

My friends and I did this challenge mode last night. We figured it was going to take ages, but the first ghost refuse to step in salt, so we got Wraith, second round we noticed double interactions and called in The Twins. The third round, I noticed double interactions on that one graph in the truck and we called it Twins again, and won the $5000. Phas never fails to be interesting in terms of how the ghosts can act, and their individual traits.

My mom and i love your videos! I had an idea for a challenge, though i doubt you'll see this XD We basically take turns "aiding" the ghost. It's called the Menace Challenge. Basically one person has a full minute to get set up and get started on finding the ghost. The other person, once the time is up, goes into the house and looks for the cursed object. The Menace cannot touch any evidence items unless it's to throw the item, such as throwing the writing book, yeeting the camera, etc. You can turn off the breaker, turn on or off lights, turn on radios, and lead people astray with evidence, etc. As the hunter, you cannot touch the cursed object. The hunter's goal is the get the ghost identified correctly without dying and make it to the van. The Menace's job is to kill the other person as fast as possible before they can identify the ghost. If you die and get the ghost right, it's a tie. It was SUPER fun, and i loved it XD

Insym IDK how their offices are set up so I could be wrong here, but a fire in a shared office space isn't like your neighbor's house catching on fire, it's like your kitchen catching on fire. Also if they put out the fire with water there can be hazards from mold growth so they could have closed the entire building as a precaution. If the entire office space shares things like vents/doors between other spaces there could be smoke damage as well.

Insyms weekly challenges make my start of the week a lot better

thanksgiving event called "thankskilling", random chance for the ghost model to be a giant zombified turkey

I think you need to stand outside of the ghost room to test for a Banshee while solo now, if the ghost has DOTS. Although is seems a bit buggy still and they often walk all over the place, DOTS mode ghosts are meant to walk towards a player if they are in the room or within range or something like that (more testing required). Regardless, DOTS mode can somewhat mimic the Banshee ability and that's probably why the Yokai came to you. Holding the DOTS out while standing on the salt would also work to rule out a DOTS mode wander.

It's hard to consider events because I currently don't know what they would be. Dress up the lobby/maps? Change ghost noises, radio stations, etc to be themed? Actually that would incredible to be hunted by a Santa who goes "HO HO HO" during the grace period then chases you with jingle bell sounds. You sync the jingle bells with the footstep speed/volume to ensure integrity of ghost behavior. Easy peasy lets go.

Any basic challenge: Exists Devs: "Trash items! Go!"

I opened up RU-vid and was going to search for Brownstone High School gameplay, but Insym already delivered.

Make CJ do this challenge with you!

Did this challenge today with two other friends (3 members), desparately splitting equipment that gave us some visibility between us (torch, glowstick, camera night vision). On one run I found an orb on the computer before going in on the gym. Ended up being a gym Thaye, which requires DOTS (and writing). We got writing pretty quick, but we were going to just wait out a hunt to confirm it was Thaye rather than Mare for the DOTS (having spent the whole game in the ghost room), but eventually after like 15 minutes of waiting we finally got DOTS in the gym :D

The only complaint I have about this event is the map is just too big for solo players. With people it can be fun to split up and search for clues scooby doo style, but alone I ended up checking every room until I found it on the last hallway I looked each time. I still like the level but not as much fun alone.

I once had Hantu in the gym and for thew entire game the temps were below zero. The dude must have been some crazy speedy juiced up football mf when he was alive that game was crazy 😂

Disappointed in the response regarding the office fire. Even being witness to a fire that does not otherwise destroy your place of work or property can still be traumatizing and induce paranoia, not to mention there is a non-zero chance that either heat or smoke could have damaged their own work equipment. This is also not including any restrictions to entry they may have experienced as a result of fire and repairs that needed to be made to the other parts of the building. I'm also really disappointed in the lack of a halloween event. I would've rather had the new tiers get pushed pack than not have a Halloween event. Halloween and horror games go hand in hand, and this is the perfect time of the year to do /something/ to really promote the game. But I also don't think that an office fire is as flimsy an excuse as it may be perceived.

I got quite lucky on this challenge. Mare, Rev, Deo. They were all in one of the two classrooms near the entrance. Took some time, but got them all. lol

I did the easter event, got every map done, and we did it twice because we did it for a friend, and we never got our Easter 2023 trophy :(

This in multiplayer was rough... when you dont know the map😅 hahaha but we got it 3/4 tries

I hope phas gets a hallowen event so bad

I like how excited you get talking about your ideas for more new seasonal events. Even if its just some art banners, and a special themed challenge with a badge sticker or whatever, easy to make, encourages interaction with the game.

I was shocked with how successful it was for me. I got it in only 3 attempts. And in my second game, literally 1 minute after entering the building, it started hunting. And hunted multiple times even though I had high sanity. Easiest demon that I didn't even need to get a glimpse of. XD

I did this one three times in a public lobby! It was a super fun challenge splitting up the lighting items among 4 people. We never bothered to find the breaker lol. I will say the, the parabolic found us the ghost room 2 of the three times, but obviously with 4 people having 1 person holding the parabolic is very different from 1 person going in, ignoring all other items to find the room. Thankfully we never got a gym ghost!

It's kind of difficult to criticize developers for not expanding and increasing development. It shouldn't feel like "their fault" the game was successful. They had a planned vision for a ghost hunting game - and it really took off. Now they're expected to do so much more because we all bought it? Even if that exceeds their initial vision? I don't think so. They're entitled to create the product they set out to create, and we all agreed to what we purchased, and little more, at the time we purchased it. That said it's a good idea for longevity and continuing to have an existing playerbase, draw more players, and genuinely make more money if they did expand though.

the first time I got dots I was just holding the dots thing lvl 1 but then I got convinced out of it and missed getting the ghost right 😂😂

Lavender said in a stream that they are all working from home, partly because of the fire, but mostly because they are moving to a new, bigger office. So probably that slows down the whole process. :D

I got 2 bathroom ghosts and a regular classroom ghost,sadly,my challenge this week was pretty uneventful

It's unfortunately the norm that darkness / lights are very unrealistic in pretty much all games. Also a match provides more light IRL than what the ingame one does, just stand in a completely dark room and see for yourself. Not with a monitor blasting light into the room Insym!!!

I managed to complete the challenge, but failed one because it was a goryo and COULD NOT get DOTS at all. Tier 1 DOTS really does suck for this challenge.

They should add a feature to add two ghost to hunt, obviously getting them to be distinguished from one another would be hard but I think it would be possible. Just have them share a hunt timer and even double the items you can bring. Would add a great challenge to people like Insym and make it harder for 4 man parties

Brownstone is hands down the most boring and entertaining map. It takes ages just to experience anything, and sometimes you won't even notice hunts, but the amount of funny shit you can pull is insane

I'd even take a temporary placeholder reward with a copy of last year's Halloween event, except being open to all difficulties. They just need to do something...

Ez first

i love playing high school but last time i tried it i literally got 3 gym ghosts in a row and 2 cafeteria ghosts. traumatized 😶‍🌫️

idk if you will read this but i had an idea a bit ago what would it look like if you played with a friend who had never played phasma before. You could only give like, 3 tips per game or something and you gotta see how they progress

Me and my group played this in multiplayer. It was true pain. Using the dots projector as a light source is horrible

I had a Shade in the gym for this challenge. I was saved from this torture by freezing temps appearing and ghost not hunting at 40% sanity

first time ever seeing insym being scared of capturing a ghost loll

I lost my termo while doing one of the runs of this weekly ... "It Was At This Moment He Knew... He F`d Up "😁😅

So if you ended up with a Shade in the gym, would it still not hunt at all if you were in there? Does it being such a large room matter with that?

I got pretty lucky this week. I got ouija board twice and monkey paw once, got classroom 18 twice somehow and science classroom. Ghost types were banshee, spirit and thaye

20 minutes in to this video and I'm thinking that this might be the 2nd challenge where all 3 evidences aren't being given.

My biggest problem with teir 1 being the challenge items is that casual players are likely to still be on tier one or tier two. We play once, maybe twice a week and I'm only halfway through teir two. It would be nice if it was at least a mix of things so casual players get the ability play with something they aren't already stuck with. I love the update and everything, but it's really punishing to new players

Low lighting doesn't equal scary

I have bad experiences with this map...once I had a shade, it was awful. Next time I had a small child myling, she scared the sh*t out of me in the corridor. Every time I was on a big map it was a disaster, I'm so unlucky :D when asylum still existed I went for only 1 mission, it was a shade waaaaaaay back....I found nothing, not even the ghost room only after 1 hour when the ghost act like a normal one and I had enough :D but it was long time ago, last time when I played this game was when deogen and the other ghosts added.

i fear no ghost... but that ghost? *(gets close)* it scares me.

got a gym ghost, luckely that was a raiju, other ghost was relativly close to enterance and pretty active so i found them in 2 minutes wo cursed items

I’ve had that “items fall through the bottom door frame on high school” bug before. So annoying! Also, I was still a noob player during Halloween last year so I missed the trophy. I’m really really hoping that they run it back this year so I can earn it now. 🙏🏻

I don't really play Phasmo myself, but do enjoy Insyms videos - but with the large rooms would placing the items near where the orbs spawned also be closer to the place the ghost spawns.? or having to collect some items and see where the ghost kicks them up for where to place the other items.? I would assume the ghost has a relatively set movement pattern, though could well be wrong here. . . :D

13:46 Well. This certainly was NOT the plan.

Did this weekly challenge 5 times. 3/4 of us had it, another only had 1 of the challenge runs done. I ran in with the DOTS pen. Someone used a video camera. Another used the glowstick. Flashlight for the last one. I had the most map knowledge/could realistically run in with no light and feel my way around in the dark so I always went for the breaker. This helped significantly with navigation for the team.

People who play Phasmo are the only people I see playing a Challenge Mode and then say "this is impossible why does it have to be so hard"

The challenge was interesting the ghosts I got were a shade for the first round and was kinda obvious, second round was a Moroi and it gave evidence really fast and for the last ghost it was a myling that me and my friends never found the ghost room but we figured it out when it hunted a few times

Itsdesmondlabro at 0:44 almost predicted the video length, nice one bro

The roaming DOTS strat was INSANE to see! This was so fun to watch!

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Hey CJ! New idea for hardest difficulty ghost! "Favorites Largest Rooms Only" as an option to have check listed.

32:48 for the thanksgiving event, the ghost is a giant turkey

MY First Ghost in this map yesterday was also a Shade! i had to look for what felt like HOURS. and then it ran at me as literally just a shadow on the ground. i was like "I uh.... huh... i think that's a Shade!" and sure enough!

How difficult would it be if the gym ghost was a goryo (especially with their 1 dots)? (I think u can only see goryo on cam correct me if I’m wrong)

I tried doing this with a couple friends a day or two ago and I thought I suffered...

Hey Insym, i was wondering if you could play a game made by Rusty Lake. Underground Blossom for example. Sr just start at the beginning of the series. Its a really cool puzzle “escape” game and its also has a dark vibe sometimes . Would love to see you check it out. Greetings from Austria.

I played this on multiplayer - wasn’t too terrible if you know the layout because we split up and found the ghost room quick enough. I had flashlight, partner had UV or cam. We failed only one out of the three

Does anyone know if this got delayed for console yet or is it still set for the week of Holloween

Me and my bf have tried all the previous weeklies that have previously played, and we struggled a decent amount on them. Surprisingly enough, this was the easiest one for us so far. We got all 3 ghost right immediately. But I will say, we were really lucky. We had a polter throwing like crazy. Yurei slamming doors, and a Demon that hunted immediately. So we were able to guess even without evidence.

Love your videos!!! Could you try Deciet 2 I think you may love it

Fantastic job. Love it.

31:30 CJ confirmed on Twitter that he's trying to get a Halloween event done before the deadline, but no promises. And Dknighter confirmed on Reddit around a month ago they're planning on expanding the team, they're working / planning on moving offices soon (their current one is too small,) which has been eating time.

Yo insym I watched both 1and2 episode of 7 days to die and I wanna tell ya your entertainment is all I need for my time break please continue the series

29:11 Even in death, the teacher is still grading papers

I got so incredibly lucky with this challenge. Got Ouija Board, Monkey Paw, and Mirror and had downstairs classrooms for every ghost.

Imagine you had a gym moroi and got cursed to 0 sanity. That would’ve been an absolute disaster.

I've never had a gym ghost, I feel cheated.

I think the idea of expanding the team for holiday-specific events is an interesting one - but TBH the dev's put so much love into this game and don't get a lot back for it. I honestly would pay for DLC that includes a holiday package or new maps or what have you. That way they can get paid for all of the hard work they put into the game, which has come SO FAR and has had so many changes since I bought it for like ... pennies compared what I've gotten out of it.

I dunno, I used the T1 paramic for this challenge and we (my husband and I) found 2/3 of the ghosts using it. One discovery was through a whisper and the other was an interaction that my husband didn't hear but the paramic did. Is it great? Maybe not, but it definitely helped us and so isn't completely worthless. Also, the doorframes in High School are messed up. I lost a thermo into one, but tested exactly the same way on Bleasdale and it was fine. I think the HS doorways are just broken.

Hi insym! I was wondering if you could try a challenge where you make a spinning wheel of all the equipment in phasmo including breaker, crucifixes, cursed items, and all the regular ones like thermo and emf, and spin the wheel, whatever it lands on you cant use that round, pretty simple but seems fun hope you do it :D

when you play the console update, and you have to start fresh, that would be the prime time to play in random lobbies because no one will know who you are

today I got 3 mimics IN A ROW

I got summoning circle for 2 games but it was good. 1st game manage to figure out it's a hantu with summoning circle. Turned out hantu started hunt with full speed with summoning circle.

Always love to see that Insym posted a new video

Insym, i am surprised at you. i watched a lot of your content and noticed you dont know one thing about the shade ghost. Its ability makes it the only ghost in the game currently that can give a EMF5 on spirit writing. It's documented on the ghost abilities. Shade may be broken and can still give EMF5 if you're in the room. but it's a dead give away if EMF5 during ghost writing, as writing is normally a EMF3. The instant i saw EMF5 when the ghost used the book, i called it. and hoped you would get there fast as well. The student has surpassed the master, Temporarily. lol

I had it so easy. Survived all 3 rounds. Summoning Circle and Obake, then Monkey Paw and Deogen and then another Summoning Circle with another Deogen. I just got insta-hunted and finished the entire challenge in under 12 minutes.

Yo my high school was a Dutch colonial building. And allegedly has a ghost named Nancy, said to be a spirit of a Dutch lady back from colonial times. They say there's one specific window in the upper floor that can't be closed, because it's where she would wait for her lover. So this situation reminds me of my high school lol, albeit we don't have a gym like that. (tho in the three years I'm there, I've never experienced any supernatural event)

I just don't enjoy this challenge, I find putting T1 items for it a dick move. They could have provided at least T2 items considering the map is huge and can be pretty confusing with almost no light. Going in with T1 items just make the challenge a tedious one, not a hard one.

i had a gym ghost once. We could tell where he was in the building by following the sound of the bouncing basketball. Everywhere we went a basketball would bounce and roll out from his position. It was a weird, perfect glitch.

First time playing hs. Had the thermo and light looking for the ghost room. Going door to door I lost track of my sanity. Second I get up stairs, hunted. Demon. Think he was just as bored as I was.

What are your normal stream hours cuz I try to catch them but I recently joined when you started phas. But only through RU-vid and would like to see you on a live especially the gamble ones. Waiting to see if this comes out on console soon cuz if not this games the reason I want to play

I used Brightness 4 and could see just fine, that's how we did multiplayer

How do you even see where you're going when you're running from the ghost? All I see is black. Do you have your monitor and game settings all to 100% brightness??

You should try VR Phas

I'm gonna be /that person/ but.... when I was in high school, my neighbors house burned down with her twin toddlers still inside. I'm still dealing with the trauma of it, years later.

So excited :)

This is basically a cheating. How come your player doesn't get tired of running for a while(Cooldown timer). And why your speed is faster than the ghost.

i did this 4 players got all 3 ghosts and all (doable) objectives

oh boy... the halloween discussion again... sry to disagree but on the end of my spectrum nobody needs this, in fact we hate it. games and devs should focus on the important stuff.

I mean, a fire in a building (Depending on the size) can be really bad. Electrical problems for the whole building, the smoke alone could destroy or mess up the electronics, etc. It obviously depends on the situation, but yeah, 2 months is kind of a long time if nothing at all was destroyed and lost.