The LEVEL 1 Challenge in Phasmophobia is Almost Impossible 

"Only compete with yourself" is great life advice in general.

EMF starts beeping at 21:08 for no good reason, he was distracted and never saw it, but emf 2 marks a teleporting hability, he could have deduced Wraith there.

1:51:00 I also think they should add the different stat page for mimic exclusively at the end of the game so you can see which ghosts the mimic did take but it may be too complicated to implement

As a New player, I think the hardest part was not knowing what I was looking for, for like Dots or the spirit box. this channel helped XD

Before I found this channel, I thought that turning on the lights in any room would make the ghost a lot more angry and increase the chances of the hunt. I also thought that you could hide from ghosts only in lockers.

I started playing phasmo 8 days ago, the hardest part was getting over how scary it was. I was constantly scared about when the ghost could hunt, but after that it was actually pretty easy, the tier 1 items weren't actually horrible for me (I also am now level 48 from doing camp ww start, I improve at games somewhat fast)

5:50 to answer your question: I love tier 1 dots and tier 1 ghost writing. No sarcasm at all. I find it fun to keep constant tabs on those things and when the ghost gives those evidences it’s super satisfying. Nothing better in the game than being stressed out about the ghost just to watch it write from the van and give you that final evidence. Same with dots.

I picked up and got into Phasmo with the big update. Because I came in with the tier 1 items, I learned how to make the best of them, and it gives me an appreciation for the more advanced forms (in most cases). Some items, despite being janky, are preferable because of familiarity through accessibility. I'm still at the point where I'll only play Professional, because I'm still learning the ghosts. Not only through my own play, but through watching primarily you and other Phasmo players.

The way he explained how him playing on insanity is like us playing for the first time is so true. I watch so much of his phasmo content, then I go play and get my butt kicked on amateur difficulty XD

I agree, watching random phasmo games is always fun. the Pros doing those sick challenges and escapes of hunts, and the beginers being so scared and new to all the game mechanics and letting us see all the creepy feel the level and sound design can give to people. i have a friend who can't play more than 2 sets with me for how scared he gets. Also, I think what they are trying is mostly, give more ways to be useful to those who stay in truck. they are players of the game after all, hating a portion of the players is bad for the game.

My friend and I started playing about 3 days ago, we had tried this game out about a year ago and didn’t get into it but came back because we heard a lot about the update. The first time I attempted to hide but was found because I had my flashlight on.. this channel has really helped us but joining lobbies or playing with people that have better items in the beginning was very helpful

My friends and i just started playing this week and can confirm its mad hard we didnt even know until today you could place down the dots so we just had someone carrying it around the whole time looking for ghosts and we are like 1/20 on correct guesses with a 60% chance of dying atleast its fun though

I recently started and having watched you for almost 2 years has definitely helped a lot, like only after 3 hours of playing I’m playing a custom difficulty that’s kinda like nightmare ish in terms of hardness and rewards but it’s 3 evidence so 9/10 times I have all evidence before the first hunt

"The better you get at the game the more fun it becomes." While I agree with that statement completely, I can't say the same for my friends, because of how good I've gotten since watching Insym's videos, they feel like all the fun has been sucked out of it. That might be true, but they also aren't trying to apply themselves to get better at the game. Maybe I'm the one who's in the wrong and I should try to tone back my sweaty style of play with them... though that is kind of why I mainly play Solo, so I don't have to hold back.

for the twins in the ridgeway kitchen, the "DOTS" was breath. you can see it to the right of the patio window, and expanding before you spotted it. the hunt was not early, because insanity is 75, - 20 for 2 events is 55, plus being in the house for about 5 minutes, is about 7% loss with no lights. youd be under 50% sanity guarunteed.

love your videos man you are so chill and help me understand things in the game a lot better all the time

I remember when Phasmo first came out there were so much troll info in search results about playing the game lol ‘To stop the hunt, throw a knife at the ghost’ ‘If you hold the crucifix the ghost can’t kill you’

To the question about people starting on this update. Yes it is extremely hard. I had no clue what to do, luckily i had friends that were somewhat experienced but they also put me immediatly on professional. However binge-watching your videos helped!!

I started day 2 of the update and have been watching your videos about it, they are a lot of help. I am playing with randoms online to also learn. Solo isn’t easy especially with mostly tier one items but it’s really fun.

My hardest problem was probably the EMF or temprature, because i didnt know how to use the emf and the temprature was broken most of the time, like it woldnt move it was just sitting at 15 degrees celsius. I love watching you and you've made me much better at the game!

As far as skill vs. luck, I completely agree with you. I actually did the whole spawn in, guess Spirit, leave strat the other day and it worked lol. My group quit playing for the night, but I was only 30 xp from a level-up, so I wanted to get it, so I did it solo and the RNG was benevolent lol.

I did start playing after the update, my main early experience was getting the ghost wrong many times due to the tier 1 equipment not picking up things very often, died a lot before I knew how to hide and the tier 1 flashlight was so shit, honestly I used the dots as a flashlight until, I got the tier 2.

Just started about 4 days ago and got a Rev 3x in a row! Starting to get over the fear of hunts so I'm starting to make some progress finally. Just unlocked my tier 2 flashlight so now that I can SEE maybe I'll be less terrified lol

honestly i bought phasmo like 5 days ago and i have been non stop watching ur vids im learning alot but not quite being able to implement what im seeing , about the dots... yeah me and my friend got the game together , we dont use them lmao cause they suck alot but sometimes we just guess or i open ur vids about no evedince and try to see from a hunt , basically one of us dies lmao , much love for u insym

I have restarted Phasmo about 1 week ago after more than 1 year not touching it. It felt both new and still familiar. I had first hard time guessing which ghost I was dealing with and eventually nailed it....until I met Le Mimic...twice in row.

Got back into Phasmo with the update. The atmosphere of Phasmo is unlike any other ghost hunting game. Tier 1 DOTS ‘pen’ is certainly the most frustrating. You have to stand in the dark while your sanity drops, hoping that the ghost will show up. I’m terrible at avoiding hunts and spotting the ghosts when they show up. I personally don’t see how you do it all the time because I’m like “what is he looking at?” especially when you crouch behind cars. I’m afraid it will sneak up from behind. I especially love the terrible trio content and the cries of anguish of CJ and Psycho when you do something that gets them killed 😂

9:50 I remember in my first game I somehow easily found out that it was an obake. The game only took like 5 minutes, I instantly got every evidence.

Another video yippie! Been sick all week so I've just been binge watching these new videos daily.

i just started phasmo but i play with my sister and friends who played before so they already kinda understood the game. but watching your videos and playing basically daily, ive learned a few ghosts behaviors and have caught some. but im level 26 right now, so ive done a decent bit. but overall, im enjoying the game even though i started on a massive update. we’ve got a lot of friends on and keep trolling the new ones with the cursed possessions

I love that twitch chat says hi to youtube, because then I get to say hi stream and feel like I'm actually conversing with real people for once.

20:00 In game design/game balancing we call this phenomenon an "incomparable". As the name suggests, it refers to a mechanic that has a relation to other mechanics that vary so much in functionality as to be incomparable. They can be very fun, but they are notoriously difficult to balance. (RPGs and MOBAs deal with this problem more than any other genre.) Whether or not this is a bad thing depends on the intended player experience from the developers. If you view Phasmo as a competitive game, it may make sense to implement changes that provide strict balance throughout the tiers. However, if you view Phasmo as a game about knowledge accumulation and finding interesting strategies to determine ghosts, these little differences can enrich the experience. This has been my Ted talk, thank you for reading.

I've learn so much from you man , thank you !!

I was just about to Sleep... Perfect timing as always

this gonna be lit, havent even finished watching and i already know🗣️‼️🔥🔥

Just come back to phasmo after a few years. The tiered items and new ghosts so confusing. Feel like a noob again. Forced into level 1 challenge and no access to items I used to use lol. Ah well time to relearn it all. I’m glad you’re still playing instantly checked your channel to refresh my memory and learn what’s changed.

someone asked me yesterday why i like watching videos like this. main answer, to see things i never can in games i like. one instance, the deo. never get them in phas, not even during their release when they had an increased chance of showing up. not one single hunt has been them and its gotten to the point i dont even bother considering not to hide in a deadend spot.

My favourite way to play is Professional with two evidence - I love having to do a bit of extra investigation to determine the ghost, but to have the screens in the truck to provide extra intel.

It's been always a great time watching this video 👍

I started playing about a month before the update and got to level 4. I barely played, but I got relatively acquainted with the game. I was demoralized when the game reset and I was downgraded to 90s era equipment, but at the same time I enjoy the new tier system. I only hope that I can level up faster while still playing on normal mode.

i had just started phas right as the update happened its quite difficult as a new player, but by watching your videos ive learned alot and bettered my skills!

I've made a custom diff giving me 5.71x with 2 evidence, no running, ghost speed 150% etc and its pretty fun! So far I'm getting perfect investigation almost every time except when the ghost is too hard to guess and I get it wrong. Your videos definitely helped me become a better ghost hunter.

My gf and her friend both started last night, I’ve been playing for a while. They said it was unbelievably hard when I left and they had only level 1 equipment with no extras

38:44 I saw the Goryo dots. Only a single twitch chat viewer noticed it as well, and they were ignored sadly.

when you were placing the dots around 35:15, if you want them to face you, just tap F you don't need to rotate, I'm pretty sure the dots pen always points at you when you quick tap the F key. You know since we were talking about speed running just a few minutes ago

2:00 I remember when everyone thought that "line of sight" meant burying your head in the corner, and the ghost wouldn't see you XD

when i first played i got chills from the ghost hunts and the spookiness of it... now its just like whats up ghost let me lick your toes and damn you dont have toes... well then back to the truck we're out. idk kinda wish they had more spooky scary parts. i miss that.

28:13 Obviously the Wraith was just hungry from teleporting, made a Sandwich and got angry because it realized they can't eat the Sandwich....so Hunt Time.

I learn a lot by seeing you failling 😂 this is a good challenge

4:03 the perfect smooth sales pitch, and he thought we wouldnt notice

I'm a new player, I've seen the ghosty throw the notebook. i usually line it up with the corner of something and set dots right next the video cam. sometimes I'll see orbs but inconsistently so i know it's a mimic. I've only gotten dots like twice. if I need a hunt I'll hide in a closet and trigger a cursed hunt. not brave enough to loop. you and maggstor have been amazing

I wonder if on this anniversary DK will be kind enough to share a piece of his time with few phasmo content creators to maybe share his plans and overall opinion on a current state of the game. Like the last year.

I started on this update but I found it quite easy. If you just put everything in the room and watch from camera it’s easy. And I learned from watching you.

2:07:40 - the last second on the camera, there was a ghost orb in the middle of the screen, that was sooooo unlucky bro, anyways, this was an awesome video

Literally all my phas knowledge has come from you 🤣❤

I started playing just before the big update, and into it, on VR. Level one stuff very hard on solo, but bearable in multiplayer. I typically use text voice recognition for the spirit box, so I can spam it better, considering how trash the tier 1 version is. I'm also fairly certain (at the time) the VR sanity drain is almost doubled compared to normal sanity drain; other people who I followed around had much more sanity than I did, even though we were standing in the same places.

Yes i love watching level 1 challenges!

Just wanted to say Hi. I'm a new player, started just as the new prestige update dropped. Been watching your videos almost exclusively. Even if they aren't always specifically for educational purposes I'm learning heaps about the game from them. Just awesome content really. I've been toying around with custom difficulty where I start at zero sanity, no start up time, and basically try to get the evidence with the highest chance to be hunted possible. 50/50 on the success rate lol. Gotta throw yourself in the uncomfortable zone if you're ever going to get better though. Dots is absolutely ridiculous though. I've spent ample time staring in a dark room not seeing anything. I check the stats post-game; I was in the ghost room the majority of the time, so was the ghost, never saw Dots and it was an evidence type. I've just kind of figured that some evidence is easier than others to collect in general. Temp/Writing is as simple as leaving them in the Ghost Room and checking them. UV is confirmable by checking interacted Doors. Dots is the worst though as it actively requires your attention and you just don't know how long to stare at it. I'm trying to use your knowledge around observing the Ghost, especially during hunts, to fill in the blanks. Faster/slower movement, flickering more/less frequently, object interactivity, etc etc. I actually think I'm pretty good for someone rolling around with Tier 1 items and 20 hours game time lol.

I started during this update with a few friends we were all new except one and died a good bit on the easiest difficultly, but a few days in and we are having so much fun no longer stuck on the easiest difficulty

My friend and I played a few days ago for the first time and we were wrong as well, it was a mimic... 😂 We joined the game with 0 knowledge, didn't understand a thing and then watched a video of yours and improved a lot!

I started yesterday and it was definitely frustrating for my first few games. I didn't know what I was looking for and the tools being so bad made it even harder. The tier 1 EMF made it hard to find where the ghost is and sometimes looked like it would hit 5 sometimes so then I would be wrong. I didn't know what DOTS and spirit orbs looked like so with such a small area made it harder to find what it was. I usually play Demonologist and wanted to give Phasmaphobia a go. It was a difficult transition. I am not the biggest fan of the tier 1 spirit box since it's static is loud and the only reason I knew to look for the tiny hard to see ghost light is going off and that it means the spirit box is positive is because of my experience with Demonologist. Now that I'm getting the hang of it, I am enjoying it more.

I started at Lvl1, Although i had played the game before, the badge i got when i played last week said i only got to lvl 12 before the update so i was really lost. But thanks to your videos i realised i knew more than i thought when i played. But i still lack the experience and the confidence because i cant get the ghots right half the times. I cant see the ghosts speed and instantly know its one in specific, or know that some scream in particular is of just one of the ghosts or something like that. Plus, i always cross out some evidence and then it turs out the ghost just didnt do it, which i know is a classic noobie move but i try to repeat testing for every evidence before i cross it, although i get the ghost room wrong half the time too. So id say im as noob as anyone can be but i know how to loop ghosts without smudge sticks. :D (Because i dont have a choice if it haunts me so i learned the hard way.) I love your videos and i learn a lot from them. Thanks for being so creative and letting us know all of the game´s mechanics and secrets.

I started playing phasmo yesterday because of the achievements and yeah, its hard. Ive only gotten the ghost correct once within the 6 hours ive played this update, and my first hour playing i had no clue what i was doing. The shop ui was so confusing and i kept looking for the emf reader in the truck but couldnt find it because i was looking for the tier 2 emf reader and had no clue what tier 1 even looked like.

50:00 I had a game the other day where we were on High School for 13 minutes and didn't hear anything. We decided to pack up and retry. It was a shade. It had done 2 interactions in 13 minutes. It touched one door and other thing. That's it.

I just started playing yesterday after watching quite a few guides beforehand. I walked in with confidence and after 8 rounds I can say I'm struggling lol. 6 deaths and I've found maybe 2 total pieces of evidence despite watching atleast 10 hours of game play before even owning the game. I'm having fun though.

Starter items on Insanity, that's crazy 👻 I can't even not die on Professional with regular items. What still kills me more often than not is that the flashlight turns on when I circle through my items which is especially frustrating during a hunt when you have to press two different buttons to turn it off..... And it's also hard to keep track of hiding spots and escape routes, although that should be my basic knowledge 😅

I recently found your channel and its been helping me become a much better player! I still consider myself very new to learning the ghosts' behaviors, do you have any videos where you go more in depth on ruling out ghosts? like at 6:40 when you started ruling out a bunch of different ghosts after just a few interactions. Do you have a video explaining why you know its not those types? Thank you again if you see my comment, love the content!

I can confirm, me and my friends are level4 and this is exactly what it feels like.

In a pinch, the “holding the door” hiding spot has worked for me before. Demon spawned at the master bedroom doorway in Tanglewood, so I dipped into the closet and held it shut. 😆 Janky hiding spots sometimes save the day.

As someone who bought this after the update, since we're locked in amateur level for several levels anyway, it's not too bad. It seems like the evidence is mostly easy to get on amateur mode. Sometimes it's just a matter of watching the cam and dots in the truck for a while, at least until you get a polty and it throws the camera everywhere. 😅 Still haven't gotten/done a hunt yet. I opted to try a couple of friendly ghost runs to get used to the items and the layout of the houses first before jumping into the reward level though.

In most games, phasma included I find it's better when you're clueless to the inner workings of the game. The wonder and cluelessness as you figure things out and get better. Clumsily looking for the ghost and evidence, running around like a headless chicken when it hunts, rarely knowing if you're safe or not, all the crazy random stuff you say to trigger the ghost. The panic at every ghost event even just random auditory and visual ones that can't harm you. You don't get that when you see an event and can go "ah this event, I know that's just a visual or auditory event and it's not dangerous" Compared to freaking out over every interaction. When you know everything it becomes a little too efficient, maybe even a little repetitive. A lot of the perceived danger lessens during non lethal events You just run in find the cold room "are you here/french/near? touch something" spam down all the evidence and bonus objective equipment, get some pics and done Even when it hunts or events, you kind of already know if you're safe or dead, removing more of the panic. In plenty of cases memeing around like "get a pic of me with it kekw" still fun, but in a different way

I started playing after this update...I have watched hours and hours of the game before that tho. So it was rough in the beginning but I already knew what to expect.

Has to play on insanity and with only level 1 items... Noob players: Look what he has to do to mimic a fraction of our power!

I feel like fingerprints would have to be the flashlight, glowstick and then electric uv field emitter or something. A bigger and permanent glowstick to be an actual upgrade. The thermo t3 should just always show the accurate temp digitally

I started playing phasmo at the current version and it is so much harder than it looked through videos. I’m level 3 and have played like 25 games and got like 3 ghosts right and died atleast 10 times as I didnt know it can see my flashlight during a hunt. I can never get dots, fingerprints, freezing or writing. The only time I ever get an evidence is when its spirit box.

5:55 me and friend came back to phasmo after a three year break, from days that dots isnt even a thing. It's pathetic how smol the Tier1 dots projector is .... We cannot afford going back to the high school which is our favorite map too.

With camp woodwind speedrun I'll do normally two hunts for check out mimic and if it is diffucult, then I live thru more hunts. I have been adding items depending on what ghost it "might" be. Using salt to get salt photos and know if it isin't wraith, crucifix if ghost hunts on top of me, fileplace/candle for onryo, EMF for Raiju and I use lvl 1 smudge sticks. If you use lvl 3 EMF, then i leave it by entrance to check yurei. But it is dependable where and which ghost will be and most of the time i will need to guess. That how I play that map.

To help new players, I'd recommend the devs make it so that the T2 upgrades for the evidence items are unlocked and equipped for new players (for the first 1-100). This will improve the experience for new players jumping in without doing the tutorial. While I also feel T1 thermo and UV are considerably better than T2, T2 are simpler to use effectively for a player who doesn't know the game. T2 spirit box has much more intuitive indicators (x or ghost), writing book is more obviously open/ closed, DOTs are much easier to see. It's fine to say "Just do the tutorial" or "Read it properly", but if a new player jumps in and doesn't have fun, they'll just quit and refund...

Hi Inysm. I have started again after new update. I had break about 1-1,5 year since last play so it was quite change. First match I have died but every next one was better and better. I started at professional so it is VERY difficult for me to correct identify ghost with so bad eq but it is going better and better. There is a lot of fun but it is also scary for me so they kept horror aspect for sure :D

I cannot play the game myself because my laptop is not very good, and so I have to play vicariously through watching streams/replays of other people playing. I have 2 friends who play the game but haven't done so in a while so I heckled them into doing so and streaming to me. They both played with tier 1 items and I was the one coaching them through what to do. It went okay, they were really hesitant to go into the house, even while they were on 80% sanity and above. Although one friend did get killed by a demon very early in and refused to play another round.

little tip for finding out poltegerist, look at how fast the items it throws moves, i get alot of poltegerists and never get them wrong just by looking at the speed of the items it throws

I wholly agree the tier 1 thermo and glow stick are better than their upgrades. Wish we had the tier 1 thermo earlier, cuz I would have been using it alongside the glow stick this entire time. I still find it funny that my friends always used to say the glow stick was trash compared to the UV flashlight, then they joined my world one time and were forced to use the glow stick. They never went back to the UV flashlight afterwards lol

You have balls of steel opening the journal mid a hunt. 😂

i like how this is literally how you start lmao

I think for beginners, they should allow unlimited running and as you progress, the running amounts should get lower and lower. This would help newer people to help them learn to looping the ghost or just trying to get away from them

I started in this update basically. (I was level 15 in the old version.) And my friends were like 100-200 somethings. WE STRUGGLED SO HARD. Half the shit they knew was now obsolute like freezing breath etc. All the tools are terrible, borderline useless. On top of it none of my friends knew anything useful. They were casual and just hid/did pro-Nightmare hunts before. No looping/ghost hunt knowledge. Yeah our first 2 days of playing we got like 2 of 25 ghosts right. But then after a decent bit of research (and getting a couple of extra things via levels.) we started to get it going. Now me and another guy are like constantly talking, "o was that a Yurei double touch, etc.", meanwhile our other friend learned every cursed spawn and does all the extra stuff like bone hunting and picturing everything. Doing much better now. But to say it was demoralizing those first 2 days would be an understatement. And we have by no means perfected looping/escaping the ghost. But thats the next steps. Been practicing solo and its trippy hard to not just hide from the ghost like I want to. But I am slowly getting better. My trouble is immediately recognizing speed/sound, so sometimes I just get got.

29:35 Insym about to get cancelled? He hates babies! lmao

I started a few days ago as a VR player. The spirit box couldn't be picked up till the most recent patch.

i picked the game up again after some time (i left before the big Horro 2.0 update back then) and i rarely play(ed) singleplayer because im not a horror game player normally especially when it comes to jump scares

I know the spirit box is annoying when u leave it on, but I tend to passively get responses even when im not holding it or when im not actively asking questions. I cant remember which ghost it is, but there is one that hates the spirit box. when u try talking to it on the spirit box, it gets angry instead of responding.

Anyone else just gets excited when he says HI RU-vid, HOW ARE YOU DOING…. Love from Kenya

you have to do item tier list like in the good old days

I've just started playing and am now level 9. I have successfully identified 5 different ghosts. I almost missed the ghost writing evidence in my latest game because I've already stopped looking at it after placing it with how much it's just not something the ghost does, even when that's supposedly its evidence.

I started last weekend and yes it sucks so much to start with those items, thankfully im level 40 already and thank god for that tier 3 flash

I started the game 4 days ago and the tier 1 book and tier 1 dots has to be the worst of the worst I've missed so book writing and dots with the tier 1 stuff

Insanity mode at least has active ghosts!! I had some very chill ghosts when i started playing the update.

the first time i found a revenant was because i died before i could even run away, that thing was absolutely booking it towards me lol

You'll know it's French when you place a baguette on the floor and it starts spinning

I started playing 3 weeks ago and I almost never got DOTS because they were just so bad 😭 I just got tier 2 yesterday and now it's great

Hey I’m a new player and my friends and I were having similar problems but what seemed to help was removing throwables out of the room for goryo

omg. that description of the "roles" was so fucking spot on with the people i usually play with. Photo guy... i'm the photo guy.