Suggestions to assist gamers go into nightmare mode and decipher which ghost you will have. In addition to some normal nightmare mode tricks to extend your life.
Abstract
(IMPORTANT) Issues have modified fairly a bit for the reason that cursed gadgets replace, I am unsure how a lot of this information continues to be helpful. As a result of launch of FFXIV Endwalker, I haven’t got a lot time to play phasmo. If I discover a second to analysis how the brand new ghost works/adjustments impact issues I’ll replace this. Till then, I like to recommend discovering one other information, and or watching some movies by Psycho/Insym. They’ve an amazing understanding of the sport, a whole lot of which I’ve repeated right here.
There was numerous dialogue concerning the new nightmare mode, a whole lot of misinformation, ill-informed gamers, and others that do not supply any actual assist. The purpose I search to realize is to hopefully clarify sure ghost conduct, traits, skills, and tells. Together with it give an in depth listing of each attainable mixture of ghosts you will get with two proof items. If we perceive how the ghosts work and which of them might be examined for then we are able to alleviate a number of the present issues with nightmare.
Initially, the wiki is your pal in nightmare.
https://phasmophobia.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
That is the place I’ll primarily be drawing most of my data from. Taking part in in nightmare will requrie a little bit of metagame data, or on the very least figuring out it’ll make enjoying in nightmare all that a lot simpler. So I recommend that if you have not, you need to look via it because it incorporates fairly a little bit of helpful details about the sport programs.
Nightmare Mode
As acknowledged in recreation, the nightmare problem does the next.
- Ghosts will disguise one sort of proof
- The ghost’s room will typically change
- No setup time
- Brief hunt grace interval
- Lengthy hunt length
- Kills enhance hunt length
- Sanity drugs restore a lot much less sanity
- Fuse field begins off
- Nearly no hiding locations
The primary and second factors are most likely an important to concentrate to right here. The ghost will solely provide you with two items of proof on nightmare, and it’ll change its favourite room fairly a bit. That means you’ll have to depend on secondary details about ghosts AND you’ll have to discover your proof whereas the ghost isn’t solely roaming, but in addition altering its room. Due to these two details you need to NEVER eradicate any proof you will have within the journal. As a result of the truth that there’s all the time a lacking proof, you’ll by no means know which one is the hidden one. After getting chased the ghost down, and located the 2 items you want is the place the following a part of nightmare kicks in.
Earlier than we go on to that, a couple of issues to notice that is not instantly informed to you in recreation. As a result of new patch, a couple of issues have modified, you will have observed them already, however for the sake of readability I will listing them as effectively.
- Fingerprints final solely 120 seoncds.
- Ghost occasions now impact all of your electronics, which means they’ll resemble a hunt
- On nightmare, your sanity and exercise board is disabled
- The fuse field doesn’t seem on the truck map display
- Climate is a slight problem modifier, and might change each map
- Ouija board has been altered, completely different questions impact your sanity in numerous methods
- Ouija board is now 100% assured to spawn in nightmare mode.
- All ghost’s base pace and acceleration when chasing a participant has been barely elevated
- Ghost hunt length has been lowered on small and medium maps
Main Proof
So there are 20 mixtures of two proof for nightmare. That is what I’ve put collectively as I perceive their skills from streamers speaking about them, the wiki, and private observations.
UPDATE As of patch 0.4.1.0 a couple of issues have modified.
I will probably be defining them primarily based on their paired proof beneath.
The mixtures are as follows:
EMF Reader = R
Fingerprints = F
Ghost Writing = W
Freezing Temperatures = T
D.O.T.S Projector = P
Ghost Orb = O
Spirit Field = B
- R+F = Myling / Obake / Jinn / Goryo
- R+W = Spirit / Myling / Shade
- R+T = Jinn / Shade / Oni / The Twins
- R+P = Raiju / Wraith / Oni / Goryo
- R+O = Raiju / Obake
- R+B = Spirit / Wraith / The Twins
- F+W = Poltergeist / Demon / Myling
- F+T = Demon / Hantu / Jinn
- F+P = Banshee / Phantom / Goryo
- F+O = Banshee / Hantu / Obake
- F+B = Poltergeist / Phantom
- W+T = Demon / Revenant / Shade
- W+O = Mare / Revenant
- W+B = Spirit / Poltergeist / Mare
- T+P = Yurei / Oni
- T+O = Revenant / Yurei / Hantu / Onryo
- T+B = Onryo / The Twins
- P+O = Yokai / Raiju / Banshee / Yurei
- P+B = Yokai / Wraith / Phantom
- O+B = Mare / Yokai / Onryo
Secondary Proof
Every ghost has a secondary proof, traits distinctive to them. Traits which can be supposed to assist the investigators decide the ghost they’re coping with if they need to have hassle discovering proof in regular gameplay. Figuring out these traits, and the way they work is VITAL to enjoying nightmare. Thus I’ve supplied all that I can consider beneath to point out how I come to the conclusions that I do.
My fundamental description works, however if you wish to know extra about them then I encourage you to test it out!
Banshee
- Can goal a single participant to trigger an early hunt. Will goal one particular participant, and assault solely them if they’re in the home.
Demon
- Can hunt at 70% sanity, and Ouija board responses have a lesser impact in your sanity.
Goryo
- Can solely be seen on DOTS via a digital camera if nobody is close by, will hardly ever transfer removed from its favourite room.
Hantu
- Strikes quicker within the chilly, strikes slower within the warmth.
Jinn
- Travels quicker if you’re far-off, and turning off the fuse field will disable its capability. They’re much less more likely to, but they work together with electronics extra usually.
Mare
- If the room the Mare STARTS a hunt from is darkish, it might probably hunt at 60% sanity. If the room is absolutely lit by all lights inside, it can’t hunt until 40% sanity. Likewise the Mare will NOT activate lights.
Myling
- Mylings will give extra whisper sound results if you use a parabolic microphone. Throughout a hunt their footsteps can solely be heard from a detailed distance. If they’re far-off from you, you will notice your flashlight flicker a bit earlier than you hear their footsteps.
Obake
- Hardly ever leaves a hint when interacting with the atmosphere, typically leaves behind distinctive proof. Akin to a six fingered hand print.
Oni
- The extra gamers close by, the extra lively it’s, and the extra simply recognized it’s. Can throw objects an amazing distance farther than different ghosts.
Onryo
- A fireplace going out may cause it to hunt, however when holding a candle close to the ghost it is not going to hunt early. It hunts at 65% with no fireplace close to it.
Phantom
- Phantoms will ‘blink’ slower throughout a hunt, making them a lot tougher to see. Taking a photograph of it’ll trigger it to vanish within the {photograph} and switch invisible briefly.
Poltergeist
- Can throw a number of objects without delay.
Raiju
- Strikes quicker close to electrical units, however continually disrupts electronics. (could hunt early if there are electronics close by, round 60% I consider)
Revenant
- In the event that they spot you throughout a hunt they’ll dash in the direction of you, with no goal they’ll transfer very slowly.
Shade
- Is tougher to search out and get proof for, if a number of persons are round it’s much less more likely to hunt.
Spirit
- Smudging close to a spirit outdoors of a hunt will add 3 minutes of time earlier than the spirit can hunt once more, which is double that of different ghosts.
The Twins
- The Twins normally work together with a number of objects on the identical time, typically in separate rooms, however they’re for extra aggressive and hunt extra usually.
Wraith
- Wraiths will step in salt, however is not going to go away any footprints. Stepping in salt additionally makes them extra lively, they could additionally randomly teleport to the participant.
Yokai
- Speaking close to it’ll anger it and might trigger it to assault you early, throughout a hunt nonetheless they monitor gamers from a considerably shorter distance.
Yurei
- Smudging it inside a room prevents it from wandering for 90s, has a random probability to decrease sanity of gamers.
Ouija Board
The Ouija board now has a 100% probability to spawn on nightmare. As such, it’s now an important device to assist determine what ghost you might be coping with. Beneath I’ll listing the speed at which you lose sanity to it, and which questions might be requested that can aid you decide your sanity.
Sanity Deduction Price
Sanity/Age/Size of demise = 5%
Failed response = 10%
Variety of folks in room = 20%
Ghosts present location = 50% (40% for Demon)
Sanity Questions and Responses
“What’s my sanity?”
80% - 100%: Wholesome
60% - 80%: Good
40% - 60%: Common
20% - 40%: Unhealthy
0% - 20%: Terrible
“How insane am I?”
“How loopy am I?”
50% - 100%: Not very
20% - 50%: Very
0% - 20%: Insane
“Am I insane?”
50% - 100%: No
0% - 50%???: Sure
(Presently appears bugged, drops sanity by 40%)
Regardless that the board can be utilized to assist establish, it’s nonetheless sadly as much as RNG. You possibly can mitigate this by holding monitor of the p.c you will have misplaced via the board, and remembering that sanity drugs heal 25% sanity. You need to base your Ouija take a look at off of, or as shut as attainable to what your preliminary sanity is when asking the query. To illustrate you fail as soon as and succeed, your sanity could have dropped 15%, which may screw up your outcomes. If a Demon early hunted at 62%, and also you requested the board nevertheless it failed, after which requested once more and it succeeded you’ll get a “Very” response. It is because the reply is given after the sanity drain. It’s a good suggestion to preserve your drugs and do some easy subtraction and addition when testing with the board.
Nonetheless, that is for solo, for multiplayer it may be extra sophisticated. Every participant shares a part of the typical sanity pool. 2 gamers have 50% every, 3 have 33% every, and 4 have 25% every. In a multiplayer recreation you’ll lose 5%/10%/20%/50% of YOUR sanity, and heal solely 25% of YOUR sanity. In case your group can preserve relative monitor of how a lot they’ve misplaced then this course of might not be that painful.
(CORRECTION: Presently the board solely offers responses on your personal sanity)
Some Examples
Now let’s transfer on to truly determining which ghosts we’re coping with.
Let’s have a look at, our first instance…
“R+W = Spirit / Myling / Shade”
Figuring out what we find out about these ghosts, how can we determine which is which? Significantly in solo. To begin with, as a solo participant we’re going to throw Shade out the window for now. We can’t take a look at for this on our personal. However, we are able to take a look at the opposite two. With correct sanity administration via each drugs and holding candles we are able to get all our proof earlier than ever being hunted. As soon as we have now been hunted as soon as, and we all know the place the present ghost room is, we are able to seize a smudge and lighter to lock the ghost out of trying to find a time. You do not even want to make use of a timer for this both, the hand-held video digital camera has a clock on it.
That is greatest finished at low sanity to extend the prospect of hunts. As soon as you might be prepared you need to get hunted, and both run or disguise until the tip of the hunt. After it concludes head straight to the ghost room, and smudge the place you already know it will likely be. Now have your timer prepared, as soon as 90s have handed it’s good to concentrate. If it doesn’t hunt for the following 90s you possibly can congratulate your self. You are coping with a Spirit.
Alternatively, if it hunts earlier than 3 minutes have handed then you definitely both have a Myling or a Shade. On to step two. To check a Myling all it’s good to do is seize a flashlight and get the hell away from it because it hunts. Throw the flashlight on the bottom in entrance of your hiding spot whereas it is nonetheless on, as soon as the Myling will get shut you will see the flashlight begin to flicker, nonetheless; you’ll not hear footsteps for a couple of extra moments. If it really works then congrats, it is certainly a Myling. You probably have tried each strategies, and neither labored, then additionally congrats. You came upon it’s a Shade.
(You may additionally attempt the parabolic to check a Myling, however that technique is much less dependable.)
Okay that one was simple, so let’s attempt one thing a bit tougher…
“W+B = Spirit / Poltergeist / Mare”
Nicely we already know what to do with Spirit, so let’s transfer straight to Mare as Poltergeist might be… troublesome. Easiest method to do that one is to only preserve monitor of the lights through the job, did any ever get turned on by the ghost? Then it merely can’t be a Mare, do your Spirit take a look at and see what you get. Now if no lights have been turned on we’re both going to have to attend and observe to see if any do, or we’ll should get a bit artful. Mares can hunt early, if the room is darkish they’ll hunt you earlier than the opposite two right here. “However I am unable to see my sanity!?!” certainly, that’s unlucky, however we have now one other trick to attempt.
Candles are nice, whereas holding a lit one you’ll not have any passive sanity drain, whereas subsequent to at least one your sanity drains fairly slowly. You should use this to your benefit by turning off all of the lights and ready subsequent to a lit candle on the bottom until the ghost hunts. Seize the sucker and e book it to a protected spot, as soon as the hunt is over it is time to transfer out. Seize the Ouija board and ask ‘How insane am I?” In the event you get a “Not Very” response then it is a Mare, in any other case it is a Poltergeist
I hope you are getting the thought right here, so for our last instance…
“T+O = Revenant/Yurei/Hantu/Onryo”
This can be a particular one, it may be a bit tough. Revenant you possibly can take a look at the hunt pace for, solely Hantu can confuse this, however for those who’ve had the breaker on they’re going to be reasonably gradual even whereas chasing you. So Rev is simple sufficient to check for. How about Onryo? Nicely, sorta, it’ll require some persistence and sanity administration. In case you are across the ghost lengthy sufficient it’ll blow out a candle, if this occurs round an Onryo then it has an opportunity to hunt. You may watch for it to blow out a candle a couple of instances, if it hunts proper after then you already know what it’s. In any other case transfer on.
(Ouija board technique may probably be used for Onryo as effectively.)
On to Yurei then. Smudging a Yurei will stop it from leaving the room, however a ghost that is not a Yurei could merely resolve to only not transfer. it could simply need to sit within the room for 90s which simply additional muddies the method. All I can say is maintain on to your smudge sticks, and as soon as you possibly can entice it preserve a timer of it, and refresh the smudge as soon as and even twice. Certainly the ghost SHOULD go away in a 270s time window if it is not a Yurei. We must always keep away from testing a Hantu because the pace buff/nerf is difficult to note except you have had a whole lot of expertise with them.
(Movement sensors will inform you if it leaves.)
Fast Examples
That is going to be fast and temporary.
“R+B = Spirit / Wraith / The Twins”
Subsequent is Wraith, slap som salt underneath its toes and observe when it steps in it with a UV. In the event you received UV footprints, and Spirit take a look at failed, it is The Twins.
“F+P = Banshee / Phantom / Goryo”
Phantom! Get an image, did it present up within the image? If sure, then no Phantom, if no then it is a Phantom. Not Phantom? Goryo take a look at, watch DOTS in identical room, no DOTS? Then go to the truck and check out once more. Arrange a choke level outdoors ghost room for those who suppose it wanders, DOTS now? Goryo, if Phantom failed, and also you get DOTS contained in the room it is a Banshee.
“W+O = Mare / Revenant”
what to do.
“R+P = Raiju / Wraith / Oni / Goryo”
Check Wraith, Check Goryo, if fail then Raiju. Raiju go quick when electronics are on, if no quick then Oni.
“T+B = Onryo / The Twins”
Candle take a look at/Ouija board take a look at.
“O+B = Mare / Yokai / Onryo”
Candle take a look at? Board for Mare? No? Yokai…
“R+F = Myling / Obake / Jinn / Goryo“
Flashlight… No?… Now Obake or Jinn… search for six finger handprints for awhile, or do a pace take a look at with the breaker on.
(Goryo can’t be a attainable ghost with out DOTS within the present patch)
“F+B = Poltergeist / Phantom”
Ghost occasions could be a ♥♥♥♥♥, however you possibly can seize that picture ultimately.
“P+B = Yokai / Wraith / Phantom”
Salt? Photograph? No? Yokai.
“T+P = Yurei / Oni”
Simple, entice that Yurei in a room then smudge the ♥♥♥♥ out of it.
“R+O = Raiju / Obake“
Raiju used thundershock! It was tremendous efficient!
(Obake can’t be a attainable ghost with out fingerprints within the present patch)
“F+W = Poltergeist / Demon / Myling”
Wait until a hunt to watch for lights. If not lights ask the board about your sanity after. If above 50% then it is a demon.
“F+T = Demon / Hantu / Jinn”
Preserve the breaker on and take a look at pace, in any other case Ouija take a look at.
“W+T = Demon / Revenant / Shade”
Pace take a look at/Ouija take a look at.
The Others
1)R+T = Jinn / Shade / Oni / The Twins. (Jinn might be examined)
2)F+O = Banshee / Hantu / Obake (Obake might be examined)
3)P+O = Yokai / Raiju / Banshee / Yurei (Yurei and Raiju might be examined)
Of these, 1 may probably be finished for those who can spot or get an Oni throw reliably and are in a gaggle to determine Shade. 2 for those who can spot a gradual vs a quick Hantu. 2 and three might be finished if a Banshee makes use of its capability early and also you do Ouija, or to be in a gaggle to check its goal, or getting a Yokai early hunt whereas speaking and testing Ouija after.
Higher than pre-patch however, these are nonetheless a little bit of an issue. As I mentioned, there ARE methods to determine these out, nevertheless it is not fast nor simple, nor even that viable in solo. Generally you will get fortunate and get what you want. Different instances you are simply gonna should guess. That is the place nightmare can grow to be a guessing recreation, except you already know your Hantus and are keen to attend round for Onis then, yeah. Yokai could be a ache too, typically you possibly can yell at it but nothing will occur, different instances it needs to kill you the second you sneeze. The Twins may be very apparent when it does its weak point I not really feel assured that The Twins can reliably be examined for, ghosts do roam much less within the present patch, and are much less more likely to change room with excessive sanity. I’ve simply bumped into too many conditions the place I wasn’t positive and was principally guessing.
RNG is sadly a heavy a part of fairly a couple of of those ghosts. For higher or for worse. I like nightmare, and hope to not see it change, as is although a couple of of those ghosts I really feel want reworks. Fortunately the devs are planning that. I hope this little information helped some folks work out nightmare mode, whereas it may be a ache, I’ve seen folks complaining concerning the fallacious issues. Endurance, cautiousness, data, and good use of apparatus will see you win fairly ceaselessly. However, I’ve seen folks dismiss people who have legitimate criticism and simply inform them to play skilled. Neither of those is an effective reply, and I needed to at the least attempt to give folks some extra clarifying data.
Suggestions
So, this is the place I put my very own suggestions for nightmare. I’ve mentioned it earlier than, however candles are nice and you need to completely use them. Movement and sound sensors are literally fairly helpful in nightmare as effectively, inserting a number of cameras across the place can allow you to see a hallway DOTS or possibly even door opening at a sure a part of the home. It appears they need you to be extra tactful, and spend extra time organising or investigating. Which I fairly take pleasure in.
A number of issues of observe, sanity drugs restore 25% on nightmare. In the event you wanna preserve your sanity up you need to by no means take a look at the ghost except you intend to take an image or it’s good to establish it. There will probably be factors when it drops although, a Poltergeist yeet, a Wraith teleport, random Yurei sanity drop, ghost occasions, ect. Unhealthy luck can result in a botched run, simply benefit from the problem, and getting the ghost fallacious is not the tip of the world. The photographs and different aims are simply as worthwhile when it comes to money.
Please let me know if I tousled anyplace right here, or give new data so I’ll additional replace this. Perhapse there’s something I’m lacking that might additional cut back the quantity of wildcard ghosts.
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