
u/Vodka_Flask_Genie

Is voice recognition still broken, or is it a problem on my end?
I am unable to use anything that requires a mic - Spirit box, Ouija board, Monkey's paw.
Tried to mess around in Settings, nothing. The mic itself works - I can talk to people in-game, but I cannot get any Spirit box evidence or use cursed items.
Is it an issue on my end or is someone else experiencing this? I've had this issue since the customization update a week ago.
I played for an hour. I'll wait for a hotfix because, in its current state after the update, the game is so janky you'd think it’s in pre-alpha. And it's not even the fun kind of jank.
I double-checked the Steam background recording to see if it really did say "Professional", and not "Custom". The ghost behaved normally the entire investigation. It spawned on top of a person during the first hunt, then it went crazy on the second one.
And at the end of the investigation it said it was a Spirit. I've never even heard a ghost walking so fast, not even a Revenant or a Moroi.
I'm still new to the game. What the hell even happened here? Can someone explain?
I got the game a little over a week ago. I absolutely love the concept and it is fun, but I must be doing something wrong because it takes me 10+ mins to find a single game, and I'm getting frustrated at this point.
It's either people kicking me out immediately (I'm trying to level up, but I am not playing above Intermediate, so it's not like I'm crashing people's games with my inexperience), or I have to leave the lobby because people are creeps or saying actual slurs over mic, and I'm not comfortable with that.
5 mins ago I had an encounter: I join the game. "Hey, <my name>, do you have a mic?" I said "I do". "Kick". And I just got kicked. Huh? I don't even know what I did wrong, man.
Is there some Phasmophobia lobby social etiquette I need to be aware of? Some unwritten rules that I should follow to prevent being kicked?
I'm really starting to not like the game because I just don't know how to navigate this community. It feels like a clique, and I just don't belong.