u/buttcrispy

Someone might wanna check in on the guy who keeps posting stats about how serve dominant the game is becoming lol

(...and honestly most ghost behaviors work as intended too, but there are a few well-known bugs so I didn't include "behaviors" in the title.)

The backlash from the recent updates has led to a big influx of posts documenting the numerous bugs that need fixing. However, I also feel like it's empowered a lot of people to start confidently lumping in their own mistakes or misconceptions with the bugs too. There's been an increase in posts/comments from people who swear up and down that they saw a Mimic with DOTS, a Myling with Ghost Orbs, etc.

Having now read a few dozen of these posts/comments, I've noticed some recurring themes. First, the OP never has accompanying photo or video evidence that doesn't get immediately debunked. Second, the OP often gets defensive and/or upset when commenters start suggesting they misinterpreted something or misunderstood how the game works. And third, it often comes out that OP is a newer player, is retelling the story on behalf of somebody else in their group, or is making the post out of frustration because they guessed wrong multiple times in one session or are trying to complete APOC3.

To be clear, I'm not saying these people didn't see a Mimic with DOTS or a Myling with Ghost Orbs. I just find it a remarkable coincidence how we have no shortage of evidence for visual bugs, item bugs etc., but nobody has ever managed to produce a single clip of this elusive "wrong evidence" bug. That includes content creators like Insym, Maggstor, etc., who have probably played Phasmo an order of magnitude more than 99% of this sub and livestream all of their games for the public to scrutinize. What's more likely: a few dozen people are independently misremembering or misunderstanding a couple small details, or all of the most prolific Phasmo players in the world have simultaneously managed to avoid an exotic bug in a game that's notoriously rife with bugs?

Funnily enough, r/PhasmophobiaGame already has tons of examples of people getting corrected in ways that might explain half of the "wrong evidence" posts we see, had any of the OPs bothered doing a quick search before hitting Submit: here is someone confusing a translucent ghost event for DOTS. Here is someone misidentifying EMF 5 when the EMF reader goes haywire during an event. Here is someone who thought seeing your breath automatically corresponded to freezing temps (also, huge props to all 3 linked OPs for being humble enough to accept they were wrong and learn from it).

This to getting long, so to sum up - if you misidentified the ghost because you saw evidence for another ghost, it probably isn't a bug. If you misidentified the ghost because you didn't see evidence for the correct ghost, it probably isn't a bug. And if this frustrates you - it's okay to make mistakes, it's okay to learn new things, and remember, human memory is garbage!

I usually play multiplayer on Professional and have had a few games recently where we're 1 piece of media away from a perfect game (or in more casual settings... maybe 1 piece of evidence away from figuring out what the ghost is lol), but we end up just picking the ghost and bailing because we feel it's too risky to head back inside. By this point, multiple of the following are usually true:

- Our sanity is at 0 and we don't have any more meds

- We've exhausted all our crucifixes and incense

- The breaker is off

- 1 or more people have already died

Obviously some of it will boil down to personal preference, but I'm interested if more experienced players have their own criteria for when they'd rather cut & run vs. keep running it back to try to get that last stubborn photo. Thanks in advance!