Phasmophobiareceived another major update that many differences occur. The most important changes included players saying farewell to the Asylum map with it being replaced with the Sunny Meadows Mental Institution. It maybe a large map, but it also comes in a restricted version that allows players to explore a smaller section of it.
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However, one of the most praised additions of this update has been the custom difficulties allowing players to create their own challenges by altering different elements of the game from the player, the ghost, and the location. Players can either makePhasmophobiaeasier for themselves risking the amount of money they make or instead turn it into a nightmare they will be begging to leave. These are by far thebest challengesplayers should try.
Updated February 7th, 2023, by Megan Smith:Phasmophobia continues to be placed in early access with the Steam page stating that the game finally having the chance to escape from this early 2023. However, even though it has been in early access for a long period of time the developers have continued to update and alter the game and its ghosts that players hunt in a hope to keep the game fresh. Similarly, players have also kept themselves entertained over these past few months since the most wanted feature of acustom difficulty modewas added to the ghost hunting game.
Every day players are coming up with interesting ways to challenge themselves further through near impossible settings that make finding the paranormal entity impossible, to justthe outright hilariousother ways players can enjoy with thePhasmophobia custom difficulty settings. Since this article was originally published there has been a few more brilliant suggestions on what custom difficulty players should try next as well as revisiting some old ones.
12Lights Off Challenge
As the name of the challenge may suggest lights off relies on the player walking through the various haunted mapscompletely in the dark. All the other settings can be kept at normal to avoid the game becoming too difficult, but players are free to increase the hostility of the ghost if they wish for a further challenge. Players will be surprised by how much they need the light in order to figure out where they’re going as well as avoiding the constant sanity drop from spending long periods of time with no light.
Settings outside the Custom Difficulty Mode can even make this challenge more complex inPhasmophobiaas players can also choose to turn down their own brightness if they feel that being able to see with no flashlight is already too easy. Lights Off may also include not using candles or other possible light sources when walking around, but that’s down to the player to decide how intense they wish for their hunt to be.
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11One Type Of Evidence Run
While some players may find the No Evidence challenge that can be found at the bottom of this list to be too challenging, ghost hunters may first wish to try their hand at the one type of evidence run. Sometimes all a player needs is a bit of a hint to work out what ghost it is, by having this single piece of evidence available to the player they can already cross out a couple of different options depending on what evidence they find.
Although thisPhasmophobiacustom difficulty may as first not sound like much of a challenge, players have no way to exclude evidences from being selected unless it’s fingerprints. Therefore, it may actually take a hunter a longer amount of time to figure out the first piece of evidence before they can even start debating which of the several available it could be. Not only is this an entertaining challenge it also helps players understand the intricate differences between each ghost that sets them apart from their evidences, especially if facing something like the Mimic that tends to copy the traits of other ghosts and therefore keeps changing.
10Speed Runner Challenge
Players that don’t like how slow the character moves and want to swiftly explore larger maps such as the Prison no longer need to worry about slowly checking each room. With the Speed Runner mode players can increase not only their own speed butalso the ghostswhile having an infinite duration of sprint.
A player could then challenge themselves to see what the fastest time is they can uncover the type of ghost, get the evidence and leave without dying.
9No Sprinting
As the opposite to the Speed Runner Challenge players can also completely turn off the capability to sprint putting them even more in harm’s way of the ghosts inPhasmophobia. For an extra challenge an investigator could also make themselves even slower than the ghost for added danger.
Players willwant to avoid huntsa lot more in the challenge as they physically can’t outrun the ghost and therefore must have an escape route preplanned for those situations or keeping their sanity up to avoid it.
8Angel Numbers
Although called Angel Numbers there is nothing angelic about this challenge. A player will set all the options available to them to three, this may either curse or aid them as some third options may hinder the ghost and therefore help the player or the other way round.
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Like angels, the player is putting their faith intoPhasmophobiain a hope that the third settings of everything will allow them to survive with the least amount of obstacles.
7This House Is Cursed
A house being haunted is one thing, but this house could also be cursed by the ghost. Although the cursed items willreduce the reward multiplayersignificantly they can still be a hazard, meaning the player will have to take a major risk when using them.
This curse has also meant that the fuse box no longer functions making freezing temperatures harder to discover as well as the house feeling alive which can be replicated by all the doors being open from the start.
620/20/20 Mode
Named to be similar to how challenging theFive Nights At Freddy’scustom night is, many players may not survive while attempting this challenge as it resembles an ultimate nightmare mode.
All the settings have been pumped up to max to make the most stressfulPhasmophobiaexperience possible. This means that hunts will be longer, evidence doesn’t exist, and the player is at their slowest, making for quite the impossible experience.
5Rainy-Day
Elements like the weather can make many jobs more of a challenge than they need to be, this also includes investigating ghosts, and players can replicate this in the Rainy-Day custom challenge.
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Theimmersion can be increasedby taking part in this challenge on the campsite map where the player will be stuck out in the heavy rain the entire time. The water has caused all electrical items to stop working meaning players will be searching in the dark and quickly to fend off the rain’s hindrances.
4Indecisive Ghost
Sometimes the ghosts inPhasmophobiareally can’t make up their mind where they want to be or what they want to do. In the Indecisive Ghost challenge players will struggle to locate where the ghost is at all times as the longer they take, the higher the risk of the ghost moving elsewhere.
This can make for quite the entertaining challenge as finding evidence from the ghost may mean moving all the equipment to different areas in the building or looking for other means of identifying what type of ghost it is.
3Nowhere To Hide
Being constantly hunted is a big fear for many players, especially if there are no hiding spaces available. Nowhere To Hide challenges the player to learn how to loop the Ghost and avoid getting caught at all costs asthe usual hiding areashave been blocked from being used.
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But it isn’t just the hiding that has changed, the ghost has become even more of a threat as the ghost can hunt the player from the second they enter the house.
