Some additional information (thanks for reminding me of these in the comments!): - Asking something on the ouija board gives an interaction, thus it can also give EMF 5! A good strategy to use this is asking a bunch of low sanity drain questions far from the ghost room to test for EMF 5 safely. - BE VERY CAREFUL while lighting the summoning circle, since it costs 16% sanity to light each candle this means that by the time you're lighting the final candle the ghost might have already started a normal hunt. If you continue lighting the final candle it will teleport the ghost (that is already hunting) to the summoning circle which will probably get you killed. So make sure to listen or check if the ghost has already started a hunt before lighting the final candle. - For the Summoning Circle: if 4 candles are lit and you light the final candle BUT you don't have enough sanity for it this will result in a very dangerous situation: the ghost will teleport to the summoning circle and instantly start the hunt there (skipping the ghost event). This means the ghost will not be visible because it's in the grace period before the hunt. So if you don't see the ghost at all after lighting the final candle RUN AWAY IMMEDIATELY as the hunt has already started. - For the Tarot Cards: CJ recently told us that the tower card also increases activity for a few seconds. But as I say in the video, the tower card is extremely bugged at the moment so it rarely does anything. But in theory it should be good.
One question about the ouija board, if you are against twins and ask the "how many people are in this room" could it answer 3 (in singleplayer i mean, or 2 above the number of players in the room in multi) and snitch out his decoy?
what you said about triggering a cursed hunt is partially incorrect only the _first_ hunt will be an actual cursed hunt (with a 1 second grace period), the rest just have the increased duration (holy fuck i edited this way too many times) ps: hide and seek on the ouija board costs 0% sanity (used to be 25% before 0.7.0) and wishing for activity lasts 2 minutes
Extremely rare, but if you had Ghost Orbs and wishing for Knowledge with the Monkey Paw rules out Ghost Orbs, then you know for certain that the ghost is The Mimic.
@@MrDiamondz27this does though? Their point is the mimic always has fake ghost orbs, the real evidence for the mimic is freezing, ultraviolet, and spirit box.
@@MrDiamondz27 The game will not rule it out for you, but rather you as a human player can figure out the logic of "Hey, I saw Ghost Orbs with my video camera, but now the Monkey Paw is telling me that Ghost Orbs are not an evidence...The ghost is a Mimic guys!" If the Monkey Paw rules out Ghost Orbs but you saw Ghost Orbs, it's 100% a Mimic.
I just realized, The Mimic is the only ghost that can become YOUNGER during a contract. If it mimics an older Thaye, its age should go back down to normal afterwards, and if it mimics a younger Thaye, then its age will be lower when mimicking it. So getting a YOUNGER age on the Ouija Board when asking for age the second time is hard evidence for The Mimic.
True, but you'll only have a minute or so to ask the question before it transforms into something else, and you don't even know if it's currently a thaye so it'll probably never happen. But if it actually happened it would probably be one of the most insane games of all time
I love asking the flavor questions on the board. Particularly the questions: "Where did you die?" "Why are you here?" The question asking where they died gives a random room in the house. Makes for a funny version of Ghost CLUE! The ghost DROWNED in the BLEASEDALE ATTIC and has remained TRAPPED ever since!
@endoverlord423 wait, really? I had no clue! 🤯 That would explain some of the random sanity loss a get! I don't generally ask that question all that often, mainly at the end of a mission before I leave, so the sanity doesn't matter that much at that point, so I never noticed that. That is an odd question for it to answer with the bone location. I guess it makes some sense, but still, I never thought of the bone being a tie to the ghost's body and death. Bone Lore?
For the Ouija Board, even if the board is outside the map, if the planchette is still on the board when you walk away from it, it'll break and trigger a cursed hunt for the players still inside the map. I had a "teammate" who would always do this...
One thing that's nice to remember about the Ouija Board is that any question you ask that could be used to find the ghost's location (Other than outright asking "Where are you?") will cost 20%. So, "How many people are in this room?", "Are you close?", "Are you here?" will all cost 20%.
Two things you missed for the Summoning Circle: 1 - Lighting all candles during a hunt will cause the ghost to teleport to the Summoning Circle without getting stunned and continue hunting; 2 - If 4 candles are lit, you are guaranteed to be able to light the last candle, but lighting it without enough sanity will cause the ghost to hunt instantly without getting stunned (Granted, for that second one, people might have guessed since you said that's what happens when you use that trick to light the last 2 candles without enough sanity.).
@@Insym saw the whole video it was fun even though i don't play this game becausr i don't have a good pc but i am willing for it since 2 years it's super fun to watch gamers play this how kuch fun would it be to play yourself😢😢
1:09:24 I think I’d be funny if they made it when you ask “I wish to see the ghost” it’ll trigger an event, then a hunt, but after it’ll make hallucinations of the ghost
I think the “Am I Insane” question should be ghost specific. For example, it would say yes if you are in the ghost’s hunting range, and no if you are above it. And also take away maybe because it’s useless
26:04 pulling up the journal to identify and lock in the ghost type during a hunt with the ghost right up in your face is the ultimate flex on Phasmophobia XD
I think it's kinda weird that Death initiates a hunt while The Tower triggers an interaction, I feel like that should be the other way around, or even have The Tower be the instant death card instead of The Hanged Man, considering that Death generally symbolizes change (which could be interpreted as a ghost changing an item or the environment by moving something, writing in the book, etc.), while The Tower usually means disaster (instantly dying would qualify). I guess either the devs don't know much about Tarot, or they figured most players wouldn't and might get confused as to why the Death card doesn't do something to directly put your life in danger.
As someone who does not know much about Tarot, yes I would be very confused. I was confused for the longest time by the tower card though, I never really watched a vid that explained what the cards do, and it took me so long to figure out that tower gives you an interaction, I would not associate that with the tower at all
Yeah, but let's be honest here. If you see the word DEATH. If you know nothing about Tarot cards (which is not-unlikely), you assume something bad is about to happen to you. And, similarly, if you see the word TOWER, and get insta-gibbed, you're not always gonna put two and two together that the TOWER did that.
@@josh___something Yeah when I first grabbed the Tarot cards I pulled 2 cards. The first was "The Devil" and I had no idea what that did. The Second was "Death" and I immediately understood what was about to happen. If I pulled "The Tower" and died I would be confused as hell. Also I died Immediately because "The Devil" card teleports it to you and I immediately pulled "Death" so that makes sense.
@@americankid7782they can always add an explanation to the cards. IMO it’s cooler to add a function that’s ACCURATE to what it does irl. Every tarot card feature I’ve seen are wrong, or add to the harmful stereotype around it
I feel like keeping Death or The Tower as their current interactions would be fine to make it easier to understand, but The Hanged Man being instant death just feels wrong
One the best things of the music box is that you can use it and drop and go outside, you have enought time to get out of the house(if you are in front of the door). I did it like 4 times while my friends were in the house. I got some iconic moments. Like, "Oh the ghost sing" and 2 seconds after he died, "WTF, the ghost just hunt with the crucifixe(tier 1 and 2), did you placed it correctly?". For the investigation, the music box is kinda bad, but to troll, is one of the best itens.
A cool thing about Tarot Cards, if they want to add a new one, or to replace the Hermit or something, is put a 'Wisdom' card in. Picture could be a bunch of books or a college hat or something like that. What that one would do is cross off a ghost from your book, kind of like the monkey paw does. Even if you had 10 of those in the deck, it could only cross out 10 ghosts, out of 24. That's not bad. Obviously it weakens if they add new ghosts, but it's still useful. It *could* help figure out a hard combination when you're missing evidences. Of course, the 'cost' or 'risk' is to still pull a hangman... but I feel having something like that could break the monotony of getting a deck like 'tower, tower, hermit, fool, tower, wheel of fortune, tower, devil, tower, hermit'. They should do a suggestion contest for a new tarot card every halloween, or every anniversary of the creation of Phasmo (though we just passed it). Not only ideas, but art as well (gives CJ a break!).
@@Zer0_SoulOP probably doesn't know tarot cards are an actual thing, but not that it's a bad thing on his end. I think there wouldn't be any reason to add any more cards, but I feel like adding the ghost type specific possession interactions mentioned in other comments could be cool, like the "How many in this room" being x+2 for the Twins, the Music Box maybe being an interaction with the Banshee and perhaps the Summoning Circle having something with the Demon(and Oni perhaps).
I honestly think a better result for the "I wish for knowledge" would be that it GIVES you a correct evidence in the journal, but also hides another (like Nightmare/Insanity mode) And for "I wish for sanity", I think a better way for it to work is that it increases everyone's sanity by a certain amount, but as a result of the wish sanity medication doesn't work anymore (in addition to the increased drain rate)
Amazing guide for all the cursed posetions! Only think you missed is that you can get emf from the oujia board and sometimes get emf5 from it if the ghost has that evidence, other than that super detailed guide I watched it all and learned a ton! Thank you insym❤❤❤
Yeah for sure! I assumed that it was clear that all interactions give EMF (so maybe EMF 5) so voodoo doll interactions, tarot card interactions and ouija board interactions etc. can all give that evidence!
On the ouija board, my entier group was asking questions with me in the truck grabbing things, then I come in saying "would you mind if i put a crucifix here?" and the ghost responded to that with "maybe" after not listening to several other questions
It’d be a bit funny if the hide and seek question didn’t trigger a fatal hunt. Like imagine you do hide and seek but if the ghost finds your location they whisper “found you” and the hunt ended @Insym
@@pwrsocket As many times as I have something to say. This way, it makes it easier to digest for anyone who reads as opposed to writing one huge comment with a bunch of different subjects piled on top of each other.
Bro, how the hell is this man finding out what ghost it is from basically one interaction every time... Damn, like, this may be the one game that I genuinely believe gets worse the *more* you play it, it seems to just take the mystery and horror elements out of it and you're left with just ghost GeoGuessr, like, high tier phas is just, "oh, he breathed? Gotcha I know this one, BAM! got it."
The mystery element disappears but you find other ways to have fun - for example now you can make your friends to play with you and fuck around and prank them 🤣
I hope the Shade's interaction with the Summoning Circle and the Music Box becomes a feature. It's just nice. I also hope it is a thing that happens with the Monkey Paw as well.
@@sabotagethefool In this video right here, the one we are commenting on, Insym explained that it's a bug. The Devs meant for most ghosts to have a 1/3 chance to be ghost models and for the Shade to have a 2/3 chance, but due to an error in the coding, Shade ended up being the only ghost that can show a shadow model when summoned.
@@sharingheart13 I did not hear that somehow xD Got a time stamp? It being more likely for shade is a crap idea, since you only can do it once per investigation the odds don’t matter, guess we don’t need another rock solid evidence ghost either tho lol.
I learned a few things from the cursed objects, like some of the effects of the monkey paw I didn't know. The amount of sanity per summoning circle candle, or the mirror thing where if you only hold it for a second or however long you can it has a huge reduction in sanity. Also really like some of the monkey paws abilities that I didn't know about them. Thanks for all the information! It was a fun watch
A good way to remember the mirror's sanity cost without having to think of "whichever is greater" is to think of it as having two costs: 1. Each use drains 20%, and 2. After 2.67 seconds, sanity will continue to drain at a rate of 7.5% per second.
Additional tips for the summoning circle: - I highly recommend to take the summoning circle photo before you use the summoning circle, and I would try to avoid using the salt directly in the center of the circle as well. It is very easy to unknowingly get a full body, dead center, ghost photo that you end up finding out was actually an off center, good distance away, summoning circle photo because the game prioritized the summoning circle above the ghost. Same thing with the disturbed salt. - What you can do is get right up in the ghosts face to try and avoid that possibility, by cutting anything on the ground out of the photo, but then you can run into the child model which can complicate things unless you crouch and look up. - And as for the salt, I like to set them all down with one of two goals in mind: place the pile near the circle in an area the ghost is likely go during its hunt (Bottom of the stairs in Tanglewood), or next to the circle in an area where the ghost will walk to you at the beginning of the hunt (Stand at the bottom of the stairs in Willow, and the ghost will walk though the salt to get to you at the beginning of the hunt [Just leaving it there would likely work, but you get the concept]).
I appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. I literally watch every minute, even if they are 4 hours long. Such a pillar to the Phas community. I love to keep supporting on twitch as well! You rock Insym !
Thank you sooo very much for the guide. I really love this type of content for Phasmo coming from you coz this really helps a lot about the game. Hopefully next guides will be GHOSTS, ITEMS & MAPS EXPLAINED!
I wish the Tarot cards were a full set of Tarot cards. here is an idea for the missing arcanas -Magician: Changes the ghost room. -The empress: 1%. Burns the current deck. Spawns a new deck. Adds one "Hanged man", removes all "High priestess". Removes all empress. -The emperor: Changes one of the remaining cards to high priestess or hanged man. -The hierophant: 2% Triggers a cursed hunt, destroys the decks, spawns another cursed item except tarot cards. -Lovers: The ghost will have infinite detection radius for your equipment and voice. -The chariot: 2% Gives you 25% movement speed for 3 minutes. -Strength: Rare. Turns on the breaker and makes the ghost unable to turn it off for 3 minutes. -Temperance: Turns off the breaker. If the breaker is is off, breaks the breaker. -The star: Rare. Decreases sanity by 20% Increases the sanity pill sanity restoration effect by 15%. -Judgement: 1% Teleports everyone to the truck and ends the game. Hope your current guess is correct :) -The world: Changes the weather randomly.
@@haebi_maybe not all of these need to be added, but theres a few that would fit right in without any changes. i think the world & magician cards should already be in the game.
With the ouija board sanity questions, the wiki does actually tell you what each sanity % range the answer means. Sanity questions also drain 5% per question asked. If you ask "What is my sanity?" you'll get "Healthy" (over 80%), "Good (60-80%), "Average" (40-60%), "Bad" (20-40%), or "Awful" (less than 20%). This one doesn't have a text option, but if you're using voice, it's probably the most useful variation. "How crazy am I?" and "How insane am I?" will give "Not very" (over 50%), "Very" (25-50%), or "Insane" (less than 25%). "Am I insane?" will give "No" (over 90%), "Maybe" (20-90%), or "Yes" (under 20%). I've been working on making a written guide for myself and my friends, so I've been referencing the wiki and your videos quite a lot over the past couple weeks. These guides definitely help make the process much easier! Edit: Apparently I didn't watch quite far enough before commenting. Sorry about that!
I once was lighting the summoning circle and it started a hunt far away. I pulled out my camera and took a pic, but started hearing footsteps and I just turned and RAN. First time a ghost has started hunting while doing the summoning circle. Luckily I had a smudge so I escaped but holy shit it sped up my heartrate 2x.
"Responds to" info is one of the most useless thing in the game. It doesn't matter. If you are in Singleplayer, it's absolutely useless. In Multiplayer, you can just ask everyone to get out of the room, because the ghost will respond regardless, or ask the Spirit Box questions yourself, while the rest of the team is bringing in equipment. That's how we do it anyway.
You should also make an appendix to the monkey paw showing where to find the possible wishes. Yeah, the Text thingy will spoil it for a new player and give it easy access, but for players who wish to do it the "right way", there are the clues on where to find the wishing papers and adding them to your collection (which is preserved in the journal, right?)
29:11 "You left this mortal realm" "Yeah, that's not what I meant though when I said 'I wish to leave.'" Yeah, that sounds about right for a monkey's paw wish.
I would love to see a single video with all the cursed possesions locations, since most of the videos are separated videos of a specific map, and also most of them don't have Monkey Paw added in them, so i would appreciate if you do that great video insym, keep the good work!
I play on edgefield 90% of the time so I only know like 4 different cursed items locations from the other maps total, which just makes me go back to edgefield :(
The 'I wish for Knowledge" wish on the monkey paw is a lot more powerful in multiplayer as the other player(s) are still functional, and the negative effects can be partially mitigated with a combination of the tier 3 crucifix and the night vision headset. Despite this, it is still only recommended to use it if absolutely necessary.
I remember when I was done using the ouiji board, i walked away from it without saying "goodbye" and my friend heard me scream from outside of the door lol.
My goodness, Insym you are on a roll banging out videos/doing live streams. Good stuff! Ty for this guide, as with your other ones I always learn quite a few helpful tidbits. :)
I know this isn't a popular opinion but my favorite cursed possession is probably the spirit box just because I love music boxes irl and I also love the sound of the ghosts humming in-game too
So for the "I wish for knowledge", if you use it and one of the evidence you supposedly got gets ruled out isn't that basically telling you it's 100% a Mimic that changed in the meantime?
I recently was playing a game on the new sanity system patch. I stayed in the light basically the entire game and the ghost was being so stubborn. I assumed it was a demon because it was early hunting while I had been in the light for so long. I couldn’t find the ghost so I used the mirror and it immediately broke. Turns out it was a moroi and that whisper I got early in the game was a curse. Joy. I ended up dead in the prison hallway when it sped up extremely fast. Why are Morois so broken.
The sanity drain on the summoning circle should be maybe 5 per at most, it's nice but it's nowhere near as powerful as the other cursed items. It gives you no info just shows you the ghost (And not where it is) then starts a hunt
You got hunt on demand, tool to lower your sanity on demand, and thing which will allow you to take guaranted ghost photo for objective/additional money. Its also usefull for most of the other objectives like motion sensor, candles etc.
i didnt like old phasmo too much but i like your videos and your guides even if i dont play it i might pick it up with a few friends again seems to be a lot better i watched the ghost one too amazing
AFAIK the cursed hunt that triggers initially has the reduced grace period. But subsequent hunts only have the increased duration and do not retain the reduced grace period.
played with the tarot once. got moon, sun, moon, priestess, hanged man, death. had to leave after that since the death card caused the hunt that killed my partner and i was alone.
58:20 Just rember that even in a hunt you have to say goodbye to the bord, otherwise it will break by you running away (from the ghost). But I am not certain, how it affects the ongoin hunt.
I just came back to this video because I played 3 rounds on tanglewood in a row with the music box. It immediately started a hunt all three rounds and killed me instantly. Good to know I’m not an idiot and it’s just a bug that happens. The fourth round with the music box worked at least😅
If you're trying to understand what he was trying with the crucifix, here is the crucifix details. Tier 1 crucifix: prevents one ghost hunt (can't prevent a cursed hunt) tier 2 crucifix: of prevents two hunts ( can't prevent a cursed hunt) tier 3 crucifix: can prevent two hunts ( can prevent ONE cursed Hunt). If you want more information I can tell you on other tools.
Wouldn't it be really nice pulling the hermit card to find out which room is the ghost room? the door would be locked and you'd have a minute to find out which door is locked. Or am I missing something? Thanks for the video brother, and the comments on your videos are dope. I learn SO much from ya'll
Nvm, I saw the comments that said it's the monkey paw that locks the door to the ghost room. Apparently the hermit card is just a nice card for us newbies who just want to feel safe for a minute XD.
For the monkey's paw, can you not make more than one knowledge wish to get rid of more evidences to narrow down your search? I mean if you're already screwed with the first one in making more wishes for knowledge after that shouldn't be that much of a downside unless it just prevents you from making it again
Great video, and really helpful, Ive kinda avoided a lot of the cursed possessions cause I didnt understand them well and was kinda afraid id just throw or something but knowing what I want to do with them going into it will definitely help. Great stuff
Phasmo's cursed possessions having real utility incentivizing their use despite their costs either undermines the general _point_ of such items' appearances in stories for hundreds of years (that being, _don't_ ), or reinforces it. I'm not entirely sure which. 😂
It's weird the Tower card is so harmless. I'm used to Tower being the absolute worst card to get in a tarot reading (from my limited layman's knowledge) since it represents cataclysm and destruction. The Death card, by comparison, is just about change and transition.
I recently realized that, since the Tarot cards in the game is a cursed possession, those must be cursed cards with different meanings. The Hanged Man and Death, for example, are typically positive, so the cursed version kills you. The Tower and The Devil are typically negative, but then here they help you. The Sun and Moon are typically very balanced cards, but here they go to extremes. The Wheel of Fortune typically is about cycles, yet this one just pulls you one direction. I know it's a bit of overthinking, but it kind of makes sense at the same time.
Very good video and very good explained! I have one question though: around 55:30 it was an Onryo but it didn't even look close to an Onryo. Do ghosts in this game all look the same? Thanks in advance!
with the monkey paw, lets say they would fix it so you couldnt just run around freely after you made the "i wish to trap him" wish (maybe with an invisible barrier or something) and nerf it by not letting you see the lock symbol on the door afterwards, couldnt you just open all doores before hand, surive the hunt and then look wich door is closed?
24:30 I didn't even know sanity played into it i thought the ghost kept blowing them out. guess i got lucky because when i tried using it with my friends i had all done except 2. Didn't realize it was even a trick lol.
Speaking of the tarrot cards, i was playing phasmo with my gf this weekend and i pulled every tarrot card Ended with 100% sanity, pulled a priestess I died later and was revived instantly and was completely shocked cause i didnt know that happened
The monkey paw should lock all doors if the player wishes to trap the ghost. That way, it would be not as broken, but still useful to ward against a haunting when wished within a grace period.
I wonder if you can use "how many people in this room?" as a better alternative to "are you in this room?" From the ouija board if it drains less sanity
Some additional information (thanks for reminding me of these in the comments!):
- Asking something on the ouija board gives an interaction, thus it can also give EMF 5! A good strategy to use this is asking a bunch of low sanity drain questions far from the ghost room to test for EMF 5 safely.
- BE VERY CAREFUL while lighting the summoning circle, since it costs 16% sanity to light each candle this means that by the time you're lighting the final candle the ghost might have already started a normal hunt. If you continue lighting the final candle it will teleport the ghost (that is already hunting) to the summoning circle which will probably get you killed. So make sure to listen or check if the ghost has already started a hunt before lighting the final candle.
- For the Summoning Circle: if 4 candles are lit and you light the final candle BUT you don't have enough sanity for it this will result in a very dangerous situation: the ghost will teleport to the summoning circle and instantly start the hunt there (skipping the ghost event). This means the ghost will not be visible because it's in the grace period before the hunt. So if you don't see the ghost at all after lighting the final candle RUN AWAY IMMEDIATELY as the hunt has already started.
- For the Tarot Cards: CJ recently told us that the tower card also increases activity for a few seconds. But as I say in the video, the tower card is extremely bugged at the moment so it rarely does anything. But in theory it should be good.
Also at 54:54 hide and seek cost 0% sanity so it's better than walking away from the board to start the cursed hunt
One question about the ouija board, if you are against twins and ask the "how many people are in this room" could it answer 3 (in singleplayer i mean, or 2 above the number of players in the room in multi) and snitch out his decoy?
I had no idea lighting the candles reduced sanity! Wow
@@icigs3964 the twins is still technically considered 1 ghost desipte the name, so I doubt the board would be able to "snitch" on the other twin
what you said about triggering a cursed hunt is partially incorrect
only the _first_ hunt will be an actual cursed hunt (with a 1 second grace period), the rest just have the increased duration
(holy fuck i edited this way too many times)
ps: hide and seek on the ouija board costs 0% sanity (used to be 25% before 0.7.0)
and wishing for activity lasts 2 minutes
Extremely rare, but if you had Ghost Orbs and wishing for Knowledge with the Monkey Paw rules out Ghost Orbs, then you know for certain that the ghost is The Mimic.
EDIT: this post contained wrong info, I was tired and it was late at night, so i misunderstood the statement. Please cut me some slack.
@@MrDiamondz27this does though? Their point is the mimic always has fake ghost orbs, the real evidence for the mimic is freezing, ultraviolet, and spirit box.
@@MrDiamondz27 The game will not rule it out for you, but rather you as a human player can figure out the logic of "Hey, I saw Ghost Orbs with my video camera, but now the Monkey Paw is telling me that Ghost Orbs are not an evidence...The ghost is a Mimic guys!" If the Monkey Paw rules out Ghost Orbs but you saw Ghost Orbs, it's 100% a Mimic.
@@sharingheart13 I realise this now, I am sorry I was tired it was late at night for me. A little embaressing for me lol.
@@MrDiamondz27maybe the first time I see a UA-cam comment admit even a small mistake. I see that as a W for you, my guy. Not embarrassing.
I just realized, The Mimic is the only ghost that can become YOUNGER during a contract. If it mimics an older Thaye, its age should go back down to normal afterwards, and if it mimics a younger Thaye, then its age will be lower when mimicking it. So getting a YOUNGER age on the Ouija Board when asking for age the second time is hard evidence for The Mimic.
Wow it’s crazy the possibilities of things that can happen in this game that you would never think of!! Interesting
True, but you'll only have a minute or so to ask the question before it transforms into something else, and you don't even know if it's currently a thaye so it'll probably never happen. But if it actually happened it would probably be one of the most insane games of all time
Insym: *That's so nice you can get one free hunt*
Me: *everytime there is a hunt, i loose a member of my team*
Where are you? Are you here? Are you close? Are you friendly? Are you french? Are you pizza? Are you grandma?
Dying
Are you pizza 😂😂😂
Always gets me
Word for word, in that exact order, with the same accent, intonation, volume, and tone, in every video.
lmao
I love asking the flavor questions on the board.
Particularly the questions:
"Where did you die?"
"Why are you here?"
The question asking where they died gives a random room in the house. Makes for a funny version of Ghost CLUE! The ghost DROWNED in the BLEASEDALE ATTIC and has remained TRAPPED ever since!
where did you die actually tells you the location of the bone, not a random room
@endoverlord423 wait, really? I had no clue! 🤯
That would explain some of the random sanity loss a get! I don't generally ask that question all that often, mainly at the end of a mission before I leave, so the sanity doesn't matter that much at that point, so I never noticed that.
That is an odd question for it to answer with the bone location. I guess it makes some sense, but still, I never thought of the bone being a tie to the ghost's body and death.
Bone Lore?
@@everliesseproductionsI mean tbf, I’d expect some body parts lying around where someone died, like bones lol
For the Ouija Board, even if the board is outside the map, if the planchette is still on the board when you walk away from it, it'll break and trigger a cursed hunt for the players still inside the map. I had a "teammate" who would always do this...
One thing that's nice to remember about the Ouija Board is that any question you ask that could be used to find the ghost's location (Other than outright asking "Where are you?") will cost 20%. So, "How many people are in this room?", "Are you close?", "Are you here?" will all cost 20%.
Two things you missed for the Summoning Circle: 1 - Lighting all candles during a hunt will cause the ghost to teleport to the Summoning Circle without getting stunned and continue hunting; 2 - If 4 candles are lit, you are guaranteed to be able to light the last candle, but lighting it without enough sanity will cause the ghost to hunt instantly without getting stunned (Granted, for that second one, people might have guessed since you said that's what happens when you use that trick to light the last 2 candles without enough sanity.).
Good one!! Can't believe I forgot to mention that. Added it to the pinned message
You seemed to have dropped this 👑
@@Insym saw the whole video it was fun even though i don't play this game becausr i don't have a good pc but i am willing for it since 2 years it's super fun to watch gamers play this how kuch fun would it be to play yourself😢😢
@@ELLIPSIS797a cheap $600 pc will work. Ibuypower usually has cheap good pcs
@@ELLIPSIS797 well, I can't play the game because I have no friends :(
I think the Marco Polo question triggers a interaction where the ghost is. Like when you asked Marco. The car alarm went of during the Polo answer
1:09:24 I think I’d be funny if they made it when you ask “I wish to see the ghost” it’ll trigger an event, then a hunt, but after it’ll make hallucinations of the ghost
Hallucinations are actually a planned feature now
I think the “Am I Insane” question should be ghost specific. For example, it would say yes if you are in the ghost’s hunting range, and no if you are above it. And also take away maybe because it’s useless
Imagine if you ask how many people are in this room when the ghost is twins,
the board shows 3 instead of 2.
that would be quite interesting
That would be cool, but don't the twins manifest in different rooms
Twins are one ghost
@@brodyalbert9214 twins are a single ghost
26:04 pulling up the journal to identify and lock in the ghost type during a hunt with the ghost right up in your face is the ultimate flex on Phasmophobia XD
Over an hour of Insyms phasmo information? Yes please!
I think it's kinda weird that Death initiates a hunt while The Tower triggers an interaction, I feel like that should be the other way around, or even have The Tower be the instant death card instead of The Hanged Man, considering that Death generally symbolizes change (which could be interpreted as a ghost changing an item or the environment by moving something, writing in the book, etc.), while The Tower usually means disaster (instantly dying would qualify).
I guess either the devs don't know much about Tarot, or they figured most players wouldn't and might get confused as to why the Death card doesn't do something to directly put your life in danger.
As someone who does not know much about Tarot, yes I would be very confused. I was confused for the longest time by the tower card though, I never really watched a vid that explained what the cards do, and it took me so long to figure out that tower gives you an interaction, I would not associate that with the tower at all
Yeah, but let's be honest here. If you see the word DEATH. If you know nothing about Tarot cards (which is not-unlikely), you assume something bad is about to happen to you. And, similarly, if you see the word TOWER, and get insta-gibbed, you're not always gonna put two and two together that the TOWER did that.
@@josh___something Yeah when I first grabbed the Tarot cards I pulled 2 cards. The first was "The Devil" and I had no idea what that did. The Second was "Death" and I immediately understood what was about to happen. If I pulled "The Tower" and died I would be confused as hell.
Also I died Immediately because "The Devil" card teleports it to you and I immediately pulled "Death" so that makes sense.
@@americankid7782they can always add an explanation to the cards. IMO it’s cooler to add a function that’s ACCURATE to what it does irl. Every tarot card feature I’ve seen are wrong, or add to the harmful stereotype around it
I feel like keeping Death or The Tower as their current interactions would be fine to make it easier to understand, but The Hanged Man being instant death just feels wrong
One the best things of the music box is that you can use it and drop and go outside, you have enought time to get out of the house(if you are in front of the door). I did it like 4 times while my friends were in the house. I got some iconic moments. Like, "Oh the ghost sing" and 2 seconds after he died, "WTF, the ghost just hunt with the crucifixe(tier 1 and 2), did you placed it correctly?". For the investigation, the music box is kinda bad, but to troll, is one of the best itens.
A cool thing about Tarot Cards, if they want to add a new one, or to replace the Hermit or something, is put a 'Wisdom' card in. Picture could be a bunch of books or a college hat or something like that. What that one would do is cross off a ghost from your book, kind of like the monkey paw does. Even if you had 10 of those in the deck, it could only cross out 10 ghosts, out of 24. That's not bad. Obviously it weakens if they add new ghosts, but it's still useful. It *could* help figure out a hard combination when you're missing evidences. Of course, the 'cost' or 'risk' is to still pull a hangman... but I feel having something like that could break the monotony of getting a deck like 'tower, tower, hermit, fool, tower, wheel of fortune, tower, devil, tower, hermit'.
They should do a suggestion contest for a new tarot card every halloween, or every anniversary of the creation of Phasmo (though we just passed it). Not only ideas, but art as well (gives CJ a break!).
I don't think Wisdom is a tarot card, but maybe Magician or Fortune could be it?
@@Zer0_SoulOP probably doesn't know tarot cards are an actual thing, but not that it's a bad thing on his end. I think there wouldn't be any reason to add any more cards, but I feel like adding the ghost type specific possession interactions mentioned in other comments could be cool, like the "How many in this room" being x+2 for the Twins, the Music Box maybe being an interaction with the Banshee and perhaps the Summoning Circle having something with the Demon(and Oni perhaps).
where do you find the tarot cards on the first map?
@@kaptaink_yt593 Tanglewood? Living Room table next to the window.
@@Blitzcreeper239 tyyy
I honestly think a better result for the "I wish for knowledge" would be that it GIVES you a correct evidence in the journal, but also hides another (like Nightmare/Insanity mode)
And for "I wish for sanity", I think a better way for it to work is that it increases everyone's sanity by a certain amount, but as a result of the wish sanity medication doesn't work anymore (in addition to the increased drain rate)
Amazing guide for all the cursed posetions! Only think you missed is that you can get emf from the oujia board and sometimes get emf5 from it if the ghost has that evidence, other than that super detailed guide I watched it all and learned a ton! Thank you insym❤❤❤
Yeah for sure! I assumed that it was clear that all interactions give EMF (so maybe EMF 5) so voodoo doll interactions, tarot card interactions and ouija board interactions etc. can all give that evidence!
True! I love your videos especially your guides ❤
On the ouija board, my entier group was asking questions with me in the truck grabbing things, then I come in saying "would you mind if i put a crucifix here?"
and the ghost responded to that with "maybe" after not listening to several other questions
maybe you can put a crucifix there
It’d be a bit funny if the hide and seek question didn’t trigger a fatal hunt. Like imagine you do hide and seek but if the ghost finds your location they whisper “found you” and the hunt ended @Insym
This would honestly be great.
and if ghost didnt found you it says: "you win"
Honestly, the sheer glee you show when talking about this game is more than enough reason to watch the whole thing.
How many times are you gonna comment holy shit
@@pwrsocket As many times as I have something to say. This way, it makes it easier to digest for anyone who reads as opposed to writing one huge comment with a bunch of different subjects piled on top of each other.
Bro, how the hell is this man finding out what ghost it is from basically one interaction every time... Damn, like, this may be the one game that I genuinely believe gets worse the *more* you play it, it seems to just take the mystery and horror elements out of it and you're left with just ghost GeoGuessr, like, high tier phas is just, "oh, he breathed? Gotcha I know this one, BAM! got it."
The mystery element disappears but you find other ways to have fun - for example now you can make your friends to play with you and fuck around and prank them 🤣
Yeah, if he breathes it's hantu
51:38
"Knock knock?"
*ghost standing in the corner menacingly*
"Whos there"
I hope the Shade's interaction with the Summoning Circle and the Music Box becomes a feature. It's just nice. I also hope it is a thing that happens with the Monkey Paw as well.
It is a feature though.
@@sabotagethefool In this video right here, the one we are commenting on, Insym explained that it's a bug. The Devs meant for most ghosts to have a 1/3 chance to be ghost models and for the Shade to have a 2/3 chance, but due to an error in the coding, Shade ended up being the only ghost that can show a shadow model when summoned.
@@sharingheart13 I did not hear that somehow xD Got a time stamp? It being more likely for shade is a crap idea, since you only can do it once per investigation the odds don’t matter, guess we don’t need another rock solid evidence ghost either tho lol.
@@sabotagethefool 1:38:50
Bro how many fucking comments can you put in one youtube video
I learned a few things from the cursed objects, like some of the effects of the monkey paw I didn't know. The amount of sanity per summoning circle candle, or the mirror thing where if you only hold it for a second or however long you can it has a huge reduction in sanity. Also really like some of the monkey paws abilities that I didn't know about them. Thanks for all the information! It was a fun watch
A good way to remember the mirror's sanity cost without having to think of "whichever is greater" is to think of it as having two costs:
1. Each use drains 20%, and
2. After 2.67 seconds, sanity will continue to drain at a rate of 7.5% per second.
Additional tips for the summoning circle:
- I highly recommend to take the summoning circle photo before you use the summoning circle, and I would try to avoid using the salt directly in the center of the circle as well.
It is very easy to unknowingly get a full body, dead center, ghost photo that you end up finding out was actually an off center, good distance away, summoning circle photo because the game prioritized the summoning circle above the ghost. Same thing with the disturbed salt.
- What you can do is get right up in the ghosts face to try and avoid that possibility, by cutting anything on the ground out of the photo, but then you can run into the child model which can complicate things unless you crouch and look up.
- And as for the salt, I like to set them all down with one of two goals in mind: place the pile near the circle in an area the ghost is likely go during its hunt (Bottom of the stairs in Tanglewood), or next to the circle in an area where the ghost will walk to you at the beginning of the hunt (Stand at the bottom of the stairs in Willow, and the ghost will walk though the salt to get to you at the beginning of the hunt [Just leaving it there would likely work, but you get the concept]).
I appreciate how much effort you put into your videos. I literally watch every minute, even if they are 4 hours long. Such a pillar to the Phas community. I love to keep supporting on twitch as well! You rock Insym !
Personally I have never used the music box for its intended purpose I only use it as a hunt grenade to troll my teammates
Thank you sooo very much for the guide. I really love this type of content for Phasmo coming from you coz this really helps a lot about the game. Hopefully next guides will be GHOSTS, ITEMS & MAPS EXPLAINED!
I wish the Tarot cards were a full set of Tarot cards. here is an idea for the missing arcanas
-Magician: Changes the ghost room.
-The empress: 1%. Burns the current deck. Spawns a new deck. Adds one "Hanged man", removes all "High priestess". Removes all empress.
-The emperor: Changes one of the remaining cards to high priestess or hanged man.
-The hierophant: 2% Triggers a cursed hunt, destroys the decks, spawns another cursed item except tarot cards.
-Lovers: The ghost will have infinite detection radius for your equipment and voice.
-The chariot: 2% Gives you 25% movement speed for 3 minutes.
-Strength: Rare. Turns on the breaker and makes the ghost unable to turn it off for 3 minutes.
-Temperance: Turns off the breaker. If the breaker is is off, breaks the breaker.
-The star: Rare. Decreases sanity by 20% Increases the sanity pill sanity restoration effect by 15%.
-Judgement: 1% Teleports everyone to the truck and ends the game. Hope your current guess is correct :)
-The world: Changes the weather randomly.
It'd be really cool to havs more tarot cards although I feel like dk would disagree on adding more since that'll overpower it
This is actually awesome
@@haebi_maybe not all of these need to be added, but theres a few that would fit right in without any changes. i think the world & magician cards should already be in the game.
yea youre right, thatd be more fun@@bread6235
Judgement should be like 0.01% because imagine someone with a full deck of cards pulls the entire deck and gets judgement💀
With the ouija board sanity questions, the wiki does actually tell you what each sanity % range the answer means. Sanity questions also drain 5% per question asked.
If you ask "What is my sanity?" you'll get "Healthy" (over 80%), "Good (60-80%), "Average" (40-60%), "Bad" (20-40%), or "Awful" (less than 20%). This one doesn't have a text option, but if you're using voice, it's probably the most useful variation.
"How crazy am I?" and "How insane am I?" will give "Not very" (over 50%), "Very" (25-50%), or "Insane" (less than 25%).
"Am I insane?" will give "No" (over 90%), "Maybe" (20-90%), or "Yes" (under 20%).
I've been working on making a written guide for myself and my friends, so I've been referencing the wiki and your videos quite a lot over the past couple weeks. These guides definitely help make the process much easier!
Edit: Apparently I didn't watch quite far enough before commenting. Sorry about that!
I once was lighting the summoning circle and it started a hunt far away. I pulled out my camera and took a pic, but started hearing footsteps and I just turned and RAN. First time a ghost has started hunting while doing the summoning circle. Luckily I had a smudge so I escaped but holy shit it sped up my heartrate 2x.
The way you explain phasmophobia made it much easier for me and my friends to play. Thank you!
"Responds to" info is one of the most useless thing in the game. It doesn't matter.
If you are in Singleplayer, it's absolutely useless. In Multiplayer, you can just ask everyone to get out of the room, because the ghost will respond regardless, or ask the Spirit Box questions yourself, while the rest of the team is bringing in equipment. That's how we do it anyway.
A magyar insym 😂
INSYM you're a real one making this for all the new players coming in
You should also make an appendix to the monkey paw showing where to find the possible wishes.
Yeah, the Text thingy will spoil it for a new player and give it easy access, but for players who wish to do it the "right way", there are the clues on where to find the wishing papers and adding them to your collection (which is preserved in the journal, right?)
Thats such a good idea!
29:11
"You left this mortal realm"
"Yeah, that's not what I meant though when I said 'I wish to leave.'"
Yeah, that sounds about right for a monkey's paw wish.
Found a music box, accidentally activated it, dropped because got scared, got insta hunted and killed. 10/10
A nice hour and fourty-three minute video before bed. At 6:28 am. No sleep.
I would love to see a single video with all the cursed possesions locations, since most of the videos are separated videos of a specific map, and also most of them don't have Monkey Paw added in them, so i would appreciate if you do that
great video insym, keep the good work!
I play on edgefield 90% of the time so I only know like 4 different cursed items locations from the other maps total, which just makes me go back to edgefield :(
The 'I wish for Knowledge" wish on the monkey paw is a lot more powerful in multiplayer as the other player(s) are still functional, and the negative effects can be partially mitigated with a combination of the tier 3 crucifix and the night vision headset. Despite this, it is still only recommended to use it if absolutely necessary.
I remember when I was done using the ouiji board, i walked away from it without saying "goodbye" and my friend heard me scream from outside of the door lol.
I am slowly becoming an encyclopedia for this game.
Thank you.
My goodness, Insym you are on a roll banging out videos/doing live streams. Good stuff! Ty for this guide, as with your other ones I always learn quite a few helpful tidbits. :)
I love how lights flick once and Insym is instantly like
Ok listen here yo Stupid Mare.
And he's right about the ghost.
I know this isn't a popular opinion but my favorite cursed possession is probably the spirit box just because I love music boxes irl and I also love the sound of the ghosts humming in-game too
same!
Honestly the best guide ive seen so far. Amazing content. you got another sub. :)
My favorite is the Voodoo doll, i even got one from Makeship when they was producing their limited run
So for the "I wish for knowledge", if you use it and one of the evidence you supposedly got gets ruled out isn't that basically telling you it's 100% a Mimic that changed in the meantime?
mimic cant change evidence, it can only change behavior, like it can do a ghost ability but it cant change evidence thatd be too op
I recently was playing a game on the new sanity system patch. I stayed in the light basically the entire game and the ghost was being so stubborn. I assumed it was a demon because it was early hunting while I had been in the light for so long. I couldn’t find the ghost so I used the mirror and it immediately broke. Turns out it was a moroi and that whisper I got early in the game was a curse. Joy. I ended up dead in the prison hallway when it sped up extremely fast. Why are Morois so broken.
Your guides are pure gold man, thanks for them!. Saw this one already on stream, but it released here just in time to save me a perfect game^^
The sanity drain on the summoning circle should be maybe 5 per at most, it's nice but it's nowhere near as powerful as the other cursed items. It gives you no info just shows you the ghost (And not where it is) then starts a hunt
You got hunt on demand, tool to lower your sanity on demand, and thing which will allow you to take guaranted ghost photo for objective/additional money. Its also usefull for most of the other objectives like motion sensor, candles etc.
@@pawelteam97 but for all of your sanity?
@@leigeorain Small price to pay
The ghost will always sing when music box is playing, i tested this on highschool with music box as far away as possible
My ability to pull death cards and heart pins on the first use is staggering, killed many team mates with it.
Ayo thanks for this. Been getting into the game recently and your guides are a literal lifesaver
This is so helpful. I didn’t know you could place the music box down with it still playing.
Thankyou so much for the guide again!! Watching this with friends and there are afew new things we learned 💕
i didnt like old phasmo too much but i like your videos and your guides even if i dont play it
i might pick it up with a few friends again seems to be a lot better
i watched the ghost one too amazing
AFAIK the cursed hunt that triggers initially has the reduced grace period. But subsequent hunts only have the increased duration and do not retain the reduced grace period.
played with the tarot once. got moon, sun, moon, priestess, hanged man, death. had to leave after that since the death card caused the hunt that killed my partner and i was alone.
1:50 best way to learn where they are is to make a custom difficulty with a friendly ghost, and all cursed object
58:20 Just rember that even in a hunt you have to say goodbye to the bord, otherwise it will break by you running away (from the ghost). But I am not certain, how it affects the ongoin hunt.
I think it just breaks and u can't use it anymore that's all
Just finished watching the beginners guide and ghost guide, and now this? Hell yeah
On the quija board when you said Marco? The car went off but wasn't before. Was that a forced interaction with the question or just a coincidence.
could be either
I just came back to this video because I played 3 rounds on tanglewood in a row with the music box. It immediately started a hunt all three rounds and killed me instantly. Good to know I’m not an idiot and it’s just a bug that happens. The fourth round with the music box worked at least😅
My Bro will just run around every map when we load and will immediately hunt for the Terot Cards if they exist and will immediately start pulling
If you're trying to understand what he was trying with the crucifix, here is the crucifix details. Tier 1 crucifix: prevents one ghost hunt (can't prevent a cursed hunt) tier 2 crucifix: of prevents two hunts ( can't prevent a cursed hunt) tier 3 crucifix: can prevent two hunts ( can prevent ONE cursed Hunt). If you want more information I can tell you on other tools.
wishing for safety could just teleport you to the van and start a hunt
The ouija board likes to be deep. To discover if one is sane, one must be little insane.
I always didn’t use these as I was worried about hunts but now I’m more confident! Thank you!
Wouldn't it be really nice pulling the hermit card to find out which room is the ghost room? the door would be locked and you'd have a minute to find out which door is locked. Or am I missing something? Thanks for the video brother, and the comments on your videos are dope. I learn SO much from ya'll
Nvm, I saw the comments that said it's the monkey paw that locks the door to the ghost room. Apparently the hermit card is just a nice card for us newbies who just want to feel safe for a minute XD.
The Summoning Circle is also pretty useless because if you don’t have a lighter yet then you’re screwed
It's always nice to review tips from the game because I forget it a lot when I'm scared lol.
Keep up the good work man, my friends and i are new to phasmophobia so this video helped us alot
for the OUIJA board you can ask it its favourite room e.g boiler room, this will show you where its cursed, different to the where are you question.
For the monkey's paw, can you not make more than one knowledge wish to get rid of more evidences to narrow down your search? I mean if you're already screwed with the first one in making more wishes for knowledge after that shouldn't be that much of a downside unless it just prevents you from making it again
Great video, and really helpful, Ive kinda avoided a lot of the cursed possessions cause I didnt understand them well and was kinda afraid id just throw or something but knowing what I want to do with them going into it will definitely help. Great stuff
Thx Awesyme for making my day a little bit better again. Love your stuff. ❤
first time playing today with my friend and had the music box bug happen. I almost had a heart attack
Phasmo's cursed possessions having real utility incentivizing their use despite their costs either undermines the general _point_ of such items' appearances in stories for hundreds of years (that being, _don't_ ), or reinforces it. I'm not entirely sure which. 😂
It's weird the Tower card is so harmless. I'm used to Tower being the absolute worst card to get in a tarot reading (from my limited layman's knowledge) since it represents cataclysm and destruction. The Death card, by comparison, is just about change and transition.
Well, it doesn’t always mean cataclysm. It’s the pride *before* the fall. aka there WILL be big trouble if you don’t change something
But yeah it’s generally not a good sign
I recently realized that, since the Tarot cards in the game is a cursed possession, those must be cursed cards with different meanings. The Hanged Man and Death, for example, are typically positive, so the cursed version kills you. The Tower and The Devil are typically negative, but then here they help you. The Sun and Moon are typically very balanced cards, but here they go to extremes. The Wheel of Fortune typically is about cycles, yet this one just pulls you one direction.
I know it's a bit of overthinking, but it kind of makes sense at the same time.
I love these guides cuz you give those situations and then show it too. You cover all 2/3 ways of learning cuz you don't have a written guide.
Very good video and very good explained!
I have one question though: around 55:30 it was an Onryo but it didn't even look close to an Onryo.
Do ghosts in this game all look the same?
Thanks in advance!
Can the "I wish for knowledge" option give different results for different players in the same game?
You can't use the same wish twice in the same question
I think they made the summoning circle like that to punish people in public servers who will just instantly light the circle and ruin the game
51:12 it's actually useful because you can check the ghost room if you don't know if it's roaming a lot😅.
17:54 literal chills, I was terrified like it was me sitting in the closet😂😅
The ghost watching you vandalize the property faster than it can cause an interaction
*Insym:* The sun card is the worst card!.
*Hanged Man:* You forgot about me
Now we need an updated Ghost guide!
with the monkey paw, lets say they would fix it so you couldnt just run around freely after you made the "i wish to trap him" wish (maybe with an invisible barrier or something) and nerf it by not letting you see the lock symbol on the door afterwards, couldnt you just open all doores before hand, surive the hunt and then look wich door is closed?
Thank you for the tip! Also looking very beautiful!
Would you ever consider making a written note/paper on the differences and secrets of the ghosts?
24:30 I didn't even know sanity played into it i thought the ghost kept blowing them out. guess i got lucky because when i tried using it with my friends i had all done except 2. Didn't realize it was even a trick lol.
Speaking of the tarrot cards, i was playing phasmo with my gf this weekend and i pulled every tarrot card
Ended with 100% sanity, pulled a priestess
I died later and was revived instantly and was completely shocked cause i didnt know that happened
7:49 that shadow scared the shit out of me😂
The monkey paw should lock all doors if the player wishes to trap the ghost. That way, it would be not as broken, but still useful to ward against a haunting when wished within a grace period.
I wonder if you can use "how many people in this room?" as a better alternative to "are you in this room?" From the ouija board if it drains less sanity