Tis the season for the horror genre to dominate the world of streaming, withKinetic Games' recent smash successPhasmophobiaproving an immediate classic with both players and their audiences. Unfortunately, mod-savvy viewers have taken a more hands on approach to shaping the ghost hunting experience into something too stressful for anyone to enjoy.
Phasmophobia’spremise joins up to four players, without mods, in a lobby where they proceed to investigate a house for evidence of supernatural activity. This base-game experience is the source ofPhasmophobia’s well-deserved praise, as the game’s atmosphere, pacing, and most importantly scares, are all modeled with this number of players in mind.
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The problem several streamers are experiencing withPhasmophobiais unwanted modders entering lobbies and adjusting various gameplay elements not in line with the intended pacing ofthe ghost hunting. A popular mod used by players increases the size of the lobby, allowing for more than four people on a team at a time. More malicious modders prefer to alter the spawn rates of the game’s horrifying ghosts, triggering multiple jump scare sequences during down periods between intended ghostly encounters. Where a normal round may only have a few jump scares in order to keep the ghost hunting suspenseful, tampering with the game’s mechanics often leads to a cheapened horror experience at thrice the volume.
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Phasmophobiabrings several innovative features to thehorror co-op experience, one of which is the game’s VR compatibility. Horror and VR have evolved organically together to revitalize and pioneer the genre into new directions. Kinetic Games indisputably establishesPhasmophobiaas one of these milestone experiences, with their continued support of the project and enthusiasm from their community hopefully seeing the ghost hunting fun past these early scares along its development.
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