Tis the season for the horror genre to dominate the world of streaming, with Kinetic Games’ recent smash success Phasmophobia proving 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‘s premise 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 of Phasmophobia‘s well-deserved praise, as the game’s atmosphere, pacing, and most importantly scares, are all modeled with this number of players in mind.
The problem several streamers are experiencing with Phasmophobia is unwanted modders entering lobbies and adjusting various gameplay elements not in line with the intended pacing of the 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.
WARNING: The following clip is extremely loud.
Due to the aggressive nature of infiltrating hackers, not even private game lobbies are safe. Kinetic Games has both advised players to run the beta version of the game to avoid marauding modders and reassured the community that anti-cheat measures are being implemented in order to keep the most developed version of Phasmophobia healthy and cheat-free. As streamers are often a precious and at times vital part of generating enthusiasm around a game in a way traditional advertisements cannot, Kinetic Games’ decision to address this issue sooner rather than later is a genuine way to foster goodwill and communication with its rapidly growing playerbase.
Phasmophobia brings several innovative features to the horror 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 establishes Phasmophobia as 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.
Phasmophobia is available in Early Access on PC.
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