With the rising popularity ofPhasmophobia, players across the world are getting into this horror game along with up to 3 friends at a time. However, everyone is discovering that the title isn’t someGhostbusters-like adventurebut instead a mysterious paranormal investigation that challenges the whole team. To that end, there is an intense learning curve for beginners, such as knowing how to change difficulties.
At the start, players will be stuck with one option while getting the hang ofPhasmophobia.Even after mastering the basics andfinding spooky evidence, switching difficulties isn’t simply something that can be done with the push of a button. Thankfully, the option to select harder content will gradually unlock as players advance through the game.
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Unlocking Other Difficulties
Initially, the only choice available to players are Amateur level maps. However, gaining access to other difficulties will happen once the player character reaches certain levels. Leveling up is done through finishing specific tasks and managing to survive being haunted in typicalhorror gamefashion. Intermediate difficulty unlocks at level 10 while the Professional difficulty is hidden until after level 15. Note that these harder difficulties are tied to specific maps meaning players can’t just play familiar stages over and over again.
Changing Difficulties
As a result, changing the difficulty boils down to simply switching maps. This ramped-up challenge takes place in the form of bigger areas to explore plus a 50 or 100-percent faster sanity drain on Intermediate and Professional difficulty, respectively. Normally, players also have 5 minutes to prepare and set up equipment before anyghostly interference, but Intermediate shrinks this down to 3 minutes while the ghost is immediately active on Professional. Despite all these setbacks on harder maps, there’s a small chance players will be given a lower difficulty map in the waiting lobby so there’s no need to be frustrated on Intermediate and Professional all the time.
To compensate, the inflated difficulty and hardships also have better rewards for teams that can triumph over them withthe Crucifixand other equipment. Finishing an Intermediate map gives 2 times the money and 50-percent more EXP while Professional maps ramp this up to 3 times the payout and 100-percent more EXP.
In the end,Phasmophobiaplayers can agree that changing difficulties in-game isn’t the most straightforward task compared to similar titles in the genre. Eventually unlocking them, however, opens the door for more experiences with friends and to get scared out of their wits.
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