0.8.0

0.8.0, also known as the Tempest update, is a major update released on 14 December 2022.Tempest | Major Update v0.8.0.0, 12 December 2022 (on Steam).Content Creators on the official Phasmophobia Discord were given early access keys on 13 December 2022. The update includes an upgrade to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), improvements to weather, changes to several existing ghosts, and others.
== Additions and Changes ==
=== Holiday '22 ===
* New Phasmophobia 2022 Christmas event
* Earn a unique holiday trophy and an exclusive Holiday '22 ID card and badge
=== Equipment ===
;Candle
* Improved wax effects when lit
;Crucifix
* Can now be placed
* Effective range is now visible while being placed
;Haunted Mirror
* Improved effects and visibility
;Ouija Board
* All players must now be further than 5m from the Ouija Board before it breaks, instead of just the person who activated it
* Will now deactivate if the player walks outside the map
;Sanity Pills
* No longer disappear and now drop on the floor instead
;Smudge Sticks
* Improved burn effect
=== Gameplay ===
;Custom Difficulty
* Reduced rewards from custom difficulties by 80%
** Current and future challenges will still be accessible
;Investigation bonuses
* New bonuses for completing objectives in contracts
** Investigation bonus: doubled money and experience for secondary objectives if the player identifies the ghost correctly and escapes alive
** Perfect investigation bonus: In addition to the above, collect the bone and fill the journal with 3-star photos, to gain a further bonus on top of the investigation bonus
** Investigation bonuses are affected by the difficulty multiplier
* Added new Payments page to journal
* Reduced secondary objective rewards to accomodate investigation bonus changes
;Objectives
* Removed salt objective
;Weather
* Re-added foggy weather
** Will now only show where it makes sense
* Added new Sunrise weather
** Locations will start with temperatures between 
* Improved weather effects and visuals
=== Ghosts ===
;General
* Ghost flickering is now synced across players
* Ghosts now affect lights at the same range as equipment on the same floor
;Goryo
* Will not longer change favourite room or roam long distances
;Hantu
* Cold breath will now animate in any room during hunts if the breaker is off
* Improved cold breath visuals
;Obake
* Now has 1/15 (~6.67%) chance to appear as a different ghost model per flicker during hunts
** Will happen at least once per hunt
;Revenant
* Will now gain speed boost simply by detecting a player
* Will no longer slow down until it reaches last known player location
* Speed will now decrease by 0.75 m/s after losing player instead of instantly
;Wraith
* Will no longer step in salt piles
* Updated journal weakness
;Yurei
* Ability will no longer work if ghost is in a room without a door
=== Maps ===
* Improved campsites' performance
* Moved fingerprints on 13 Willow Street doors to be more consistent
* Radios are now interactable with the breaker off
* Improved two hiding spots in Sunny Meadows Mental Institution; one by the restricted area door and one in the restricted wing
* Small tent cloth is now translucent
== General ==
=== Graphics ===
;URP
* Upgraded to Universal Render Pipeline
* New graphics options:
** Sky light - for enabling sun or moonlight
** Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
** Fog quality
** FidelityFX 1.0 - AI upscaling for better performance
*** Only compatible with AMD RX 400/Nvidia GTX 10 series GPUs and newer
* Anti-aliasing options - FXAA, SMAA or MSAA now selectable
** VR players can only select MSAA
* Improved general post-processing effects
* Transparent objects and effects will now receive shadows from lights
* DirectX 10 is no longer supported
=== Accessibility ===
* Added a text option for voice recognition
** UI will allow for asking questions on Spirit Box/Ouija Board
=== Other ===
* Swapping to a new PC or reinstalling Windows will revert the save to the player's personal cloud backup
* Resetting save will now wipe cloud backup
== Bug fixes ==
* The average sanity objective will now complete at the same time for all players
* The bone will no longer spawn inside other objects
* Tripods no longer count as electronic equipment after removing a camcorder
* Willow windows are now the correct way round
* The "Complete daily challenges" weekly challenge will now only trigger when a daily challenge completes, instead of when it progresses
* You can no longer scroll to another item while placing something
* The ghost's room will now show on the board in the truck in training
* The Deogen spirit box reply no longer requires the player to crouch
* The morgue door VR grab is now in the correct position
* Hitting the crouch button, then physically crouching in VR no longer pushes you enough into the floor that the ghost cannot kill you
* Computer monitors in Prison no longer turn on when the power is off
* The "ghost repelled" stat will now count if you are not the host
* In Sunny Meadows, the female hallway light switch will no longer toggle the utility room's light
* Journal on/off buttons are much clearer to understand
* The EULA accept button will no longer be clickable until you scroll to the bottom
* The objects moved stat will now correctly count poltergeist throws
* Your inventory will no longer break if you grab more than one item before joining a game
* Room reflections will now be accurate after turning a light and off quickly
* Russian and Ukraninian fonts will no longer have grey boxes around most characters
* VR death room spawn position is now correct
== References ==
== Notes ==
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