0.8.0

**0.8.0**, also known as the **Tempest** update, is a major update released on 14 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 10°C to 18°C (50°F to 64.4°F)
* 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

1. ↑ *Tempest | Major Update v0.8.0.0*, 12 December 2022 (on Steam).

## Notes

1. ↑ Content Creators on the official Phasmophobia Discord were given early access keys on 13 December 2022.