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Kinetic Games, developer of indie smash horror Phasmophobia, has unveiled a raft of changes coming to the ghost detective game, including a new accessibility feature and quality of life improvements. <\/p>\n

“Over the past few months there has been a beta branch running with regular experimental updates,” the developer said in an update<\/a> shared over the weekend. “With these updates the game has been fixed, optimised and changed in various ways to improve the gameplay for everyone.<\/p>\n

“Some of these changes are quite significant however these changes are made to improve the overall gameplay experience. This update now puts the game into a much more stable state which will allow for new content to start being worked on.”<\/p>\n

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Kinetic Games, developer of indie smash horror Phasmophobia, has unveiled a raft of changes coming to the ghost detective game, including a new accessibility feature and quality of life improvements. “Over the past few months there has been a beta branch running with regular experimental updates,” the developer said in an update shared over the weekend. “With these updates the game has been fixed, optimised and changed in various ways to improve the gameplay for everyone. “Some of these changes are quite significant however these changes are made to improve the overall gameplay experience. This update now puts the game into a much more stable state which will allow for new content to start being worked on.” Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"\nPhasmophobia's latest update means ghosts can open doors and follow your voice when hunting you down | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kinetic Games, developer of indie smash horror Phasmophobia, has unveiled a raft of changes coming to the ghost detective game, including a new\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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