Amateur is Harder Than Insanity - Phasmophobia
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2023
- Welcome back to Phasmophobia! In this video we compare ALL the difficulties in Phasmophobia and it did not go how I expected... ENJOY!
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NOTE: This video was recorded on Phasmophobia update v0.9 - Hry
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What difficulty do you play?
professional from time to time but other times im doing 12x farming exp in camp woodwind
Nightmare only
I just know you were losing your shit when you made that thumbnail
i play the highest custom difficulty
Most of the time professional but sometimes nightmare because I’m not good with secondary evidence
with friends - proffesional. alone - scared to play amateur even
Mood. I turned on friendly ghost and I had to walk out lol
for me i have no friends so i play proffesional so i can grind for better equipment
@@cadenweatherly-nn7mu thats great, but we all are not that brave 😆
@@anettelma123 fair enough
I have an idea for a challenge. You start with basic Amateur and after you find the ghost, you spin a wheel with all the custom difficulty settings (Starting Sanity, Player Speed, Ghost speed, Grace Period, etc...) and you turn them to the hardest mode. Example, you spin and get Player Speed, you will then make it the slowest. If next spin and you get Ghost Speed, you turn it to the max. Im not great with explaining things but I hope you understand XD
OR you randomize every choice instead of randomizing the actual choice and going to the max with it.
Like: Player speed - randomize, pick what it gives you (slow, normal, fast). Ghost speed - randomize, pick what it gives you, etc etc
Phasmo roulette then :D
the funniest amateur games are where an aggresive ghost acts like a passive ghost and it just throw you off and sort of teaches you a demon may not always wanna kill you
yeah that would be cool
i play nightmare. i think the game gets very boring when all you have to do is get the 3 evidences. i like reading the abilities of the ghosts and then trying to find out the right one from 4 options.
Same but having tier 1 equipment for nightmare sucks, especially the spirit box and dots even the emf sometimes shows emf 5 for ghosts which are not emf 5
Making the switch from pro to nightmare is so much more fun
@@VR00100 yeah playing professional with tier one items os basically the same as playing nightmare with tier 3
A few more weeks and you’ll be one of those nerds who do zero evidence on campsite.
@@spicelord4782 nahh I already have all the equipments. I play with friends for fun. prestige is useless.
I would love to play Nightmare but I play with my family who aren't as skilled with the game as I am and I don't have any friends to play with so I'm stuck with lackluster Professional.
On the POV of the investigator, Insanity is their rookie era where they do not know yet what are they doing, hence the harder to look for evidence, easier to drain sanity (getting more scared). But Amateur mode is their professional era where the countdown timer is actually their average speed for finding out ghost, with all evidences, etc.
Oh!
New headcannon. 😮
Then intermediate is the actual cannon one
@@tformerdude6788 "new headcannon" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@svennyhennywhat a clown, raining on people’s parades and familiarity with fandom terminology
@@GuiSmith headcanon, not headcannon. perhaps he's not so familiar as you thought
9:07 this is so funny to me because the first card i managed to draw when using tarot was the hanged man, now you can imagine why i wouldn't use the tarots again
58:58
Insym: Where are you?
The Ghost that is about to reveal itself as a Deogen: *heavy breathing*
Nightmare mode as a beginner: "Do not do this!"
A random person I started playing multiplayer with.
"Let's get you up to nightmare!"
2 professional runs. And then only nightmare one after the other hahaha. I learned sooooo much in so little time.
I say do go for it as a "beginner" (like, 15-20 levels in, in my case) as long as you're playing with a friendly experienced person 😂
It took me so long to be comfortable with the game and now I almost only play nightmare mode! Hunts and ghost events used to scare the shit out of me but luckily I can manage them now
Can confirm :)
@@missiem3301 YOOOOOOOOO
Me, but Professional. 😅
I usually play on Professional. It's a good mid point between hard and easy. The ghost isn't too aggressive and gives you all information but it also isn't easy mode and the chance of you dying is still there. It's just a nice middle ground.
There's no way that Amateur is harder than Insanity! That's insanity!
What an utter nightmare!
@@YourFavTessaonly a Professional could beat it!
@HalonicYT Something an AMATEUR could surely never do! There must be some kind of intermediacy!
they had to have had it
custom-made!
@@KompridiCR it would certainly be a challenge!
I think that what the difference in the difficulty really comes down to is how much time you have to faff about before you are actually in danger of dying to a hunt under normal circumstances. Set up phase, sanity drain rate, frequency of Ghost events, and theoretically how much time it could take for someone to deduce what the ghost is - you're spending more time and even willingly triggering hunts to get a bead on the ghost's behavior since you only get partial evidence on Nightmare and Insanity.
Of course, ghosts giving themselves away like the deogen in this video can end an investigation instantly but that's just luck.
With my group we often have 1 or 2 less experienced players that cycle through, and with them we play Professional, but when the team has all 3 of our "main" players at once we play NM and Insanity, it's how I prefer it
Same with my group, just dropped down a level.
As a new player, literally the first tarot card I pulled was the death card. I knew what it meant but that didn't stop me from dying. I haven't used the tarot cards since lmao
My first time playing i had a board but i tried to do the funny pickle meme and forgot that the board drains sanity. Long story short, i got destroyed by a wraith right beside a hiding spot
@@JapousMan The ghost just got tired of you asking how many pickles it can fit up its butt lol
One thing I’ve noticed is that a bunch of games have that the commonly known easiest difficulty is the hardest
By far, you're right. It's not the fact that it's ordinary but extraordinary.
Yeah in any game, the hard diff is always faster
easy mode are so slow paced in most games than you can't just concentrate because it's "boring", while normal/hard have a better pace and flows better
I play on your extreme professional difficulty but changing 2 options: number of hiding places to low instead of none and ghost speed to 150%. It's sooo terrifying.
I should start doing that. I try not to get hunts unless I have too because a lot of ghost can be easily identified with a hunt
I do the same but based around getting absolutely no hunts. 150% ghost speed, high roaming, high chance of changing ghost room, no grace period, no hiding spots. 75% starting sanity but 25% sanity gain from pills, pop a pill before going in the house. Breaker starts off and the weather is snow instead of heavy rain. If it's a demon, you're dead.
I tried doing Insym's difficulty without any modifications. Saw a poltergeist ability which lowered my sanity and it immediately hunted and I died. A raiju did a ghost event at me within the first 10 seconds then started hunting because I had my flashlight on and I died. 75% starting sanity with no pills is just way too punishing.
I usually play on a custom setting that uses the professional preset but has two evidence instead of three. I like having all the information in the truck and testing myself to figure out the ghost via secondary evidence from a few choices. I’m not leet enough to do zero evidence! 😅
Me and my friends only play nightmare. We would like to play insanity but the removal of the cursed possesion removed a lot of fun so nightmare is where its at.
Play a custom difficulty, choose the insanity preset and just add 1 random cursed item. Multiplier is still decent (5.6x or something) and you get to play insanity with a cursed possession. This is what my friends and I do cause the cursed items are fun!
@@magicbronson8394 I know but when we go custom we just go all out. 150% ghost speed, no sanity, no breaker. It becomes more like a ow shit were going to die session haha.
@@jantjedoedelus8079 that actually sounds really fun, changed my perspective
58:59
Insym: “where are you, are you here-“
Ghost: *viOLeNt sTatiC
The Deogen spirit box breathing noise is so good but man if you aren't expecting it, rip your ears lol
i rotate between professional and nightmare and occasionally do insanity. but i started doing no evidence runs recently and they’re pretty fun
Best ghost writing photo ever
I would love to see a perfect game all difficulties run let's go!
🤣Insym: (42:26) "If I get a hanged man, so be it."
😆Also Insym (42:27): *Pulls a Hanged Man card right afterwards.*
👎nope
dude timestamped 1 second apart
For majority of the time me and my friends play on professional as a form of chill gaming but we throw in some nightmare and insanity every now and then as it is more challenging in the long run witch makes it more fun after you've learned how to identify ghosts by their behavior alone
Amatuer is easiest for me because I am legitimately scared of hunts lol. Played so many games and my fear for the hunts have not lightened up in the slightest.
For. Real.
vr will be a fun experience for you, totally not scary
I find I can easily get 3 evidence and leave before a hunt on Professional.
Try turning the breaker on immediately and keeping the lights in the rooms you'll be in on, it'll prevent your sanity from draining much so the ghost won't hunt unless it's a demon (:
If you still manage to lose sanity due to events or the breaker turning off then you can use pills and crucifixes
@@kaield4763 ive tried it once already at a friends place, definitely aint touching that game in vr ever again.
Another great video Insym 💛 thank you! I’ve been playing a lot of 0 evidence, running around in the dark lol
I think the developers were smart and applied the game restriction unlocks to your previous level. I was level 67 before the update and I've had custom difficulty available if I remember correctly since level 0 on the new level system. I didn't have any maps locked either.
I got this game because a few of my friends had it. They were level 100 so I started the game on Professional and have actually never played on Amateur or Intermediate. Just realized that. I loved the game so much I was level 2k + and they were on 200 lmao
We play custom. I'd say the difficulty is something similar to insanity, though we remove cursed possessions. Don't remember if insanity has hiding spots, but we remove those, too.
I have been watching yours and others Phasmo vids for a while now, to learn as much as I could before playing.
It didnt fn matter...once I was in the house with that creepy AF ambient noise, I forgot everything...
The basement door opened beside me and I was like "No thanks, I dont want your candy", and gag'd...😂
For me i usually play amateur and intermediate as im learning on how these ghost works and everyday i watch your videos tutorials and tbh it helps alot.👑keep it up man
I would love to see you play some perfect games on a map like Tanglewood or Willow - from amateur to Insanity
I think it woul be interesting to see Insym play a game with a new player, where the person who is new to the game choses what they do. He could help find what the ghost is but it could be extra challenge being limited to options of someone who is new.
When you're so good at hard difficulties that the easier ones are _more_ difficult.
I play amateur because I'm still a new player, but when I play with my friends we do a custom mode because one of my friends thinks the ghosts don't appear or do stuff as much on regular amateur. That friend doesn't really know what they're talking about because I get all kinds of action when I play solo. Lol. I think I'll be bumping up the difficulty soon after seeing this video.
I always appreciate the tips you give and I can't wait to play this when it comes to console
Love ur vids Insym! Keep it up❤
g r e e t i n g s
Furcorn
Yo
Greetings good sir.
h e l l o
"ROIGHT, WE'VE ARRIVED."
I like Insym's video previews so much!
42:23 "If I get a hanged man, then so be it."
The game: "That can be arranged."
I only really play nightmare, but since ive gotten better at the game I have only been playing insanity. I love insanity because of how active and quick the ghost can give itself away. I know all my knowledge from you insym. Thank you for making me fall in love with the game.
so that's why i am suffering in amateur mode.. there's no haunt
I would like to see a perfect game on each one! It would be nice to compare the rewards of each difficulty
Those tarot card odds. Maybe you should do a Cursed Possession version of Ghost Gambling. 🤭
This is so funny. I just got done playing amateur for funsies tonight with a friend and was joking about how it's harder for some reason
Bro the thumbnail Is more insane than the video 😂
i currently do intermediate with 2 friends, both of wich have not played before. we spend most of our time waiting for ghost to do something. lets see what we can learn.
edit: appearantly i cant learn anything as he almost gotten himself killed with tarot card twice in a row. DURING SETUP TIME
im sorry but the thumbnail is making me laugh so hard 😭😭😭
"If I get a hanged man, so be it." - To be continued music starts. 😂
I think a perfect game version of this would be great!
I've been mostly focused on nightmare. I stopped playing for a while, so I'm still working my way up to insanity and the various trophies.
It depends on how I feel. Mostly play professional but sometimes nightmare
EMF: goes off randomally
Insym: oh its a wriath
I play on professional and custom (using professional preset with a couple of changes). If you like to chill with the game, intermediate difficulty is what you want, the problem is that you have to play 10 perfect games to get a level.
We usually play on nightmare, but with the screens turned on in the van, giving us a 3.9x multiplier. It's a good compromise between having evidence and still using some no-evidence strategies, so that everyone can have a littlebit fun in our group of casual and core players^^
ty so much this helped me learn and that lower difficulties can still be harder than the higher ones
I love that mimic's evidence is all of the garanteed so that you can be thrown off guard by those hidden abilities
Close! It has 3 of the 4 evidence types that are mandatory. Doesn't have DOTS, which is a required evidence for Goryo.
i used to play intermediate but then i switched to professional, might go up another level because professional is kinda easy lol, but i still have a lot of fun just hunting ghosts, talking to them, just joking around, but i think i should challenge myself cause i'm getting pretty good at professional
20:20 "don't play like me... please"
But I want to!
Omg insym i have noticed u have more than 700k subs now!! hope u hit a million soon i have been watching u since when i had my old account and rhat was when u were at 10k subs so congrats on ur success so far
one thing that I would like to see be added is that on custom you can choose what ghost is going to be for that game but you would not get any money for it though
it would be good practice
It would help you to learn each ghosts abilities in a controlled setting
Would love to try to figure out twins speed
@@duatt3042 fr
Seeing your content makes me wish I was able to play lobbies without being kicked for being a low level :
Def one of the best phasmo vid thumbnails
another insym upload🎉 love ur vids❤
"Oh my goddd"
*door closes because of a hunt*
"AH-"
19:53
Insym: "If i get a The Hanged Man card then so be it then."
The Hanged Man: "Say no less."
Insym: "What."
Tbh i never play amature or intermediate mode cus my first time playing phasmo was with my friends and they immediately put me in professional and nightmare, it is a very quick way for me to learn the game (plus watching Insym's and Psycho's videos lol). Me and my friends always play Nightmare, Professional for warm up, sometimes Insanity if we want the ghost to chase us all the time
Once with my friends in the amateur the ghost attacked 3 times in a row, killing 3 in less than 1 minute.
I play on your custom professional difficulty, it's amazing. Sometimes if the ghost is an ass that spams events or turns the breaker off like a madman it's absolutely insane but otherwise, so good.
I tend to play on nightmare-ish custom difficulty with slight difference to make the mode a little harder but with more intel as well
I usually play on professional and sometimes nightmare, its because i play with my friends and they usually aren't the best at finding out the ghost, or I find random lobbies where they usually play either professional or nightmare, kinda suprising for me was that intermediate is more often played than nightmare
I have been playing on Intermediate for quite a while and it is so fun.
In my last session with my friends after we found the ghost room, it hunted at 75% (demon btw) and followed me all the way from the basement to the front door where I juked it around a couch. So fun.
Ahaha love getting a loud tinnitus the moment you pulled the devil card right in the beginning. 👌 It's obviously a coincidence but still, holy crap. Cursed by video.
Definitely want to see a vid of perfect games on all difficulties!
I usually do professional but I like nightmare the most. It feels more rewarding to get the ghost right when you have to use more of your game knowledge to get it. It also forces you to do hunts sometimes which is nice cause in professional I usually just get all evidence and leave. I also have a fun custom setting that gives 6x like insanity but with 2 evidence like nightmare which is my actual favourite atm
Just played the other night with my friends on nightmare mode for giggles only using the bare bones kit in the van and actually managed to determine the ghost type a few times. Also got the summoning circle 7 times in a row, but we're all under level 8 so we can't use it yet...
Me and my friends play only on Professional and sometimes at Nightmare. We haven't been brave enough to try Insanity for now lmao
28:04
The other day a friend and I were playing some nightmare runs, and we got a Goryo. The way we figured it out? We were taking photos of footprints with the lights on and dots going, and I guess the dots showed up.. because a photo of the footprints was labeled as “ghost.”
Therefore, dots still happen while you’re in the room, and you can still take a photo of them and get 3* credit… if you somehow are able to do that.
Just silly photos made me think of that, lol. Who would’ve guessed
With the new update I played Amatuer and then Intermediate, but once it let me play Professional I kept to that. It's what I played before the update, nice bit of danger but I still get my items and all three evidence. I am not nearly as good at guessing ghosts and Insym lol
Me--not bright. I've been trying "to learn" how to play this game on Amateur. Just wanted to one ghost right per day. I consistently get one hard evidence by the time I move in all of the gear my sanity is at 50%. It's impossible to guess the ghost correctly without knowing their pacing and the timing etc. I'm just learning how to loop and hide, get around in the dark, etc. Even if I manage to survive, rarely do 3 pieces of evidence present. I was just beginning to figure out the Amateur is not the way. I really hope with Intermediate I can get better and earn some funds. It is quite an addictive game though. Thanks for the video!
that thumbnail is glaring deep into my soul and it scares me more than a thaye sunny meadows restricted wing
Im addicted to watching this guy
When I came back, I started with Amateur, cause so much has changed (I came back like a month ago and the last time I played was when they had first added asylum and prison [yeah literally YEARS ago]). Now I mostly do intermediate and professional.
just started the with the game so amateur :/ but wanting to go up when i learned a bit of the game. Keep up your good videos love to watch em
I just saw your video from 2 years ago where you react to your first phas video pops up on my timeline I genuinely think it’s a fun idea to try and react to the video again lol
Phasmophobia content: 📈
Insym’s tarot card luck: 📉
Me and my friend always play together. We usually play insanity with the sanity screen on and cursed items or nightmare as intended.
We also like to play no evidence.
i like to do a custom difficulty where it's the nightmare preset with a few changes: monitors on, less room changing, medium event rate, and no cursed possession. It pays a bit better than nightmare while also being quite a bit more manageable.
Yeah it is one of the thing that bothers me. There’s not much difference between difficulties below nightmare. Hiding spots, Set up time and grace period don’t do new players much good. Provided you keep lights on, you won’t get hunted unless it’s a demon or a jinn or Yurei using it’s ability a lot. Even a lot of the little settings don’t seem to work well, even if it’s a shade on low activity it might be super active whereas an Oni might have high activity but still not do anything.
"if i pull hanged man so be it" - pulls the hanged man the very next second KEKW
Insym phasmofobia god c:
The correct spelling is in the title and you still got it wrong. Congratulations.
grammar police over here
@@mvl666_darkrio who?
Ahaha was literally saying I'd love an intermediate video since I'm new and you upload it 1 hour ago 👍😂
Hey could you do an updated hunting guide? Like identifying when the hunt begins, hiding places, looping, etc. I get wrecked every time its a demon, bc i think it's a ghost event!!!
Once on a lower. We broke the mirror and it hunted 5 times soon after. Also a lot of the time for a shade. It would get real quite then while in the truck ends up having a party after you leave.
Yippee dutch man is back with ghost game :D
I still remember my first phasmophobia games when I switched up to intermediate and tithe ghost instantly starts draining my sanity down to 40
thank you for the totally normal representation of chance hehe
Amateur is a challenge for Insym and Insanity/Nightmare is a challenge for ppl who play Amateur lmao
42:25 the usual tarrot cards experience in one clip HAHAHAHAHA
I got the game in august and from watching you, my duo and I only play nightmare 🥰
Me and my friend just started playing recently but I've watched your videos for a long time so I technically went in with some knowledge already. We always played on amature at first but would hardly get any evidence. It would be like *door slams in my face* ...hmm might be a yurei, let's get the evidence anyway... proceed to get no evidence for the next 30 minutes. Leave with Yurei. It was correct.
Now we've switched to intermediate and suddenly we're basically swimming in evidence
i love phasmafobia and your vidos have gave me confidets to go in the house more