Kinetic Games Made Major Improvements to Phasmophobia's Lighting System in Recent Update

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Is Phasmophobia too dark for you? If so, you're probably going to be happy with the recent patch developer Kinetic Games has released. Update v0.9.4.0 is considered a minor patch but it brings a lot of major improvements, particularly to the game's overall lighting.

Lighting System Overhaul

The company has made huge improvements to the overall lighting in Phasmophobia. This is mainly to address concerns about the game just being too dark even in areas where there are ample sources of light.

Anyway, there are a couple of notable features that were added in Update v0.9.4.0. First is "Eye Adaption," which is a feature that allows your eyes to better adjust to the light or dark areas in Phasmophobia.

The second is Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI). Also known as "bounce lighting," SSGI improves the game's ambient lighting to make things more apparent. The company warns, however, that SSGI may reduce performance on PCs with old hardware. To resolve this, Kinetic Games has added three quality settings that you can choose from: low, medium, and high. Be sure to try all of them out to see which one works best for your PC.

On the topic of lighting, this patch also allows you to adjust the brightness slider in finer increments from 0% all the way to 250%.

Although the company has made things a lot brighter in Phasmophobia, Update v9.4.0 has removed all traces of the Holiday 2023 event. Hopefully, you were able to get everything that the said event had to offer.

Patch Notes

NEW

Static lighting has been overhauled in all locations
Ambient light has been increased
Light from outside sources (moon, street lights) will now shine through windows
Larger rooms or rooms with darker materials such as farm houses may look darker, however this is intended

CHANGES

Reflections will now update quicker and more consistently when lights are toggled on or off
The cursor brightness slider has been adjusted to be 0%-100%
Moved the wardrobe and lights in the Nursery in Grafton for better lighting
Adjusted the range and brightness of the passive player light
Adjusted the range and brightness of several location lights to make them more realistic
Grafton hiding spots
- The upstairs hallway armchair and nursery crib are now hiding zones and can be blocked
- The upstairs armchair has been moved closer to the wall to make it safer
Adjusted the player post processing to give slightly more cinematic colors
Improved performance when toggling the fuse box
Ghost writing books can no longer be thrown by a poltergeist ability

FIXES

Metallic door knobs are now shiny again
Fixed several safe spots in Willow
"Deja Vu" weekly challenge now has the correct items
"Glow in the Dark" weekly challenge now has the Fuse Box as the correct state: Broken
"Hide and Seek: Extreme" weekly challenge now correctly has 3 evidence
Adjusted several reflection probes in Tanglewood to stop glowing objects when a light is turned on in a different room
You can now take a photo of the Sunny Meadows summoning circle
Motion sensors now correctly show detections on the truck map
Fixed safe spots in the Sunny Meadows male room 5 and Maple Campsite Storage Tent 2
The ghost can no longer get stuck on the fallen down locker in the School hallway
Campsite A and B in Maple Lodge Campsite will now work correctly