The LEVEL 1 Challenge in Phasmophobia is Almost Impossible
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Welcome back to Phasmophobia! In this video we bring back the LEVEL 1 Challenge! On the new update this has become so much more difficult. Let's see if we can do it! ENJOY!
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NOTE: This video was recorded on Phasmophobia update v0.9
"Only compete with yourself" is great life advice in general.
Yep! Competing with yourself, when done right, will improve you infinitely. You are always better than you were before, and now you have to be better than what you already are.
100% truth. Some days i actually make it out of bed before 12 noon, some i make it out around 6pm. But when you're a student and able to learn on your own schedual, it can help to work or learn at night when everyone will STFU AND LET YOU PAY ATTENTION! Lol
My friends and i just started playing this week and can confirm its mad hard we didnt even know until today you could place down the dots so we just had someone carrying it around the whole time looking for ghosts and we are like 1/20 on correct guesses with a 60% chance of dying atleast its fun though
Got back into Phasmo with the update. The atmosphere of Phasmo is unlike any other ghost hunting game.
Tier 1 DOTS ‘pen’ is certainly the most frustrating. You have to stand in the dark while your sanity drops, hoping that the ghost will show up.
I’m terrible at avoiding hunts and spotting the ghosts when they show up. I personally don’t see how you do it all the time because I’m like “what is he looking at?” especially when you crouch behind cars. I’m afraid it will sneak up from behind.
I especially love the terrible trio content and the cries of anguish of CJ and Psycho when you do something that gets them killed 😂
He's not looking. He's listening for the ghost.
I did start playing after the update, my main early experience was getting the ghost wrong many times due to the tier 1 equipment not picking up things very often, died a lot before I knew how to hide and the tier 1 flashlight was so shit, honestly I used the dots as a flashlight until, I got the tier 2.
As far as skill vs. luck, I completely agree with you. I actually did the whole spawn in, guess Spirit, leave strat the other day and it worked lol. My group quit playing for the night, but I was only 30 xp from a level-up, so I wanted to get it, so I did it solo and the RNG was benevolent lol.
I have restarted Phasmo about 1 week ago after more than 1 year not touching it. It felt both new and still familiar. I had first hard time guessing which ghost I was dealing with and eventually nailed it....until I met Le Mimic...twice in row.
Il Mimo strikes again
38:44 I saw the Goryo dots. Only a single twitch chat viewer noticed it as well, and they were ignored sadly.
To the question about people starting on this update. Yes it is extremely hard. I had no clue what to do, luckily i had friends that were somewhat experienced but they also put me immediatly on professional. However binge-watching your videos helped!!
Just started about 4 days ago and got a Rev 3x in a row! Starting to get over the fear of hunts so I'm starting to make some progress finally. Just unlocked my tier 2 flashlight so now that I can SEE maybe I'll be less terrified lol
I recently found your channel and its been helping me become a much better player! I still consider myself very new to learning the ghosts' behaviors, do you have any videos where you go more in depth on ruling out ghosts? like at 6:40 when you started ruling out a bunch of different ghosts after just a few interactions. Do you have a video explaining why you know its not those types? Thank you again if you see my comment, love the content!
nevermind, continuing the video you talked about your no evidence playlist😅
I started playing about a month before the update and got to level 4. I barely played, but I got relatively acquainted with the game. I was demoralized when the game reset and I was downgraded to 90s era equipment, but at the same time I enjoy the new tier system. I only hope that I can level up faster while still playing on normal mode.
I started day 2 of the update and have been watching your videos about it, they are a lot of help. I am playing with randoms online to also learn. Solo isn’t easy especially with mostly tier one items but it’s really fun.
I started on this update but I found it quite easy. If you just put everything in the room and watch from camera it’s easy. And I learned from watching you.
29:35 Insym about to get cancelled? He hates babies!
lmao
I think for beginners, they should allow unlimited running and as you progress, the running amounts should get lower and lower. This would help newer people to help them learn to looping the ghost or just trying to get away from them
I started yesterday and it was definitely frustrating for my first few games. I didn't know what I was looking for and the tools being so bad made it even harder. The tier 1 EMF made it hard to find where the ghost is and sometimes looked like it would hit 5 sometimes so then I would be wrong. I didn't know what DOTS and spirit orbs looked like so with such a small area made it harder to find what it was. I usually play Demonologist and wanted to give Phasmaphobia a go. It was a difficult transition. I am not the biggest fan of the tier 1 spirit box since it's static is loud and the only reason I knew to look for the tiny hard to see ghost light is going off and that it means the spirit box is positive is because of my experience with Demonologist. Now that I'm getting the hang of it, I am enjoying it more.
Im a Person who started playing in this update, the dots were hell to use. I have always played single player so i learned it all one my own too its been fun
Another thing was learning I could turn the honking car or radios off that was terrifying at first
About the question at 5:45...
I started playing in this update and my experience has been shit. Firstly we got into the game without even doing the tutorial ans spent 30 min in a match that everyone died. Then I did the tutorial and started actually playing the game, and it's really cool, except for the tier 1 equip.
All tier 1 equip sucks and it takes sooooo long to get any evidence, specially when it comes to spirit box and dots.
Also, all my friends mock me for trying to figure out the game by watching videos, reading somethings outside the game and stuff. They primarily say I'm a tryhard and also I'm "graduating in Phasmo" or some shit like that.
I've been trying to play solo, but I don't seem to get the same enjoyment than playing in a group.
Has to play on insanity and with only level 1 items...
Noob players: Look what he has to do to mimic a fraction of our power!
Phasmophobia
I started playing the day this update came out and in my expirience I kinda hate dots becous i almost never saw them
I started playing after this update...I have watched hours and hours of the game before that tho. So it was rough in the beginning but I already knew what to expect.
So in the real world you use an EMF meter to detect electromagnetic fields/radiation. You can use them to trace live wires in walls/floors, etc or if you work with radio equipment it's used to trace EMF leaks/interference because all electrical things "leak" EMF. I guess you can also find wireless spy devices with it as well. It would be cool if they can add an element of "false EMF" since literally all electronic things will make a real EMF meter go up so maybe add a "accuracy" thing where the cheap one will more than likely give false positives especially when used near lights that are switched on or around your own equipment like the video camera. Maybe the best way to get an "accurate" EMF reading then is to turn the main breaker off forcing the player to work in the dark a bit more kinda like how certain ghosts want you to be alone. Also, random malfunctions on all the crappy gear would also add some immersion, forcing players to switch their equipment off and on again during stressful moments would be fun.
Hi Inysm. I have started again after new update. I had break about 1-1,5 year since last play so it was quite change. First match I have died but every next one was better and better. I started at professional so it is VERY difficult for me to correct identify ghost with so bad eq but it is going better and better. There is a lot of fun but it is also scary for me so they kept horror aspect for sure :D
Another video yippie! Been sick all week so I've just been binge watching these new videos daily.
Goryo dots issue has to be global cause I have not seen them a single time since update I ALWAYS just have to ASSUME it’s dots based off lack of other evidence.
When phasmo first came out, I'd hide in a room and close the door. I also felt like a genius,when i wasn't killed.
I was also playing with my best friend and her sister,and we all hid in the same room lol
I started the game 4 days ago and the tier 1 book and tier 1 dots has to be the worst of the worst I've missed so book writing and dots with the tier 1 stuff
I started playing recently. Dots and orbs are my least favorite evidence, especially with this poo equipment.
The very first ghost I ever got was a damn mimic. No, I didn't guess it right.
I still hate the progression reset. Was absolute hell slogging through the tier 1 items, and even tier 2 for some
Sometimes with the tier 1 dots i get it almost immediately, and other times takes a while for me to get dots. But my biggest problem is the tier 1 thermo, it takes a loooooong time to see if you get freezing temps or not.
Yes! Especially when the temp stays at 3°C, then only drops down as the ghost gets angrier later in the game.
you mentioned that you like watching others play phasmo. do you like watching ImpulseSV? JITS(Joker, Impulse, TangoTek, Skizleman) or GIGS(Grian, Impulse, GoodTimesWithScar, Skizleman) or GIGS(Grian, Impulse, GeminiTay, Skizleman)?
edit: i forgot to clarify who was in JITS
Well i just started playing this week. (at time of writing comment) and i still can't correctly get the ghost type very often so i'd say it's fairly difficult. lol
Level one challenge.
Puts tier 2 spirit box in the thumbnail.
Thanks Insym.
Isn't it the same thumbnail he had on lvl one challenge before the update? xD
@@deliriouscheeto I just checked, it totally is the exact same thumbnail haha
I played it multiplayer. Only time I got evidence was the mimic and I saw the orbs. Also my buddy took the flash light and wouldn't share it also closed a door on me. I was in vr in total darkness and almost Uninstalled lol
ngl i learned how to play it fast so yea my first time was bad but i have been playing for like a week now and im already easily able to know the ghost wit out evidence on insanity..
Wraiths are actually pretty easy to find out. If you feel sus and think it’s a Wraith, go as far as you can from the ghost room, hold an EMF and you will know instantly if he teleports.
The dots projector at tier 1 is absolute garbage. I want the tier 2 instead, the only way to use the tier 1 dots projector is by resting it on something, but most of the time it’s pointing at the wall, if you put it on the ground it’s basically covered by the floor. I hate it. Especially the tier 1 flashlight, I find myself using the tier 1 video camera to see.
I played this game once, I couldn't figure out how to get the trailer door open. The controls are just weird.
I'm not sure I like the prestige system, I don't want to be forced to use level 1 items and only get to use level 3 items for a tiny bit before a prestige (level 3 crucifix is unlocked at level 90). Yeah I could just not prestige but then all my future xp is literally going to waste because of the level cap and I would have 0 progression. I would love for them to implement a system where every time you prestige you can choose 1 level unlock to permanently unlock kind of like how black ops 3 zombies prestiging works.
Not enough van camping. Lol
didnt he get an emf 4 on a closet at around 11:30? Closet touches are always emf 2 and he only looked for a second, so i thought this was emf 5
Day 15 of asking Insym if he could play paranormica on roblox (fun if your new to phasmophobia tbh, does have a nice jump scare while entering too but is pretty old and doesn't have all the ghosts, only like 10? Haven't played in a while)
I began playing Phasmophobia with this update and the book is rigged we tried a Game at prison After we got a lil bit safer and it was a revenant and we placed two books near his cell and he didnt wrote anything he hunted us like twenty times and did Not catch us so we ruled revenant out cause its normally really fast but it was something else and we were nearly an hour on prison 😢
Yeah dots are really bad even with the tier 3 hard to get them to show and almost impossible with a goryo
Imagine if Psycho, CJ and Insym actually go to some "haunted" place with real ghost hunting equipment. That'd be so cool.
day 17 of asking insym if he eats his vegetables
Ask him on twitch
@@BDAWG663i feel like i have a better chance of insym actually responding on yt because the mods would mute me after i ask him twice 💀💀
@@heyyzoeegeenot if u ask once every day
@@heyyzoeegeefacts the mods are so strict
You’ll get an answer in a random stream at a random moment that’ll forever be forgotten
1:51:00 I also think they should add the different stat page for mimic exclusively at the end of the game so you can see which ghosts the mimic did take but it may be too complicated to implement
good idea and tbh it wouldnt be difficult to implement
Seeing which abilities he used would be good, but depending how it is now made, just seeing what he took without using it wouldnt mean much
it's not difficult to implement but somehow the devs are unable to contain all the bugs and overall maintain the codebase
They should do which ghost it mimicked + the abilities eg 1 mare ability, 1 deo hunt etc.. it might be difficult tho
That’s not a bad idea actually. Can’t see this being too difficult to pull off though
EMF starts beeping at 21:08 for no good reason, he was distracted and never saw it, but emf 2 marks a teleporting hability, he could have deduced Wraith there.
🤓
u mean deduced?
@@dokkabaerpg7896ur still using that in 2023… yt shorts kid
@@taz_here lol
Before I found this channel, I thought that turning on the lights in any room would make the ghost a lot more angry and increase the chances of the hunt. I also thought that you could hide from ghosts only in lockers.
bro thinks hes a geometry dash face
@@matthewcaviness2246 bro thinks he's the earth
@@DaDucko12anime pfp moment
You need to play the game before you start talking
As a New player, I think the hardest part was not knowing what I was looking for, for like Dots or the spirit box. this channel helped XD
I had zero idea on how to use the dots first time playing.
I remember in my first game, I found a knife and thought it must be a cursed possession because who would have a knife in the bedroom?! 😂
@@aarepelaa1142were the tutorials that lacking or were they not that engaging? I never played the game nor seen the tutorial level, but hopefully the devs achieved their goals with the rework.
@@in00yasha i think it only told if you had a ghost that has dots as an evidence.
@@aarepelaa1142 that’s crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once…
The way he explained how him playing on insanity is like us playing for the first time is so true.
I watch so much of his phasmo content, then I go play and get my butt kicked on amateur difficulty XD
The master always makes it look easy don’t they?
I often see him state something like it's blindingly obvious and I can't see it or hear it even when I rewind the video to watch it again... :P
But these videos have still taught me so much about how to use all the equipment correctly and some of the more obvious determinants between ghost behaviours, even if I can't tell the more subtle ones apart at all still.
I started playing phasmo 8 days ago, the hardest part was getting over how scary it was. I was constantly scared about when the ghost could hunt, but after that it was actually pretty easy, the tier 1 items weren't actually horrible for me (I also am now level 48 from doing camp ww start, I improve at games somewhat fast)
a good milestone for fear is when you instinctively know it's a ghost event and try for a picture instead of fleeing a possible hunt
I agree, watching random phasmo games is always fun. the Pros doing those sick challenges and escapes of hunts, and the beginers being so scared and new to all the game mechanics and letting us see all the creepy feel the level and sound design can give to people. i have a friend who can't play more than 2 sets with me for how scared he gets. Also, I think what they are trying is mostly, give more ways to be useful to those who stay in truck. they are players of the game after all, hating a portion of the players is bad for the game.
Haha I used to be like your friend, terrified of doing anything in the same, at the first site of a ghost event I'd book it, take a guess and never step foot in again 😂
Over the past few weeks I decided to get back into playing the game, started off as I was years ago but recently playing with friends cracking a few jokes and having a laugh here and there really took away the super spook factor of this game.
Not saying that as a bad thing but my god is more fun when playing with friends, I think solo, I'd very rarely do as much as I do now.
Blud used old phasmo title
Early again- Also I love these videos and this was really funny lol
The true level 1 challenge would be amateur mode preset but only 1 evidence (maybe also no hunt grace to replicate the utter terror LOL)
I started playing 3 weeks ago and I almost never got DOTS because they were just so bad 😭 I just got tier 2 yesterday and now it's great
I can confirm, me and my friends are level4 and this is exactly what it feels like.
I starting playing phas 2 days ago and I’m yet to have picked anything up on dots or have the book written in. So tier one isn’t the best 😂
The game is really hard when you start now however I just joined highlevel players so that way I had the good stuff lol
Insym can you do a face reveal soon?
Bro his face is already revealed it’s just at the bottom left of the video 🤣😅
@@smushypotatoe2745r/wooosh
It is spirt box on the first contract you have to look for the light to light up on the lvl one box because it sucks soo hard
I remember when Phasmo first came out there were so much troll info in search results about playing the game lol
‘To stop the hunt, throw a knife at the ghost’
‘If you hold the crucifix the ghost can’t kill you’
I got my first ghost corract because it was a mimic and i was just watching you dealing with a mimic
I was just about to Sleep... Perfect timing as always
Anyone else just gets excited when he says HI RUclips, HOW ARE YOU DOING…. Love from Kenya
when i first played i got chills from the ghost hunts and the spookiness of it... now its just like whats up ghost let me lick your toes and damn you dont have toes... well then back to the truck we're out. idk kinda wish they had more spooky scary parts. i miss that.
there is only so much horror tho
I wish they added ghost events where the ghost appears silently behind you and waits for you to turn around. Would be creepy
can you please make a video how you take some noob like me and try to teach them in 2 hours and then try if they will beat nightmare
2:07:40 - the last second on the camera, there was a ghost orb in the middle of the screen, that was sooooo unlucky bro, anyways, this was an awesome video
My hardest problem was probably the EMF or temprature, because i didnt know how to use the emf and the temprature was broken most of the time, like it woldnt move it was just sitting at 15 degrees celsius. I love watching you and you've made me much better at the game!
I haaaate how slow the tier 1 thermometer is. I kept throwing it into a cold room, and grabbing it later. It’s so agonizing to hold it and watch it go down, only for it to be 1°C
28:13 Obviously the Wraith was just hungry from teleporting, made a Sandwich and got angry because it realized they can't eat the Sandwich....so Hunt Time.
I recently started and having watched you for almost 2 years has definitely helped a lot, like only after 3 hours of playing I’m playing a custom difficulty that’s kinda like nightmare ish in terms of hardness and rewards but it’s 3 evidence so 9/10 times I have all evidence before the first hunt
This is good. I’m doing the same strategy but letting the ghost doing a couple hunts after I know what it is so I can pick up on hunt behavior to eventually start doing harder challenges like no evidence etc
this gonna be lit, havent even finished watching and i already know🗣️‼️🔥🔥
I started 2 weeks ago and i still have no clue how dots works XD
In my first game I actually did friendly ghost as a test, and got twins because I heard two different voices respond in the spirit box? A male and a female and so I guessed twins lol. That was my only evidence as well
Also, my friend who has never played this game before got the ghost right TWICE in a row, with our tier 1 items, which might be luck or maybe they're just insane. Plus, i doubted them both times lol
i have just started playing and im literally so scared
I wonder if on this anniversary DK will be kind enough to share a piece of his time with few phasmo content creators to maybe share his plans and overall opinion on a current state of the game. Like the last year.
To help new players, I'd recommend the devs make it so that the T2 upgrades for the evidence items are unlocked and equipped for new players (for the first 1-100). This will improve the experience for new players jumping in without doing the tutorial.
While I also feel T1 thermo and UV are considerably better than T2, T2 are simpler to use effectively for a player who doesn't know the game. T2 spirit box has much more intuitive indicators (x or ghost), writing book is more obviously open/ closed, DOTs are much easier to see.
It's fine to say "Just do the tutorial" or "Read it properly", but if a new player jumps in and doesn't have fun, they'll just quit and refund...
While I think the idea sounds interesting, it kind of completely negates the purpose of having tier 1 equipment items to begin with, so I can't really get behind the idea. Players who are curious will search up further if they wanna learn, those who dont arent likely to wanna play much anyway
@@nikolachiara9285 There is truth to what you've said, but I the way I see T1 (I could be wrong of course) is that it provides a challenge if a player chooses to prestige (or is a returning player).
With this update, they've ramped up the difficulty for everyone, both for returning players and completely new ones. The changes I proposed would only affect new players (or people who reset their progress to 0 for some reason).
You definitely have a point about whether accommodating those players (i.e. new but can't be bothered to read) is worth it or not. That's always a debatable point in game design. Some games aren't meant for some people.
i just started phasmo but i play with my sister and friends who played before so they already kinda understood the game. but watching your videos and playing basically daily, ive learned a few ghosts behaviors and have caught some. but im level 26 right now, so ive done a decent bit. but overall, im enjoying the game even though i started on a massive update. we’ve got a lot of friends on and keep trolling the new ones with the cursed possessions
Bro wakes up and chooses the hardest difficulty
Suiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
i like how this is literally how you start lmao
9:50 I remember in my first game I somehow easily found out that it was an obake. The game only took like 5 minutes, I instantly got every evidence.
Not gonna lie, tier 1 starting out is kinda hell. As a new player, you're soft locked on lower difficulties because the evidence items are so unreliable. Like I can't tell you how many times just getting unlucky with spirit box or DOTS made me choose the wrong ghost on Nightmare. And because of this, leveling is pretty slow because you can't go past professional
It's been always a great time watching this video 👍
for the twins in the ridgeway kitchen, the "DOTS" was breath. you can see it to the right of the patio window, and expanding before you spotted it.
the hunt was not early, because insanity is 75, - 20 for 2 events is 55, plus being in the house for about 5 minutes, is about 7% loss with no lights. youd be under 50% sanity guarunteed.
Just wanted to say Hi. I'm a new player, started just as the new prestige update dropped. Been watching your videos almost exclusively. Even if they aren't always specifically for educational purposes I'm learning heaps about the game from them. Just awesome content really. I've been toying around with custom difficulty where I start at zero sanity, no start up time, and basically try to get the evidence with the highest chance to be hunted possible. 50/50 on the success rate lol. Gotta throw yourself in the uncomfortable zone if you're ever going to get better though.
Dots is absolutely ridiculous though. I've spent ample time staring in a dark room not seeing anything. I check the stats post-game; I was in the ghost room the majority of the time, so was the ghost, never saw Dots and it was an evidence type. I've just kind of figured that some evidence is easier than others to collect in general. Temp/Writing is as simple as leaving them in the Ghost Room and checking them. UV is confirmable by checking interacted Doors. Dots is the worst though as it actively requires your attention and you just don't know how long to stare at it.
I'm trying to use your knowledge around observing the Ghost, especially during hunts, to fill in the blanks. Faster/slower movement, flickering more/less frequently, object interactivity, etc etc. I actually think I'm pretty good for someone rolling around with Tier 1 items and 20 hours game time lol.
I'm so early again!!!
I started in this update basically. (I was level 15 in the old version.) And my friends were like 100-200 somethings. WE STRUGGLED SO HARD. Half the shit they knew was now obsolute like freezing breath etc. All the tools are terrible, borderline useless. On top of it none of my friends knew anything useful. They were casual and just hid/did pro-Nightmare hunts before. No looping/ghost hunt knowledge. Yeah our first 2 days of playing we got like 2 of 25 ghosts right. But then after a decent bit of research (and getting a couple of extra things via levels.) we started to get it going. Now me and another guy are like constantly talking, "o was that a Yurei double touch, etc.", meanwhile our other friend learned every cursed spawn and does all the extra stuff like bone hunting and picturing everything. Doing much better now. But to say it was demoralizing those first 2 days would be an understatement. And we have by no means perfected looping/escaping the ghost. But thats the next steps. Been practicing solo and its trippy hard to not just hide from the ghost like I want to. But I am slowly getting better. My trouble is immediately recognizing speed/sound, so sometimes I just get got.
Hey Insym! The last time I played Phasmo with friends, I've noticed that Banshee doesn't ever do her scream in the Paramic to someone she not target. Is it luck issue or the real banshee-mechanic? We tested this immideately and the person that got the scream really was the target. I think this not really the mechanic, we'll probably test this thing next time, but this looks like something interesting.
With camp woodwind speedrun I'll do normally two hunts for check out mimic and if it is diffucult, then I live thru more hunts. I have been adding items depending on what ghost it "might" be. Using salt to get salt photos and know if it isin't wraith, crucifix if ghost hunts on top of me, fileplace/candle for onryo, EMF for Raiju and I use lvl 1 smudge sticks. If you use lvl 3 EMF, then i leave it by entrance to check yurei. But it is dependable where and which ghost will be and most of the time i will need to guess. That how I play that map.
5:50 to answer your question: I love tier 1 dots and tier 1 ghost writing. No sarcasm at all. I find it fun to keep constant tabs on those things and when the ghost gives those evidences it’s super satisfying.
Nothing better in the game than being stressed out about the ghost just to watch it write from the van and give you that final evidence. Same with dots.
What if they kept the normal stat page, but just added an “advanced” section that has that juicy data??
you have to do item tier list like in the good old days
20:00 In game design/game balancing we call this phenomenon an "incomparable". As the name suggests, it refers to a mechanic that has a relation to other mechanics that vary so much in functionality as to be incomparable. They can be very fun, but they are notoriously difficult to balance. (RPGs and MOBAs deal with this problem more than any other genre.) Whether or not this is a bad thing depends on the intended player experience from the developers. If you view Phasmo as a competitive game, it may make sense to implement changes that provide strict balance throughout the tiers. However, if you view Phasmo as a game about knowledge accumulation and finding interesting strategies to determine ghosts, these little differences can enrich the experience.
This has been my Ted talk, thank you for reading.
5:55 me and friend came back to phasmo after a three year break, from days that dots isnt even a thing. It's pathetic how smol the Tier1 dots projector is .... We cannot afford going back to the high school which is our favorite map too.
I like watching you play games (phasmophobia). why not try your own challenge via a spin and only use 3 items (smudge sticks are a bonus and lighters)
Fixing the thermometer lv1 would be easier if it didnt give an accurate reading. For example in scientific study when using mercury thermometers, two or more are often used to try and eliminate any anomalies and false readings. Because it gives you two, it would be better if it forced you to use both thermometers to find an exact reading.
UV cant really be fixed because the whole point is that theyre consumable and dont last long, and have to be bought after use. The torch is non-consumable, but can "charge" prints. They all have specific strengths and weaknesses.
When i play with my partner, we like to split it so someone brings a glowstick, and someone brings a UV torch. Same with other things like thermos.
Phasmo beginner here. Started a week ago. I would say starting off is a little boring because you only can play on easy mode until you hit level 10. By the end of each round, i will have ~85% sanity and have all 3 pieces of evidence. I would say if I havent seen any gameplay before playing the game, I would definitely be much worse at the game.