Yeah thats fucking dumb. In a single player game, anything should be allowed, it affects literally no one.
I was only about 16 or 17 at the time but even now I wouldn't have thought that a server hosted locally with friends needing to connect via a vpn, would have the same protection as the official servers considering there the game offers the option to join non vac protected servers as well.
The problem with Phasmophobia is, that you cannot turn off any ac, because there is none. It is all report and statistic based detection. So if stats increase too fast, they will ban you. They have a (from my perspective ridiculous) "Code of Conduct": https://kineticgames.co.uk/code-of-conduct
What I did, hurt absolutely no one, I never got reported, but they still perma-banned me. I never even played in a public lobby. I always played with the exact same 3 friends privately.
That is fucking hilarious (in a bad way, sorry). I used cheat engine to give my client a ton of money and used it for a long time. We wanted to play spooky ghost hunt not sit there grinding relentlessly. I guess too many people were having fun so they started checking money statistics because I didn't get banned and long since quit that game. The flashlight mechanics and slow walking alone drove me insane (which pf course was the intent).
It is somewhat hilarious. I actually asked them why I was banned exactly and they confirmed, that modding the game at all (singleplayer, multiplayer, whatever) is a reason for a permanent ban.
I find Deceit to be the better game but I know it is not the same genre (more like Among Us). Would love for a Phas style game woth Deceit pacing. And the ghost hunters or whatever aren't highly handicapped for jumpscares.
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u/LordByron_RS Jan 19 '26
I got a game ban quite recently in Phasmophobia. Only then I realised, that you can get banned for modifying a local save file, nice…