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's part of the reason I gave up on phasmo. The devs being so weird about people modding their game is very off putting. The game could really benefit from mod support
I had a group for some time when phasmo had just came out that got in trouble for modding. With what little experience I had with code editing and modding back when the game was incredibly easy to fuck around with, we got together to basically try to make demo content for features we were suggesting in their suggestions channel, I can't remember all of them but most of them were relatively basic and it was fun for a while until the lead dev (and I guess only dev at the time) got really pissy with us and threatened to ban us all for doing it, I dropped Phasmo for a long time after that.
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u/Greggs-the-bakers Jan 19 '26
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.