Hyperfixation goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr- I have been really into Phasmophobia recently, and my favourite thing ever when it comes to games is learning their mechanics, and Phasmo just HITS THAT ITCH OMGS! I love the ghost AI, it is simple but effective! During its roaming phase, it will set a random waypoint in the map, wander to it through the fastest route, and when it hits it another waypoint is set. It can detect players through 3 different ways! Iirc around 7m a ghost can detect any turned on electronics, setting a waypoint where the electronic was turned on to move to. At 8m it can hear any talking from players, and will set a waypoint there too! The third thing is hella cool with the line of sight mechanic! The player model is broken up into 2 sections (upper and lower body), each with 3 flags. If a ghost sees all 3 flags in one of these sections, they have line of sight and will move directly to you! WHICH YOU CAN USE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE! IF YOUR HIDING SPOT HAS LIKE YOUR HAND OR FOOT OR HEAD STICKING OUT, THE GHOST TECHNICALLY WONT HAVE SEEN YOU! I also think crouching while running from a ghost is prolly best? Cos if you get behind something as you go to a hiding spot, you are breaking line of sight with both sections of your character, not just one or the other! This only really is effective tho cos crouching in phasmo doesn't have a speed penalty? Its only downside is that you just cant reach counter tops?
If you break line of sight to my understanding the ghost will move to your last seen position! It is FASCINATING! Line of sight has some other interesting mechanics too! The base speed of most ghosts is 1.7m/s, but they do speed up when they have line of sight over the course of 13 seconds, capping at 2.72m/s for ghosts that start at the normal speed! For reference, the average speed of a player with a perfect cycling between walking and running is 2.125m/s so it is IMPORTANT to break line of sight asap because you cannot escape any ghost like this... except Deogen (Dutch jumpsscare also! Based on the Flemish "De Ogen" (The Eyes)!) which has a speed of 0.6m/s with line of sight, but at the catch that you can't hide from it even when you are hiding it has line of sight with you so the strat is to outrun them. ANYWAY THAT WAS MY RAMBLE I LOVE GAME MECHANICS SO MUCH- WHICH I KNOW... SHOCKER! THE LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGIST NUT LOVES LEARNING ABOUT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THINGS AND HOW THEY MANIFEST. CRAZYYYYYY VNSLJBNSLFJ