First let's just say, this game is a win and an absolute blast to play. There's not a lot of maps and content out for it just yet but there is a lot to unlock to push forward. With the lack of any type of ranking system, matchmaking can and will prove to be a heavy task for casual players as you'll be put against players who have everything unlocked!
That said, don't let this sway you from the game. Mayo is here to tell you, how to kick the game up a notch, have a blast and beat those better players... If you lose, you'll have an epic time doing so instead of feeling hopeless, so follow along and make sure to catch live game play over at my Twitch or check my walk throughs being made right now at my YouTube.
So let's dive right in and see what's going on over here. The first thing I'll do is throw out the most important tips if you're just itching to dive right in and want to feel it all yourself, use these few quick tips to do just that but make sure to swing back by the twitch and YouTube to see what else is going on ๐ ๐.
First thing diving right in, select your job and before you ready up, push the up on your D-Pad to select your preference to play, Ghostbuster, Ghost or no preference. This will allow you to possibly be your preference. Currently a lot of new players have no clue so there's not many ghost players, use this time to unlock everything on your ghost.
Not ready to do pvp? Instead of using quick match, select specific jobs. You'll still get experience, unlocks, mission progress and everything else from a pvp but you'll be playing with bots. As a Ghostbuster, havin bots on your team is actually good. They work as a team, they have a good programmed brain so wipe out rifts nearly instantly and will also catch ghosts. As a ghost, this might suck and lead you to pvp where your rifts will be harder to find, you can trick survivors away from rifts and stand a chance to level up faster.
Now that you're in a match, there's a lot going on, let's tackle ghost here first since it appears to be the hardest, but it isn't. As ghost your goal is to haunt the building and stay alive after to win. Seems simple, nope but I'll help it be simple here.
Find a small room, break everything in it. Hide in an object and swing to exit and it will both jump scare a survivor and or Ghostbuster and slime them. Two things in one go. A Ghostbuster with fear cannot calm survivors, and makes them more susceptible to ghost haunts. What's this mean? If you haunt items they make a sound and help slime things. If a Ghostbuster has high fear they will get slimed/damaged and downed just by hearing you, your haunted items or being near them. So haunt items to both scare survivor's and busters while raising the haunt of the building.
Now I said a small room, why? You don't want to haunt a little bit of everything, you do not need to truly haunt every inch of the map, nope! Haunt 100% of any room and get a huge bonus to your 100% building haunt. Somewhere between 2-3 rooms, pending map, will fully haunt a building even if tons of survivors are left. You can slowly max a rooms gaunt by simply hiding in it forever but that's boring. If you love to camp, this strategy is for you. On the other hand, hiding to refuel energy, a must, you can haunt that room out. Remember to haunt other items to both throw busters off the trail while gaining that haunt boost!
Now you fantastic spectral slurm slinging spirit, go out and haunt your best. Remember, you can turn off busters traps, break their traps, rehide your rifts even while they're under attack and roll around the map while in posession of anything. So posess everything, move around the map largely unnoticed while in posession of items to hold and recover your energy and provide a shield if they have found you. Move the item next to another item and quickly posess the next item directly from your current posession๐คฎ๐ฑ๐ฑ.
Take advantage of hiding in items, using your right trigger to jump from an item and swing both hitting and scaring the buster or survivor for increased fear bonuses plus bonus xp! Hide your rifts in tiny items that you then posess and move into crevices busters cannot find. If in the bar, hide your rifts in the surveillance cameras at the top corners of rooms, they don't look there until after reading this or watching my YouTube! I've won every single game by hiding rift here, plus on respawn via rift, you're in the air and not possibly right in another busters face, ughh. That always sucks. Read my buster tips to know what else to be on the lookout for and use my strategies to both maximize fun while maximizing your win ratios.
Winning isn't everything, let's have the most fun here, but let's be honest, winning makes it that much more fun, so checkout all I have and if you have anything to add, please do! Let's maximize the fun, wins and learning of all to have the absolute best time we can!
Busters, this is for you. There is so much going on that this can feel impossible and if the ghost you're facing has read my blog and watched my YouTube videos or my live twitch, yikes, you're in for a rough run. Not impossible to beat but it's going to be rough. Let's make it the least rough we can currently. You've got a lot to unlock. Let's start here.
When first playing, rush around maps to pickup fungus and hidden clips that are the size of fungus. They serve no useful purpose outside of obtaining xp very quickly to get leveled up fast! This will be the quickest way to maximize levels for all players before diving into spirit or buster, buster! While doing that you will also get a single daily mission, weekly mission to do to get extra xp, plus unlock gadgets for your gear, or clothing customization.
Outside of the daily and weekly there's a folder for side gigs, do them! They'll help unlocks more xp, gear and customizations. You also get research projects in the office in the top of the station, you can run them all together. Giving you plenty of things to do. The one I'm most hyped about is the RTV kit for traps. Pre order got it with zero work, wack. The rest of us have to work for it. No worries, you'll get everything pretty quickly.
Now, to get those research projects you've got to level everything up. Traps get leveled only by catching ghosts in your own trap, however, don't be stingy, you've got plenty of other things to unlock. Don't force losses trying to ensure it's your trap, you can play VS bots and do this quickly.
The top tip, when you tether a ghost, the first person tethering controls the movement! Say it with me, the first person who tethers, controls where the ghost loves, no one else. The other tethers control how hard the ghost has to work to break that tether. Now, if you each time it right, when the firstly tether breaks, the second now controls movement etc and so on. If you're all tethered on close to the same time, it'll just break for all and you'll have to retether before the ghost bails.
Now that's out of the way, let's talk rifts. If you don't get rid of them, the long process of catching that slurm chucking spirit is going to suck even more because they'll respawn 3 more times out of rifts. Find those and break them quick. The ghost will, if smart, come turn off your proton pack, snatch their rift and run like hell to rehide it. Placing your traps around the back of each other near the rift and when the ghost comes to stop you, they'll fall into your trap making a free catch while busting that rift. Yes it's possible, I've done it on both sides live on Twitch๐ ๐ ๐ .
Keep your fear down, and stay with your team. Unless you're going against a brand new ghost or very very lucky, you're not going to 1 v 1 or even 2 v 1 a ghost. Have teams of2, run that ghost into your other group and hit them hard and fast that way you're not stuck running the entire map playing an endless game of chase and hide and seek. That can be a boring nightmare.
Find a room with the ghost with only one exit? Don't rush in or alert the ghost you're there, mark near the room to alert the team to move in. Marking the ghost alerts the ghost and proximity mic means the ghost can hear you if nearby. Epic move on the game devs part until you account for console parties and discord to make it irrelevant but let's pretend you use in game chat like the rest of us ๐ฏ. Marking an area near to setup to run the ghost out to the team while you create a wall to catch them works every ๐๐ฟ single ๐๐ฟ time ๐๐ฟ.
Look in bushes, tops of areas, etc to find hidden rifts, any ghost who's played more than 5 games hides their rifts. Get rid of them asap and then hunt the ghost. Skip consoling people unless you must and if you must, only 1 scout on the team should do it while the others stay prepared for a smart ghost to interrupt for max scare bonus.
Rush those rifts! I cannot stress this enough, rush the rifts, rush the rifts, rush the rifts. Rifts gone puts the game in your favor fully. A ghost has no worries until there are no rifts remaining, then the ghost has to stress. Working as a team is a must, if you can not do that, play with bots, they're great teammates!
Once everyone follows my guides they'll be max level in no time and wreaking havock, ensure that's you!
Any tips you've found, let's us know on Twitch or YouTube and drop a comment, let's discuss it and be the best busters and ghosts out here.
Thanks for following along, I wish you many fun games! I'm having a blast, you should too!