Do you have a place to discuss and learn about strats and stuff? I would like to get into speedrunning this game but I'm trying to find a place to learn stuff and talk to other people running the game. Maybe it would not hurt to make one idk?

Is there a speedrunning discord?

Yeah the candle smudge is really good and essential when you got those 2 objectives because you can one trip all your objectives but we have been using this strat for months XD, you can see the strat being used on the trio tanglewood board WR :)

Phasmophobia has been decompiled many times and we have a very clear idea of how the game runs and works. You are questioning the legitimacy of runs because of mods and cheats being able to force events and interactions. We have many tools to be able to tell a cheated run apart from a valid run (end game board, audio cues, visual cues, activity board, etc). In almost all cases these forced interactions and events have flaws in them that lead to the discovery of these cheats and mods. There have been many cheated runs that use these mods/cheats and we have caught them due to this. I don't think that "even when we cant see them" is a flaw in our methods of verification. We know how the game works very well, we don't even need to see it, although in most cases we actually do.

While we are always open to suggestions on how to better our standard and integrity. We are very glad and grateful that the phasmophobia community is a very nice, honest, and welcoming community. We don't often have an overwhelming amount of illegitimate and cheated runs. :)

I think this was brought up before, I believe it would be too similar to 200%.