Phasmophobia: How To Unlock The Point Hope Hidden ID Card & Badge (2024)

With the introduction of Point Hope to Phasmophobia in mid-2024, developer Kinetic Games included a complex puzzle that urges players to light the lantern of the lighthouse and receive a hidden ID Card and Badge style to customize their profile. Since its release as early access in 2020, Phasmophobia has received several additional maps to help it hunt ghosts, including the Prison and Sunny Meadows Asylum. The newest map is unlike anything in the game so far. With ten floors stacked vertically, Point Hope lighthouse in Phasmophobia provides new ghost-hunting challenges--and new secrets to uncover.

In Phasmophobia, rewards for completing holiday events, prestige, and contributing to game development usually include a new ID Card and Badge. ID cards in Phasmophobia allow players to set their character model and other players' voice chat levels and to see each player's name, platform, and level. Badges can be equipped with an ID Card to display a player's in-game role. Commemorating the launch of the new map, if players can solve the lantern puzzle at Point Hope in Phasmophobia, they will receive a new ID Card and Badge that dubs them Ferryman of the Drowned.

Complete the Puzzle to Unlock a New Style

To solve the Point Hope Lighthouse puzzle in Phasmophobia and unlock the Ferryman of the Drowned ID Card and Badge, players will need to begin an investigation on the Point Hope map. Because identifying the ghost and completing the investigation is unnecessary, it may be a good idea to create a custom difficulty in which the ghost never hunts,s and the breaker begins turning on so there is enough light to see around the map. However, for more experienced ghost hunters, the puzzle can be completed during an active ghost investigation on any of the existing difficulty settings.

Nearly everything required to complete the Phasmophobia Point Hope puzzle can be found within the lighthouse itself. However, players will want to have a UV lamp in their loadout, as it is required equipment for completing the puzzle. Tier level does not matter, as all three UV Lamps offered in the in-game shop will work. Players will also need at least one empty inventory slot.

Step 1: Play a Game of Pool

Once at Point Hope, equipped with a UV lamp, navigate to the fourth floor of the lighthouse. This is a game room, and players can find a billiards table on the far side of the stairs. On the wall by the stairs, make note of the three paintings of seashells that seem somewhat out of place from the rest of the decor. From left to right, the shells are green, blue, and orange. This is the first clue, and it corresponds to which colored pool balls players will need to sink into the pool table's holes and in which order.

It is not necessary to use a cue, though there are a few in the room. Instead, using their empty inventory slot, players can pick up each pool ball in color order (Default E on PC) and toss it into any of the holes (Default G on PC). For best results, try to throw the ball into a hole across the table, and aim slightly high to ensure it catches enough air.

If this step of the puzzle is completed correctly, players will hear a clinking sound and will find the Lantern Cabinet Key in the ball box of the billiards table. They will need to take the key for the next step. Similar to the car keys on Phasmophobia's small House maps, the Lantern Cabinet Key will appear in the player's Journal next to the building key.

Step 2: Repair the Lantern Cabinet Gears

Next, climb to the eighth floor of Point Hope, which looks like a workshop. Players can find a gear leaning on a cabinet near the workbench with all the paintbrushes and behind the spilled can of red paint on the floor. They will need to take the gear and climb one more set of stairs to the ninth floor. Around the staircase, creating a dead end, is a locked wooden cabinet with rusty gear on top.

Open the cabinet with the key obtained in the first step of the puzzle and insert the gear in the empty socket. The two gears should begin to turn and make three cracking sounds.

Step 3: Ring the Bell

Then, head back downstairs to the first floor and leave the building. On the way inside, there is a large bell in front of Point Hope. Players will need to ring this bell three times individually. To ring the bell, approach and press the Primary Use button (Default left-click on PC). A hissing sound will indicate this step has been performed correctly.

Step 4: Light the Lamp

Finally, climb back up to the top of Point Hope, the tenth floor, and exit onto the balcony. From this vantage point in the distance, past the truck, players should see the source of the hissing from the previous step: a fire near some rocks illuminating the letters "UV" written in the sand.

Back inside the lighthouse building, shine the UV Lamp on the giant lantern in the center of the room until it lights up purple and stays glowing. Then, head outside to see UV-lit bodies floating up from the water, illuminated in the lantern's light. This effect will remain until players leave the game.

Upon returning to the lobby, a notification will pop up with the message, Level Up! Unlocks: Ferryman of the Drowned. Choose Accept to close the pop-up and return to the game.

How To Change ID Card and Badge Motifs

Change Styles from the Main Menu or Lobby

Like other Phasmophobia ID Card and Badge motifs that players can receive for reaching higher prestige levels or completing seasonal events, there is no gameplay advantage to unlocking the Point Hope Ferryman of the Drowned Hidden ID Card and Badge.

Instead, it is a purely cosmetic enhancement that players can toggle on and off as desired. This also applies to the floating corpse effect at Point Hope, which does not affect the investigation.

To equip the Ferryman of the Drowned ID Card and Badge, select the bulletin board from either the Main Menu or the game lobby and choose the Edit button in the top-right corner of your player ID card.

Scroll through the options under Special Badges to find and select Ferryman of the Drowned. Then, under the ID Card Theme, choose Ferryman of the Drowned. Press the X in the corner of the ID card to apply the changes and close the Edit menu.

There is also a second ID Card and Badge reward related to Point Hope in Phasmophobia. However, to earn this one, players will not need to solve a puzzle. Instead, they will simply need to play on Point Hope and identify the ghost correctly 50 individual times. This will unlock the Lighthouse Keeper Special Badge and ID Card Theme.

Phasmophobia

Survival Horror

Puzzle

Platform(s)

PC , PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S

Released

September 18, 2020

Publisher(s)

Kinetic Games