He'll walk outside the office from time-to-time, serving as a distraction to the player. Phantom Freddy returns with the same mechanic as in FNaF 3 in the category titled "FNAF 3", serving as a hallucination or distraction. He will appear faster, not only depending of his A.I level, but also if the office's temperature is too high, similar to how Freddy Fazbear will move faster the higher the heat of the office is.įreddy, along with the other animatronics, Toy or otherwise, appears to have been scrapped or otherwise lost completely in the thirty-year gap between games. If the player fails to make him disappear in time, Phantom Freddy will jumpscare the player forcing them to reset the ventilation. The player must shine him with the flashlight to make him disappear. In this installment, Phantom Freddy will begin to appear into the office over time. Phantom Freddy returns as a customizable enemy in Ultimate Custom Night. If Phantom Freddy was a spirit of a child, then he was most likely set free. Seemingly satisfied, all spirits leave.Īfter Night 6, the horror attraction burns down. After Night 5, the final cutscene is shown in which golden Freddy and the other spirits, now children again, corner their murderer until he enters Spring Bonnie, unwittingly "killing" himself, becoming Springtrap. In the cutscene after Night 1, Freddy is playable, and Afton dismantles him and later his friends. In later nights, he is powerful enough to disable all three, and can also be considered the most dangerous phantom because of this ability and his recurring appearances. He will then jumpscare the player a few moments later, disabling the audio, sound, or ventilation. If the player fails to do this while Phantom Freddy is wandering, he will duck down, completely removing himself from the player's sight. The player must be viewing either the Monitor or the Maintenance Panel until Phantom Freddy finishes walking across the length of the window to avoid triggering his jumpscare. Phantom Freddy's silhouette will randomly appear to walk across the window in front of the player. However, as the nights go by, he gains enough power to disable all three systems. He attacks the player throughout the nights along with his fellow spirits but without any luck killing him. Since Freddy is a spirit, he is unable to kill the player, despite his ability to jumpscare the player. However, Freddy does actually return, not in the Freddy torso and head, but as an antagonistic phantom or spirit that still stalks the player. In one of the trailer photos, what looks like a broken down, unfinished Freddy can be seen as just a torso and head. 1.3 Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted.