Hi,
I’m just thinking about if different graphic settings makes phantom more visible. I have everything at high settings when i am right (at least default one) and for me its nearly unpossible to see phantom when their is a little bit action on the screen.
Are their already some tricks to make him more visible. Not that I am the only one playing with the worst settings for phantom ^^
And wow, yesterday I saw the first time a phantom with less kills than deaths!!! So his abilities are not OP! 
opinion/ I never considered phantom OP, even when I didn’t own him. /opinion
Some tips I have for you after playing quite a bit with and against Phantom:
He’s meant to eat up squishy mercs like Kira, Proxy, Aura, Sparks, even Vassili if he has the chopper perk, when you play as 'em keep alert as hell.
Phantom is more noticeable when he’s moving so yeah, keep your eyes peeled, even look behind you from time to time.
He gets the drop on you, but hasn’t killed you and you’re playing one of the aforementioned mercs? Run, run like hell, Phantom is slower than all the above mercs, get some distance between you two and then shoot him, if not at least you didn’t die.
Always keep moving to screw with his aim, jump like mad if he hits you, if you’re up against a wall you can end up behind him and he won’t be expecting that, trust me on that.
His refractive armor most of the time blocks lethal damage, it’s intended like that, if you see him and he’s running for you, switch to your secondary, get rid of his armor, and if you’re playing a merc with a shotgun, switch back to your primary and blast his face with the shotgun once he’s visible.
Heartbeat sensors are tearing him apart because they disable his refractive armor completely, if you got a Vassily on your team you better hope, or kindly ask him to spam it.
Don’t expect an easy fight even if it goes down to him going ranged, most of the time the players playing him are awful at shooting because they didn’t expect you to see them and panic, use that to your advantage, don’t close the gap between you two but know that you’ve got the upper hand. Keep shooting him but turn backwards so as to not let him get close.
Automated fire also tears his Armor apart, his armor works kinda like this “Block a lot of damage but go down, or block a little damage and go down slower” reason why it is better to spray him with bullets, even if they do close to no damage and then deliver a devastating blow. He can survive airstrikes/artillery blasts and it even gives him time to get out of Kira’s Orbital strike without a scratch if he’s quick enough, not to mention that his armor can block headshots from Vassily but it goes down after that.
If you got headphones I’m sure that you can start hearing him because his armor makes a noise whenever he’s invisible.
Dunno if these are tips or not, but keeping these things in mind might save your life a few times, I know it saved mine. Also this is pretty much what I found out about him from my own experience.
I agree with above’s point 3…i have found that if i see him first and i am not in a position to fight (aka Vassili)…running away to avoid the heavy melee attack has saved my hide more than once
After few days playing as and against Phantom I can say that something will be probably done to tone him down.
Visual disturbance caused by the cloak and sound it generates its easy to miss especially with gun fire and explosions around you.
The most reasonable would be remove the ability of the cloak to soak damage. He should depend on smart play not tanking. It’s too easy to close a gap between a player with a katana out face on even while being shot at.
Also another thing which most likely won’t happen is to change the stab animation. As it is now, its way to easy its to land a stab with katana. The stab animation is too long which allows you to correct even if you fail to aim properly. Not to mention that you can impale more than one target with one stab.