We're extremely excited to announce that with patch v4.5.0 comes one of the biggest updates to Deceit that has happened in a long time, and the first of many to come this year. Without further ado, let's get into it...
Challenge System
Overview
Challenges are composed from a set of tasks that, when completed, allow players to earn a variety of rewards including XP & rare Emblem unlocks. Starting with this update we'll be rolling out daily challenges, with further expansions planned for the near future. Challenges can be viewed, and activated, from the main menu. Once in-game, players can check what challenges they have active by using the 'Q' menu.
Challenge Slots
Starting from the moment you first play Deceit, players will unlock slots to place their challenges in. There are a total of 6 slots that one can unlock through levelling up, with the last slot being made available at level 50. In order to progress a challenge you must first activate it, putting it into an empty slot. Players can also opt to deactivate a challenge to free up that slot back up again. Deactivating a challenge will clear any progress made on it and will return it to the set of available challenges.
Challenge Types
There are two types of challenges, single and double. Single challenges are the most basic version, simply complete the set of tasks within the challenge to earn the reward. With double challenges there's a little more to it, tasks are split into "Innocent" and "Infected" sections. Tasks in these sections can only be progressed when you're playing as the associated team. Once you've completed the tasks under one team you're able to hand in the challenge to earn that team's rewards. Happen to prefer the other team's rewards? No problem. Completing both sides of the challenge enables you to choose which set of rewards you'd prefer.
Daily Challenges
Refreshing every day at midnight UTC, players will receive a collection of 8 challenges ranging from easy difficulty to very hard. These challenges are randomly generated from a set of tasks, combined to reach the required difficulty.
Provided you meet the required level, dailies can be activated from the main menu. This allows you to progress it and ensures it won't expire. Dailies that aren't activated will automatically expire at midnight, removing them from your list of available challenges. If you deactivate a challenge and it has passed its expiry time it will also be automatically removed.
Each daily has a randomly generated set of rewards with harder challenges offering better rewards. These currently include:
XP
GM Credits
Loot Booth Tokens
Challenge Chips
Along with the above there is also a unique emblem available to be unlocked per each challenge difficulty. The rarity of these emblems are as follows:
Easy - 1/100
Medium - 1/150
Hard - 1/200
Very Hard - 1/250
Challenge Chips
Challenge chips allow you to perform a set of actions on your daily challenges. You'll earn one of these per day, at the same time as your daily challenge regeneration, capping at 5. These can also be earned from challenges, earning them this way allows you to temporarily break the cap. Once you've got a challenge chip you can use it from within the main menu's challenge interface in order to:
Share - All other players in your game will automatically help you progress your challenges for you. You will still get the full reward from the challenge.
Boost - Automatically complete a challenge but only earn 50% of the XP reward and nothing else.
Reroll - Generate a replacement challenge with the exact same difficulty and expiry time.
Extend - Add 24h to the expiry time of the challenge.
Easter Event - Coming Next Week
Soon the Easter Bunny will be passing through to do their yearly collection of Easter eggs. Whilst they're here players will be able to acquire an array of new Easter-themed rewards through earning Easter points from finding eggs in-game, challenge rewards & the loot booth.
On top of the above we'll be using the new challenge system to bring those that opt into purchasing an Event Pass a brand new Easter storyline to be played through. As players progress along the story they will earn new, limited time, Easter-themed rewards, as well as extra Easter points to spend.
Those participating can expect to be able to acquire a hopping mad Yeti, Nina after a chocolate eating contest, Chang on the Easter Bunny's shoulders, and so much more. We'll also be putting the previous year's Easter cosmetics into the loot booth for players to obtain again.
Make sure you get online during the 2 week long event to grab what you can!
Patch Notes
Challenge stats have been added to the player profiles.
The character you're currently playing as is now shown at the bottom left of the screen.
Further improved our ability to identify, and debug, live server issues.
The Russian, Brazilian & Portuguese languages have been updated. Many thanks to the support from our community translation team for helping with this.
Added a Brazilian queue for matchmaking.
Bug Fixes
Player nametags will no longer overlap with the "Give Rep" screen at the end of the game.
Scanner results on the End of Round screen will now be accurate.
Resolved an issue that caused matchmaking to occasionally completely stop working. As part of this the matchmaking logic has been adjusted, resulting in slightly better matching.
New players will now correctly start at level 1, instead of 0.
Patch Notes - 19.03.2020
Chinese Servers
Today we're releasing an update to the Chinese region. We've noticed a large proportion of games in China fail to start and so we've updated our server infrastructure to support another cloud provider, this should allow for better connectivity for Chinese players.
Russian Localisation
We've improved our Russian translation.
Easter Event
We will be releasing an Easter event soon, stay tuned for more info next week!
Patch Notes - 12.03.2020
Server Infrastructure Improvements
Over the past few updates, we have been reworking our backend infrastructure in order to support a larger number of players online concurrently. You may have noticed over the past week that during certain periods of the day, you would be stuck on "Game Found" when attempting to queue for a game. This was normally due to there not being enough dedicated game servers available to deal with the number of games being started, and our infrastructure was not scaling quickly enough to deal with the demand. This update brings a overhaul of the infrastructure providing dedicated game servers, with the aim of improving the reliability and speed of starting games. We will be able to start more games concurrently and have the ability to scale faster than before.
General
Cosmetics introduced in seasonal events will now display the release year & type of event that they came from. This can be seen in your cosmetics tab within your profile.
First time players will be randomly assigned a preferred character instead of being defaulted to Alex.
Added a new detection method to the anticheat and further refined existing methods.
Bug Fixes
FIXED - Players can instantly place a trap down by performing an animation cancel.
FIXED - Redistribution users can pick up exploded traps.
FIXED - Terrors can perform multiple executions without the required amount of blood.
FIXED - Players downed in the gas gain blood from Revitalise when they are automatically revived.
FIXED - Character cosmetic changes in the main menu aren't replicated to other party members.
FIXED - Switching preferred characters in the main menu results in other party members seeing the default cosmetics for your new character.
FIXED - Players in-queue are incorrectly transitioned to 'Game Found' before a server is ready for them to use.
v4.4.0 - New Perks, Season Reset & Anticheat
Hey all,
Firstly we'd like to thank everyone that participated in our event to celebrate Deceit's 3rd birthday. A whopping 36,000 players showed up throughout the day with about 15% of you earning the now not-so-secret emblem! For those that didn't quite manage to work out how to collect it, you needed to win 3 games back-to-back. Now, onto the patch notes...
New Perk Tree & Season Reset
This update marks the start of a new in-game season bringing a brand new perk tree to complete and resetting in-game ranks. The new tree contains a set of 5 new perks as well as 2 new emblems to unlock.
New Innocent Perks
Solar Powered - Torches slowly recharge when the lights are on.
Speedy Recovery - Health packs also instantly heal for 25 upon pickup.
Spotting - Trackers can now be placed on blood bags, showing an outline of the blood bag's state. This tracker displays only to you and is destroyed upon taking damage.
Redistribution - You're able to pick your traps back up again.
New Infected Perk
Revitalised - Gain half a slice of blood when revived by an innocent player.
For the eager amongst you, the next season reset is currently earmarked for the 2nd of April. We'll confirm exactly when a bit closer to the time.
Anticheat
We're happy to announce that with patch v4.4.0, we'll be rolling out our first iteration on anticheat. This initial version will highlight any suspicious activity directly as part of our player report viewing tool. Alongside this, activity that we're confident to classify as cheating will result in automatic permanent bans. Dealing with cheaters will be an ongoing task but we anticipate that this will be a good step towards improving our in-game experience.
General
When reporting a player you will no longer see your name as an option.
Restricted the amount of XP available to be earned per-game through lethal injecting players, antidoting players, casting votes or placing traps.
Silhouettes for blood bags now disappear when you're close to them.
The unlit birthday cake emblem now describes how it was obtained.
Made a minor performance improvement to our backend server.
Replaced one of the guaranteed torch spawns in the first zone with a spawn that randomises between a torch and a tracker.
Bug Fixes
FIXED - The ranked progress UI element on the main menu has non-translated text.
FIXED - The server crashes when invalid data is sent to it in a specific way.
FIXED - Games where players earn 0 XP are occasionally not displayed in the match history.
v4.3.6 Patch Notes
After our release last Thursday we rolled out a hotfix to address some bugs. The patch notes for that release are below.
FIXED - The ranked button is greyed out on first load for players who meet all the requirements to play ranked.
FIXED - Viewing characters for offline players doesn't always load their cosmetics.
FIXED - Party members remain hidden after viewing your cosmetics for your characters.
FIXED - After viewing another player's terror skin and then leaving their profile your cosmetics aren't re-loaded.
Our 3rd Birthday!
On March 3rd 2017 Deceit came out of the early-access womb and became a fully released game on Steam. This means that today is our 3rd birthday, and we want to celebrate with you!
For today only, test subjects will receive double XP whilst playing Deceit, and taking part in our birthday celebrations will unlock you a new emblem. For the more dedicated deceivers there is a second emblem to be unlocked today, however we're leaving that to you to figure out.
Additionally, some of the developers will be hopping on at some point throughout the day to celebrate with the community.
The event will run from Midnight March 3rd to Midnight March 4th GMT.
Happy Birthday to us, and a massive shout out to everyone who's played Deceit over the years!
Thanks,
The Baseline Games Team
Patch Notes - 27.02.2020
Hey everyone,
Today we’ll be releasing the below update in combination with a day long event to celebrate Deceit’s third birthday! Players that join in with the deception on 03/03/2020 GMT will receive double XP and earn a new emblem from playing a game of Deceit. For the more dedicated deceivers we’ve got an extra emblem unlock that can also be unlocked, although you’ll have to work out how to earn it!
One final note before we move onto the patch notes, we’ll be resetting the season next Thursday (05/03/2020).
Patch Notes
Players can now update their in-game names by clicking on their name at the top-right in the main menu. Whilst in this interface you can also choose to reset back to your current steam name. All new players will be defaulted to their steam name.
If Steam experiences downtime players that have recently opened Deceit will now be able to continue to play.
Players using ranked reward tokens will no longer receive duplicate items provided they haven’t already earned the whole set for that token.
Resolved an issue that caused casual game matchmaking to ignore a player’s prestige level.
Resolved a bug where players would be stuck on “Game Found” despite having been returned to the queue.
Added in-game feedback for when players fail to connect to the game server.
The top-left server select information should now appear faster when you enter the main menu.
Resolved an issue causing the in-game client version number to not change.
Further optimised the loading of player profiles when first opening the client.
Both the Werewolf and the Vampire DLCs have been made non-refundable due to them containing consumable products.
Players that are banned will no longer be shown in the hiscores.
Players that are banned at the end of the ranked season will no longer receive rewards.
Further improved our backend in-game report viewing tools.
Cosmetics within the profile are now ordered from rarest to most common.
Added a toggle to hide unowned cosmetics in your profile.
Expanded the hiscore rank box to stop it truncating the number.
Deceit user IDs can now be seen when hovering over a player’s name in their profile.
Clicking twice on a cosmetic will now equip it.
The name of your currently selected terror will now show at the start of the game.
Improved the clarity of the report button on the end of game screen.
Replaced the side-scroll settings in the in-game settings and player report screens with dropdowns.
Profiles for offline players will now fully load if you try to view them.
The ranks for hiscores now update every 15 minutes.
Fixed some instances of in-game names being shown without being decoded.
Fixed a bug that caused your characters to load in when attempting to view another player’s profile.
Patch Notes - 20.02.2020
Today we will be releasing the following patch.
Patch Notes
Resolved an issue that caused noticeable lag when attempting to change anything stored on your player’s backend profile.
The Lethal Injection now has a red tip on the model to differentiate it from the Antidote.
Fixed several levers that couldn’t be destroyed in the Arctic and Mansion maps.
Infected players that are momentarily still in their Terror Form when the lights come back on will no longer have their nametag shown.
Added more loading screen states when initially opening the game. This will help us narrow down the causes of the “Failed to load profile” issue that some players experience.
Fixed a bug that caused “Failed to load profile” to show whilst the profile is still loading.
Fixed a bug that made it look like you had signed into another account.
Players can no longer crouch under objects in order to stop terrors from executing them.
Added support for notifications to be persisted across server restarts.
Added support for notifications to be sent to offline players for when they next log-in.
Implemented the ability for us to notify in-game players of events such as server restarts using the notification system.
Players will now receive in-game feedback if a player that they reported had action taken against them. New notifications for actioned reports will only be sent once a player has read any previous notifications regarding their reports.
Rolled out several features to our backend tools in order to help improve reviewing in-game reports from players.
Added several new metrics in order to help us resolve issues that present themselves when we have a lot of players online.
Optimised some aspects of the initial authentication process when you open the game.
Players will now see their personal rank in the hiscores even if they’re not in the top 10.
Fixed a game crash that happened when we restarted our backend server.
Improved match handling when there are an increased number of players online, this should resolve issues with games not starting promptly.
Re-enabled giving penalties for dodging games.
Patch Notes - 02.02.2020
Today at approximately 3pm GMT we will be releasing the following patch.
Patch Notes
The ranked season has been reset.
A fresh perk tree has been added containing 2 new emblems to unlock and 3 returning perks from a long time ago. The ‘new’ perks are:
Escape Artist - It takes 25% less time for the escape door to open if you’re the one to interact with it
Tread Lightly - Terrors see your position for less time when they detect your movement
Heightened Senses - Terror sense highlights Innocents every 4 seconds instead of 5
Modified how users are loaded on the server to attempt to rectify issues with users losing items from the shop.
Fixed some issues around detecting when players are dodging games.
Improved the messaging on a fuse box once it is full.
Fixed a couple of item spawns in the Forest map.
Fixed ‘ghost’ players appearing in the main menu after switching parties.
Players that aren’t the host of a party can now invite their friends to join the party.
The player count at the top left now shows players online instead of players in-game.
Improved our back-end tools for reviewing in-game player reports.
Thanks,
The Baseline Team
Patch Notes - 5 January 2020
Patch Notes
The Christmas event has been removed.
Added a FoV slider to the settings allowing users to choose a value between 40 and 110.
Increased the maximum value of the in-game voice volume slider up to 200 and made the default value 150 for new players. Existing players are recommended to adjust their current values to improve the voice quality.
Resolved a bug that caused severe authentication and queuing issues as seen at the start of the Christmas event.
Raised several spawn points in the game summary screens to stop certain poses clipping with the floor.
Fixed an issue with being unable to queue again after a game was cancelled.
Improved the notifications and messaging for when you are unable to queue.
Update on Ranked Season Length
Based on feedback, we've decided that we will not be changing the season length from 1 to 3 months in this update. We are first working on new ranked rewards, which we expect to roll out from the end of the March season. We’ve been working on changes to the queue dodging system, and these will be rolling out over the course of this month.
See you in-game! The Baseline Team
Christmas 2019 In-Game Event
Christmas Event: Festive Extravaganza
With the festive season in full swing, we're happy to announce the release of our Christmas Event along with several quality of life changes. During the event you’ll be able to earn a wide variety of unique cosmetic seasonal rewards whilst deceiving in our festively decorated maps!
How to gain the new rewards: Want to go after all the exclusive Christmas rewards? All you need to do is play Deceit as you normally would, and the XP you gain turns into Christmas Event points; earn enough and you’ll unlock some sweet rewards. Fret not, all XP boosts will also increase the amount of points you earn!
Lastly, there will be a special loot booth token available during the holiday. Each loot booth reward comes with a number of Christmas event points based on its tier, meaning that even common unlocks can help you chase down those legendary Christmas rewards.
What are the new rewards? This year’s event rewards are visible on the event screen which is available in the top left of the main menu. You can also use this to track your progress towards the next reward and your overall progress throughout the event.
The rewards and their costs are as follows: ‘Christmas Tree’ Emblem - 750 points Wreath Wristband - 3,750 points ‘Poorly’ Hans - 9,500 points ‘Be Quiet’ Rachel Victory Pose - 17,250 points ‘Antler’ Weapon - 26,750 points ‘Under the Mistletoe’ Emblem - 35,250 points ‘Red Velvet’ NiNa - 47,500 points ‘Candle’ Pistol - 75,000 points ‘Cornrows’ & ‘Onesie’ Lisa - 100,000 points ‘Passed Out’ Chang Defeat Pose - 150,000 points ‘On Santas Shoulders’ Alex - 300,000 points ‘Krampus’ Werewolf - 500,000 points ‘Christmas Bunny’ Emblem - 1,000,000 points
Christmas Tokens Christmas Tokens will replace normal tokens for the duration of the event in both level up rewards and through token purchases (they will not replace the tokens awarded from the Werewolf and Vampire Packs).
To spend Christmas Tokens simply go to the loot booth as normal and select a Christmas Token to give to the shady dealer.
Previous Christmas Rewards – In the loot booth for a limited time! In addition to these rewards, previous Christmas seasons’ rewards will be available in the loot booth for the duration of the event when using a Christmas token! This gives you the chance to expand your inventory with a bunch of seasonal cosmetics available for a limited time only.
Patch Notes
Ranked games now give a 10% XP boost.
Dodging games before they start will result in a queue restriction preventing you from starting a new game for the next five minutes.
Improved resilience of game results counting through server restarts.
Players can no longer get infinite uses of the antidote by interacting with the escape door mid-revive.
All of the maps have been redecorated to celebrate the Christmas period.
The lobby within the Asylum has undergone some repairs and its roof has returned.
Removed phantom pumpkin lights scattered across several maps.
Players will now receive feedback after sending an in-game friend request.
Players will now receive feedback when inviting friends to their party.
Fall damage has been removed from the game.
Item pickups and blood bags now require you to have direct line of sight in order to interact with them. As a result of this several item spawns have been moved.
The interaction range for blood bags has been increased to match that of items.
The doors from the central staircase to the middle floor on the Asylum have been removed to enable easier use of the staircase.
Some notifications icons on the main menu have been made more obvious.
Several map issues have been resolved thanks to the informative videos from user collowollo.
The balloon sword now uses the correct model in-game.
Players can no longer add themselves as friends.
Over the past few weeks we’ve worked on upgrading the server infrastructure behind Deceit. This has resulted in games starting much quicker and being less prone to failure when starting up.
Patch notes from update 2019/12/22:
Fixed several material issues with the ‘Krampus’ terror skin.
Fixed the ‘Krampus’ skin glowing bright white when affected by light items.
Fixed the ‘Be Quiet (Rachel)’ and ‘Passed Out (Chang)’ poses not having props.
Users who attempt to purchase items in the shop and get stuck on a “Processing” screen will now be notified that they need to enable the Steam Overlay in order to proceed.
Some item spawn points in the Arctic, Asylum & Forest maps have been moved so that they can be interacted with.
The dodging detection system has been made more lenient whilst we work on improving its detection method.
Soon the Easter Bunny will be passing through to do their yearly collection of Easter eggs. Whilst they're here players will be able to acquire an array of new Easter-themed rewards through earning Easter points from finding eggs in-game, challenge rewards & the loot booth.
