We hope you’re all getting in the festive mood! Santa’s elves have come early and dropped off a box full of presents to the Game Master. The contents have inspired the creation of some new cosmetics that he’s now offering on to you…
Win these cosmetics through the Loot Booth by using limited time Christmas Tokens available in the Store. Alternatively, use those Credits that you’ve been collecting to directly unlock what you want from the Christmas Event Interface. If you’re running low on Credits, for the duration of the event all Daily Challenges will offer significantly more, or you can get packs of them in the Loot Booth.
Without further ado here are this years’ festive cosmetics:
Legendary [ 7200 Credits ]
Nutcracker Outfit (Chang)
Doll Outfit (Rachel)
Clockwork Outfit (Nina)
Toy Soldier (Alex)
LED Glasses (All Characters)
Foam Shot Pistol
Bell (Melee)
Smart Wristband
Rare [ 3600 Credits ]
Lockdown Outfit (Lisa)
Rulebreaker Outfit (Hans)
Nightmare Terror Skin (Vampire)
Party Blower Accessory
Coal Pistol
Cracker (Melee)
Santa Wristband
‘Feet Up’ Victory Pose (Rachel)
‘Stuck’ Defeat Pose (Hans)
Uncommon [ 1800 Credits ]
Meanie Terror Skin (Werewolf)
Red Nose
Snow Camo Pistol
Wine Bottle (Melee)
Snow Wristband
‘Can’t See You’ Victory Pose (Alex)
‘Pray’ Defeat Pose (Lisa)
Common [ 900 Credits ]
Christmas Tree (Spray)
Candy Cane (Spray)
Innocent Stocking (Spray)
Infected Stocking (Spray)
Gingerbread Man (Spray)
Ho Ho Ho (Spray)
Candy Cane (Emblem)
Snowflake (Emblem)
Smiley (Emblem)
In addition to this the Christmas 2019 cosmetics have been added to the Loot Booth Vault, which includes:
Cornrows Head (Lisa)
Ice Pack Head (Hans)
Thermometer Accessory (Hans)
On Santa's Shoulders Clothing (Alex)
Onesie Clothing (Lisa)
Red Velvet Clothing (Nina)
Sick Day Jumper Clothing (Hans)
Be Quiet Victory Pose (Rachel)
Passed Out Defeat Pose (Chang)
Wreath Wristband
Candle Pistol
Antler (Melee)
New Game Mode Next Week
In other exciting news, after months of development and testing we will be releasing our new gamemode next week. These changes refine the game’s structure from beginning to end, keeping things familiar, yet more polished and more friendly for new players. With this in place, we have a lot of content to come in 2021, including new items, objectives, characters and terrors. We’ll be posting much more about this update and the year ahead in the coming days, so stay tuned!
On Friday 11th December we'll be releasing our annual Festive Event! We've pulled out the toy box this year to bring a collection of new cosmetics for you to get your mittens on, including: Toy Soldier Alex, Doll Rachel, Lockdown Lisa, and so much more. All rewards will be obtainable with Christmas Tokens & GM Credits, and as such we will be boosting the GM Credit reward amounts from daily challenges whilst the event is active.
New Deceit Game Mode (Beta)
Behind the scenes we've been super busy on a major update to Deceit. We’ve previously run two exploratory beta tests with the community, and this week we have a third one coming up. The sessions will take place on Friday December 4th 8-11pm GMT and Saturday December 5th 12-3pm GMT.
This third instalment of changes takes on feedback from the previous tests, and is more refined. We think we’re very close to something that’s ready to go live, subject to your feedback! You can get involved and find out what has changed by joining our Discord and following the instructions for access.
We view this update as a level-up to the core of the game experience, which we will be building upon throughout 2021 and beyond. Once this new game mode hits live be sure to expect a plethora of content released in the following months. Including, but not limited to: new Items, Terrors, Abilities, Maps, Characters, and Objectives.
In other news, the December 2020 Ranked Season started today!
See you in-game, The Baseline Team
Patch 5.2.7
We've released a small client-side patch to address a few points with the Halloween event.
Improved how the Unchained Werewolf skin lights up at night
The Unchained Werewolf now uses the werewolf animations on the Halloween event scene
Minor improvements have been made to the Nina Medusa skin
A variety of instances of rare crashes have been patched
Translations have been updated
Halloween Chips & Points now show in the Loot Booth
In addition to this, the Werewolf & Vampire DLCs are now 40% off as part of the Steam Halloween sale!
Thanks, The Baseline Team
2020 Halloween Event
Hi everyone,
It's that time of year again!
We've got a spooky event in store for you. You'll be completing challenges to go through a nearby haunted house with a character of your choice. Along the way you'll be earning Halloween Points which you can use to unlock rewards. Once you've gone through the house you’re not done. Go in over and over again with any character you wish to find new paths through with different rewards each time. Share your route in the community Discord to try and piece together where all the points of interest are.
So, time for the really juicy stuff... The rewards for this years event are as follows:
Legendary [ 24000 Points Each ]
Unchained Werewolf
Medusa Outfit (Nina)
Mad Scientist Outfit (Hans)
Vampire Hunter Outfit (Chang)
Zombie Bride Outfit (Lisa)
Ghostly Wristband
Voodoo Doll (Melee)
Rare [ 8000 Points Each ]
Mobster Outfit (Rachel)
Murderer Outfit (Alex)
Bloody Glasses Accessory (Alex)
Skull Mask Accessory (Lisa)
Mummified Wristband
Pumpkin Skin Pistol
Cricket Bat (Melee)
Fly Away Victory Pose (Rachel)
Grave Defeat Pose (Alex)
Uncommon [ 2000 Points Each ]
Stone Wristband
Stone Pistol
Bone (Melee)
You're Next Victory Pose (Chang)
Backwards Crab Defeat Pose (Nina)
Common [ 500 Points Each ]
Bloody Hands Spray
Full Moon Spray
Happy Clown Spray
Sad Clown Spray
Pumpkin Spray
RIP Spray
Spider Web Emblem
Blood Droplet Emblem
Crawling Hand Emblem
All of these rewards can be acquired in any of the following ways:
Won directly from the Loot Booth with Halloween Tokens (now available from the Store)
Bought with Halloween Points that you've collected from the Event Interface
Bought with Credits from the Profile
In addition there are 6 Secret Emblems that you can unlock. Try and find out how to unlock them.
There are two bundles in the Store to help get you started in collecting the available cosmetics. These bundles contain the following:
Stash Access - as you earn points some additional points will go into your Stash, unlocking it will allow you to collect these points as you earn them
Halloween Tokens - which have a chance to instantly win event cosmetics
Halloween Chips - can be used to instantly complete challenges you don't fancy doing
Halloween Points - used to unlock event cosmetics of your choice from the Event Interface
Other bits:
During the event Credit packs in the Loot Booth have been replaced with Halloween Point Packs
Rare and Legendary Halloween Point packs will also give 1 and 2 Halloween Chips respectively
If you purchase the smaller of the two event bundles you can upgrade to the bigger one for the price difference
Halloween candy can be found in the map to earn Halloween Points
You can convert your Halloween Points into Credits if you wish during the event
There is a new slideshow tutorial that you can view by select Tutorial from the drop-up menu when hovering the Play button
The Zombie Hand Melee weapon animates once again
The ranked season has been reset today
Halloween 2019 cosmetics have been added to the Loot Booth Vault, which includes:
Circus Outfit (Chang)
Blessed Outfit (Alex)
Hit Squad Outfit (Lisa)
Day Of The Dead Outfit (Nina)
Ominous Victory Pose (Rachel)
Possessed Defeat Pose (Hans)
Candy Wristband
Relic Pistol
Balloon Sword (Melee)
In other news…
Thanks a lot to all of the community members who joined the Gameplay Beta last weekend. We had a lot of fun playing, and the feedback is helping to guide us in the right direction. For those of you still unsure, don’t worry, we’re still taking all of your feedback on board and there’s a lot more refinement to come. We’ll be back with Gameplay Beta 3 in November.
In addition to hopefully releasing the new gameplay changes into live, we have *a lot* of exciting things planned coming over the next few months. We are working on a lighting and optimisation rework for all of our maps: improving the visual experience, gameplay balancing and performance all at once! This winter we’ll be diving into the toybox and bringing back our beloved Christmas event, and as some of you beady-eyed deceivers have already theorised there will be some new friendly and not-so-friendly faces making their debut soon.
New Gameplay Beta 23rd & 24th October - sign up in Discord
Minor Game Update released
Halloween Event 2020 We’ll be starting our annual Halloween event on the 28th of October, alongside the ranked season reset. This year you’ll be completing challenges to explore a haunted house that’s filled with spooky rewards, including Mad Scientist Hans, Mobster Rachel, Medusa Nina, and much much more!
Gameplay Beta 2 We received a huge amount of useful feedback in our last gameplay beta, and we’ve made a lot of changes! We’re going to do our next one on the 23rd and 24th of October. If you’d like to take part react in Discord to the message in #get-roles for access to the beta channels.
In these latest changes we’ve reworked the new voting and vulnerable systems, and we’re trialling improvements to the way objectives, items and blood work. We hope to see you in-game soon!
16th October Update We've released a minor patch to improve the logic for reconnecting to our servers, and to provide an in-game notice of when Halloween is coming.
Patch Notes - 17.09.2020
General
Added a Default option for both input and output voice devices, when set to this, it will use the system default devices for voice input/output.
Adjusted how voice volume is handled to reduce the amount of distortion and peaking.
Upgraded the version of CryEngine we use to the latest public version, allowing us to re-enable some screen effects in-game.
Removed the physics proxy on the Escape Doors in the Asylum & Arctic maps to stop players from getting stuck behind them.
Fixed some map exploits & bugs on the Asylum, Arctic, Forest & Lumberyard maps.
The in-game UI will no longer be faded out if you open the Terror Selection window straight after waking up.
Updated our in-game translations thanks to our Community Translators.
New Cosmetics
All of these cosmetics can be obtained either with Credits or via the Loot Booth!
[Accessory] Monocle & Pipe (Hans)
[Hair] Lob (Rachel)
[Knife] Iron (All characters)
[Knife] Tazer (All characters)
Gameplay Update Beta - Coming Soon!
Throughout the year we've been working on designing, and testing, some fundamental adjustments to the way that Deceit is played. There are plenty of reasons behind why we're wanting to make these changes, but some of the standout ones are:
Making Deceit a more intuitive game.Whilst many of the mechanics in Deceit are quite simple to understand once explained, they're not always easy to grasp straight off the bat. A new player should be able to pick Deceit up and have fun without having to study the game first.
Setting Deceit up such that we can easily add more content.With how Deceit is structured right now it is quite hard for us to add new, exciting, content without it causing a balancing nightmare. We want to be able to quickly iterate on adding new and interesting content to the game, keeping it fresh and replayable for all players.
Increasing the opportunities for deception in-game.With how it currently stands, Deceit can quite quickly be 'solved' early on in the game. We want Deceit to hold up to its name and truly have deception tactics that can be used throughout the game.
So, where are we at right now? We're currently testing, and iterating, our first set of changes, loosely named the 'Flow' update. These changes are primarily targeting improving a player's first time experience, encouraging more discussion & deception and making voting more intuitive. So far our testing has primarily been purely within the development team, but we have recently started playing with some select members from the community to get their input. In the near future we'll be opening up testing these changes to a wider audience in order to get more feedback on the direction we're taking the game.
Interested in helping test & provide feedback on these changes? Join our Discord server to be kept in the loop about participating. We anticipate that these tests will start over the next week or two, pending on our internal tests.
See you in-game! The Baseline Team
Patch Notes v5.2.0
With this update the Deceit Summer Event has come to an end. We hoped you enjoyed your time away in the Spanish Riviera and got the rewards you wanted.
Change Log
Summer Tokens have been converted to Standard Tokens.
Summer Tickets have been converted into an amount of Standard Tokens and Credits depending on rarity.
Matchmaking now prioritises matchmaking parties of 2+ players with other parties of 2+ size in Casual queues.
Matchmaking now attempts to match players of each Rank with others of the same Rank. Prior to this change non-Diamond Ranked players would be matchmade with their hidden ELO.
The watch faces on the following wristbands have been updated: Alien, Carbon Fiber, Checkers, Lizard, Rusty, Toy and Wooden.
Players can now use the 'Q' menu to view objectives and mute players both whilst downed and dead.
A couple of map exploits in the Lumberyard have been fixed.
Some QoL fixes have been made to voice chat activation. This means players should be able to easily alternate between voice chats without releasing the previous chat's key.
Several crashes were fixed in small updates throughout last week.
Players that consistently dodge games will be met with increasingly longer queue timeouts. The length of the dodge timer will reset after a player hasn't dodged a game for a while.
[FIXED] Games containing less than 6 players will still start.
[FIXED] Players are able to 'dodge' the dodge timer.
[FIXED] Switching your Terror at the start of the game can cause you to change your equipped weapon.
[FIXED] Matchmaking prioritised finding a game for the player who had been in Q for the shortest, instead of longest.
[FIXED] Voice chat can get stuck 'on' at the start of a game.
See you in-game soon, The Baseline Team
v5.1.3 Patch Notes
First and foremost, a big thank you to everyone who has been playing and enjoying the summer event so far. The feedback has been great, and we're happy with the response we've received from the community. This week we bring to you a number of bug fixes, quality of life fixes, and a few new cosmetics purchasable from the profile.
New Cosmetics Coming as part of this week's updates are a collection of new Wristbands, Pistols, and Vampires, which can be purchased with Credits from the profile page in-game. These are:
Wristbands - Alien, Carbon Fiber, Checkers, Lizard, Rusty, Wooden, Toy
Vampires - Ghoul, Lemonade
DLC Sale This week up until Monday 10th August both the Vampire and Werewolf DLCs are on sale. If you're wanting a new way to terrorise your friends, or are looking to unlock the ranked mode in game, head on over to the store page for 25% off each DLC.
Patch Notes
FIXED: Female character's first person animations snap to the centre of the screen when switching to the pistol.
A new button has been added to the bottom of the profile page to mark all cosmetics as seen.
FIXED: End game poses always show the default pose
FIXED: Various crashes, including during the loot booth
There is now options in the settings menu to adjust your voice volume, and select your input device
The amount of credits and tickets you have are now displayed in the loot booth
Credit packs won in the loot booth will now show in the loot booth history (NOTE: History prior to this update will no longer show)
If a loot booth game finishes early, players will now receive a notification informing them of the items they won.
FIXED: Player outlines occasionally stop working after transforming
FIXED: Selected outfits occasionally reset to defaults
Translations have been updated (shout out to our community translators!)
Thanks,
The Baseline Team
2020 Summer Event
It's Summer time! When you next open the game you'll be greeted with a new interface to help you track your progress throughout the Summer event.
Summer Rewards First things first, the loot. This event there's 35 blisteringly hot new rewards to get your hands on, just be careful that you don’t burn yourself. Some of these rewards can be earned through our free Summer Getaway Story, and all of the rewards can be earned directly through the Loot Booth when using Summer Tokens (now available in the store). Grab as many rewards while you can, and if you're lucky enough to get everything there's even a special emblem waiting for you. There are three free Summer tokens waiting for you in game to help you get started.
Here is how the rewards break down for this event, with every character receiving a cosmetic outfit. Go into the Summer Event interface to see them in all their glory:
Summer Getaway Story We know you might be stuck inside right now, so we decided to bring the holiday to you. How about a well deserved break away in the Spanish Riviera? This event we’ve got a 25-step Challenge Story which changes based on the decisions you make. And get this, from start to finish it's free-to-play. Go to the Challenge interface in game to get started.
You'll notice as you progress through the story line that there are both free and Premium Rewards available. Premium Rewards will only be collected if you buy any Loot Booth pack during the event. Don’t worry if you pass premium rewards without having purchased a pack, if you choose to buy one later on you’ll collect all the ones you’ve missed.
Sizzler Bonus & Tickets The Summer Sizzler Bonus is a new system that's part of the Loot Booth during the event. Whenever you play the Loot Booth you'll collect points that fill a bar. Once the bar is full you'll receive a Ticket.
Tickets have a rarity and allow you to pick any reward matching their rarity in the Summer Event interface. Simply click on a reward to redeem your ticket.
Cosmetics, Loot Booth & The Vault In addition to the Summer Rewards going into the game today there has also been a bunch of new cosmetics added to each character. We've also gone through all of the cosmetics in the game and adjusted some of their rarities and names to make the overall experience of collecting them feel more complete. Head to the Profile to see what's changed.
The Loot Booth has even been updated this release. It now features an improved flow when using tokens and displays your rewards in the 3D scene. We’ve also marked a bunch of cosmetics as Legacy and put them into The Vault. These will still be obtainable as rewards from the Loot Booth but very rarely. We’ve also included event rewards that are over a year old here so you can get them all year round rather than waiting for an event.
New Feature: Sprays We’ve added a new cosmetic type to the game, the Spray. These are new graphics that you can collect, with over 40 being released today. Head to the Profile to view them in all their glory and equip them per character. Then, when you’re next in-game press ‘C’ to tag the map with your chosen spray.
Performance & Stability Improvements As part of this update we’ve included a first version of some performance improvements we’ll be doing over the next several updates. This week’s update in particular targets users who play on ‘low’ graphics settings, and should enable people on lower end hardware to have a smoother experience.
In addition to this, over the past few weeks we’ve released several hotfixes which has reduced the number of crash reports we received by over 95%. This is something we’ll be continuing to monitor and will aim to reduce this even further.
Patch Notes
Loot Booth Tokens are now available through levelling again, any tokens earned through play during events will be event specific tokens.
The chances of getting cosmetics have been added to the loot booth interface.
You can now unlock emblems and sprays from the Loot Booth.
GM Credits have been renamed to just ‘Credits’.
You can now win Credit packs from the Loot Booth.
You can buy current event rewards with Credits.
Credits have been removed from Token Packs.
The largest Token Pack has changed from 110 Tokens to 125.
The ‘Kongphan hood’ is now only available on Hans.
The ‘Yeti Mask’ is now only available on Chang.
When winning accessory, clothing and head item rewards from the Loot Booth that were previously shared across characters you will now win them individually per character. (Note: existing owners will still have them on all 6 characters).
We’ve added regional pricing for a number of currencies for in-game purchases.
The animation of cup shuffling is now shorter.
You can no longer ‘skip’ the Loot Booth animation.
Chat on the main menu can now be closed by pressing the bar at the top of the chat.
Set your Character Preference to random so each time you’ll play as someone different.
The website links in-game have been updated.
XP boost prices have been adjusted.
The ‘red mic’ bug that occasionally occurs at the start of the game has been fixed.
A bug within the jumping logic has been resolved.
Added a settings option for Anti-Aliasing.
Fixed a bug with the profile incorrectly showing a gold dot next to it despite having seen every cosmetic.
Resolved an issue that caused game updates to be larger than necessary. This fix will apply to future updates.
Removed in-game and menu FPS caps.
See you in-game! The Baseline Team
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Patch Notes v5.1.2 (31/07/2020)
FIXED: The vampire's wings aren't showing in first person
FIXED: Meleeing as a vampire terror stops you from moving your camera vertically
FIXED: Transforming to a vampire stops you from moving your camera vertically
Hovering on cosmetics on the summer scene now shows what slot that cosmetic is for
FIXED: 'Wear summer cosmetic' challenge doesn't work with certain summer cosmetics
FIXED: a lot of wristband materials are setup incorrectly
Tweaked the materials of the chang party outfit
Some translations have been updated
Summer Sizzler tickets can no longer be used on lower rarity summer rewards to stop people from accidentally using them on the wrong rewards
The Summer introduction screen will no longer play all the way through after it's first been watched
Players who own the Kongphan hood and Yeti mask prior to the Summer update have been gifted 500 Credits, and 1 summer token per each of these items.
Lumberyard Fixes
FIXED: Some consumables aren't interactable
FIXED: a lever is not destroyable in the first zone
FIXED: an objective is not obtainable in the first zone
FIXED: It is possible to get to the second zone before the first night ends
FIXED: It's possible to go back into the first zone without taking damage from the gas
For the first time in Deceit history we’re running a Summer Event! Usually the Game Master likes to keep things a bit dark and dingy but for this update things will be a bit more vibrant. With a new story to discover and a wide array of rewards to unlock for both paid and free players, we’re just a few days away from diving in.
The event will be running from Thursday 30th July to Monday 17th August, so make sure you’re online between those dates to get involved.
We’ve listened to your feedback from Easter and have made some improvements to the event system, making it a more refined experience and more rewarding for free players.
We’ve also been working on a host of other changes behind the scenes that will be going out with this release, including Lumberyard Tweaks, Loot Booth Expansion, a New Cosmetic Type and much more...
