All of this has been done for a while, but we've held off on releasing new elements into the game while we were building for stability. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we've done a very thorough change to Goosechapel. There are also two new roles. The first is the Stalker Goose! They are a lovesick goose who can track down their obsession. They can always pick someone new, because the heart is fickle. The second new role is the Esper (!?). The Esper is psychic, and they could hear it every time a player complained about how weak they were. Every complaint felt like a knife in their brain. Enough was enough, and they decided to switch sides. The new Esper Duck can psychically invade another player's mind. Once they are inside, a timer will begin. The Esper can speak privately up until the timer hits zero, at which point the target dies.
The new 'Privacy' Mode was made at the request of a few streamers. Malicious players joined their game with offensive names in order to try to get their streams shut down. Privacy Mode is specifically only for private games, and is selected when a game is formed. If a player joins a game with Privacy Mode on, their name is replaced with BIRD and then a number. Ultimately, any player hosting a private game is responsible for who enters, but we're sympathetic to the situation and only want to give an additional option. Public games will always be risky with who enters, and it is not advisable to stream a public game.
We've also added new limited time cosmetics to the shop.
We’re going to be releasing a limited time claw machine for the Lunar New Year. They will have their own tokens and they can be earned during this period, although we may extend this because the event is starting later than we would have wanted. If you have any of these tokens leftover at the end of the event, they will be converted into white tokens.
11/01/2023 Servers are back up!
We have started the servers! We are going to start by trickling players in, since the servers are coming from a cold start. Thank you everyone for your patience during these trying times.
Our success has been incredible, and I want to thank all our players once again. We underwent a massive attack this morning and subsequently took our servers down to maintain and reinforce them. None of your data was compromised.
We’ve been undergoing attacks for approximately two months now. We’ve mentioned it once mid-December, but we made a decision to avoid mentioning it further so as to not alarm players. The combination of the attack and our high player numbers (600 thousand CCU’s) left us vulnerable. We have hired very talented cybersecurity specialists to help us. We don’t want to say much beyond this, because we don’t want to expose specific ways in which we are trying to safeguard ourselves. Our plan is to come back on Wednesday at 5 PM EST. We want to do the best that we can to secure as much as possible, instead of rushing back tonight. We will keep everyone posted if anything changes.
I want to thank all our players for their patience and understanding during this time. We are doing everything that we can. We are very grateful for our community’s support.
09/01/2023 Server down for maintenance
We're under an attack, and have taken the servers down for maintenance. We'll give more details and give a more thorough explanation later.
I've temporarily closed off the steam discussion forums because I want players to see and read the posts regarding the situation, rather than having a constant wave of posts of people demanding answers.
We are working on all issues, and i'll give an ETA on when we're back up as soon as we can.
We appreciate all the love and support, we expected a large increase in players but not like this. 250k increase of our already massive player base was too much. We're working on increasing capacity as fast as we can and will keep everyone updated. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're all working hard to make sure everyone can play.
2.14 Ancient Sands
We are releasing the new Ancient Sands map! This early access map will cost 50 gold and introduces new game mechanics and new roles.
The mummy is a new sabotage that summons a mummy who targets the nearest player indiscriminately! When they make contact, they will kill their target and begin chasing the next closest player. If the mummy comes across a door they will kick the door open.
The doors sabotage on Ancient Sands functions differently than on other maps. They still close doors and re-open after a period of time, but now they can be opened from the outside. The Street Urchin Goose can specifically open doors from both inside and outside a room.
The outdoor portions of the map are periodically covered in a sandstorm which reduce vision. Find cover in buildings to regain your vision. The Tracker Goose can see the location of all players that are outdoors at the start of the sandstorm.
The warlock unleashes locusts upon a specific buildings and players trapped inside when the countdown ends are killed. The Warlock Duck does not have access to the normal sabotages other ducks have, and will have to work with a partner to properly trap geese with the doors sabotage.
The forbidden passageway in the pyramid also houses a magic mirror that will allow ducks (or the pigeon or the mimic) to remotely view other locations. This will also aid the Warlock Duck in targeting others remotely.
This patch also introduces the Arcade, which will replace the crafting system with a new means to spend in-game material to earn unique cosmetics and currency. We are also introducing a gifting system along with cosmetics that can only be acquired from gifting! **Insert image**
The main menu will now have have a button in the bottom left giving players access to older splash art and their respective music.
We're also going to be experimenting with adding the pelican to Mothergoose.
Bug fixes
Optimizations
2.13 Ancient Sands
We are releasing the new Ancient Sands map! This early access map will cost 50 gold and introduces new game mechanics and new roles.
The mummy is a new sabotage that summons a mummy who targets the nearest player indiscriminately! When they make contact, they will kill their target and begin chasing the next closest player. If the mummy comes across a door they will kick the door open.
The doors sabotage on Ancient Sands functions differently than on other maps. They still close doors and re-open after a period of time, but now they can be opened from the outside. The Street Urchin Goose can specifically open doors from both inside and outside a room.
The outdoor portions of the map are periodically covered in a sandstorm which reduce vision. Find cover in buildings to regain your vision. The Tracker Goose can see the location of all players that are outdoors at the start of the sandstorm.
The warlock unleashes locusts upon a specific buildings and players trapped inside when the countdown ends are killed. The Warlock Duck does not have access to the normal sabotages other ducks have, and will have to work with a partner to properly trap geese with the doors sabotage.
The forbidden passageway in the pyramid also houses a magic mirror that will allow ducks (or the pigeon or the mimic) to remotely view other locations. This will also aid the Warlock Duck in targeting others remotely.
This patch also introduces the Arcade, which will replace the crafting system with a new means to spend in-game material to earn unique cosmetics and currency. We are also introducing a gifting system along with cosmetics that can only be acquired from gifting! **Insert image**
The main menu will now have have a button in the bottom left giving players access to older splash art and their respective music.
We're also going to be experimenting with adding the pelican to Mothergoose.
Bug fixes
Optimizations
2.12.03 Draft Mode Voting Time Hotpatch
PC hosts can adjust meeting timers in draft mode.
电脑主玩家可以在轮抽选角模式中调整会议时间
컴퓨터를 사용하는 방장들은 드래프트 모드에서 회의 시간을 조정할 수 있습니다.
โฮสต์ PC สามารถปรับตัวจับเวลาการประชุมในโหมด Draft ได้
2.12.01 Voting Time Hotpatch
We are experimenting with allowing an increase in voting time for Classic mode in this patch. The voting timer can now be increased to 300 seconds. To combat potential griefing, we have additionally added a feature that where the voting timer will reduce to 15 seconds if half of living players have voted or skipped. This will apply to meetings in Classic, Draft, and Trick or Treat.
We are aware that there is a bug right now where the ping will appear to have 10000 more than your actual ping. This is just a visual glitch, and we will fix this soon.
2.12 Serial Killer Duck
New role! The Serial Killer duck lowers their kill cooldown by successfully killing their target and increases if they kill someone else.
The Technician, Mechanic, and Snoop have been merged into the Engineer. Unlike the technician, the Engineer will only see sabotages from living ducks. They can vent for 10 seconds without being booted out, and can use hiding spots on Mallard Manor and the Basement indefinitely. The Detective can now investigate any number of times in a round, but only once per person. The Birdwatcher's ability now works on a toggle
