Town of Salem
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Patch 2.3.1 Bug Fixes Galore
Today we are launching a pretty small patch, but it is packed full of bug fixes. Check out everything that has been fixed below.
Bug Fixes:
Added a sound to the Celebrate taunt.
Fixed a bug where the Crusader skin was incorrectly being labeled as she.
Fixed a bug that caused the Amnesiac to be unable to remember they were a Vampire Hunter if one was currently alive.
Fixed a bug where if the Jester was hanged, and did not select a target to haunt the game could select the Jester as the random target causing no one to die.
Fixed a bug that caused the Doctor to not be notified they had healed their target if they healed an Escort, or Consort, that role blocked a Serial Killer.
Fixed a bug where the Coven Random Neutral in Coven Custom games could spawn any role, not just Coven Random Neutral roles.
Fixed a bug where the Coven Leader could not control the Vigilante to kill someone Night 1.
Fixed a bug that caused traps from the Trapper to not be destroyed if the player trapped was hanged.
Fixed several bugs that could allow a hacked client to do things that we did not allow, such as vote innocent on themselves, allow for multiple capital letters in a row in a users name in game, and more.
Fixed a bug that caused traps to not be able to protect a Crusader.
Fixed a bug that caused the Doctor to not be notified they had healed their target if they healed a killing that attacked a trapped player.
Fixed a bug where if a Necromancer reanimated a dead Godfather to kill someone it gave the order to the Mafioso changing their target.
Ranked Season 3 Begins!
Today we are starting Season 3 of Ranked! As you may already know if you have checked out our most recent announcements Season 2 of Ranked was our best season so far, and we want to thank everyone who participated in it.
Balance Changes!
Be sure to keep in mind that Jesters can now kill players who abstain on them when they are hanged!
This is the only change currently being made as win rates are close to where we want them to be. We think smaller changes here and there will be what we need to bring the win rates in line.
This change allows the Jester more options on who to kill, and can allow the Jester the potential to remove roles that are more impactful from the game than before. This should make players more hesitant to vote guilty on a potential evil role as well. This has always been the general idea behind the Jester, but certain play styles have made the Jester less impactful on games than we had originally hoped. We believe this change will be good for overall health of the role, and will help it be the role it was always meant to be. A role that makes you second guess yourself when trying to hang someone.
Rating Changes!
For Ranked Season 3 we will be making a change to the "K-Factor" in our rating algorithm. What this means in non-mumbo jumbo terms is that the base rating that you will earn or lose per game will be increased. This should help push you to the tier that you belong in more quickly than last season.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where season rewards were given based on current rating instead of season high rating.
Fixed an issue where the Doctor achievement "Stitch Yourself" was not being granted properly.
Thanks for being involved. We are looking forward to seeing how this season goes, and we will be keeping an eye on everything.
Happy Hanging from the BMG Team!
Patch 2.3.0 Off Season Begins!
Thank you for everyone who has participated in Ranked to help us create a competitive experience, and make improvements to the game. Today we will be starting off season at 1 PM CST. With this patch we will be making a small change to the Jester that we feel will a big impact. Ranked Season 3 will start on March 29th!
Rewards!
The rewards you get will be based on the tier that you reached in this season of Ranked. For everyone who received the rank of Gold and above, you will be receiving a couple spiffy new addition to your characters.
The Golden Townie!
Here are all the rewards broken up by each tier.
Bronze
1,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Bronze Lobby Icon
Silver
2,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Silver Lobby Icon
Gold
3,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Gold Lobby Icon
]
Platinum
4,000 Merit Points
3 of every taunt
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Platinum Lobby Icon
]
Diamond
5,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Diamond Lobby Icon
Master
6,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Master Lobby Icon
Off Season!
Once the Off Season has started playing ranked matches will no longer affect your rating. Win rates from this season of ranked are getting very close to where we want them to be, even with the ever developing strategies that many of you are using. We feel that we have nailed down a solid role list with this season, and that small adjustments can be made with the current win rates to bring certain roles up or down just a bit to be exactly where we want them to be. While we have many changes planned for the future we don't want to do too much at once.
Role Changes!
The Jester can now kill any player who didn't vote INNOCENT on them if they are hanged. We feel this change will open up new avenues of play for evil roles, and help to break the meta of 1 player taking the hit for any potential Jesters. We believe this change will be good for overall health of the role, and will help it be the role it was always meant to be. A role that makes you second guess yourself when trying to hang someone.
Rating Changes!
For Ranked Season 3 we will be making a change to the "K-Factor" in our rating algorithm. What this means in non-mumbo jumbo terms is that the base rating that you will earn or lose per game will be increased. This should help push you to the tier that you belong in faster than last season.
Bug Fixes/Improvement!
Clarified the Doctor's role card to say that healing gives your target Powerful Defense. It previously said they could not be killed at night.
Fixed a position issue with the Investigator skin when using the Pixel death animation.
Fixed an issue with the error message on Steam when trying to create an account with an email that was already in use.
Fixed an issue where the GA could not purge the poison from a Poisoner if the Necronomicon was in play.
Fixed an issue where Pestilence would say he killed the Jailor twice when jailed.
Fixed an issue where the Spy would not die to Veteran when visiting them, or spread the plague when visiting.
Fixed an issue where Doctor/Crusader weren't getting notified their target was attacked by medusa.
Fixed an exploit that allowed players to claim free rewards through Steam with Family Sharing.
Fixed an issue that caused users using the Spanish localization to crash when using the Alabaster reaper skin.
Fixed several tutorial messages to have the most up to date information.
Trial System will now boot a player off the server if a report is found guilty.
If you find any bugs that you would like to report be sure to grab any relevant screenshots and make a bug report here: http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=10
If you have any feedback about the patch post that here: http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=7
If you have any suggestions post those here: http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=14
Thank you all for being involved in the game. We will be keeping a close eye on Ranked, and are looking forward to how Season 3 goes!
Happy Hanging Everyone!
Ranked Season Two will be ending soon!
Today we are announcing that Ranked Season 2 will be ending on March 26th. Season 3 will be starting on March 29th. Season 2 of Ranked was our best season so far, and we want to thank everyone who participated in it.
With the end of Season 2 comes Season 2 Ranked Rewards! This season we wanted to add a reward that would allow players who received the rank of gold and above a way to show off their skill in a new, but still classic way.
We present to you:
The Golden Townie!
We will also be giving out tiered Merit Point rewards, tiered Lobby Icons, and 3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled to everyone who completed their ranked placement games this season.
Here are the rewards broken up by each tier.
Bronze
1,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Bronze Lobby Icon
Silver
2,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Silver Lobby Icon
Gold
3,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Gold Lobby Icon
Platinum
4,000 Merit Points
3 of every taunt
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Platinum Lobby Icon
Diamond
5,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Diamond Lobby Icon
Master
6,000 Merit Points
3 of each of the following taunts: Celebrate, RIP, Accursed, Defiled
Both the male and female Golden Townie skins
Master Lobby Icon
Balance Changes
This season has gone incredibly well, and we are really happy with the current win rates overall. We feel that we have nailed down a really solid role list with this season, and that small adjustments can be made with the current win rates to bring certain roles up or down a peg to be exactly where we want them to be.
We are going to be starting with a change that we believe will give evil roles the ability for more a interesting play style in game, and will allow the Jester to have more impact on games.
The Jester can now kill any player who does not vote innocent on them when hanged.
This change allows the Jester more options on who to kill, and can allow the Jester the potential to remove roles that are more impactful from the game than before. This should make players more hesitant to vote guilty on a potential evil role as well. This has always been the general idea behind the Jester, but certain play styles have made the Jester less impactful on games than we had originally hoped. We believe this change will be good for overall health of the role, and will help it be the role it was always meant to be. A role that makes you second guess yourself when trying to hang someone.
Thanks for being involved. We are looking forward to seeing how this season goes, and we will be keeping an eye on everything.
Happy Hanging from the BMG Team!
Patch 2.2.2 Free Coven Weekend!
Today we will be releasing a patch and with this patch we will be dipping our toes into free Coven weekends. You heard that right. You can play the Coven for FREE this President’s Day Weekend! Check out the details about this and more below.
Free Coven Weekend!
This weekend, the 16th-19th, The Coven will be free to play for all users. Everyone will have a chance to try out the Coven and all the changes that come with the Coven before they make the decision to pick it up.
New Cosmetics!
With this patch we will be releasing several new cosmetics including a new house, map, pet, and taunt.
New House
Mushroom Manor
Some prefer to eat them, some hate them invading their garden, but some think they are quite cozy.
New Map
Heaven and Hell
This is an interesting map, as it is our first map that changes into a different map at night time. During the day you are greeted with a golden city floating in the clouds. When night falls though the blue sky becomes a sea of lava, and those fluffy clouds become pointed stone platforms.
New Taunt
Celebrate
Celebrate a player's great plays, or point out another's blunders with our newest taunt! This taunt will shoot 3 fireworks above the player exploding at different heights and sizes in yellow, blue and red.
New Pet
Spike
Spike may be toxic, but that smile can't be beaten.
Rotating Game Mode Changes!
Rivals has been the least popular of all the rotating game modes. Due to this, we will be rotating it out permanently. The only modes in the rotation are now Lovers and VIP. We are looking into potential game modes to add to the rotation for the future.
Along with this we will be extending Lover's mode for a week to have it active during Valentines week.
Improvements!
The Cauldron icon will now show the cooldown left before the Cauldron can be used again.
Bug Fixes!
Fixed an issue where if a player left the game and was then reported a report was not filed.
Fixed an issue where if you received Vampire Hunter scrolls from the cauldron the full name of the scrolls was not displayed.
Fixed an issue where the Juggernaut was able to kill Pestilence. Pestilence has Invincible defense and must be hanged to be killed.
Fixed a few other issues where the Juggernaut was not working as intended.
Fixed an issue where if a VIP left, the game could select the player who just left as the new VIP causing the game to end in a Coven win.
Fixed an issue where if a Doctor healed a player from a Bodyguard's counterattack, they were not notified they healed anyone.
Fixed an issue that was causing new friends to be shown as owning the Coven.
Fixed an issue where the Blast Off death animation wasn't showing correctly as a legendary item for the legendary Cauldron brew.
Free Coven Weekend Coming Soon!
Today we will be releasing a patch to the PTR and with this patch we will be dipping our toes into free Coven weekends. You heard that right. You can play the Coven for FREE this President’s Day Weekend! Check out the details about this and more below.
Here is a link to the PTR to test out the changes coming!: http://www.blankmediagames.com/TownOfSalem/PublicTestRealm/
Free Coven Weekend!
This weekend, the 16th-19th, The Coven will be free to play for all users. Everyone will have a chance to try out the Coven and all the changes that come with the Coven before they make the decision to pick it up.
New Cosmetics!
With this patch we will be releasing several new cosmetics including a new house, map, pet, and taunt.
New House
Mushroom Manor
Some prefer to eat them, some hate them invading their garden, but some think they are quite cozy.
New Map
Heaven and Hell
This is an interesting map, as it is our first map that changes into a different map at night time. During the day you are greeted with a golden city floating in the clouds. When night falls though the blue sky becomes a sea of lava, and those fluffy clouds become pointed stone platforms.
New Taunt
Celebrate
Celebrate a player's great plays, or point out another's blunders with our newest taunt! This taunt will shoot 3 fireworks above the player exploding at different heights and sizes in yellow, blue and red.
Rotating Game Mode Changes!
Rivals has been the least popular of all the rotating game modes. Due to this, we will be rotating it out permanently. The only modes in the rotation are now Lovers and VIP. We are looking into potential game modes to add to the rotation for the future.
Along with this we will be extending Lover's mode for a week to have it active during Valentines week.
Improvements!
The Cauldron icon will now show the cooldown left before the Cauldron can be used again.
Bug Fixes!
Fixed an issue where if a player left the game and was then reported a report was not filed.
Fixed an issue where if you received Vampire Hunter scrolls from the cauldron the full name of the scrolls was not displayed.
Fixed an issue where the Juggernaut was able to kill Pestilence. Pestilence has Invincible defense and must be hanged to be killed.
Fixed a few other issues where the Juggernaut was not working as intended.
Fixed an issue where if a VIP left, the game could select the player who just left as the new VIP causing the game to end in a Coven win.
Fixed an issue where if a Doctor healed a player from a Bodyguard's counterattack, they were not notified they healed anyone.
Fixed an issue that was causing new friends to be shown as owning the Coven.
Fixed an issue where the Blast Off death animation wasn't showing correctly as a legendary item for the legendary Cauldron brew.
If you find any bugs please post them here!: http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=20
Patch 2.2.1 Hotfix, and Prep for Future Content
Today we are going be pushing a patch that has a few small changes in it that should help to prevent some abuse of the game, and add support for future things. Check out everything being changed below.
Preparing for future content!
We are adding support for the Kickstarter items so that when the codes are sent out all of our backers will be able to use the new items. We want to thank everyone who backed us during our Kickstarter and hope you enjoy all the new items!
We are also adding support for Trial System rewards, such as a new Judge skin, and Juror and Judge lobby icons. We will explain how to get these rewards at a later time.
Game Play Changes!
We are raising the player limit needed to start a game in Custom and Rapid game modes to 7 from 2 to match all other game modes. This change is being made to help prevent abuse cases where people were farming games, and achievements to top the leader boards. One user in particular was topping several charts thousands of games ahead of other users. This player's stats have been stripped. We are open to the idea that there may be fun game modes that can be played with less players, and we don't want to limit those modes if we don't have to. Discuss game modes with less players on this post so that we can see if maybe 6 or 5 is a better number to limit games to: http://steamcommunity.com/app/334230/discussions/0/1620600279677556359/
Bug Fixes!
Fixed a bug that didn't cause Coven Custom and Rapid game modes to have scaling Merit Point rewards based on game length. This applies to Coven Custom as well.
Fixed a bug with two bundles that was causing them to not grant all the items that they contained. We have retroactively fixed this for users affected and they should now have all the items.
Patch 2.2.0 Ranked Season 2 Begins!
Today we will be starting Season 2 of Ranked! Since last season was kind of a bust we didn't change much in terms of balance as we didn't have any good data to go off of. We will be using the data we get from this season to make improvements to roles, the role list, and more for Season 3. Below is everything that is coming with this patch.
Ranked Season 2 Begins!
Season 2 is going to be starting, and with that we are going to be doing a hard reset of rating. This means that everyone will be starting at 1200 rating when they do their placement matches. Sadly because of the bugs that plagued Season one we weren't able to gather any trustworthy data, this means that balance changes for this season are a bit light.
Balance changes
With the lack of trustworthy data the only changes that will be coming with this season are a small investigative results change. We will be swapping the Witch and Amnesiac in their results. The Survivor, Vampire Hunter, or Witch result was a bit unfair for the Witch in non-Coven ranked games. With the Witch being in a result with Lookout and Forger the Witch should have an easier time in ranked games, and the Survivor, Vampire Hunter, and Amnesiac result will just not be possible since these roles are not possible in those games.
New Cosmetics!
Jack Frost, the Spirit of Winter is now Salemified!
And of course Jack never goes anywhere without his trusty pal, Iceberg!
New Login Background
Bug Fixes!
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Pirate to die to a dead Pestilence if they selected to duel Pestilence during the day that Pestilence was hanged.
- Fixed a bug where as the Trapper if you placed a trap on a player the night they died to the Vet that the trap would persist. This would mean the Trapper would have to deactivate his trap to be able to place one again.
New chapter in the Witch's story!
You can read the latest chapter on the forums here!:
http://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/posting.php?mode=post&f=11
Off Season Begins
Today is the end of Ranked Season 1. We will be running a short off season, but will then start Season 2. During the off season your rating will not change if you win or lose a game. There won't be many changes done to Ranked for Season 2 as most of our data from season one is not exactly accurate due to all of the issues. When Season 2 does start we will be doing a hard reset for everyone back to 1200 rating and wiping everyone's career high stat so that it can, once again, be a true measure of skill. We hope this season will be better, and we will be paying closer attention to issues related to ranked in the future. We want to thank you all for your help in finding the issues that plagued Season 1 so that we can make Season 2 a great one.
Rewards for Season 1 will distributed shortly after the patch. Due to us ending the season months earlier than planned the rewards will be another set of new lobby icons related to each tier below and some Merit Points based on what tier you reached. Next season we will have much cooler rewards.
0-999 rating Bronze
1000-1399 rating Silver
1400-1599 rating Gold
1600-1799 rating Platinum
1800-1999 rating Diamond
2000+ rating Master
Bug Fixes:
We fixed an issue with both Lookout and Spy that was causing the order in which names were displayed for their abilities to use priority ordering the same way the voting issue did. This should now be random as well.