Patch 1.4.0.0 is now live
It's been a while! But we have not been lazy since the last update. Today several big changes are coming to the game. Let's dive into what exactly changed.
As always we encourage you to give us feedback or opinions about the game on our Discord server or on Twitter!
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Report Player System
Likely the most requested feature. Now it is finally here: From now on you if you encounter offensive, negative, or disruptive experiences you can report players via an integrated report system.
In the above screenshot you can see the reasons for reporting a player. Cases where a player receives a certain amount of reports will be reviewed by us and sanctions against this player will be put in place.
Guidelines for reporting Players
Behaviour that you should report:
- Trying to game the system by writing letters on the canvas to tell others players the correct solution to a word.
- Drawing inappropriate or offensive things.
- Absolutely any kind of hate speech or racism.
- Spamming (i.e. writing the same thing or really long paragraphs over and over again). Note: Trying to guess the word and submitting many different guesses is NOT spamming.
- Offensive player names.
Behaviour that you should NOT report:
- Strong language that does not insult or demean other people.
- Drawing poorly but still trying.
- Drawing really good.
Abuse of the report system will also result in sanctions.
New Lobby and Pause Menu UI
We are slowly but surely bringing a new, more timely UI look and feel to the game. The first step in this direction is the introduction of a new sidebar. Pressing Escape while inside a lobby or a game round will from now on open the sidebar. This allows you to easily access lobby settings and a player list. Here is a short preview on what the new UI looks like:
You can also quickly access the playerlist menu by clicking on a player in-game or in the lobby. This means if you want to mute/votekick/report or simply have a look at a player's Steam profile you can do so very quickly by clicking on said player in the player list or in the lobby. The video below shows how this works.
Improved Scoring System
We continue to make changes to the way you earn points in Scribble It! based on your feedback.
With the new system a guessing player can earn a maximum of 1000 points and a drawing player can earn a maximum of 1250.
Our goal is to reward drawing skills and make the scoring fair for both drawing and guessing players. In big lobbies it is really hard to have everyone make the correct guess. This means if a player is so good at drawing that a full lobby guesses the correct solution he should be rewarded accordingly. In small lobbies it is more essential that players guess fast because convincing 3 players is a lot easier than 15 but here time should be of the essence.
Various other Changes
Good news for all free-to-play players. We know that our yellow can sometimes strain the eyes a bit. Therefore we unlocked another green-ish color for all players.
Another change we made concerns the creation of word packages. You now have to accept our Word Package Guidelines everytime you are creating a new package. This is another measure to reduce the amount of obscene word packages that are being released into the wild.
Also we are happy to announce that we added Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Korean word packages.
Here is the full list of changes:
Patch-Notes
- Added player reporting & sanctions
- Added player list & lobby settings to pause menu
- Added Finnish & Hungarian UI localization
- Added word package guidelines
- Added Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Ukranian and Korean word packages
- Added *, +, ~, /, \, ", [, ], {, } to list of always revealed characters
- A maximum word length of 50 characters is now enforced
- Reworked the way settings are shown in the lobby
- Reworked scoring system
- Reworked word package display in workshop browser
- Only public word packages can now be used in public lobbies
- Only the host can kick players in the lobby and Free Draw now
- Green UI color is now available for free-to-play users
- Improved style of dialogs
- Removed player survey (Thanks for the huge number of participations)
Bugfixes
- Fixed changes in the options menu in-game were never saved
- Fixed language code is written twice in word package editor
- Fixed banned word packages could still be used for playing
- Fixed word package migration causes incorrect MD5 hash
- Fixed word packages with same title are randomly sorted
- Fixed crash when receiving guess from player
- Fixed default UI color may be set to black
- Fixed crash when showing round results
- Fixed crash at end of a Rate It! round
- Fixed crash when loading news
- Fixed various OSS crashes