Hey Pocketeers!
We're pleased to announce the latest and biggest update for Pick-a-Pocket so far: "Organised Crime" is now live!
It includes AI Bots, Achievements, Stats, an overhaul to the UI, loads of Bug Fixes, gameplay improvements, visual updates and much more!
Join us with the playtest on Sunday the 14th of July on the official Amythica Discord: https://discord.gg/6jcyUxzyc4
We'll be playing together in the Discord voice channels so make sure to join to get a chance to hang out with the devs!
A little bit on some of the additions:
⭐UI - The UI has been overhauled to be much smoother and visually consistent. Players should be able to get into games much more quickly with Steam updates and faster loading.
⭐AI Bots - Players can now add up to 7 bots into their game that will compete and add to the chaos of every match online and offline!
⭐Achievements - 30 Steam achievements have been added to the game! Ranging from "Dodger" (Finished a level without being stunned) to "Bang! Bang!" (Hit by a steam car 50 times).
⭐Stats - Keep track of your entire pickpocketing career on the new stats page. This will show how many games you've won, how many times you've been caught by police and much more!
⭐Bugfixes, Gameplay Improvements and Visual updates - We've been hard at work updating every square inch of the game to play much better, more consistently and smoothed out the gameplay experience
Now for the full list of all the amazing things coming in this update:
AI Bots
- Play with up to 7 bots!
- Bots can swipe the players and Marks.
- Bots can also get caught by police.
- Playable in both singleplayer and multiplayer sessions
- Host can add them in the Lobby screen
- Max of 8 players in a lobby. More players will result in being able to select less bots.
- Bots score will be counted on the scoreboard as if they were actuall players. Great for filling out lobbys!
- Bots will strategize and target players or NPC’s!
Steam Achievements
- Chitty Chitty - Hit by a steam car.
- BANG! BANG! - Hit by a steam car 50 times.
- TAAXII! - Rode the cars for 60 seconds total.
- Centurion - Won 100 Games in your career.
- City Tour - Played every level.
- The Knowledge - Played every level 25 times.
- The Ropes - Completed the tutorial.
- The Discordant - Visited Discord.
- You're Knicked! - Caught by the police 10 times in one game.
- Can I have some more? - Stolen over 50g in one swipe.
- Yoink! - Stolen over 100g in one swipe.
- Grand Theft Larceny - Stolen over 150g in one swipe.
- Two Hundred Large - Finished a level with over 200g.
- Three Bags - Finished a level with over 300g.
- The Four Hundred - Finished a level with over 400g.
- Donuts Funded - Lost 1,000g in Bail payments during your career.
- Jam Filled Donuts - Lost 5,000g in Bail payments during your career.
- Gilded Donuts - Lost 50,000g in Bail payments during your career.
- Train the TrAInees - Played a game containing AI.
- Creature Comforts - Stole a total of 1,000g in your career.
- Better get a Safe! - Stole a total of 100,000g in your career.
- Gold Plated HQ - Stole a total of 1,000,000g in your career.
- Dodger - Finished a level without being stunned once.
- 6 Hidden Achievements!
Career Stats
- Keep track of 25 different stats as you play the game!
- Level Records. Including “Richest Night”, “Highest bail paid”, “Most Marks Swiped” and more.
- Lifetime Stats. Including “Total Nights Won”, “Total Gold Lost”, “Total Bail Paid” and more.
- Map Stats. Displays how many times player has won and played each of the maps.
In-Game
- 0.7 second catch meter when in police light. Police no longer catch players instantly.
- ‘?’ Appears when a Bobby starts investigating a noise
- Police can catch multiple players at a time
- Police can send bots to jail
- Text shown when you try to steal from someone with 0g
- Text now displayed above players who are Invincible
- All players now have new colours to be easier to distinguish
Map updates
- Wychford Crossing and Pumpkin King Manor have had their visuals updated to be more detailed and polished
- All maps have had material and mesh improvements for polish
- Player character on main screen is now more fluffy than ever!
- Lobby map has been updated to have more detail in background
Interface
- All menus have been overhauled to be easier to navigate and have cleaner appearance
- Can join players through the Steam friend invite feature (Steam presence)
- Options are now available through Pause menu
- Updated menu level backgrounds
- New button that links to new official Amythica store website
- Options will save automatically now
- Hosts can change maps without having to open separate map screen
- UI completely navigatable with a controller
- Controller no longer loses button focus when clicking on background
- Game no longer attempts to pause in multiplayer
Audio
- Sound audio stutter for clients fixed
- Temporarily disabled npc sound effects to fix bug (will release hotfix to patch asap)
Thanks to everyone for your patience while we prepared this update. It's been a while so we hope to increase our communication and speed of updates in the future! That's all for now, check out the update!
