Hello everyone! We know it’s been a while since we last spoke, and we have a lot to fill you in on.
As some of you may already be aware, Automaton, the original Deceit studio, closed its doors at the end of July. We are Baseline Games - a new studio with some familiar faces from the original Deceit team. We have acquired the game and are going to be bringing back regular updates. First of all, we want to thank everyone at Automaton for all of their hard work over the years. With this foundation, we are confident that there’s an exciting future in store!
Halloween 2019
Firstly, we are excited to announce that for 2 weeks starting from Saturday 26th of October, we’ll be bringing back our highly anticipated Halloween ‘trick or treat’ event. Halloween themed items and decorations will be appearing throughout the Asylum, Forest, Arctic and Manor. You can collect candy to obtain all-new exclusive icons and Halloween-themed cosmetics for all playable characters, and purchase limited edition loot booth tokens. Make sure to gather your friends to get your spook on, as these limited items won’t be available for long!
Along with the Halloween event we’ll be providing a number of quality of life updates to the game, including fixes for a number of map exploits, new anti-cheat, improving the requirements for ranked, and giving more power to our community moderators.
Lumberyard Map Status
We are also aware that is important for us to address the elephant in the room: ‘What is happening with the Lumberyard map?’. Those of us involved in the update last Halloween made a mistake: we bit off more than we could chew by trying to build a new map from scratch with the very limited time we had available. We still intend to release this and other new map updates, but the Lumberyard is not currently to the quality we deem acceptable for such an important update. However, we now have some resources available for Deceit development, and we’re up for the challenge, so we look forward to bringing it to you soon!
New Ranked Season
The new ranked season starts tomorrow, Monday 7th October at 21:00 GMT. We’re planning on introducing some changes to ranked in the near future, to improve the way it works and the end of season rewards on offer. The exact changes aren’t confirmed yet, but we’ll be discussing them with you on Discord over the next few weeks.
Future Updates
Looking beyond Halloween, you can expect the return of regular updates to Deceit. We plan on applying all of the knowledge we have learned over the past 2 years working on other projects into Deceit, and we are confident you’ll see the fruits of our labour very soon. Expect stability improvements, optimisations (over 2 years worth of engine patches coming soon!), advanced anti-cheat detection, and an array of new content.
At the end of the Halloween event we’ll be posting an announcement about our plans for the rest of 2019. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your thoughts on Discord. We know that Deceit has a lot of untapped potential, and we look forward to playing with you all.
See you in-game!
The Baseline Team