Hey all,
Firstly we'd like to thank everyone that participated in our event to celebrate Deceit's 3rd birthday. A whopping 36,000 players showed up throughout the day with about 15% of you earning the now not-so-secret emblem! For those that didn't quite manage to work out how to collect it, you needed to win 3 games back-to-back. Now, onto the patch notes...
New Perk Tree & Season Reset
This update marks the start of a new in-game season bringing a brand new perk tree to complete and resetting in-game ranks. The new tree contains a set of 5 new perks as well as 2 new emblems to unlock.
New Innocent Perks
- Solar Powered - Torches slowly recharge when the lights are on.
- Speedy Recovery - Health packs also instantly heal for 25 upon pickup.
- Spotting - Trackers can now be placed on blood bags, showing an outline of the blood bag's state. This tracker displays only to you and is destroyed upon taking damage.
- Redistribution - You're able to pick your traps back up again.
New Infected Perk
- Revitalised - Gain half a slice of blood when revived by an innocent player.
For the eager amongst you, the next season reset is currently earmarked for the 2nd of April. We'll confirm exactly when a bit closer to the time.
Anticheat
We're happy to announce that with patch v4.4.0, we'll be rolling out our first iteration on anticheat. This initial version will highlight any suspicious activity directly as part of our player report viewing tool. Alongside this, activity that we're confident to classify as cheating will result in automatic permanent bans. Dealing with cheaters will be an ongoing task but we anticipate that this will be a good step towards improving our in-game experience.
General
- When reporting a player you will no longer see your name as an option.
- Restricted the amount of XP available to be earned per-game through lethal injecting players, antidoting players, casting votes or placing traps.
- Silhouettes for blood bags now disappear when you're close to them.
- The unlit birthday cake emblem now describes how it was obtained.
- Made a minor performance improvement to our backend server.
- Replaced one of the guaranteed torch spawns in the first zone with a spawn that randomises between a torch and a tracker.
Bug Fixes
- FIXED - The ranked progress UI element on the main menu has non-translated text.
- FIXED - The server crashes when invalid data is sent to it in a specific way.
- FIXED - Games where players earn 0 XP are occasionally not displayed in the match history.
v4.3.6 Patch Notes
After our release last Thursday we rolled out a hotfix to address some bugs. The patch notes for that release are below.
- FIXED - The ranked button is greyed out on first load for players who meet all the requirements to play ranked.
- FIXED - Viewing characters for offline players doesn't always load their cosmetics.
- FIXED - Party members remain hidden after viewing your cosmetics for your characters.
- FIXED - After viewing another player's terror skin and then leaving their profile your cosmetics aren't re-loaded.