What’s crackin’? We’re back with an eggcellent Easter event that’s quite a bit different to past seasonal events. From today through to Thursday 23rd April you’ll be able to earn brand new Easter-themed cosmetics through daily challenges. There are also new exclusive cosmetics available from the Easter Pass, which unlocks our first ever challenge story line! More details below.
We’d also like to take a moment to celebrate hitting 8 million Steam downloads! This is a huge achievement for us and we’re ecstatic that so many people enjoy playing Deceit. Thanks to your support so far this year we’ve been able to increase the number of updates coming to the game, and we’re looking forward to bringing lots more content throughout 2020!
Easter Points
When opening Deceit you will find the store has been updated, now also containing a selection of our new Easter cosmetics that can be purchased for Easter points. These points can be gained through a variety of methods: collecting eggs that will be spawning throughout the Asylum, Forest, Arctic & Mansion; earning them as rewards from daily challenges; completing special Easter challenges from the Event Pass; through the Event Stash; or through visiting the Loot Booth and using Easter tokens.
Easter Event Pass
The Easter Event Pass is unlocked by purchasing one of the two Easter Bundles from the Easter Store. In obtaining this pass you’re granted access to:
- A brand new 20 challenge story line where you discover the existence of a mysterious and valuable egg from a shady individual. It’s your job to figure out who it’s rightful owner is and return it to them to earn exclusive rewards including 5 unique unlocks, 15 Easter Loot Booth Tokens, +50k Easter Points, a discount on certain Easter rewards, and +75k experience.
- The ‘Event Stash’ - any bonus Easter Points from daily challenges, egg collection, and Easter loot booth tokens accumulate in your Event Stash. The event pass unlocks the stash meaning all points that are already in it and that are added going forward will go straight to your Easter Points to spend.
Easter Tokens
Similar to previous events, Easter tokens will be available to purchase from the store. When using these special tokens at the loot booth you’ll earn both Easter Points and Event Stash Points, as well as provide a chance at unlocking old Easter cosmetics from past events! These include:
- Easter Watch
- Chocolate Gun
- Easter Terror T-shirt
- ‘Eggshells’ Defeat Pose
- ‘Eggcellent!’ Victory Pose
- Carrot Knife
- Bunny Terror
- Bunny Ears
All seasonal tokens prior to 2019 have now been converted to regular loot booth tokens, and all unspent Halloween 2019, Christmas 2019, and Easter 2020 tokens will be converted to regular loot booth tokens 1 week after the end of the Easter event. Please also note: all tokens earned through regular challenges will be regular loot booth tokens.
Easter Rewards
All of the following rewards are purchasable through the store for Easter points for a limited time.
- ‘Chocolate Swirl’ Emblem - 100 points
- 3 Easter Loot Booth Tokens - 250 points (One time purchase)
- ‘Too Much Chocolate’ Defeat Pose (Hans) - 1,000 points
- ‘Egg Juggle’ Victory Pose (Lisa) - 2,500 points
- ‘Bunny Teeth’ Accessory (All Characters) - 5,000 points
- Chocolate Wristband - 7,500 points
- Easter Wrapped Pistol - 10,000 points
- Pastel Suit (Alex) - 12,500 points
- Tulip Weapon - 15,000 points
- Eating Contest (NiNa) - 20,000 points
- Spring Attire (Rachel) - 20,000 points
- On Bunny’s Shoulders (Chang) - 25,000 points
- Bunny Wristband - 4,000 points (25% discount after 5 Easter challenges complete)
- Eggshell Pistol - 20,000 points (50% discount after 10 Easter challenges complete)
- Foil Bunny (Yeti) - 200,000 points (75% discount after 20 Easter challenges complete)
- ‘Foiling Around’ Emblem - Free unlock once all other Easter store items have been unlocked
Rewards that are obtained through the Easter story challenges:
- ‘Mystery Egg’ Emblem - Complete 1 challenge
- ‘Eating Carrot’ Defeat Pose (Chang) - Complete 5 challenges
- ‘Easter Chick’ Emblem - Complete 10 challenges
- ‘Bunny Love’ Victory Pose (Nina) - Complete 15 challenges
- Impostor Bunny (Yeti) - Complete 20 challenges
Loot Booth & Store Upgrades
As part of this update, we’ve overhauled how the Loot Booth, GM Credits, and XP Boosts work. In order to improve the experience, the Loot Booth now requires 3 tokens to be used at a time. After the Game Master has shuffled the cups (which is now faster than before), you pick three of the cups and get the three rewards from those cups. We’ve also increased the frequency of uncommon, rare and legendary cups.
You can now obtain 100 GM Credits in exchange for a Loot Booth Token. XP boosts are now purchased by GM Credits. In addition to this, we’ve replaced the free token gained through levelling in-game with an introductory present of five free tokens for all new players. You’ll also receive some GM Credits when you level up and complete certain challenges.
This is the beginning of a number of changes we’re looking at making to improve the Deceit Store.
April 2020 Ranked Season
The new ranked season started on April 2nd and this season has a slight twist: in addition to the regular Gold, Silver, and Bronze coins that we give out to our top players, each of these groups will also receive a Gold, Silver, or Bronze crown that they’ll be able to wear only for the next season. This will now be a fixed addition to our ranked rewards, so getting to the top of the leaderboards each season gives you something to flex and shout about!
Patch Notes
- A tick will now display on the challenge chip effects list if an action has been done before and can’t be done again.
- Voice chat for other players is now more visually obvious upon activation.
- The Main Menu and End of Round scenes have been dressed up for the Easter event.
- Several of our in-game translations have been updated thanks to our community translators.
- The total amount of XP available to be earned from destroying levers has been limited.
- Challenge rewards that are identical for both sides of a double Challenge will now be grouped together and shown as one reward item.
- Further improved our metrics for identifying server problems.
- Removed the 'Inspect X character' tasks from the daily challenges.
- Challenges that need to be completed within one game will now display how far you got towards completing them on the End of Round screen.
- Addressed several issues causing longer than usual queue times during peak hours.
Bug Fixes
- [FIXED] Voice and text chat muting will incorrectly mute the wrong player.
- [FIXED] A gold dot appears next to the “Challenge” button on the main menu even if there are no new actions for you to take.
- [FIXED] The Alex Selfie Victory Pose doesn’t load in the Loot Booth rewards or show in the cosmetic selection screen.
- [FIXED] The body of several Terror skins, including the default Vampire and the Demon Terror, don't load properly in Low Graphics Quality.
- [FIXED] The hair of Hans and Nina fails to load properly in Low Graphics Quality.
- [FIXED] Players with Hans or Nina selected as a default character whilst playing in Low Graphics Quality can get stuck in an infinite crash loop.
- [FIXED] Several challenges are unable to be progressed.
- [FIXED] Brazilian translations aren't usable in the game.
- [FIXED] Players are able to set their in-game cosmetics to items that they don't own.
- [FIXED] Releasing an update for just in-game translations causes the download to be unexpectedly large.
- [FIXED] A significant performance issue in our backend server.