Goose Goose Duck News

We are experimenting with allowing an increase in voting time for Classic mode in this patch. The voting timer can now be increased to 300 seconds. To combat potential griefing, we have additionally added a feature that where the voting timer will reduce to 15 seconds if half of living players have voted or skipped. This will apply to meetings in Classic, Draft, and Trick or Treat.

We are aware that there is a bug right now where the ping will appear to have 10000 more than your actual ping. This is just a visual glitch, and we will fix this soon.

New role! The Serial Killer duck lowers their kill cooldown by successfully killing their target and increases if they kill someone else.


The Technician, Mechanic, and Snoop have been merged into the Engineer. Unlike the technician, the Engineer will only see sabotages from living ducks. They can vent for 10 seconds without being booted out, and can use hiding spots on Mallard Manor and the Basement indefinitely.

The Detective can now investigate any number of times in a round, but only once per person.

The Birdwatcher's ability now works on a toggle


Bug fixes

Optimizations

New reconnection feature!

We have added the ability for players who have disconnected to reconnect. This new feature comes in two parts. If you disconnect, you will have 90 seconds to reconnect. If you do not reconnect within 90 seconds, you will be forced into spectator mode. If you rejoin within the 90 seconds, you will resume the game. While you are disconnected, other players in the game will see you with this disconnect symbol.

Players can still interact with you while you're disconnected. For example, a duck could kill them while disconnected.


If a player is disconnected during a meeting or while a meeting is being called, they can still return and vote if they make it back before the voting phase has started. If they return after voting has begun, they will automatically skip. Disconnected players can still be voted on and ejected.

We understand that this isn't a content update and won't affect some players, but this will be very helpful for players with weaker connections. This update includes quite a number of changes so it's not expected everything will go smoothly. Please open a troubleshooting ticket so we can address new issues. Thank you for your patience and thank you for supporting other players.

*Note: We have the astral goose's ability if they're in the nexus colony shuttle as it was causing issues with reconnection

New individualized lobbies for maps! Now with individual spawn spots

New Mummy added to the Trick or Treat game mode. Players playing trick or treat will have an equal chance of getting a Vampire or the new Mummy.
The Mummy is slow, but has a fast kill cooldown. Thralls can help by grabbing into Villagers to slow them down, but can't kill unless three thralls latch onto a Villager together.
Additionally, the Mummy can teleport randomly between hiding spots, and can use their abilities to speed up or locate all Thralls.

Parts of the basement are now closed off for trick or treat, goosehunt, and dine and dash.

Bug fixes

Optimizations

New Draft Mode:
Draft mode is a variation of Classic mode where you're given more agency with regards to your role. Players are assigned a hidden Player #. On your turn, you choose between one of three roles. Alternatively, you can choose Random, which will hide your role from everyone else. This is recommended for advanced players who are already familiar with classic.

Here's an example of how it would go:

First, players are randomly assigned a number. In this case, I've been assigned Player 6. No one else knows that I am player 6.


Players pick their roles sequentially, until it gets to my turn at number 6. Between the Snoop, Sheriff, and Celebrity, I choose the Sheriff.



I wait for the last two players to pick their roles. Along the left side, I can see that 3 players randomized their roles, and also that the game will definitely have a Canadian, Pigeon, Identity Thief, Sheriff, and Snoop.



When the game starts, I get the Sheriff role that i picked.