Introducing Hoot & Seek
Round up your flock of friends (2-5 players) and embark into a game of Hoot and Seek! As the Owl, you'll be able to blend in seamlessly with the crowd. But beware, those pesky Snipers and Spotters are on a mission to expose your feathery whereabouts!
[h2]Game Mode Description[/h2]
The Owl must blend in with NPCs to complete tasks to win the game. Spotters and Snipers work together to identify and kill the Owl to win.
[h2]Roles[/h2]
[h3]Sniper[/h3]
Snipers are the only ones that can shoot the Owl, and rely on information from the Spotters to find their target.
Abilities
- Targeting: Enter targeting mode. Temporarily stop moving and control the crosshair to search for the Owl.
- Exit targeting mode.
- Shoot: Snipers can shoot to kill the Owl. Make sure not to shoot randomly, as any incorrect kill will reward tasks to the Owl and reveal the Sniper's location on the map.
[h3]Spotter[/h3]
Spotters help the Snipers to locate the Owl, but be aware that the Owl can also hear all communication.
Abilities
- Scan: Scan an area for the Owl's presence. A green circle will show if the Owl is in proximity, and a red circle if they are not.
[h3]Owl[/h3]
The Owl is visually indistinguishable from the NPCs in the game. They win by stealthily completing tasks and avoiding detection from the Snipers and Spotters.
Abilities
- Disguise: Select a target to disguise as. Can disguise itself by first selecting another player's appearance.
- Transform: Transform into your selected target.
- Pickpocket: The Owl can pickpocket Snipers to complete several tasks at once and to reduce the cooldown of their abilities.
- Blackout: Temporarily reduce the vision of all other players and move faster.
- Super Reset: Randomize the cosmetics and positions of all players. It has a very high cooldown, so make sure to only use it in case of emergency.
Role Updates
- Demolitionist (Duck): Bomb is now passed automatically by proximity, no longer passed by action button.
- Party (Duck): Partied players now display an icon next to their name during game play. Only revealed to the Party (Duck).
- Silencer (Duck): Silenced players now display an icon next to their name during game play. Only revealed to the Silencer (Duck).
- Pigeon (Neutral): Infected geese now show an infected icon next to their names, to help keep track of the infected. Only revealed to the Pigeon.
- Astral (Goose): Now togglable into Astral form, and has infinite time.
Quickplay
- Hoot & Seek has been added to Quickplay.
- Select game mode tabs have been merged.
Voice Chat
With the last voice chat update we aimed to improve voice chat for everyone, although the quality was better, it led to less accessibility. We've been looking at ways to mitigate this problem and have implemented changes that should solve the problem for most users. We are still working actively and diligently alongside our third-party providers to find a solution. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we work through this with these updates.
Bug Fixes
- Role Tutorial now has Drone (Duck)
- Shaders have been substituted and optimized for Mobile devices.
- Ancient Sands: Mummy pathing improved.
- Ancient Sands: Sabotage music has been fixed to no longer play through meetings and ends after meeting.
- Tastes Like Chicken: Identity thief is now correctly changing feather color upon downing players.
- Engineer (Goose): When Engineer is killed in a hiding spot, the ghosts no longer appear on map.
- Improvement to button navigation on controllers.
If you still need to contact support, please send an email with all of the relevant information (email, userid, description) to:
[email protected] or create a ticket through the website: https://gagglestudios.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
