Town of Salem 2 News

We are doing a quick patch to make some improvements to the Town Elder system based on the feedback we saw. Thank you all for trying it out and letting us know how you felt!

Improvements
• PlagueBearer Silhouette Added

New Player Classic Mode Changes
• Town Elder messages are no longer anonymous.
• Elder Tells now warn the player using them that trolling or metagaming using Elder Tells will result in a suspension.
• New Player Classic Mode is now active for the first 10 games played instead of 5.
• Games played to become a Town Elder has been increased to 50. Additionally, players will have to re-apply to remain Town Elders.

Our patch today introduces the Town Elder system where experienced players can be rewarded for helping new players learn!

New System: Town Elders
• New Players (who have played less than 5 games) will be placed in a special version of the Classic Lobby.
• Experienced players have an option to Earn Bonus Town Points and guide new players as a Town Elder.
• Town elders have a lobby icon (star) by their name and the ability to send Elder Whispers to players (even while dead) to help guide them during the game.
• This new version of Classic will help new players learn the basics of the game, while being guided by their Town Elders.

Improvements
• Increased curse scroll max quantity to 299.
• When using Anonymous Mode, your Map selection will now respect your map selection.
• Added Necromancer Silhouette.
• Added Jinx Silhouette.

Added 5 new keywords
• Blood and No Blood referencing the Investigator's investigate ability.
• Vote For Alignment to help explain this common strategy to players.
• Town Elder to help explain the new Town Elder system in a digestible way.
• Claim to explain what a claim is, and how roles like Ritualist and Doomsayer can punish players if they claim their exact role.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed a crash that sometimes caused the Hangman Cinematic to freeze. (Hotfixed 10/10/23)
• Kill records for stoned/hidden players no longer send down their faction (this was hidden but could be viewed through outside of the game shenanigans).
• Fixed spelling of Pestilence spelled for Refer-A-Friend popup.
• Fixed spelling issue in the No Role Reveal description.
• Fixed spelling of the Steam achievement for winning 5 games with Sheriff.
• We now prevent ranked queue from stacking up.

Our patch today introduces the Town Elder system where experienced players can be rewarded for helping new players learn!

Patch R.1.1.38 - 10/18/2023

New System: Town Elders
• New Players (who have played less than 5 games) will be placed in a special version of the Classic Lobby.
• Experienced players have an option to Earn Bonus Town Points and guide new players as a Town Elder.
• Town elders have a lobby icon (star) by their name and the ability to send Elder Whispers to players (even while dead) to help guide them during the game.
• This new version of Classic will help new players learn the basics of the game, while being guided by their Town Elders.

Improvements
• Increased curse scroll max quantity to 299.
• When using Anonymous Mode, your Map selection will now respect your map selection.
• Added Necromancer Silhouette.
• Added Jinx Silhouette.

Added 5 new Keywords
• Blood and No Blood referencing the Investigator's investigate ability.
• Vote For Alignment to help explain this common strategy to players.
• Town Elder to help explain the new Town Elder system in a digestible way.
• Claim to explain what a claim is, and how roles like Ritualist and Doomsayer can punish players if they claim their exact role.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed a crash that sometimes caused the Hangman Cinematic to freeze. (Hotfixed 10/10/23)
• Kill records for stoned/hidden players no longer send down their faction (this was hidden but could be viewed through outside of the game shenanigans).
• Fixed spelling of Pestilence spelled for Refer-A-Friend popup.
• Fixed spelling issue in the No Role Reveal description.
• Fixed spelling of the Steam achievement for winning 5 games with Sheriff.
• We now prevent ranked queue from stacking up.

Patch R.1.1.37 - 10/10/2023

Improvements
• Ranked placement completion will now also show your current Elo.
• Ranked games now shuffle players when the game start to better randomize their positions.
• Removed ELO loss penalty entirely for disconnecting (in all cases) if the player reconnects before the game wraps up.
• Improved positioning of Hangman for both Cursed Gallows and Splat.
• Improved localization for Russian, Chinese, and Spanish.
• Reworded the Return to Home confirmation popup.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed Werewolf Kill cinematic getting stuck in a weird state
• Fix: You will no longer get a randomized name and skin if you reconnect with Streamer Mode enabled.
• Fix: You should no longer occasionally see duplicate characters during Pick Names while in ranked.

Got another patch coming! Addressing some issues we noticed in Ranked and how the lobby works differently from normal games.

Improvements
• Ranked placement completion will now also show your current Elo.
• Ranked games now shuffle players when the game start to better randomize their positions.
• Removed ELO loss penalty entirely for disconnecting (in all cases) if the player reconnects before the game wraps up.
• Improved positioning of Hangman for both Cursed Gallows and Splat.
• Improved localization for Russian, Chinese, and Spanish.
• Reworded the Return to Home confirmation popup.

Bug Fixes
• Fixed Werewolf Kill cinematic getting stuck in a weird state
• Fix: You will no longer get a randomized name and skin if you reconnect with Streamer Mode enabled.
• Fix: You should no longer occasionally see duplicate characters during Pick Names while in ranked.