Town of Salem 2 News

Hotfix patch!

Bug Hotfixes:

• Fixed "Unknown role" bug when a day kill happens with hidden roles modifier.
• Fixed: Houses no longer stay despawned if someone leaves in lobby and someone is shuffled to their spot.
• Fixed: Role icons showing as ? for all roles in graveyard.
• Fixed: Experimental chat no longer plays sound effects more often than intended.
• Fixed: Slightly increased font size of Noto Sans in chat.

Bug Hotfixes:

• Fixed "Unknown role" bug when a day kill happens with hidden roles modifier.
• Fixed: Houses no longer stay despawned if someone leaves in lobby and someone is shuffled to their spot.
• Fixed: Role icons showing as ? for all roles in graveyard.
• Fixed: Experimental chat no longer plays sound effects more often than intended.
• Fixed: Slightly increased font size of Noto Sans in chat.

Patch B.0.1.16 - 07/27/2023

Another patch, and this one comes with a ton of new game mode modifiers for you all to try out in custom!

New Game Modifier Cards

• Perfect Town - The Perfect Town modifier causes all Town members to die if a Town member is hanged.
• Slow Mode and Fast Mode modifier - Effects the amount of time players have for discussion and voting.
• Anonymous Voting - Anonymous Voting makes all votes anonymous when voting a player to the stand, and when the results are revealed.
• Secret Killers - Secret Killers prevents the role of the killer from being revealed when a player is killed.
• Hidden roles - Hidden Roles prevents a player's role from being revealed when they die.
• One Trial - The One Trial modifier will limit the amount of Trials that can be held per day to one.

Twitch Integration

• Head on over to the new Twitch section of the Settings menu to connect your game with Twitch
• With your Twitch stream connected to your game client, your viewers can now participate and help you decide who to vote for during voting phases and trials!

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• New cinematic for players killed by the Necronomicon.
• Players can no longer enter a reserved character name (such as John Proctor) during the Pick Names phase.
• Fixed spelling and grammar errors.
• Fixed styling on many spy feedback messages.
• Pressing the Escape key while in Shop will now properly open/close the Settings popup.
• Opening the Add Friend popup during a game will now show their in-game name rather than the invitee’s account name.
• Fixed issue where sending a whisper would always process the message through a profanity filter, regardless of whether you have Chat Filtering enabled in Settings.
• Fixed the NotoSans font so that switching between Berylium and NotoSans at the same font size (ie: Normal) does not have significant differences in the text size displayed.

Experimental Features

• Use commandline args to try experimental client features:
» In steam, you can right click Town of Salem 2 > Properties > Launch Options.
» Enter --args --newchat to turn on our experimental improved chat system.
» Enter --args --asynclogin to turn on our experimental login system.

Another patch, and this one comes with a ton of new game mode modifiers for you all to try out in custom!

We also are working on some experimental features that you can turn on. You can do this by following these instructions:

» In steam, you can right click Town of Salem 2 > Properties > Launch Options.
» Enter "--args --newchat" without the quotes to turn on our experimental improved chat system.
» Enter "--args --asynclogin" without the quotes to turn on our experimental login system.

New Game Modifier Cards

• Perfect Town - The Perfect Town modifier causes all Town members to die if a Town member is hanged.
• Slow Mode and Fast Mode modifier - Effects the amount of time players have for discussion and voting.
• Anonymous Voting - Anonymous Voting makes all votes anonymous when voting a player to the stand, and when the results are revealed.
• Secret Killers - Secret Killers prevents the role of the killer from being revealed when a player is killed.
• Hidden roles - Hidden Roles prevents a player's role from being revealed when they die.
• One Trial - The One Trial modifier will limit the amount of Trials that can be held per day to one.

Twitch Integration

• Head on over to the new Twitch section of the Settings menu to connect your game with Twitch
• With your Twitch stream connected to your game client, your viewers can now participate and help you decide who to vote for during voting phases and trials!

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• New cinematic for players killed by the Necronomicon.
• Players can no longer enter a reserved character name (such as John Proctor) during the Pick Names phase.
• Fixed spelling and grammer errors.
• Fixed styling on many spy feedback messages.
• Pressing the Escape key while in Shop will now properly open/close the Settings popup.
• Opening the Add Friend popup during a game will now show their in-game name rather than the invitee’s account name.
• Fixed issue where sending a whisper would always process the message through a profanity filter, regardless of whether you have Chat Filtering enabled in Settings.
• Fixed the NotoSans font so that switching between Berylium and NotoSans at the same font size (ie: Normal) does not have significant differences in the text size displayed.

Experimental Features

• Use commandline args to try experimental client features:
» In steam, you can right click Town of Salem 2 > Properties > Launch Options.
» Enter --args --newchat to turn on our experimental improved chat system.
» Enter --args --asynclogin to turn on our experimental login system.

Patch B.0.1.15 - 07/21/2023

VIP Change

• When a neutral evil kills a VIP it will now kill all of the town members.

Improvements

• Clarified that visiting a target with Pestilence gives a stack of Pestilence on Pestilence's role card.
• Clarified that War will attack a jailor that jails them on War's role card.
• Clarified that Amnesiac prioritizes remembering Town Power roles on the Remember keyword.
• Added Pestilence keyword that explains how the pestilence disease mechanics works.

Bug Fixes

• A copy of the player being targeted by the Hangman will no longer be seen during the Hangman cinematic.
• The game will no longer crash when 2 deputies shoot a horsemen.
• Fixed a bug where a deputy or prosecutor could attempt to use their day ability on a player that was killed that day.
• Banned roles displayed in popup roles list will no longer display an invalid html tag.
• Adjusted font weights, drop shadows, etc. throughout the game that had inadvertently changed a bit due to a recent upgrade of our text system.
• Fixed the size of the Submit button and label on the pick names UI.
• Fixed the description of Black Cat pet in the Shop.