Deceit News

Hey everyone,

On Friday 15th December, the Deceit Winter event begins! The event will last three weeks and give you all a chance to earn a unique set of new rewards and a selection of items from last year. We’re calling this event ‘Naughty and Nice’ and there’ll be two separate paths of unlocks for you to earn following the theme – Naughty for the infected and Nice for the innocents!

Hold on for hats, jump in for jumpers and come claim some coal – For this event, all you need to do is play! As you earn experience you’ll also be given special points based on whether you’re naughty (infected) or nice (innocent) which will take players down two unique paths of unlocks new to Deceit.

Similarly to our last event, there will be special loot booth tokens available during the festivities which will unlock a selection of rewards from last year’s Winter event, including the coveted Turkey Head and give users points towards this year’s unlocks.

Features:

• A history of the items that have been unlocked has been added to the bottom of the loot booth.
  
• Added links to the forums on the main menu.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the issue where diary notes were not being displayed.
  
• Fixed an issue with people being eliminated incorrectly at the start of a game.
  
• Fixed a server crash issue.
  
• Fixed a bug where players had empty hands after using the lethal injection.
  
• Fixed a bug where players could communicate while on the spectator screen.
  
• Fixed a bug where you wouldn't get a bonus mark as innocent if you left early.
  
• Fixed a bug where the enraged UI wouldn't show.
  
• The loading screen will no longer show players from the previous match at the beginning of a new game.
  
• The loading screen will no longer switch between multiple tips at the beginning of a new game.
  
• Gas in the asylum stairwells now works as intended.

Miscellaneous:

• Emblems that aren't available are now hidden.
  
• Optimised the friends list to reduce the chance of crashing when players have large friend counts.
  
• Visually updated the level, rank and reputation screens accessible from the buttons in the top-right of the main menu. Clicking your rank and reputation on the main menu now shows more information.

Features:

• The game now opens in 720p windowed mode for new users
  
• Added chat to the End Game Summary screen
  
• Prestige icons have been updated to look more appealing and progressive
  
• Updated the in-game chat appearance to better show Game/Infected chat for the Infected

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Loaded & Appetiser perks
  
• Fixed a bug where you could use the inspection kit multiple times
  
• Fixed perk points showing extremely large numbers
  
• The season 8 emblem is now hidden if you don't own it

Miscellaneous:

• You can no longer use text/voice chat when bleeding out
  
• Added a screen to notify you if you can't load your profile on first load
  
• Relocated some bloodbags in the forest and arctic map
  
• Halloween environment items have been removed.
  
• Added back the wooden tonfa

Hey everyone,

As the Halloween event draws to a close and the candy coloured dust settles, I wanted to let you in on what we’ve been up to, some of the changes for Monday’s end of event patch, and share some vague details of what we’re working on over the next few months.

Firstly, as many users will know, over the last couple of weeks our technical team have released a number of server side updates addressing user volume and server stability. As of the last round of changes, we’re confident that we’ve covered the former and are keeping a close eye on the later. In the wake of over a quarter of a million new users it’s been an interesting challenge but most importantly it’s exciting to welcome all the new members of the community and interact with each of you as you get to grips with Deceit. I’m expecting to put out a post going into more depth on this topic relatively soon.

On Monday, we’ll be ending the Halloween event meaning all Halloween tokens will be converted into normal tokens, candy will be removed from the map and Halloween points can no longer be earned making all rewards final. For players close to their next reward we’ve made things a little easier; we’re providing double experience gains for the remainder of the event meaning over the weekend you’ll be able to earn and spend more tokens generating significantly more Halloween points for your last chance at this year’s rewards.

Alongside the close of the event we’re fixing some high priority issues, adding a few hotly requested features and making some less than subtle balance tweaks which should up the ante once more. As with every patch we’ll post the full patch notes on the day but I’d like to share some highlights which I know will resonate with many members of the community.

• The game now opens in 720p windowed mode for new users
  
• Added chat to the End Game Summary screen
  
• Fixed a bug where you could use the inspection kit multiple times
  
• You can no longer use text/voice chat when bleeding out
  
• Relocated some blood bags in the forest and arctic map

This patch has been largely shaped by user feedback so it’s important to us that you keep it coming. We read every topic, discord message, direct message, tweet, visitor post and review and it’s important to us to have so many users involved, making sure we can shuffle around our priorities to work on things that matter to you most.

With so many users around the globe I’d like to extend a special shout out to the admins of various community pages who’ve helped us with hearing voices from different regions such as KaizerZ from the Thai community and Lui from the Chinese community. Without the help of so many altruistic individuals and our community translators our work would be significantly more difficult.


In addition to continuing to squash bugs and tweak gameplay, we’re focussing on some larger points of interest for the game over the next few months which we’d like to share. It’s important to remember that none of this has a specific date and it is currently mostly conceptual. Please do not flood us with requests for further details as we will provide them when they are available to provide.

• Among our top priorities right now is anti-cheat integration, we’re testing a few different solutions internally and looking at the best ways to punish users such as integration of Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC).
  
• Our environment team have been discussing and drawing up the initial conceptual stages of a new map, a key part of this is reviewing how the gameplay in the three existing maps works and what users find to be the most fun and engaging. This entire process is likely to take a few months at the least but we’ll share some more information on this when it’s available.
  
• We’ve received a huge amount of positive feedback around the Halloween event so we’re discussing how to make an even better Christmas/Winter event and give all of our fans something to look forward to over the holiday season.

Can’t wait to see the latest video content previews? Waiting for the next Developer stream? Want to share your favourite Deceit moments with us and the rest of our fans? – Stay up to date by following us on Twitter, Facebook, Twitch TV and YouTube for all of the latest news.

Sam Hills
Community Manager