Hey everyone,
After compiling feedback from hundreds of threads, discord messages and the questions prompted by teasing this post, it’s finally time to give everyone an update on what we’ve been working on and share some of our plans for Deceit in 2018!
Server upgrade – Migration to Google Cloud Platform (Coming soon)
It’s an open secret that the consistent growth of new players has been an exciting challenge to keep up with, in fact with over 1,600,000 players active on Deceit and 400,000 new players this month our tech team have been working around the clock to keep as many of you immersed in the game as possible. To give Deceit a longer lasting, stable and scalable solution we’re switching things over to Google Cloud, aiming to give better and more consistent access to the game for everyone! We’ve made this a major priority and we’re expecting to finish this up sometime over the next few weeks.
Community Administration – Enhancing our community tools (Coming soon)
Partially motivated by the huge influx of players from around the globe, we’re revisiting our community administration efforts. Over December we rolled out an early revision of our in house anti-cheat, taking the fight to players who unfairly use tools to gain an advantage over others. Now we’re doubling down on our commitment to creating a great gameplay environment by adding more depth to our internal moderation tools, making your reports matter even more than before and helping us to work through them quickly and accurately. Finally, we’re rounding out the external game experience by expanding our hugely successful community moderation program on Discord. Keep an eye out for some new blue tags and be sure to extend them the same warm welcome you’ve always done as the helpful and passionate players they’ve always been.
Expanding the world – Building a new map for Deceit (Near future, a few months out)
As outlined in a previous post, we are working towards releasing a fourth map for Deceit; currently in extremely early concept stages we wanted to share our commitment to one of the most commonly requested content additions.
Over the last few weeks our designers have looked at previous locations exploring themes, gameplay and reviewing a swathe of user feedback to shape our next setting into one worth waiting for. More details to follow separately when they are available.
Growing new communities – Deceit on consoles (Far future, late 2018)
Another huge and exciting goal on our roadmap for Deceit this year is bringing it to an even bigger player base through a multi-platform console release. Many potential players have watched Deceit’s development closely, reaching out to us to request a port of the game on Playstation 4 and XBOX One both of which we are happy to confirm are under investigation for later in the year. We look forward to sharing more details on this when development begins.
Compiled feedback – Top community questions
Are you still fixing bugs or is the game ‘finished’?
I think it’s fair to say the game is better than ever before, despite that our team is still working through fixing bugs in order of priority and with respect to their frequency.
Will we see more Deceit events in the future?
Yeah, we enjoy making them and the community seems very positive about playing them so it’s on our radar.
I can’t connect to my profile and sometimes games end early, what’s up with that?
It’s a server thing and the Google Cloud Platform upgrade should take care of this, in addition to that the server change over should also address issues around users unable to start matches, users experiencing higher than normal latency during peak times and users unable to load their profile.
Are you going to stop people being able to talk at the beginning of the game before we can see who it is and mute them?
Our technical team are already working on this, I’ve personally reviewed a bunch of reports without any accompanying information and the occasional screaming has been a rather unwelcome surprise. Expect something on this in a patch note relatively soon.
Will my country get a shirt and gun like the others?
It’s possible, but we also don’t want to diminish the meaning behind the other cosmetics. Traditionally we’ve added shirts and guns to celebrate the efforts put in by community translators to localise the game, help us understand foreign language communities and assist in promoting Deceit to them.
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Sam HillsCommunity Manager
