Town Traitor Beta Opening Friday!

[Achilles]

For those of you have registered PTR accounts, tickets will be given out tomorrow (Friday) around noon CST. Classic Town Traitor will be available but Coven Town Traitor is still being worked on. The current role list is not set in stone, feel free to provide feedback.

What is Town Traitor?
Town Traitor will be a new weekly rotating game mode in which a random member of the Town is selected to secretly join sides with the Mafia/Coven faction. The Traitor will know who the Mafia/Coven are and the Mafia/Coven will know who the Traitor is. The Traitor can communicate at night with the Mafia/Coven and see their selections. The Traitor does not win with the Town and only wins with the Mafia/Coven. The Traitor will not appear suspicious or any different than their normal Town role to investigative roles. They can only be found through scum reading. When the Traitor dies it will be announced that they were the Traitor. The Traitor will maintain all of the abilities of their original role. Ex: a Traitor Doctor can heal his fellow Mafia every night.

Special Rules:
The Retributionist cannot be a Traitor.
Jailors and Vigilantes can kill Traitors without punishment.
A Jailor/Vigilante Traitor can kill town members without punishment.
When there is a Jailor Traitor the Mafia can see who they jail and will still be able to communicate with the Jailor at night
A Medium Traitor can communicate with the dead and Mafia at the same time.
In the event of a Traitor vs Town 1v1 stalemate the win will be given to the Mafia/Coven + Traitor.

[NyanIsBored]

Hey, can we still register for the ptr or not anymore?

[Achilles]

Hey, can we still register for the ptr or not anymore?

Registrations are still open

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[Cameron127]

Quick question regarding the traitor. If an amnesiac is in the game and they try to remember the traitor’s role, will they become a normal townie, or will they become a new traito?

[orangeandblack5]

A Jailor/Vigilante Traitor can kill town members without punishment.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Can they please just lose further kills rather than being able to kill up to three times?

That's a lot of power compared to almost any other Traitor role

Also I'm still concerned about Mayor/Veteran but we'll see what the role list is I guess

[Achilles]

A Jailor/Vigilante Traitor can kill town members without punishment.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Can they please just lose further kills rather than being able to kill up to three times?

That's a lot of power compared to almost any other Traitor role

Also I'm still concerned about Mayor/Veteran but we'll see what the role list is I guess

It's a chaos game mode, not ranked. Let's just see what is fun first before getting picky about balance.

[atrufflewormono]

Quick question regarding the traitor. If an amnesiac is in the game and they try to remember the traitor’s role, will they become a normal townie, or will they become a new traito?

I'd really like someone to answer this

[techyleo]

Quick question regarding the traitor. If an amnesiac is in the game and they try to remember the traitor’s role, will they become a normal townie, or will they become a new traito?

If you look at the Town Traitor Role List discussion, you will know that the beta role list does not include Amnesiacs.

[orangeandblack5]

It's a chaos game mode, not ranked. Let's just see what is fun first before getting picky about balance.

I'm not against trying things out but I'm pretty sure "evil Vigilante" is not going to be fun to play against with no guilt

As soon as they can start shooting they will, and they'll just claim some other role if necessary

Beyond that, however, this gamemode has the potential to be really really really good! I'm actually very excited for it because the focus on scumreading it has the potential to bring to the game can, if handled well, make it a better mode than Ranked for serious play. I'd encourage us not to dismiss that idea because it's "a chaos mode," it really can be the best of both worlds if we play our cards right.

[Achilles]

It's a chaos game mode, not ranked. Let's just see what is fun first before getting picky about balance.

I'm not against trying things out but I'm pretty sure "evil Vigilante" is not going to be fun to play against with no guilt

As soon as they can start shooting they will, and they'll just claim some other role if necessary

Beyond that, however, this gamemode has the potential to be really really really good! I'm actually very excited for it because the focus on scumreading it has the potential to bring to the game can, if handled well, make it a better mode than Ranked for serious play. I'd encourage us not to dismiss that idea because it's "a chaos mode," it really can be the best of both worlds if we play our cards right.

I'll be around this weekend looking at feedback. If certain things really suck I'll work on fixing them so just let me know

[GreenStar02]

For the roles that can communicate with mafia at night, will they have 2 different chats?

[Chemist1422]

hype hype

[orangeandblack5]

I'll be around this weekend looking at feedback. If certain things really suck I'll work on fixing them so just let me know

<3

[emslaya]

Hi! How exactly do we sign up for this/get a registered PTR account to try this sort of thing? This sounds like a super cool game mode and I'd be down to play a few rounds this weekend.

Feel free to just reply with a link if you already answered this question elsewhere outside of this thread. Thanks!

EDIT: Figured it out. OP Dev Achilles explains it all at the start of this thread here: https://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=108300

Howdy Townies,

Today we are going to be opening up invites for the PublicTestRealm (PTR) to help test the Unity web port and the coming Town Traitor game modes. For those of you who have used the PTR before, it is different than it use to be. The PTR has it's own database that does not share any accounts with live. If you had a PTR account previously you do not anymore because we flushed the PTR Database a few months ago.

What you need to do:
1) Go to http://www.blankmediagames.com/TownOfSa ... cTestRealm
2) Create an account (accounts will be restricted upon creation) NOTE: Do not use forums to create your account, you must use the Unity client
3) Post your PTR account name in this thread for entrance into the private beta
4) In a few days the approved accounts will be given tickets to start testing out Town Traitor

[Achilles]

Tickets going out soon!

[orangeandblack5]

Tickets going out soon!

Hype!

[Achilles]

Tickets have been given out to the over 300 people who registered to participate!

[Achilles]

In the first ever Town Traitor game the Witch made Vigilante kill the Traitor Sheriff on D1. Lol!

[orangeandblack5]

I'd be there but I'm on my way home aaaaaaaaaaa

[techyleo]

In the first ever Town Traitor game the Witch made Vigilante kill the Traitor Sheriff on D1. Lol!

I lynched Achilles lol

[jucktropy]

In the first ever Town Traitor game the Witch made Vigilante kill the Traitor Sheriff on D1. Lol!

*Sweats* Doesn't matter we won btw i lagged out with error runtime error

[joshdabozz]

@achillies i found a bug. if u click win conditions in ig, pb and pest appear in win conditions for classic in TT.

[OreCreeper]

Lol I didn't get any L

[Poirot633]

We had a Traitor Mayor, that was insanely powerful ! 2 maf + witch + Mayor traitor wiped out 6 or 7 helpless townies, even though we spotted the mayor was the traitor.

Also we experienced a bug, apparently maf could see who I was transporting at night.

[Chemist1422]

We've been having a couple bugs as well, apparently the mafia couldn't target a revived player

Also if you try to open the chat log it basically freezes teh game