📄︱feedback

[misty mural]

Feedback on this Discord: One way to help try and enforce the "over 18" part of #lfg-english-over18 would be to mark it as NSFW. Would probably want to clarify that it doesn't mean the games are NSFW.

[sick verge]

"As a point of clarification, the the segregation of the lfg-english-all-ages and lfg-english-over18 is just one of age, and not any other qualifier. It doesn't necessitate that one is more streamer friendly than the other, for example. The host of a game will always have the final say in who they want in, and if a player is not respecting the rules set out by the host, they should kick them. Also note that these channels have been put in place to help players find other like-minded players. We aren't going to try to confirm anyone's age, but we do ask that if you're posting in one channel that you are not posting the same code in the other."

We don't verify age, or check IDs when entering lobbies

[misty mural]

Yeah. I understood all that. What I'm saying is that, Discord will help keep the over18 list to over 18 people if you set the channel as NSFW (and you can still clarify that the games themselves are not necessarily NSFW).

[sick verge]

The whole Discord server is SFW. Host of a game lobby can maintain control of their lobby, #lfg-english-over18 is simply a space to post roomcodes

A 13 year old can check off a box that says they are 18

we aren't looking to police lobbies

offering spaces for people to connect, no player left behind

[misty mural]

Alright, but if you start to see more trouble with 13 year olds joining and posting over 18 games, where they may disrupt or be exposed to age-inappropriate conversations, then please remember my simple suggestion that marking the -over18 channel as NSFW will help with that, because it's tied to the birthday entered into Discord at the account creation process.

[sick verge]

Thank you for your feedback, it has noted. If the 13 year old's start to rile up we will take care of it

[frozen granite]

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[latent arrow]

In order to qualify for the drops streamers have to hit a minimum view hour time a month. Dhalucard was hitting those numbers before and if they stop the drops will become unavailable. They don't benefit from it if they don't stream.

The drops are there to reward their communities for hanging out and playing our game.

If you don't want to support that streamer you can choose not to follow them.

The game is entirely free to play and we want to keep it that way, streamers who choose to stream us will be able to reward their communities with drops and in turn help us by exposing the game to more players. If they don't stream they don't reward those communities. It was never intended to have content creators be vessels to dole out free cosmetics 🙂

There are plenty of cosmetics (and more on the way) to earn by playing and if you want to support the GGD creators and keep the game in development we have the in-game shop to enhance your experience.

[buoyant skiff]

Rn though, the mortician is a vanilla goose that can be shot by the assassin . People don’t usually wait to report bodies, because of vulture and of looking sus. It makes the mortician useless. You could also tell everyone your role, but that makes you a target for an assassin. It needs a buff that makes it a little bit easier at finding bodies to investigate

[timber obsidian]

nah

[latent arrow]

I find that when it goes off it's extremely valuable. I agree that in some lobbies it may be more difficult to get working. I would turn it off in lobbies with new players.

[timber obsidian]

if your group doesn't play in a way that facilitiates its usage

then dont play with it

because everyone complaining about the mortician, hypothetically if people weren't reporting bodies it could work right?

[buoyant skiff]

Yea right. But then the vulture could hypothetically win, as they can have a feast

As well as counter the mortician

[latent arrow]

Vultures don't typically eat in front of people unless they are about to win.

[buoyant skiff]

There are a lot of roles that counter long rounds, and when I mean a lot, I mean two:vulture and pigeon

[latent arrow]

I think people just try to play Mortician as a regular goose.

[buoyant skiff]

That’s what I do as mortician

I never really use my ability

[timber obsidian]

and if you're just standing over a body

and someone comes over and eats it

then they get voted out no?

[buoyant skiff]

Yea

Or they could beg to not be voted out and become a vegetarian

[timber obsidian]

none of these things sound like a problem with the mortician

[latent arrow]

I've been Mortician a handful of times and found that I almost always get information. I think its about positioning.

I try to migrate through the map in places where I know bodies are likely to be found.

I don't rush to fix lights, I go toward them after they are fixed etc.

I have little trouble finding bodies (it's about how you play and position yourself). If I see two people walk past me, I wait 5 seconds and "follow" them

[buoyant skiff]

True

[glacial kernel]

The main problem I’ve seen is that people tend to report bodies immediately, that way they won’t be called out for walking past or risk having a vulture eat the body (but that’s a different 5 page essay)
The role is theoretically really good, and under the correct circumstances it’s a powerful role (a counter to spies killing someone for claim space)
I think the main problem is that it’s too swingy, you have to find bodies first to use the role. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, and is baked into the mortician’s balancing, it makes it feel much weaker than it is because you might just not have encountered the ideal situation

I also consider it a “Claiming Role”, a role so easy to claim late game when you’ve messed up that it adds a layer of complexity onto what would otherwise be a bulletproof claim.
The role doesn’t have to be “bad” for it to fall here (Mechanic and Vigilante are good examples of this category ) but it still has its abilities in how it can be used by the ducks to weave lies by existing

[crimson notch]

It's certainly a high-skill role, especially if you're playing with people who tend to auto-report bodies. I've been in games where someone comes up to me and says something like "there's a body in the tavern, help me find a mortician!" And then we go try to find someone to read the body. Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't.

[glacial kernel]

Yeah, like most roles, when played well it’s really good, but being reliant on how other people play tends to make it hard to work with (especially in public lobbies)

[latent arrow]

We will soon be fixing it where inexperienced players find their way into experienced player lobbies

[hybrid ridge]

I think GGD is best played with friends and people you enjoy playing with rather than public lobbies full of randoms who might not know how to play the game

[alpine nacelle]

Flashlight mode results in significant frame rate loss on GGD for Android on my Razer Phone 2, and this is a phone that normally runs everything exceedingly well even by today's standards, on Battery Saver mode. I did not have Battery Saver mode enabled while this happened. I was actually shocked that the game's performance was as bad as it was until I got killed, and then everything worked smoothly again.
Is there anyone I can work with when it comes to helping the developers optimize this for Android?
The game otherwise runs perfectly in non-flashlight modes, and I don't have this issue on my Win7 potato which has about 30% of this phone's horsepower, or any other device for that matter.
Also, I'm very technologically apt but I can't code. Literally anything else, I can do well.

[latent arrow]

This is interesting and something we may need to test. Our game runs fine on Andriod so this may be a device specific issue.

Another interesting thing to note is the formula for drawing shadows in flashlight mode is actually simpler and less cpu intensive than when full sighted.

It could be how that specific model handles the thread. Or even worse that specific piece of hardware. We will ask our beta team to see if we have any of your phone models and if not we may reach out.

[bronze kettle]

Chat cooldown make it 30 seconds

[uneven bone]

Like time before messages?

[bronze kettle]

Yeah the delay is 60 second its too much

[uneven bone]

Isn't that in the settings?

[bronze kettle]

Im talking about discord

[latent arrow]

We have to put slow mode on because otherwise people spam messages.

[alpine nacelle]

The Razer Phone 2 is not a very popular phone at all, but if you need any testing done on my device, I'm absolutely willing to help. 😄

[latent arrow]

@Darren think this is the "they were a duck"

[mint mantle]

I'm noticing a bit of turmoil lately in lobbies that are set to one language (in my case it's set to English) and when I enter it is full of people speaking other languages. Would it perhaps be possible to add a feature that updates the language of the lobby based on the host so these situations do not continue and people to stop being unusually hostile despite a bit of confusion on that factor?

[latent arrow]

We can't detect what language people are speaking and we can't force language settings based on the host.

Some people like to play in Korean language but speak English

Some groups use a mixture of two languages.

It's not for us to decide or force people to use a language setting. All we can do is tell them to select their language when they create the game. If they don't do it properly they'll just have people come in and leave. They will learn eventually.

[twilit marten]

Petition to rename the Leonardo De Duck to Leonardo Duck Vinci

[uneven bone]

Leonardo Da Goosy

[near mica]

Have you put a report in #translations-report ? It might help get a better translarion.

[green spruce]

Oh ok

Thx

[silver rapids]

Right.... Falcon timer starts right as the person is ejected. Is thag supposed to happen? (Ignore if this issue was addressed already)

[viral coyote]

Yes that is suppose to happen

[sudden citrus]

ũmggggg

[uneven bone]

under general #897501703308476446

oh

[silver rapids]

Thing is. 15 - 20 seconds are taken away because of the vote out screen

[timber obsidian]

That's intentional

[uneven bone]

who made the actual discord sticker art?

They're great

[latent arrow]

One of our artists, I think it was Becca

[uneven bone]

are these people on this discord or do you guys operate on a side one

just out of curiosity

[sick verge]

we operate in our own discord to keep things organized, but everyone is in this one

[uneven bone]

makes sense

[astral chasm]

sv auto dis game. omg.

[uneven bone]

I think what my man is trying to say is that he «likes this game omg»

[pale wyvern]

Getting same role in a row isn't fun. Can we get some kind of an option to change probability of getting same roles?

[crimson notch]

Role assignment is randomized

It would be more concerning if there were NOT times where you got the same role a few times in a row

[pale wyvern]

I have no doubt that they are randomized. I am saying it would be better if role assignments are pseudo-random.

[crimson notch]

There is a mode in the works that intends to implement a draft-style system, but that will not be part of Classic Plus

[pale wyvern]

That's sad to hear 😦

[crimson notch]

Pseudo-randomness breaks the game. If I know you were a Canadian last game, if there is a system that prevents you from getting the same role back-to-back, I know 100% that I can kill you without an auto-report. I could take a screenshot of the end screen and know with absolute certainty what roles people are NOT.

[pale wyvern]

No that's not how pseudo-random works. You get slightly less chance of getting the same role. NOT 100%

[crimson needle]

It feels like the same people have been getting the same roles over and over, how come it isn't random?

The entire process is random, but it's very human to interpret patterns where there are none. If you had encountered a bug about the role assignment, it would be more likely to be an issue if it the results were absolute - For example, no player ever getting the Assassin in any of their games, or someone 100% of the time getting the Birdwatcher.
Players are also notoriously prone to exaggerate, and might interpret someone getting vampire three games in a row to being ten times in a row.
In short, the role randomization isn't bugged, your brain is bugged.

PS: I was asked to rewrite this and to also up the tone of hostility level from 2/10 to 9/10. Have fun playing GGD!

[pale wyvern]

And I am not even asking it to be default. Make it as an option.

[uneven bone]

random already has a lower chance of getting the same role

in probability

[latent arrow]

We think it would take so much out of the surprise element of the game. Its likely either going to be draft or completely random.

We will add more roles and that means the chance of getting the same role twice will go down if you select all of them.

[potent zinc]

Is it at all possible that you could remember what a users last role was in the previous game, and that it would not be the same role next game?

[glacial kernel]

a message about this

[sick verge]

I think im having deja vu... didn't we just witness this conversation?

[glacial kernel]

If it isn’t truly random, ppl are going to meta game it

No matter what

[crimson notch]

They've changed something in the Matrix

[potent zinc]

It all depends if the previous role is even stored, if it is not, then ya, not gonna happen

[latent arrow]

That's easy to do

but that causes a big problem for influence of the game and takes a ton of strategy and surprise out of the game

[potent zinc]

well, yes, and for back to back it is fine.. but getting the same role 3x in a row, with a smaller group of ppl.. its a little annoying

[glacial kernel]

Hey, no one expects the Spanish Iqu-pigeon
Especially not on the third time in a row they got it

There’s a ton of strategies you could use in that scenario
Like saying something along the lines of: “Oh thank god I got Vigi this time” to try and bait any assassins

Or doing the reverse: acting fed up with getting the same role 4 times in a row, when you actually got a different role for the same effect

[limber monolith]

I entered some rooms marked as Portuguese but everyone spoke Spanish I was called a monkey and black for being Brazilian - racism

[latent arrow]

Lots of stupid people out there. Don't let them bother you. They didn't even know their own language

[limber monolith]

I was a victim just for speaking Portuguese and asking if there was any Brazilian in the room

[latent arrow]

You are not a victim, they are just trying to show the world how stupid they were.

Even if you did speak their language, you're better off in a smarter lobby.

It would be too easy to win there. No fun.

[paper dust]

I’m Mexican but a lot of the portuguese community comes in the Spanish lobby and starts talking smack in Spanish (the little Spanish they know) most of the time we kick them out or just play along 🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽

[latent arrow]

We can't fix the people. They are just jealous that you guys have better food (yeah, I said it).

[ebon falcon]

i saw someone recommending this game from an among us review, they said it has everything among us has, but more to offer, and it's free! the download was quick and the game is actually good! there's voice chat, and there is this epic feature (fart) i love it i am so immature! i only played one match, and i will keep on playing! grape job developers 🍇

[zinc mountain]

Ty we love grapes

[topaz patio]

So happy to have you in the community! Similar story here and I've never looked back! The community is amazing and the game is so entertaining and keeps getting better and better. I love that anyone can be involved.

[dry bison]

Is there a way to help with making the lobby language more seeable when making a lobby, lately the eng lobbies are fill with Spanish speaking people.I think people are getting confused with en and es when en are English and es are Spanish.

[latent arrow]

Next patch we will address this

🙂

We haven't had a problem until recently...

[green spruce]

I was wondering if it’s possible to make a channel/ group just for chaos lobbies?

[sick verge]

what do you mean by chaos lobbies?

[sick verge]

no need to DM, we are very open regarding ideas channels (also saves us from relaying information to others) was just asking for what you had in mind.

so just chaotic settings (flashlights, whatever), I would just advertise on your LFG post you are a chaotic lobby with __________ settings

[green spruce]

Hi sorry chaos lobbies are when people just do random things as hosts for example having flashlight mode on randomly, going slower or faster changing the game to classic + to goose hunt without letting anyone know. I enjoy these lobbies I’ve just noticed a lot of people leave when people change things as hosts should cuz they are the hosts (I legit didn’t know I dm’d you very sorry still getting use to discord)

[sick verge]

dont think we need its own channel for it, we already have too many lfg channels 😅

[uneven bone]

Lfg latin is gone

This is a sad day for us

[sick verge]

latin proved to be a dead language

[uneven bone]

It was great...

[sick verge]

no one was using it

we tried, it died

[green spruce]

& yeah I was thinking that too like people should announce it as well if they are having a chaos lobby ty for responding!!!!

[sick verge]

of course 🙂 never hurts to ask

[sweet rain]

Korean version name of falcon and vulture are both two . 대머리독수리 팔콘 벌쳐 송골매 so its confusing . I prefer 팔콘 and 벌쳐 ( name on ingame, setting are different )

name faced on vote time is different

[sick verge]

can you put these on a #translations-report 🙂

[sweet rain]

ok

[coarse crystal]

Hello

[buoyant skiff]

Hello

[coarse crystal]

how are yall?

[crimson notch]

Maybe take this to #💬︱general for general chat

[river patio]

%Feedback maybe have the spawn screen tell you who you are a lover with like Hitman or Bodyguard. As a lover you either have to run around trying to figure out who it is or call a meeting.

[finite violet]

Thanks @river patio for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[timber obsidian]

we've heard that request before but we aren't quite convinced people would actually play any different

and we enjoy the moment where the lovers find each other

[buoyant skiff]

When you find your true love 😉

[feral whale]

Goose goose duck mobile can't use external mic

[uneven bone]

#troubleshooting-and-bug-reports

[silent bobcat]

ดีจ้า

[misty mural]

Some #📄︱feedback on the gameplay mechanics of Pigeon:

• 1. The snoop role seems to break Pigeon.

Snoops will often hide the entire round and Pigeons have no method to infect them. Tonight, I played a round where I had infected everyone but the Snoop, and I even jumped into the same cabinet as them, which only confirmed to them that I was Pigeon and resulted in me being voted out.

• Recommendation: Allow Pigeons to sneeze into vents and hiding spots.

Personally, I think it would be really clever if the sneeze "infected" the vents and hiding spots, and anyone traveling into or through them were to be considered infected for that round. But if programmatically, that proves difficult, it should at least be possible to sneeze through the doors/leaves/and vents when the other player is in range.

• 2. The pigeon could benefit from seeing who has been sneezed on.

Perhaps to not overpower the ability, it could be triggered as an action with a cooldown (similar to detective, but allowed infinite times per round), or perhaps by something indicating on the pound-round voting screen. (eg. changing the color of names that were infected in the prior round).

• In a very meta sense, I feel like slightly improving the pigeon role will decrease grouping up and speed up rounds. But at very least, the Snoop role breaks Pigeon, so perhaps making those mutually exclusive roles is a quick fix?

Thanks. I look forward to any feedback on my feedback.

[scarlet ledge]

I know the pigeon indicator has been suggested a few times, and the last answer I saw on the matter was that it would make it too easy for the pigeon. As far as the snoop/mechanic go, if they dont' do their tasks then the game just keeps going forever until the ducks win

[misty mural]

I concur that a live, real-time indicator would probably make Pigeon over powered. That's why I suggested the two different possible mechanics for implementing it differently.

But I do still think that Snoop breaks Pigeon in a way that is bad for the game.

[glacial kernel]

You see, that’s when you pull out the “I haven’t seen X anywhere, where were they?” Hopefully either gets them voted or assassinated

[solemn jolt]

Yarrak

[coarse crystal]

Hello is wont let me join a game it just goes to loading and it never stop so i wanted to know how to fix this problem

[crimson needle]

My game starts, but it's stuck on the loading screen indefinitely!

This can usually be fixed by changing from IPv6 to IPV4. If you are using Windows 10, click on your start menu and open the Control Panel. Open Network and Internet, and then Network and Sharing Center. On the left menu, select Change Adapter Settings. Right click on the network connection that you use, and select Properties. Scroll down to Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and un-check the box, and then select OK to save your settings.

[crimson notch]

Try this ^

[coarse crystal]

ok

[daring lodge]

I bought a starter pack, but I hope blue eyes are maintained even in ghost condition.

[cunning sedge]

The room owner should have the option to delegate leadership to another person.

[hybrid ridge]

Check #📌︱idea-channels-guidelines to have the bot send your suggestion, I think it’s a good idea. You’ll have to repost it though, editing it won’t work

[brave trench]

the ghosts are always neutral looking 🙂

[frozen cedar]

I would like the ability to add people as friends in the game.

[crimson notch]

Friends list is in development

[latent arrow]

soon come

[green spruce]

Please give an option to hide the censored real name in the start menu, because as a streamer even tho it's censored it still gives away the first letters of my first and surname and the EXACT number of letters in my name

for streamers like me who like to keep their real life information private this is a big privacy issue

[latent arrow]

You can use a pseudonym in your account details for now while we look into this.

[obtuse meteor]

you have 100 ways to block that as a streamer

[fathom heath]

Hello, my game keep stuck on loading screen, i try change IPv6 to IPv4 but it didnt work

[sick verge]

#troubleshooting-and-bug-reports we can try to troubleshoot you there

[viral needle]

I personally don’t think it breaks it. There are a lot of ways to circumvent this. Pigeons have a shorter vent cooldown, meaning you can jump in the vent early and monitor the vents until you know who the mechanic is. Once you do, you can call them out for venting and generally the ducks will take care of them because they don’t want anyone spying on them. Also once you know who mechanic is, you can prioritize finding and sneezing on them before they can get into the vent. If you can’t find them, you’re SOL for that round. They have to leave the vent to do tasks anyway. In general, pigeon’s best chances are at the beginning of the game when people are reluctant to kill in the open and the mechanic is doing tasks, or at the end of the game when there’s only a few people.

I do think sneezing in the vent when the mechanic is in the exact same vent should infect the mechanic

Maybe have it so that instead of the sneeze lighting up to say you can sneeze, a “vent sneeze” can be done anytime but sets the cooldown. Like the villager kill in trick or treat

Just so the pigeon can’t abuse it to know when the mechanic is in the vent

[naive compass]

Does anyone have this problems. When the the ducks kill someone, the body teleports to somewhere else and also sometimes the body goes invisible and some people can see but others can’t. Does this happened to anyone ? or I’m I seeing things.

[viral coyote]

If the professional duck kills the duck gets hidden. It will then trigger a report when a goose rolls up on that location

[frigid rampart]

umm.. hello...
this is more of a question than a feedback, but I've seen on multiple streams on Twitch. So I got to ask:

What is a GGD Ambassador? What does it do? and how to become one of it?

[naive compass]

Ok I already knew that. if it happens again I will send a video.

[sick verge]

GGD Ambassadors are active members of the community that have proven to be reliable sources of information of Goose Goose Duck.
They are selected by being active in the community and proving to be a reliable source of information, helping newer players out, playing with newer players to show them the ropes and so on

[frigid rampart]

oh so it's basically selected beta testers/tourist guide that is either popular in the community or very active in GGD streams

did I got that right?

[sick verge]

Basically its a member of the community that has proven a reliable source of information lol
We don't actively hunt for ambassadors but if you stream/yt/content create and a Dev/Mod lurks your channel and you seem like a reliable source of information and GGD is in your regular rotation we may reach out, if you are active in the duckscord we read everything and can see the members that are active and proving to be reliable sources of information

[frigid rampart]

oh ok... thanks Chris for the info

[buoyant skiff]

Could you make the rules in the card game stand out more. I think people are getting confused and they don’t know where the rules are

[stoic rain]

i like the spectating part of being a ghost but could you make it to where lights dont effect the ghosts because it makes it hard to see the action. You could also see who the ducks are by looking to see who has vision when the lights are out which kinda ruins the surprise part of the game for the ghosts

[latent arrow]

We tried that and it felt unintuitive

We settled for transmitting sight so you understand why someone doesn't react to something happening right near them

especially in flashlight mode or lights out mode

This was a specific design choice we HAD to make.

[crimson notch]

%idea Make it so either the Medium Goose ability or the Celebrity death alert pops up in a slightly different position, as one can cover up the other

[finite violet]

Thanks @crimson notch for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[ivory herald]

Doing my best to help with that, for now could you resubmit your idea with %feedback in front of it

[timber obsidian]

if you're using the medium ability and celebrity dies add 1

[crimson notch]

The person who had that happen tonight wasn't streaming, but I believe the Medium ability covered the Celebrity alert so the issue was that they didn't see who was killed as Celebrity

[ivory herald]

Hmm, an interesting side effect. Personally I think it adds to the game. It's not like it'll happen very often, they'd have to time it very close for them to not see at all

[crimson notch]

It's definitely a very low probability circumstance

[gaunt ember]

Just wanna say, my friend bought me among us, I only have 5 hours on the game, and like 70 on goose goose but, really goose goose to me is far superior. Thanks for the great update, besides some hiccups with sounds settings for some players, it's been an incredible update, the lounge is great and look promising with karaoke stuff, we just played 2 hours of the new cards game, and the new role is even stronger than canadian goose. Keep up the good work 🙂

[gloomy swan]

Hello I come from Vietnam

I'm a new member looking for help

[crimson notch]

What type of help do you need?

[gloomy swan]

haha thank you but i want to say i'm a newbie if i need any help i hope everyone can help

[crimson notch]

Okay, check out #lfg-vietnamese if you'd like to join lobbies in that language

[gloomy swan]

thank you very much

[honest vessel]

After the last update there were some bugs. For example, we can't vote and even though the timer runs out, falcon still can't win,...

[viral coyote]

Did the host disconnect?

Changing maps will fix this

[honest vessel]

No, he isn't. But we changed room and got few more errors.

[modest karma]

Hey yesterday me and some of my group was having minor Audio issues. I assume maybe this had something to do with the updates and might be already addressed by others. (I wasnt sure if I should make a ticket for it or if maybe its from settings readjusting. So I thought maybe I should post it here)

[buoyant skiff]

%feedback Could you make the rules in the card game stand out more. I think people are getting confused and they don’t know where the rules are

[finite violet]

Thanks @buoyant skiff for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[cerulean sparrow]

Just had a game where there was a beeping in the background during a meeting, with no apparent sab up.

[ivory herald]

Were there only three players left as one was being thrown out? Might have been a falcon timer.

[buoyant skiff]

Yea, falcon warning happens as soon as you get to the last three with falcon remaining.

So it includes when a person is getting ejected

[pure galleon]

Probl with a time in Trick or Threat Mode

Problem **

And setting cannot Save + Load

[green spruce]

I love being ghosts. So much more fun, seriously. ❤️🙏

[sweet wharf]

%feedback Yesterday me and the boys play the card game and get very addicted to it for hours. But we didn’t get any rewards from playing it. Could you make it giving some rewards from playing it like the main game plz? 🥺

[finite violet]

Thanks @sweet wharf for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[tulip peak]

%feedback Please make it possible to sit on a chair in the Relax room.

[finite violet]

Thanks @tulip peak for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[latent arrow]

@pearl basin @ripe mesa what do we think?

[ripe mesa]

We talked about this and I think we agreed it would be cool, we should also let people do this in the chairs in the lobby

I think the Victorian one has chairs at least, now that I think about it I don't remember if the space one has any

[latent arrow]

We can start with the lounge, would need to modify the goose body sprite but it could be done 🙂

Luckily for us when birds sit....

They just absorb their legs into the body

This birb has no legs

ez

[gaunt ember]

I don't know if this has been reported with the new patch, there's a small sound bug, you need to move your sensitivity or else your mic with stay open all the time.

[latent arrow]

It has, we adjusted the levels to be more natural

SO some people have their sensitivity up very very high

just need to turn it down like you suggested 🙂

[gaunt ember]

yeah some people have it at 50, never had problem before, well I say some people, it's 100% of our 20 peoples tonight, and almost everyone are at 50 sensitivity, but you move it to 49 and back to 50 and it's working after.

[latent arrow]

Ahh so if you just play with it it fixes?

That's interesting! 🙂 thanks for the feedback

[gaunt ember]

yeah sorry playing atm! yeah if you only play with it, it fixes the problem. Just wanted to inform you guys! Also, we just had a patch but haven't seen a patchnote

just some bug fixes? anything new?

[latent arrow]

No after a big patch there are a few things that we want to get sorted out so that's all 🙂

[gaunt ember]

ok thx for the fast answer, you guys are great developpers 🙂

[timber obsidian]

you're a great developer

[latent arrow]

@timber obsidian you're an answer.

[modest karma]

Hey I have no proof of this glitch. But someone in one of my games said they had a Spectator as person to bodyguard

[near mica]

Was this a player who later converted to spectator, or the spectator was chosen from the start of the match?

[modest karma]

The Spectator was there sense the beginning of the match :3 But they chose to be a Spectator that round

[latent arrow]

That's interesting we can look in to that.

[modest karma]

Yeah sadly I couldnt get a good picture of it cause theyre just not there. (And they couldnt either). But I believed them :3 So I thought Id mention it

[calm quest]

The Korean server font is not waddling.T^T

[rustic summit]

I am enjoying the game in Korea.
At a specific time, that is, when the server is crowded
There is an issue where the microphone does not work in private games.

[spiral atlas]

This is your updately reminder that #live-birds is outdated.
(Missing celebrity)

[latent arrow]

@timber obsidian delete Live birds?

[spiral atlas]

bruh.

[latent arrow]

People can just play the game and find out what's live?

[timber obsidian]

i will delete live birds or i will delete ruintd

commencing coin flip

[latent arrow]

So what did it say?

[sick verge]

Lets all take a moment of silence for ruintd

moving on

[glacial kernel]

Well I didn’t have “GGD Devs Commit an IRL murder” on my bingo card

[spiral atlas]

Who?

[uneven bone]

I've said that before, they haven't listened

[sick verge]

we heard you

[glacial kernel]

Although I guessed I could classify this under “Herbert Snapped”

[sick verge]

we read everything

[uneven bone]

;-; scary

[sick verge]

we have alot going on

we'll get to it

[uneven bone]

so you remember the time I wanted platypus stairs?

shame on me

[sick verge]

stop adding to our list of things to do

we're going to start delaying patches until we update live birds beforehand because that is more important to you

[uneven bone]

:d

😄

[timber obsidian]

in livebirds i should just say

click on the questionmark

[uneven bone]

Celebrity Goose
The Celebrity Goose has the ability to shout a noise audible only by geese upon its death. During the next meeting, they will be able to discuss of the incident. The Celebrity's ability to inform others when it dies is very useful because the Geese can rule out the Neutrals and Ducks by asking if something interesting happened during the round as real accusations or a "Bait". The meta of the game is not really changed by this ability because it is difficult to truly confirm existing claims. This geese may bring the whole lobby together by adding just a little more confusion.

[sick verge]

WOW NOW YOURE TRYING TO TAKE HERBERTS JOB?!

why can't herbert be enough for you Alex?

[uneven bone]

He never was.

[sick verge]

he works hard

[timber obsidian]

i'd use your stuff alex

but i dont think that's what i want to say

[wanton karma]

[uneven bone]

fair enough

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-yes-sir-you-got-it-you-rock-yes-boss-gif-15459239

oh

epic embed fail

[viral needle]

Just wanted to say spectating is a seriously awesome way to get geese to do tasks. I've noticed a HUGE uptick in task wins since that was implemented, whereas previously they were incredibly rare and could lead to super long games. Excellent game mechanic.

[timber obsidian]

okay

[timber obsidian]

its up

[uneven bone]

#live-birds message you're the best herbert, the most efficient

[latent arrow]

Its speeding up games

no more slow role ducking

It was part of the design, how to encourage people to do tasks = make it more fun if you do

[misty mural]

A couple of feedback points related to the latest update:

1. The "leaving will negatively affect" confirmation message still gets shown when Spectators leave, even though it's not relevant.

2. Joining a game in progress as a spectator seems to have an occasional bug. One time I was put into a lobby but able to hear, but that was only once. However, consistently it seems when joining a game where voting is in progress, instead of seeing the voting screen, you see all the players as if standing around the bell/button.

[obtuse meteor]

2 is intended and 1 is just a generic message when leaving a lobby

[timber obsidian]

this is true

[strong inlet]

My game has been bugged for a while now and will not let me play. I’m in and loading screen for a while then when I’m out there’s no play button. Please fix asap I’m trying to waste my life a little more

[uneven bone]

they are currently working on the issue I think. Some stuff in #816356997564727367

[viral coyote]

Can you create a ticket if you have not already

[strong inlet]

@viral coyote how?

[uneven bone]

#troubleshooting-and-bug-reports

[maiden sundial]

I have a tix open right now as well

[manic ridge]

Hello, we are korean users. but we cannot play the game because of infinite loading. can you check this problem?

[uneven bone]

They are aware of problem and working on it

[manic ridge]

ok thanks

[sick verge]

Please don't speak on our behalf

[sick verge]

can you open a #troubleshooting-and-bug-reports ticket please 🙂

[uneven bone]

Sorry, I will let you guys do your work

[sick verge]

no worries appreciate you trying to help, but unless something is posted in announcements if users are experiencing trouble we want to make sure we can try to help them because they might be willing to help us out to help resolve similar problems with future users 🙂

[slender canopy]

hello I'm enjoying the game but I've noticed that the Korean font has changed into a basic, somewhat bland font. Idk if this counts as meaningful feedback but I preferred the previous font. I've checked the other languages' font and it seems that only Korean has changed the font design. I'll be happy if you can look into the matter.

[sick verge]

Hello, we also liked the old font but we are no longer allowed to use it and had to change it In the future we would like to get/make a better font

[slender canopy]

ohh i see thank u for the answer! i'd also like to see a better design in the future

[stoic oracle]

hello. I have a one question. In Game, Ghost invoked sabotage. Technician check the mark based on whose position?

[mental nest]

Technician sees the sabotage area based on the ghost’s position if the ghost sabotaged

[toxic stump]

Hi I was wondering will there be any improvements or changes to user management since there is sign in required? It would help me so much to be able to perma ban people from my lobbies or retroactively block people after the game. I love the game though and have too much fun playing it thank you for everything you are all appreciated so much ❤️

[obtuse meteor]

the way lobbies work "perma banning" is not possible, they are introducing a friend's list coming soon that can help with this.. also you can turn people's sound down to 0 so when they join you can spot them as a trouble-maker or someone with really bad mic issues

[toxic stump]

Clever thank you for your tips i appreciate it 🙂

[stoic oracle]

thx to answer me

[hybrid ridge]

A friends list is coming soon so this will be possible!

[latent arrow]

Yep working on it

almost there

[static cove]

Alright, I got a little bit of feedback. I don't know what all was in the change between this week and last week, but my one friend who has a typically unstable connection last week was able to play very smoothly in the game and didn't dc even once. This week, she was dcing almost every other game and when we switched maps from Goose Manor to Black Swan, it kicked her out (she laughed at the message she got) because she was "already in that game". Not too sure what happened on it. Another issue was there were a few bad eggs in the bunch and would like to ask if there will be a blocking system or if there is one that is just hidden. Just trying to keep the bad eggs out and let the good eggs have fun, ya know? Can't keep just kicking every bad egg that shows. If there is already a system in place and it's just hidden, well I am a little blind and probably glanced right over. Sorry that this is long, just trying to let you know what is up, I love this game and want to see ya'll grow.

[latent arrow]

We literally just swapped servers last night because our third party server host has been dropping the ball.

We will be adding a friends list soon so yes you'll be able to select who you can and cant play with

We apologize for the inconveniences and we weren't exactly prepared to do it but yesterday was the last straw. We told our third party game server provider that there were issues and they ignored us.

Our players deserve better, so we rolled out our new servers earlier than anticipated.

[viral coyote]

Please clarify when this week happened. In hours if possible.

[static cove]

I was playing yesterday from 8pm EST to close to 11pm EST. Also regardless of needing to push out the new server host suddenly, there was a 95% connection success rate from what I saw. Only 3 people in the party ever dced.

[crimson needle]

Someone joined my private game and is being toxic/abusive/swearing/racist

Unfortunately, we cannot control when bad actors enter a private game, but we do empower you by providing tools to help moderate these games. Conversations that go on in private games are private, we do not have access to the audio in any way. Players themselves ultimately have control of who enters private games. You can block or mute the relevant players in-game and use the in-game censoring filter. If you are the lobby host, you can kick the offending players, and if you are not the host you can ask the host to kick them. Players who get kicked will not be able to rejoin the game unless permitted back in by the host. If the player in question is the host themselves, you and everyone else bothered by their behavior should leave and form a lobby of like-minded individuals, with your own agreed upon rules. If no one else in the game agrees with you, you probably shouldn't be playing in that lobby anyways.

[viral coyote]

Message in #troubleshooting-and-bug-reports

[fluid adder]

Thank you

[stoic oracle]

Hello. There is a need for a training system for beginners that can experience the behavior according to the job. I wonder if you have any plans to add

[crimson notch]

There is a Goose tutorial and a Duck tutorial in the game, as well as an Explore mode where you can practice the tasks

[stoic oracle]

I would like to know the sabotage missions that exist on each map.

[misty mural]

Cosmetic bug: When spectating, you can press the hide/show task button and "Duties" will open/close with a "..." just below the menu. I'd post a screen shot, but images are disabled in this channel.

[latent arrow]

There isba bug report and troubleshooting channel

[wary eagle]

interface is too big for pc

[jovial patrol]

Birdwatcher should be able to use ability to use Flashlight Vision during Lights Sabotage to increase usefulness.

[latent arrow]

It's already too strong, this would break the game for ducks.

We already nerfed it once... we don't want to go back there.

[jovial patrol]

oh my, what was the previous implementation?

[latent arrow]

Was permanently in flashlight mode

[jovial patrol]

Gotcha 🙂

[languid shoal]

Hi there! just wanted to let you know about an interaction we had last night where Medium geese missed celeb pop ups a few times as the medium pop up is in the same place, not sure if it's intentional or if one of the pop ups could be slightly offset... just wanted to let you know that was something we ran into

[timber obsidian]

thanks for the feedback

i think d20 mentioned this as well

[latent arrow]

We are thinking of slightly reworking the notification system for the medium. They are supposed to be in a trance state while they scan for the dead.

There may be some changes to the role in its entirety, we haven't decided yet.

[obtuse meteor]

Medium becomes Guinea Pig

[latent arrow]

Medium is to Goose Goose Duck as Mercy is to Overwatch

[crimson notch]

You just had to bring my main into this didn't you

[green spruce]

영어를 하지못하여 번역기로 통해 피드백을 전달하는점 이해 부탁드립니다.

[Feedback]
기술자의 능력 수정이 필요합니다.
죽은 오리의 사보타지 능력에 검색이 안되게 해주는것이 좋을거같습니다.

[변경 희망사항]

1. 기술자 능력 수정
2. 게임설정에서 기술자가 죽은 오리 사보타지 검색 On/Off

I do not speak English, so please understand that I am sending feedback through a translator.

[Feedback]
Technician's ability correction is required.
I think it would be better to disable the search for the dead duck's sabotage ability.

[Request for change]

1. Technician Ability Modifications
2. On/Off the Technician's Search for Dead Duck Sabotage in Game Settings

[obtuse meteor]

it adds to the deniability that it coulda been a ghost

to confirm it would make it too easy

[scarlet ledge]

Exactly this

I find it personally satisfying when I, as a ghost, get another player voted out by calling sabos on top of them

[timber obsidian]

그것은 게임의 균형의 일부입니다. 기술자는 보장된 지식으로 강력하게 시작합니다. 오리가 죽으면 정보가 더 이상 확인되지 않습니다.

[green spruce]

How about turning the feature on and off in the game settings?

[latent arrow]

Not our fault you chose that broken garbage heap as a main.

[crimson notch]

WOW Shawn woke up and chose violence today. In my defense, I chose Mercy like seven nerfs ago

Back in the Mass Resurrect days

[latent arrow]

Having a character that brings dead players back to life ruined the entire balance of the game.

[crimson notch]

Now they even have a character with an ability that prevents deaths! Can you believe the audacity!

[obtuse meteor]

you mean the ability that gets shot before it can prevent anything?

I mostly played Symmetra.... I trolled my team with death portals and moving torjorn's turret to taunt him

[finite anchor]

What am I supposed to do when my achievements doesn't register? I achieved 'I'm going to burn this place' today, have it on my Steam account as achieved too but my Goose Goose Duck game won't register it as done.

[buoyant skiff]

It should reload the achievement.

[finite anchor]

I have tried quitting the game and then opening, logging in and out but it doesn't seem to help. I am clueless at this point

[buoyant skiff]

Tbh, I don’t know how to help you with that. I play on mobile and steam, and sometimes when I get a achievement on steam, the achievement appears on mobile after my next game. I guess try to play a few games and see if the achievement appears in GGD.

[finite anchor]

Okay i will try that then, thanks

[green spruce]

How the heck did you find it a good idea to make Voice Activation the default 😩

[timber obsidian]

players will quickly know if there's something wrong with their mic

[green spruce]

Not always they care or listen, and everybody will hear echo, mic noise or keyboards all game. Its never a good idea to choose voice activation as default in any game. Beside that, nice game ! 😄

[scarlet ledge]

it is easy enough to change though, so I never saw it as a big deal

[obtuse meteor]

its not a big deal bro, its like you expect them to read your mind for settings

[tulip peak]

%feedback The audience system sometimes crashes and bug please check

[finite violet]

Thanks @tulip peak for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[hybrid ridge]

Your first mistake was playing in a public lobby

[karmic olive]

Selamünaleyküm

[frosty slate]

I stuck on loading screen, i can talk with people in the room but cant join. I already use mobile and steam but its still not working :(
Help me pls

[karmic olive]

Merhaba

[latent arrow]

#troubleshooting-and-bug-reports

[misty mural]

This error message shouldn't occur if I'm running the latest version (which I am, including today's patch update). It should be able to open older rooms with backwards compatibility. Really annoying choice here, devs. I can't play with my friends.

"This room is running on a different version of the game. Please restart your client or join another one."

[uneven bone]

Do you mean on discord?

[empty crow]

no in game

[uneven bone]

You do know that's not something they control? You can change that only yourself (except if im wrong and that happens)

[empty crow]

Well my name is changed.. so ya, 100% wasn't me.

[uneven bone]

Was it profanity or anything?

[empty crow]

No it was double lapped, looked like two people in one i guess they would say..

[uneven bone]

Well, I really don't know. Someone who's actually qualified could probably tell you what happened though. Never seen this happen before

[buoyant skiff]

same

[empty crow]

They stole something from me.. i hope they get the cake coming for em. (also ripo me from this game, clearly the devs hate me since they force changed my name).

[timber obsidian]

Ratduck

what was your name

[empty crow]

I couldn't even spell it if i tried lol it was that glitched

[timber obsidian]

Hey

[empty crow]

That changed it to le president

[timber obsidian]

wha twas the name you were trying to use

[empty crow]

they*

[sick verge]

(The devs have really no idea what you are talking about)

[misty mural]

Bug: Windows/Steam: switching Output audio device while in a lobby/game causes the user to not be able to hear other players. You have to exit and re-enter in order to fix it.

[gaunt ember]

The soundbug is still there, people name is in yellow 100% of the time until you go tinker with your sensitivity and after it's ok

[uneven bone]

#troubleshooting-and-bug-reports mdr

[plucky sierra]

%feedback If you die as party duck, you can continue putting high pitched voice in live players

[finite violet]

Thanks @plucky sierra for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[uneven bone]

that's simply cool, I don't even mind

[buoyant skiff]

that would be fun

[plucky sierra]

%feedback or the piched voice is like a plague, the player with that need to pass to someone to use his abilities, then party goose won't be just for fun and have an utility (then the player with that can have a balloon :D but the first (party duck) don't)

[finite violet]

Thanks @plucky sierra for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[plucky sierra]

then would be more fun :D

[barren harness]

My friends kept getting the message "This room is running on a different version of the game. Please restart your client or join another one." We all have the most updated version, friends would delete the app and redownload it, I restarted steam, tried making new rooms etc. Some could get in the lobby and some couldn't. Then when I would make a new room, members who previously were able to get in couldn't, and the ones that couldn't, could. Nothing would work! Please help!

[sick verge]

Sounds like there is a version mismatch. When v1.07 host starts a room the v1.06 can't join and vice versa
When you enter the main menu above the logo make sure it says v1.07 for everyone

[grizzled bobcat]

Hello the new septate mode is great! I just wish I could go forward and backwards if you know what I mean? Nothing like clicking through 10 people and accidentally going to far ya know, would be nice to click backwards. Any who love the game keep up the great work, you guys rock.

[barren harness]

Do you think it could also be because some members were playing via iPhone and I was hosting via PC?

[sick verge]

v1.07 was deployed on all platforms at the same time. I would ask them to make sure they are also on v1.07. Though let them know the mobile players won't see players running animation but besides that everything works fine and we'll have a fix for that soon

[barren harness]

Thank you so much for the response! Can't wait to play soon. 🙂

[ornate wind]

Please bring spectator mode back for public lobbies!
Yes I do play with friends, we prefer to have full lobbies so there's always a couple spots open which randoms join in to fill.
Also, hosts being able to switch from public to private lobbies never did work during the last update/patch. And now people are still showing as joining during public lobbies, in meetings, as if it was still spectate mode.

[green spruce]

O

[plucky sierra]

that's to the same as role reveal in public lobbies, someone can tell to someone alive whats the role for everyone, then if spectator mode have public will someone with 2 acounts, and when the match start he will enter to the lobby and see everyone, like a second free vision (Idk if you understood, im still learning English)

[ornate wind]

I understand (both your point and the language). But, the same can be said for private lobbies in all honesty.

[plucky sierra]

yep, but with a less chance (considering you are playing with friends)

[ornate wind]

Not everyone has that abundance of friends that want to play.

Like I said, I do play with almost all friends, but, we do public so that a couple of randoms can fill the spots so that we have a full lobby because it's more chaotic and fun for us all that way. Spectator mode is something we already miss like crazy. Lol

[plucky sierra]

like me, I play with people from this server, but with the most same players, and if you see someone enter to your lobby then when the match ends he go away, its suspicious, and now I have a new feedback

[ornate wind]

I assumed it had something to do with trolls that were meta gaming.

[plucky sierra]

%feedback
The host of the game can kick players who that enter to the match when it started

[finite violet]

Thanks @plucky sierra for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[ornate wind]

If it's a private lobby posted in this server though, then it's likely a server member that played and either had to go or just didn't like the company. It happens .

[ornate wind]

In public lobbies they join mid game but to them they don't actually enter. They're redirected to the main menu and told that the game is in progress.

Only the people in game can see that someone is trying to join.

[sick verge]

this mechanic could be abused. Host would then be able to kick players to win the game

[plucky sierra]

for that I put to only kick players that enter the match when it has started

[ornate wind]

But that's what part of spectator mode is for. You can join mid game and spectate.

[sick verge]

oh kick spectators, I misunderstood

[plucky sierra]

yep, like that

[timber obsidian]

just turn off spectator mode

dont share your code

done

[plucky sierra]

well, its fine

[sick verge]

Spectator mode was never enabled in Public lobbies...
You also have never been able to swap from Private to Public or vice versa...
Only way to change from public to private is from a Public Lounge to a Private Game Lobby

[ornate wind]

We were able to spectate in game.

Only once tasks were finished.

[ornate wind]

Oh public LOUNGE. I thought that patch had said hosts of public lobbies could switch to private. Not anything about lounge. I must have misread

[sick verge]

Ah so sounds like you went from a public lounge went to a private game and then were able to spectate

[ornate wind]

I read the whole thing wrong regarding the switching from public to private lobbies. My fault . Lack of sleep 🤦🏼‍♀️

But no in public lobbies we were able to spectate in game, having nothing to do with lounge. It was beautiful

%feedback Option to turn off vc in private lobbies.

[finite violet]

Thanks @ornate wind for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[sick verge]

This is the mentality when creating the two spaces:
Public Lobbies - Play with anyone
Private Lobbies - Play with Friends

If we start blending features between the two, theres no point in separating the two

[jade prism]

Anyone feel like we should have the decision to choose to have spectator mode and not have it be forced off in public lobbies

[timber obsidian]

im sure all players in public games want the features that are in private games

[obtuse meteor]

Want benefits of a private game but have no friends? Check Twitch, Various Discord LFG gaming channels, start a post on reddit, create your own and put it on Craigslist... You have options, public is just ease of access.

[timber obsidian]

want benefits of a private game but have no friends? make friends! now you have the benefits of friends

[spare drum]

I believe the party duck should make any messages in chat by the affected player have rAndom uPPeRCASE aND lOWERcaSE LeTtERS

[uneven bone]

this has been proposed if you look in the recent messages sent

it wouldn't work well in other languages

[timber obsidian]

i suppose this is subjective, but i also dont thnk this is nearly as funny

[maiden sundial]

I LOVE the fun voice! Heehee it disrupts meeting which is fun the first 283 times... but then it's like... shhh I'm trying to live here! I wish it worked during game play instead. It's quite hilarious

[manic tangle]

definitely having some audio issues with mic connectivity lately

[misty mural]

Some more thinking about balancing Pigeon and Snoop. After all, it's very frustrating to put in the work of Piegon'ing as many as 14 people and not be sus, but it be impossible to win because the Snoop role is hiding out for the entire round, every round.

Most good streamers I've seen turn off Snoop for this reason. But that shouldn't be necessary. The game should balance it.

So, besides my previous ideas of being able to Pigeon Sneeze into hiding spots and it work, I also think Snoop could be balanced out with a countdown timer, similar to Morphling. ie:

tl;dr: For example, Snoop could be limited by a timer and only permitted to hide for xx seconds. Maybe 60? Maybe 90? And then, before they can re-hide, they have to wait out a timer of equal length. That way they can only be hidden 50% of the round, at most.

eg. Hide for 10 seconds; you only have to wait 10 seconds to hide again... Hide for 20 seconds, you only have to wait 20 seconds to hide again. etc. (As long as there's a max allowed time to stay hidden per hide, like 90 seconds.)

That might incentivize more hopping in and out, which would lead to more chances for being caught, which would lead to more discussion on whether they're a duck, pigeon, or snoop.

[obtuse meteor]

have it to where if the person is in no-mic mode they constantly fart during the meeting and everyone can hear -- as if the helium went through you

[misty mural]

%feedback Limit Snoop to only being able to hide 50% of the round with timers. See elaboration in #📄︱feedback here: #📄︱feedback message

[finite violet]

Thanks @misty mural for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[glacial kernel]

Call the mechanic out in a meeting
Try to find the mechanic to infect them before they decide to vent
Relay who the mechanic is to anyone who might be a duck
Jump into a vent the mechanic is hiding in, so they get out to go push the button

There’s tons of ways of getting around a mechanic/snoop goose if you’re a pigeon, they’re all just a little funky and require a bit of confidence.

[misty mural]

Respectfully, I’ve heard all that feedback before, but I still feel like the balance is broken and needs to be improved.

Simply: I feel like allowing the Snoop to hide the entire round, every round breaks the game. My feedback above is an idea for a way to fix that.

[glacial kernel]

Snoop hiding in the first hiding spot it can find is almost never the best strategy. The best spot in mallard manor to hide early in is the leaves to monitor the lights sabotage. Also, The Mechanic/Snoop is meant to be annoying, it’s a high priority target for everyone. Geese might think it’s a duck faking it, Ducks want it out of the way so they can’t get caught by it, and all neutrals are a similar story to the ducks. The idea of the mechanic is that everyone either doesn’t quite trust you, or is calling for your neck.

I will say though, your idea is probably the most balanced I’ve seen. Giving ducks/neutrals “anti-mechanic maneuvers“ feels too specific to be included. Although i will say, if your goal is to incentivize vent/hiding spot hopping, I’d get rid of the “cooldown goes up the more you’re in the vent” I feel like that would instead add a sunk cost fallacy to how people play that, if they would have 30s before they can hide again after they leave, I think most ppl would try to wait out the entire 60/90 so they’d have more time in the vent if a meeting was called. Other than that, while I believe that the mechanic/snoop isn’t broken, your idea would be an alright compromise.

[scarlet ledge]

TBH, i have rarely seen a game where it hinged on the mechanic. There are plenty options for getting around the mechanic using their abilities. The current version of mechanic is actually nerfed from what it used to be for that matter

[waxen pike]

I partied one of my friends in the game an it caried over to when we were in the lobby i didnt know where eles to post this so im saying it here jus letting yall know.

[viral needle]

%feedback Unsure if it's intentional, but getting items and checking the Medium skill both cover the celebrity when it pops up. I heard the noise but missed the entire card because my medium deathcount covered it.

[finite violet]

Thanks @viral needle for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[wide lion]

Can you add opening up the map during meeting with the keyboard? I just automatically go to the key like in game only to remember I can’t do it

[sick verge]

you can use the map during discussion time, not voting time. We found players getting to distracted by the map during voting time

[wide lion]

Thanks for the reply. What I meant was when I press the tab key in discussion the map doesn’t open. Only using a mouse unlike the game

[uneven bone]

Yeah Chris he just wants a keybind

Oh

[drifting oxide]

Does anyone know why my mic works fine in public games but not in private games

[uneven bone]

You might want to make a #troubleshooting-and-bug-reports

[west ivy]

%feedback
some role's chinese name will cause obfuscate ,suggest to change,like
［spy］=>［密探］鴨
［mimic］=>［偽裝］鵝
［snitch］=>［監禁］鴨
some player obfuscate because their role names has other definition in other game,like spy,snitch are good player so they "snitch" their teammate in the game.

[finite violet]

Thanks @west ivy for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[crimson notch]

Please open a ticket in #translations-report with this feedback

[west ivy]

thanks

[fickle compass]

Have the goose that gets partied hear themselves partied

[crimson notch]

But then how would you do the #923651589720399973 ?

[spare rivet]

When I join an ongoing game in spectator mode, I find myself trapped within another body! GAAAHHH!! (The R button doesn't show up to switch to free mode)

Dunno if it would be difficult to add, but it would be cool if you could spectate around freely without being forced to be within a person until that first game ends, and also just hear the dead people

[viral coyote]

When joining a game in progress, we chose to do it this way as we did not want new comers to influence the game at all, that included the already dead.

[hybrid ridge]

Just sneeze on the snoop before they vent

I don't think the balance is broken. This is just a 'get good' moment or don't play with snoop

[woeful garnet]

With the spectator mode, Role Reveal being turned off should hide the roles still... just my two cents.

[glacial kernel]

%feedback was discussed in general but I feel it could go here and I could discuss my thoughts in detail : The All-ages/18+ split screws over everyone under 18 who wants to try and use the server to play games of GGD. if you frame one of them as “adults only”, you’ve basically relegated the other one to be only ppl under 18.
No one over the age of 18 wants to go to any of the lobbies in all-ages because it’s going to have the extreme wild card of having kids in the game. This seems to create an echo effect in where #lfg-english-over18 is constantly brimming with codes, while the theoretically more inclusive #lfg-english-all-ages only gets a code every 2-3 hours or so, and no one shows up to them anyways. This would be really discouraging to people who want to try proxy chat, only to have no one show up because they put the code in all-ages
I personally think that they should be in one channel, and people can just put 18+ on it if they only want adults. Or hell, just kick players who are being annoying.

TLDR:
I believe that the split of all-ages and over-18 discourages young fans of the game from being able to play the game at it’s best, because of how it gets perceived as the “Children Channel that no one uses” While I personally support merging the two channels, I’m open to interpretation on how this could be solved.

[glacial kernel]

%feedback

[finite violet]

Thanks @glacial kernel for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[glacial kernel]

Ok enough essay posting I’m going to sleep

[jovial anchor]

Hi, as this is the place for feedbacking the game, I want to say one more time about my situation. I got stucked at the loading screen since I can't log-in the game. My first thought was the network connection problem in my computer. So I DID suggestion that game mangers talked about. However, the suggestions have not resolved the problem. Also, In my computer, I can play other multiplayer games such as Among us, Overwatch, and League of legends. In other words, I cannot play Only this game although the internet connection is fine. From these results, I think this game has complicated login process. Would you guys please make the game login easier?

[glacial kernel]

They have a ticket system in #troubleshooting-and-bug-reports that’ll get you a convo with one of the staff once ones free. Should be the best place to post this as they could walk you through things and see what’s wrong

[jovial anchor]

@glacial kernel Sorry but I have alreadly talked about that. Even a few conversations, the problem has not resolved yet.

As I said, I had done many actions for resolving the problem.

[obtuse meteor]

cause they will magically fix your issue now that you decided to stop using their ticket system

[latent arrow]

We are still troubleshooting your ticket in the ticket you opened. Posting here won't help.

[misty mural]

%feedback When changing maps, the game settings should be retained - especially enabled/disabled/?'ed roles.

[finite violet]

Thanks @misty mural for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[maiden sundial]

This I a great observation. I, personally, have a 17 year old who wants to play with the "big kids" and I let her. No one knows she is under 18, because she behaves accordingly(like not talking over people or demanding attention for the entire meeting, etc). Some 18+ humans behave like that so... 🤷‍♀️

[hybrid ridge]

I let people play if nobody else can tell that they are under 18. don't tell anyone 😛 xD

[maiden sundial]

Same.

[latent arrow]

I go around telling everyone I am under 18

It works most of the time. People stop talking to me and walk away.

Win

[scarlet ledge]

huh? I could have sworn i heard a whispering in here, guess it's just my imagination

[zinc mountain]

Because you look 60

[latent arrow]

My knees are 60

[hybrid ridge]

mood

[crimson notch]

[edgy nymph]

Please change the bird observation technique to a wide circular field of view.

[uneven bone]

Not sure that Birdwatcher having higher vision fits with the flavor of the role, it was like that before but they changed it

[timber obsidian]

I like the idea of calling it a bird observation technique

BOT

[fluid trellis]

Bird observation technique should be the new name for the security system

for the cameras

[latent arrow]

Bird Observation Security System

B.O.S.S.

[crimson notch]

Fantastic. Then you could have people claiming "I turned on the..."

[fluid trellis]

Still, its a cool name.

[scarlet ledge]

I'm happy with the birdwatcher remake, when they were forced into flashlight mode originally I know many people who would just refuse to play when they were birdwatcher or go stand in front of the tram

[timber obsidian]

but these same people wouldnt just turn it off

[scarlet ledge]

no, no they wouldn't mostly because they weren't in charge of the lobby XD

[obtuse meteor]

Party Duck helium should affect their victim's chat during meetings, for those without mics. Like rainbow words or party sounds when submitting words.

[uneven bone]

I mean, we did talk about that some time ago

Wouldn't it not work in other languages?

[scarlet ledge]

been suggested several times since the role came out, the different languages does make that kind of thing more difficult

[fringe nymph]

%feedback I would love to see an additional opportunity for receiving a STONK as a craft-able item on Goose Chapel. Since I have the most difficulty with "Bonking the mouse" or "stamping documents" it would feel really good to get a reward on occasion for completing it! Thank you for listening to my feedback.

[finite violet]

Thanks @fringe nymph for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[winter vessel]

please add aim botton for duck. please!!

[crimson notch]

Aim button? Can you explain a bit more what you mean?

[timber obsidian]

what theyre saying is they want to highlight the target

so they don't misfire

to which we would reply no, we like that

[crimson notch]

Misfires are like rolling a 1 in D&D. It might be bad for your character, but it frequently makes the most memorable moments!

[scarlet ledge]

like earlier tonight, someone was targetting me and hit someone else instead, so the sheriff died, it is hilarious

[winter vessel]

Aim system before hunt. My friend and me is duck. We follow goose to hunt. But her kill me. LOL

[timber obsidian]

We like this

We like moments like this

[scarlet ledge]

Just means you gotta be more careful with your shots and not group up next to your friend if you're going to kill someone

[viral needle]

%feedback Could push to talk be default, especially after the recent update? I would say about 40% of any given lobby has open mics and background noise. This makes it extremely hard to tell who is talking. Additionally, many people are unaware of how sensitive the mic pickup is and aren’t aware we can all hear everything being said. Also, echoing happens frequently with this.

[finite violet]

Thanks @viral needle for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[obtuse meteor]

I feel people would think their mics are broken.

[serene valve]

There is also an echo cancellation option that can be turned on within the settings section at the bottom.

[carmine swan]

[green spruce]

%feedback I am an iPad user using a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. However, keyboards are not useful. I would appreciate it if you could increase the utilization of the keyboard.

[finite violet]

Thanks @green spruce for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[dusky torrent]

xoa cc

[lunar cosmos]

%feedback I think poker game should have viewer zone for player who did not join game

[finite violet]

Thanks @lunar cosmos for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[obtuse meteor]

Follow To Game Error... Took us to a game that didn't exist.

[pulsar bison]

its pretty difficult to get the dwight shirt, does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried following all the youtube tips i could find but I just cant fail it no matter how hard i try

[timber obsidian]

get good (bad?)

[crimson notch]

Fail twice, close task. Repeat until achievement get. It may take many times trying this, as sometimes the card swipe succeeds on the first or second swipe. It will always succeed on the third swipe.

[uneven bone]

I've been up to 9, just got to carry on

[plucky sierra]

#📷︱photo-gallery Just see the photo gallery

[marsh field]

great update. demolitionist really fun lol

[green spruce]

Türkish translation please?

[viral coyote]

There is a Turkish translation in game already

[green spruce]

Yes, there is. I didn't notice on mobile. @viral coyote I want to volunteer for beta testing, what should I do?

[timber obsidian]

whenever we're done a batch of beta testers

there's a channel that opens called #897501703308476446

[green spruce]

@timber obsidian Thank you for the information.

[obtuse meteor]

what do you do with used up batch?

[crimson notch]

[uneven bone]

he eats it

[broken snow]

%feedback Demolition duck is fun, but the combo of Vulture and Demo is kind of crazy since there's no way to report the feet. I've played lots of matches where geese will camp feet until the button is called, or they wait around for them to show up and eat them to vote them out. Maybe make it so that 2 pairs of feet is the equivalent to 1 body?

[finite violet]

Thanks @broken snow for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[obtuse meteor]

someone just needs to be proactive with meetings or kill the vulture

[broken snow]

This is assuming someone with a gun knows who they are and are willing to take the shot. Not everyone wants to use their meeting like this and most lobbies use a 1 meeting system. Again. It was just a feedback and suggestion. Every lobby I have played in since the update complains about having them both so I gave a potential solution.

[crimson notch]

New roles always take some time to find their place in the overall meta. Vulture may seem to have been buffed with Demo Duck, but it will be a short time before new brain wrinkles are created and players learn how to counter the Vulture in games with a Demo Duck.

[obtuse meteor]

meetings always been a vulture / pigeon clear... ducks / falcon can use it to hide bodies... a vigi can hide their kill.. a sheriff too if they survive...

to not call a meeting if pigeon has been active and its been a good bit... is a bad idea

so.. these feet are fine, just like other kills.. vulture eating shouldn't be stoppable. kills should kill, vulture shouldn't have to try to track half kills

[crimson notch]

Keep in mind that the devs have access to tons of game data and if they see a prolonged large uptick in the Vulture win rate, they will likely rebalance.

[timber obsidian]

power is also in your hands

if you really dont want the vulture to win, you can just turn it off

[little crest]

Very excited for this week’s quest

[timber obsidian]

oh

anything particular you want chonky

[stoic oracle]

hello,
I am enjoying your game so much!
I want to look around the map in the tutorial, and check the sabotage mission of the mafia.

Is it possible?

[timber obsidian]

you can walk around the maps and do tasks in explore mode

the sabotage unlock tasks are not sdhown

[green spruce]

Can we get an 18+ channel for us german people?

[little crest]

Probably something… explosive

[latent arrow]

He is a necessary evil to thwart pigeon and some ducks.

If we take away the venting > he is a regular goose, you can make those by not checking the box that enables the mechanic.

[young current]

I’m having Issues with the output audio it sounds like crap and everybody else can hear and I don’t know how to fix it also I am on an iPhone

[latent arrow]

Are you using headphones?

[hybrid ledge]

IlYas

[waxen pike]

I jus wanted yall to know if you didn't already that the doors of the private rooms in the lounge for me an my friends r glitched we cant close them nor see them but it'll still say we can use them an kicks us out but we can go back in

[latent arrow]

We're aware of this issue and it will be fixed in our next patch

[fluid trellis]

This game is probably one of the best social deception games i've ever played,
besides ss13, does ss13 even count as social deception? im not sure.
but the amount of things you need to take into account when voting,

1. are they a dodo?
2. are they silenced?
3. are they really where they say they are?
4. Should i claim my role now? their might be an assassin.

[lapis briar]

is it intentional that gravy goose deflection causes the death of ducks too?

[little crest]

Yeah, if friendly fire is on other ducks are valid targets

[scarlet ledge]

ayup, gotta pay attention

[obtuse meteor]

see I get mixed information here... some say FF has to be on, others say it doesn't... and I'm not confusing mimic with blind ducks... I've legit been told different things too much, so until I test it out myself.. It'll be a quandry

cause the role doesn't say anything about blind or mimic... purely says Gravy can only die while alone... and they say kills have to kill, so if 2 ducks were by a gravy and the gravy dies and doesn't deflect... its role info lied... if the ducks kill deflects but doesn't kill the other duck.. the kill always kills is a lie

[little crest]

Its not worded very well but advanced interactions aren’t really listed either

[latent arrow]

We like to let the players figure out the unique interactions on their own

They all follow logic

what you read is to be taken VERY literally. ie. Professionals can't report bodies and as a result can not report the Canadian.

There is no body to be found if the demo duck blows up the Canadian so there is no report.

Feet are still yummy for the vulture though. Mortician has no body to examine.

etc...

[obtuse meteor]

lol at least ya didn't prank mortician by having it say "Its Just Feet" as the role

[timber obsidian]

that would be funny exactly once per person

and then it'd just sit in the game forever, lol

[obtuse meteor]

insert 1000 random puns instead... Ooh, would it be above the devs to have an April fools day patch? You could do almost anything to prank the players for one day.

[timber obsidian]

first of all, nothing is above or below us

it's not impossible, but we always have more we want to do and not enough time to do it all

[crimson notch]

Why not just mirror a map for April fools. Could call it esooG rehtoM SS

[timber obsidian]

that seems possible

[scarlet ledge]

please not nexus XD

[little crest]

ynoloC suxeN

Oh god

[thorn badge]

Wait, will mirror map comes with mirror task???

[timber obsidian]

we will send you a mirror in real life

[uneven bone]

Frog's a vampire

[timber obsidian]

we will send you an iv bag in real life

[worldly flicker]

.0

[thorn badge]

https://tenor.com/view/john-jonah-jameson-lol-laughing-hysterically-laughing-out-loud-funny-gif-17710543

[green spruce]

[viral needle]

Would it be possible to report the feet, but not show which body was found? We had a situation where the demo was the last duck and nobody had a meeting left. There wasn’t anything the geese could do besides wait to die

[blazing palm]

You can always do tasks

[timber obsidian]

or dont use up your meetings?

i dont know how common this scenario is

[jade prism]

Just came here to say, im not a fan of the timer for when the falcon is the one of the last ones alive. These maps are big and that timer is way too short. And honestly, I don't think a timer is needed.

[sick verge]

How would you propose to handle the Falcon vs Pigeon/Mechanic scenario?

No timer would mean I would sit in that leaf pile/vent/closet all day. There's a reason behind the timer

[jade prism]

I saw someone suggest that the mech/snoop should have a time limit on how long they can stay in there. Maybe something like that could help. Or maybe make the timer longer than what it is now.

[dense cipher]

Where tr server ?

[raw mist]

We should have a colour blind mode for people who are colour blind and people with the same name join

like a setting cause before two people joined with the same name and my friend was colour blind and since the two people decided to match outfits too be and he had no idea what was going on

[latent arrow]

Depending on your gateway it could be in Germany or another city

[lucid cypress]

'' the technician can disarm bombs on people ''

''and vulture no eat legs'' its very broken

[latent arrow]

Its more broken if the vulture can't eat it (he can't win in a game with a demolitionist)

In addition, it is a wise strategy to have someone guard the legs

Also, the demolitionist kills very slow and risks dying themselves during a bomb kill

This is a benefit for them (forcing a goose to protect legs against vulture) to slow down the team a little.

[lucid cypress]

[woeful garnet]

I have a potential option to balance the demo duck role a little bit... its fairly simple. So when the demo duck is the last duck it is VERY hard to win, could we let the demo duck have a regular kill button and the bomb BUT if either gets used, stay on the same cooldown so you can only use one or the other per cooldown?

[uneven bone]

Maybe this would fit more in #💡︱general-ideas or #🐣︱classic-role-ideas?

[woeful garnet]

i mean it could fit there but this is some feedback on how i feel about the role and more opinion based rather than concept no?

[restive flume]

The Demo was a blast to play. This is a working theory, but I think if you're running around the map and not overexposing yourself with people. You can get away with the bombs. Did this one round and almost half of the people are slaughtered.

[obtuse meteor]

they could easily just shorten the explosion timer when its less than x birds alive.. 15 seconds at above 10 birds, above 5 birds ya get 10 seconds, at 5 and lower ya get 5 seconds..

0-5 birds: 5 second timer
6-10 birds: 10 second timer
11-16 birds: 15 second timer (normal timer)

[crimson notch]

I like to act like I'm doing tasks, then when someone passes by, give them a bomb

[timber obsidian]

i like to ask everyone to turn down their sfx volume

before i pass someone a bomb

[hybrid ridge]

I actually like this tbh, demo is fun but I don’t like not having a kill button. Especially if you’re in the final 3-4 the pigeon has a big advantage. Probably about to stop playing it

[woeful garnet]

i just feel like it would be a nice way to balance the role out a little. its not making it overpowered or underpowered, its the same as party, silencer, assassin, snitch, etc they all get a kill button plus an ability but the catch is that each time you kill it can either be giving a bomb or straight up murder and whichever you decide will make both start the kill cooldown timer

[latent arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/jimmy-fallon-hay-literal-hey-funny-gif-4936653

[floral otter]

In the Duck tutorial i cant leave the went what can i do?

[hot fractal]

you leave the vent

oh what CAN you do

[floral otter]

when i press L-shift it doesnt leave

[hot fractal]

you can alt-f4

and try doing it again

[floral otter]

ok i skiped the tutorial

but thx

[latent arrow]

It's a known bug on the mac right now

it will be fixed in our next update 🙂

Some users might get stuck in the vents.

[twilit shale]

It would be nice to be able to flip what side the controls are on when playing on mobile. I play on an iPad so i use the touchscreen and I’m right handed which makes it a little difficult to move and use the buttons on the right side of my screen, so it would be nice for users to be able to pick which side they like the controls on.

[obtuse meteor]

its intended

[crimson notch]

If you don't want default Goose/Duck set roles to ✅ instead of ❔

[fickle compass]

Can we add for the 18+ lobby channel for streamers or something similar to that. We had a 9 year old join us from that channel

And we were streaming

[hot fractal]

just post your code on #lfg-english-over18

[fickle compass]

We did and he still joined from there

[timber obsidian]

kick them

[hot fractal]

then posting it on another 18+ channel wouldn't change anything

the only way to get children out of 18+ channels is telling them to show their documents and only if someone actually is 18+ giving them a role that would allow them to see the 18+ channel

[fickle compass]

We did. We don’t know how they are even on discord either

That would work cause some of us were streaming and we don’t want to deal with the copa junk

[timber obsidian]

congrats

[hot fractal]

but i dont think this will be happening soon

[timber obsidian]

we're coming out with the friends system very soon, maybe that'll help mitigate the problem

[fickle compass]

Yea.

[hot fractal]

ohh really cool

[timber obsidian]

we don't plan on really doing an ID check of some sort, because i dont know of any 14 year old that can't click that they are 18

[fickle compass]

Yup. I may be a bit loopy.

12 hours.

That’s all I will say

[hot fractal]

and i dont think its the best cause i know that my brother who is older then 18 doesn't really like stuff like that

[hot fractal]

could you add it so you can not only choose to show games without mic but also add an option to show only games with mic (an idea of how it could look on #📷︱photo-gallery )

[wide vector]

I'm too thicc to vent

[hot fractal]

could you make it so the ghosts can choose if they want to watch the meeting when there's one so the ghosts dont lose progress in tasks from mettings ?

[scarlet ledge]

that wouldn't be fair to the ducks as ghosts could finish their tasks during the meeting, giving the ducks less kill time and making it easier for the geese to win

[slate compass]

But then the geese could win mid vote and it wouldn't be fair unless there was a specific role that can protect someone from getting voted out, like the assassin but they protect one person

[hexed venture]

구스 구스 덕 할 사람

한국인

[jovial anchor]

would you make settings which able to play with 4 ducks please?

the setting must be needed to prevent situation that Geese gather each other.

Even there is a party duck or pigeon, Geese tries to meet another Geese.

Or, I think there should be a duck that is able to split geese.

[crimson notch]

Meet the Demolitionist Duck 💣

[viral needle]

I think the problem with giving the demo a kill button is that being able to kill is a good way of clearing yourself as demo

so maybe at the end of the game, similar to falcon, the demo has a shorter cooldown and gets a speed-boosted bomb that starts ticking immediately

[jovial anchor]

Of course, there is Demolitionist Duck. But still It's not enough. New Duck also has to have the ability that is able to split geese.

[viral needle]

I think people forget that a lot of stuff is built into the game to prevent grouping. Pigeon, demo and party, yes. But also sabotages. Sabotages are the #1 to deal with grouping. With lights off you can kill in the group, in the fire you can kill in the group. You can go for stack kills at the light fix. If you kill quickly, geese have to split up to do their tasks or they risk losing.

Grouping happens a lot when ducks don't call sabotages and they wait to long to kill. If all the ducks play the safe game and don't kill or sabo, they shouldn't have an easier time winning because people naturally want to group and protect themselves

Grouping also encourages the assassin to take a shot

[hot fractal]

not really cause he needs to know someones role to do it

[jovial anchor]

Some goose deal with sabotages. I saw the goose that solve teh sabotages in a few seconds.

So I have a idea making a new duck called "Teleport Duck". The new duck that teleport everyone to random place by force.

[crimson needle]

Hey, I just suggested a role, can we add it?

No. Your idea is interesting, but it breaks one or all of the rules listed in the following document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JHySGkJPkCGyTxHyU1jK7XAptCkam79RRgt_j-TFOY4/edit?usp=sharing . Feel free to give it a read if you want some insight into the roles that we would approve of

[jovial anchor]

Anyway, I wish more settings to prevent grouping.

🙂

I wish there are more settings to prevent grouping.

[latent arrow]

Pigeon will prevent grouping.

[glacial kernel]

Most fire sabbos have multiple points to make ppl split up
Lights make groups unable to vouch for each other
The Demo, Silencer, and Party Ducks get infinitely sneakier when ppl are grouping
A consistent group with tons of ppl is the best case scenario for the pigeon
Most environmental kills can kill a whole lobby in one go if they’re in the right place
A Professional Duck is almost untraceable with stack kills

[glacial kernel]

That’s right, I ended grouping

Grouping is gone

<crab rave goes here>

[crimson notch]

Thanks bud

[scarlet ledge]

XD still remember when GGD was brand new and shiny, i challenged teh sheriff to a duel in cargo, the entire lobby showed up to witness, I vented them all while i was safe in the vent

[ionic light]

I just wanted to say that having private lobbies which is cool, doesn't help player base grow.. also, it makes the public ones more chaotic and that doesn't encourage new players to stay.

[glacial kernel]

Yeah, but having a random 30 year old joining the ggd game you’re playing with your family and start making innuendo jokes tends to ruin the game

[ionic light]

Its not like private lobbies are private if you just hop through discord.

[glacial kernel]

But that’s optional, private lobbies exist for ppl to play the game without randos joining, or at least have some control on what randos do

[ionic light]

Yeah obviously you are not going to publish your family room with everyone anyways.

I just found myself joining private lobbies only since public is just meh, so thats my point.

Terminating private lobbies is not my proposal tho, I jus think more thought is required for a solution here, perhaps player rating or something like that.

[glacial kernel]

They’re coming out with a friends list system soon

And an XP system is in the works

[ionic light]

It helps but I'm thinking it wont address the problem entirely.

[scarlet ledge]

been around since before the official release and all i've ever seen is the player numbers going up, so I don't see where you get that player base isn't increasing tbh

[ionic light]

Since vetran players opt for private lobbies and new ones often stuck with public ones, that's my theory.

[scarlet ledge]

I know many streamers who are more than willing to let new players in provided they have shown they can behave themselves

[ionic light]

There could've been more players regardlessly if public lobbies were as good as private ones.

[scarlet ledge]

329,971 geese killed just today, that would have been record numbers a few months ago. As far as public lobbies that's really up to the player and I understand why public lobbies are set up how they are. In a private game it is up to the room host to moderate the lobby, there isn't that kind of moderation in the public games

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, but I don't see GGD as hurting for new players

[ionic light]

It's not what I said.

[latent arrow]

We need both, private games are for people that want to have private experiences and control the flow of players through their lobbies. Public games are for people who don't have groups to play with or don't want to worry about arranging play times with their friends.

The addition of our friends list will help blur the line and you can stay in touch with players you enjoy without having to worry about finding them outside of the application.

@scarlet ledge right now about 65% of our players are in Asia Pacific and we have almost no presence in the west. Partially due to being a free to play game. Most western countries perceive F2P as "cheap" or "bad". Many of our localized reviews from those countries are: "Why would you play this game, just go buy X game instead."

We have contemplated charging for the game in specific regions and adding a free gold pack with the purchase.

In any case, both systems are needed and we will hopefully pick up more traction in different parts of the world (we're just getting started).

[hot fractal]

west is europe or americas

?

[scarlet ledge]

That does make sense Shawn. Still the amount of growth I have seen just in the community is staggering at times, especially considering the game hasn't been out of beta for over a year yet

[latent arrow]

Europe + Americas

[hot fractal]

well im happy i got before its for money xD

[latent arrow]

We've grown almost 10x since coming out of Beta and we haven't spent anything on marketing. We believe 100% of proceeds of the game - which are zero so far - should go into the content of the game.

[austere trellis]

Remove the f#cling locksmith role. It the the most absolute sh#ttiest and useless role in the entire goddamn game. It only works in one map, ONE

[hot fractal]

not true

on 2 maps

actually

[sick verge]

Settle down...

[austere trellis]

I’ve done it in all the maps and it only works in f#kicking one

[hot fractal]

it works on ss mother goose i think

[sick verge]

It is usable on SS Mothergoose and Goose Chapel

= 2 maps

and you can always... not play with it

[austere trellis]

The mother goose is a lie

[dry wind]

Also, if you don't like it, turn it off.

[scarlet ledge]

I've unlocked the door many times on both mother goose and goose chapel

[sick verge]

turn the energy down about 4 notches

[hot fractal]

ok then

[sick verge]

thanks for playing

[hot fractal]

you don't have to play

[sick verge]

its good to have opinions about roles and such, but coming in hostile is not cool

[dry wind]

Especially when we provide the tools to not play with any role you don't like.

[scarlet ledge]

i mean, they tried to post like 3 times before they worked away around it getting auto deleted

[ionic light]

Back to the original topic, I feel some additional moderation for public rooms could greatly contribute to new players experience, also friendlist and blocking as well as rating for players in general.

[latent arrow]

$$$$

Who pays for that 😦

[dry wind]

Friends list is coming this week.

Maybe.

[latent arrow]

We can't moderate it, we have to let the host do it and we give them tools to do it.

[dry wind]

Soon.

[latent arrow]

Soon

Moderation is expensive if we have to involve human powers.

[ionic light]

I mean on host end, for example autoban unwanted players by the host friendlist.

[latent arrow]

It is also subject to abuse as well. Moderators can sometimes cause more harm than good.

Oh this will happen in time. @ionic light

It just takes time to implement all of these things. Also friends lists are actually $ to maintain.

They use a lot of data calls

[ionic light]

I dont understand much about the costs and technical side I'm giving my opinion and a bit of experience from similar games I've played before.

[dry wind]

Yup, absolutely we value all feedback, and consider everything given.

[latent arrow]

Yeah when we first started we needed to be more price conscious. As our player base grows we enter economies of scale and we can start to put in Co$tly features.

Friends list was one of them.

[scarlet ledge]

And i think I was simply misunderstanding what you were saying Strawberry and I apologize for that

[dry wind]

I personally would like steam friends list integration, but I know that's extremely tricky especially cross platform.

[ionic light]

I'm not really a big fan of steam by the way, social networks could be possible for promoting but then again I'm no big fan of these either.

[dry wind]

No one is a fan of steam. It's just used out of convenience. Much like Amazon.

[scarlet ledge]

Pretty much

[ionic light]

Precisely.

[dry wind]

I personally hate digital games.

I hate not owning something I spent money on.

Like look at the Nintendo eshop. If you bought anything from there with real money, it's gone forever. Service is shut down.

[scarlet ledge]

unfortunately that is the future

[dry wind]

Say steam goes away in 20 years. If you don't have every game downloaded from your library, you lose it all.

[ionic light]

Steam is ancient though.

[dry wind]

Nothing lasts forever.

[ionic light]

Glory does.

[latent arrow]

Not in the warhammer universe.

[dry wind]

lolol

[ionic light]

Another feedback from a game I played before would be to implement community made art such which I suppose is $, like outfits and stuff.

[dry wind]

That's why my ps5, I made sure to buy the disk based console. More money, but I own the games I buy forever.

[ionic light]

Yeah well my ps4 is

[latent arrow]

The legalities around this are mindblowingly complicated.

Because we make money on cosmetics, game created art could be considered privy to share of funds. It's really complicated in the US where we are registered.

[ionic light]

Yeah I guess it make sense, unless game cosmetics would be freebies.

Or partially freebies.

[dry wind]

Yea, also imagine someone submits fan art that includes some minor copyright infringement of some obscure property, and it gets included into the game, that's a lawsuit right there.

[scarlet ledge]

copyright law is a very tricky area

[dry wind]

I could see maybe a community poll to lead the artists in a certain direction, and having influence on a pack that is created with input from the community. That could work for sure.

[ionic light]

Doesnt copyright in the US needs to hold a value?

[dry wind]

Not always.

[ionic light]

And yeah it does require careful examination either way.

[dry wind]

Say you put a Batman costume in the game for free. Then you have a sponser for the game somewhere, like.. Disney comes in and wants to do a Donald Duck crossover, because of a paid promotion with Disney, the Batman costume you offered for free, isn't technically considered free anymore. Plus they own the copyright, and can sue for unfair use, and order cease and desist letters. Otherwise you'd see a lot more free games (not fan games) popping up infringing on everything under the sun.

[scarlet ledge]

as an example, there have been many pokemon fan games that got shutdown simply because nintendo didn't like it

[dry wind]

Plus since this game offers microtransactions, the batman costume could be considered advertising, to get people to play and buy more gold.

[ionic light]

But if an artist creates their unique cosmetics doesn't they virtually own it? Assuming its not a batman costume.

[dry wind]

They do, but like I said if they create something from Obscure Japanese Anime #780 and it gets included in the game, and we're unaware, that's a lawsuit. Or even trickier. Someone creates fanart... submits it, then files a copyright for it, and then sues Gaggle for using it without permission.

There would have to be a drawn up legally binding contract with every person and cosmetic, and international laws etc, that ends up being a nightmare.

[ionic light]

Yep I hear you, I guess it would be easier to recruit artists on retainer.

[dry wind]

Yea, exactly. It's more complicated than people realize.

I've done a lost of research on fan art specifically, and that alone is a nightmare.

[scarlet ledge]

my expertise is mostly on music law, never really looked into drawn art, but I imagine there are a lot of similarities law wise

[dry wind]

If you have the interest or desire to spend a good hour on something I found super interesting that is vaguely on topic, check out: https://youtu.be/xKBsTUjd910

[latent arrow]

The rule is, if we don't pay for it we can't use it.

Even if we pay for it, if the creator is not affiliated with us and they decide to steal art, we could still be liable.

[ionic light]

I'll watch it now, it is actually interesting to me since I'm in finance and found that NFTs are extremely abusive of copyright.

[dry wind]

Keep in mind that video was before NFTs were really a thing, doesn't change the legalities.

[latent arrow]

NFT's aren't really abusive of copyright. People tend to think NFTs give you ownership. They don't. They are just digital ownership of the digital imprint of it.

NFTs without utility are garbage though.

No sense owning something that has no utility.

If Gaggle does it, NFTs would be strictly used to protect ownership of unique and limited run cosmetics.

and the would have to be low gas (to fit our carbon mission)

it would be for transparency to our users so they know we're not just printing off unlimited numbers of exclusive cosmetics

or even better, unique cosmetics

[ionic light]

I'm wondering if implementing NFTs in game could be an option.

Its a one way road.

[latent arrow]

It's one way to ensure you know we're putting the $ towards environment. It has its utilities.

We're dead set on making our game carbon negative.

Save birds IRL, kill them in game

[obtuse meteor]

Chik-Fil-A must be your mortal enemies

[dry wind]

The team has considered many options. Nothing is set in stone, always doing research, and doing what is best in the long run for the game, the business, and most importantly the players, as well as the environment.

[dry wind]

Mmmm.

[ionic light]

You sparked a new role idea.

[latent arrow]

I am personally not a fan for political reasons, I have eaten there. Their chicken is "ok".

I prefer Popeyes

[dry wind]

Eww.

All breading no meat.

[latent arrow]

Our twitter account doesn't follow chik-fil-a

[dry wind]

Mashed potatoes and gravy are good from popeyes.

[latent arrow]

I think their chicken sando is top grade.

[obtuse meteor]

i was just going for the "save a cow, eat a chicken" thing they had going 😛 aka: "Shoot a digital duck, not a real one"

[latent arrow]

We have a better version of it here in Canada at Mary Browns

but its too $$$

[latent arrow]

The whole donating to specific causes is what makes their food less appealing to me.

Not the slogan.

[ionic light]

Industrial meat and meals are exceptionally bad in the US.

[dry wind]

I don't eat much chic fil a... but I in terms of taste Spicy Chicken sandwich at Chic Fil a > Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.

[obtuse meteor]

sorry, it was a joke, ya took it a diff direction than pun intended

[dry wind]

I can get behind that, that's why I end up there maybe twice a year.

[latent arrow]

We take our chicken seriously here.

[obtuse meteor]

We have chickens?

[dry wind]

Headless chickens.

[latent arrow]

I personally don't own chickens.

IRL

It's against my City's bylaws

Apparently I am in a "metropolitan" area and that means livestock isn't cool. Chickens don't like bit city life I guess.

Let's carry this over to General

[ivory herald]

It's not that Nintendo doesn't like it, it's that if they don't sue them, they stand to lose control over the IPand potentially lose their claim to profit from the series altogether.

[scarlet ledge]

Well yes, that too

like i said, copyright law is a minefield

[ivory herald]

For those wanting an example, every heard of the product Linoleum? Well that started as a brand name and the guy that invented it didn't sue others for using his brand name, so anybody could come along and sell vinyl flooring as "Linoleum", eating into his profits (people got tricked, thinking they were buying his product when they were actually buying a cheap copycat product) and he had no grounds to stand on in court when he finally decided he did want to do something about it because the name "linoleum" was ubiquitous to vinyl flooring by that time.

[astral mortar]

%feedback Is there any plan to remove the auto-disconnect if the player's internet was interrupted? I have seen many people keep mid-game leaving due to sometimes poor and unstable bandwidth. How about waiting a few seconds so that the internet can be stabilized? I'm really glad if you are going to fix it, thanks.

[finite violet]

Thanks @astral mortar for your feedback, we'll be sure to look at it

[ivory herald]

There is already a 2000ms timeout delay, if somebody's internet is unresponsive for longer than this, waiting for them will be detrimental to the other players

[astral mortar]

thank you, its great to be informed 👌

[half quarry]

Hi everyone, I want to write how the games in CR and SK are going according to me. Regarding new players, it's not like 2 months ago when the game was very much heard about. Now it's more of a slow growth which I'm afraid will soon turn into a decline. As for the regular players, they are looking forward to the new maps and hoping it will be soon. I hope there will be some big boom that will change the progression of the game and it won't become a second among us.

[sick verge]

#socials-feed message

We have a new role and friends system on the way really soon
Then we have also announced the Mayan map is also on the way #intheworks
Last update with Demolitionist was two weeks ago and the Party Duck was the week before that. We don't plan on slowing down anytime soon

[half quarry]

@sick verge , thanks for the message I know about all the news I follow both twiter and I am one of the translators so I know pretty much what is coming. I just wanted to give you some feedback. I think it's important to improve the game.

[uneven bone]

Hello, I just got out of a ten minute discord timeout and didn't receive prior warning, could I perhaps know the reason or how I can avoid it in the future?
PS: I considered a #troubleshooting-and-bug-reports but figured this was pretty mild and not GGD game related
Also if it's about Yoshi's game, that's fair

[trail crane]

Party Duck buff idea: After using the skill on the player and the player dying with skill, he becomes a fake Celebrity that will alert all players (Gee, Ducks and Neutrals) [Ducks and Neutrals will have a party sound like a party horn] . The idea is to give more strength to the Party Duck skill and make the celebrity less strong than it is.

[uneven bone]

How about #🐣︱classic-role-ideas?

[trail crane]

Thanks

[jovial token]

👾

[coarse hull]

There is a glitch where if you kill someone as they hop in a vent or kill someone at the same time as your Duck partner where the kill doesn’t count but it still adds your kill cooldown

[scarlet ledge]

more of a swing and a miss than a glitch

[latent arrow]

It's kind of a glitch and kind of not. It's behaving as intended preventing the kill but the cooldown should be minimal

[latent arrow]

We understand that you may want to do this but in most cases people who do this are toxic/trolling/griefing games

I would suggest making multiple accounts to do this instead of trying to "Fool" other players for your own fun.

Don't add them as friends and join their games.

[crimson notch]

If you don't want them to know when you play, don't add them as friends

[latent arrow]

If you don't interact with them, don't talk, and don't add them as friends. They won't care if you join their game and play with you.

They wont know who you are.

[crimson notch]

[latent arrow]

So If I understand this correctly, you want to play with your friends but don't want them to know who you are but don't want to create a spoof account because you want to farm coins?

If you don't want to be known by people do not add them to your friends list.

You mean your friend ID?

it costs 3g because it puts a heavy toll on our database and it can also be used by people who are trying to troll/be toxic/harass other players.

You can change it in your settings.

If your main objective is to stay hidden don't add people to your friends list and don't play with the same people over and over. I can't understand why you would want to hide from your actual friends and if you do you might as well play public games with random people if making friends is not something you want to do.

I don't think I have a solution for you specifically.

No game allows you to do this.

We're not going to make an exception: a number of people will abuse this mechanic to misrepresent their identity to harass other players.

We will not "help" or facilitate this behavior.

No

[crimson notch]

Shawn has pretty clearly explained why the system is implemented as it is, and why there will not be an exception made.

[latent arrow]

Just like in Discord

I can see your UID

Whatever#6149

Yes but sometimes people do not use that function. We get A LOT of reports of toxic players abusing the nickname feature to harass other players.

This will stop it

If you join a game with people they will see your friend ID

they can add you if they want and you can deny it

in the future we will add a "deny all incoming requests" flag

if we see people abusing the friend add system

Toxic players will have their friends list privileges revoked.

Discord is actually not very good at stopping toxic people.

FYI

also in discord you have to volunteer to join servers

[crimson notch]

You also have a User ID that cannot be changed

[latent arrow]

If you never join a server and never join a chat/voice chat room no one will know who you are.

[crimson notch]

Anyways this conversation seems to be at an impasse. If you don't want your friends to know who you are, either play with other people or use another account.

[latent arrow]

Whatever#6149 I'm going to ask you stop comparing a friend ID to your social security number.

If you do not want people to know who you are beyond your friend ID you don't have to give them personal information. If you don't want them to know when you are online don't add them and don't accept friend requests. If you want to constantly change them that's ok: we are a free to play game you can make multiple accounts.

We also obfuscate the number....

Yeah we usually only peak at about 40k concurrent players and our average is roughly 10,000

I mean when you compare it to other games like Lost Ark which have almost 900k - 1.2m people playing at any time you're right.

That's how many accounts we have... There WILL be collisions. If you have ideas on how to build and manage massive databases please feel free to apply for a network engineering position ❤️

Thanks for your feedback though.

[timber obsidian]

Shawn's given you a perfectly acceptable answer but I did want to add that you should feel safe playing whatever you want

And if you feel unsafe playing any game, you should stop

We don't mean to cause you this much distress, but from our perspective we've done what we can

[ivory herald]

Nobody will know your player ID if you don't give it out

[crimson notch]

I think the key disconnect here is that GGD is meant to bring people together, and your intent seems to be to want to stay disconnected from your friends

[latent arrow]

Cookie Clicker is a good single player game when you don't want to interact with anyone, or even your own brain for that matter.

🙂

[ivory herald]

I can fully see your point, but the system is designed to help keep players safe from toxic players and other unwanted players as well as help people find each other who like playing together.

A compromise must be made somewhere, you can't really have both 100% privacy and safety

[latent arrow]

But GGD is not about being alone.

[latent arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/bird-cctv-closed-circuit-television-camera-surveillance-gif-17588799

[crimson notch]

Pigeon buff confirmed

[latent arrow]

We have multiple layers of banning people. We also have people who go through public games and look for egregious and toxic players.

Hubert bans people sometimes for no reason

[timber obsidian]

i want to clarify

we are not showing your friend ID

you are

if you so specifically want anonymity go make a second account

and dont add anyone

if your specific lifestyle is such that you simultaneously want people on your friend list that you both want to play with and want to avoid

thats not our problem

we have faith in our playerbase that they can handle these issues

[glossy oriole]

Hi, there's a problem with the Korean manager. He doesn't know what to do. Post it.
The Korean manager cursed and tried not to talk. He was so rude.

[timber obsidian]

you were spamming

and you were timed out

i think we have a problem with you

[uneven bone]

Roasted you 🍖

[timber obsidian]

더 이상 경고가 없습니다. 스팸하고 나는 당신을 금지합니다.

do you have it set that you can only be contacted by people who you share a server with you

[glossy oriole]

NO

[timber obsidian]

turn up your security settings, and then people won't dm you

im not sure i believe you

since i've only gotten complaints about you

i don't speak korean

i've empowered this person to moderate the text of that channel, and it seems you still acted in a way in which you needed to be timed out

respect this player, and respect our rules

[latent arrow]

We will keep an eye out

thanks for bringing it to our attention

I was the one that timed you out

There was a wall of text with the code pasted over and over again.

[potent zinc]

I have the same issue as @simple wasp , cant leave lobby's

[timber obsidian]

what do you see when you try?

[potent zinc]

it does nothing

[timber obsidian]

it seems to be working for me right now

what map were you in?

[potent zinc]

its happened on multiple maps

and it also happens during a game if you want to rage quit 🙂

[timber obsidian]

can one/both of you open tickets

[potent zinc]

it doesnt happen every time either.. so thats annoying.. will see if there is a pattern

[timber obsidian]

fruit loops

can you dm me your logs

[potent zinc]

and how do I get those 🙂

[timber obsidian]

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Gaggle Studios INC\Goose Goose Duck

copy and paste in a windows explorer window