Stars and Planets Update
Hey guys, Stars and planets update is here 🥳 Quick summary:
- Wolvesville on Steam!
- New roles: siren and reworked fortune teller
- Inventory organization tools & outfit sharing
- Buffed bully & reworked storm wolf
- Honor rework
Keep reading below for more details. Happy hunting! 🐺
Wolvesville on Steam!
Wolvesville has been released for PC on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2502760/Wolvesville/
The Steam version is identical to the Web version with two noteworthy changes:
- Steam achievements: 37 achievements ready to be unlocked, some easier than others 😉
- Integration with the Steam SDK: your friends will see you playing Wolvesville and you can use your Steam wallet to purchase outfits in-game.
Credits for the trailer go to hypostein, checkout his videos on YouTube, cool stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/@hypostein
New roles
🦐Siren (advanced arsonist): at night, select three players to entrance. The next night you can kill up to two of these players. The night after that, you can either kill one more player, or entrance three new players. If you are killed, entranced players will be killed as well.
🃏Fortune teller (advanced loudmouth): you have two cards which you can give to other players at night. These players can use these cards to reveal their roles. Non villagers can choose to reveal themselves as a different role.
Fortune teller isn’t strictly new but has been sitting on the sidelines for a while now. The previous fortune teller was heavily overpowered, we are hoping this version is much closer in strength to loud mouth 💪
For those that have been playing sandbox: toxic wolf and lurker are still work in progress, hoping to have these released next season! 🙏
Both roles are available now and can be unlocked via cards.
Inventory organization
If you have many items in your inventory you probably know the pain of having to scroll through long lists, all to hunt down that one cool hat from BP season 13. This update contains a few tools to help you with that:
- Filter to show new items only: you can choose to only show items that have been added to your inventory in the last 6, 12, or 24 hours, or the last 7 or 14 days
- Option to mark items as favorites and have those always be visible first.
- Option to increase / decrease the number of columns. Having 6 columns visible on mobile is such a huge improvement … if you have good eyes 😅
Outfit sharing
… is now a thing! All outfits have a short code that can be used to share that exact outfit with other players. The recipient still needs to own all items to be able to actually equip the outfit though.
Role changes
- Bully: has unlimited rocks to throw and can kill twice per game.
- Storm wolf: all abilities have been merged into a single ability that can be used twice. Using this ability will
- shuffle the position of all living players
- hide votes of the day
- delete all messages from the day chat
- clear all player notes (card perk)
Honor rework
BP season 30 introduced the concept of “honor”: vote for good players at the end of a game, receive honor points, unlock rewards 🏆 At the end of season 30 we asked you what should happen to honor, and the majority voted “remove honor” 🙈
Consequently in BP season 31 honor was removed. At the same time we started interviewing players about the “why”. After all, everybody likes rewards, so more honor rewards is good for everybody? Right? Riiight? 🤔
Turns out, that while the idea of rewards for playing well was universally liked, “cheating” the system by asking for H4H (“honor for honor”) turned out to be much more effective than actually putting in the work of playing well. This in turn lead to resentment within the community and to the “occasional” game throwing for honor trades 🙈
Okay, that’s not what we wanted 😅
We didn’t want to give up on the idea of honor just yet. So, this season we are introducing honor 2.0:
- Rewards: the previous honor season contained cards, perk vouchers and profile frames as rewards. These were high value rewards which in turn created a lot of pressure to beat (cheat?) the system to unlock these rewards fast. To remove some of this pressure all rewards have been replaced by regular avatar items. If you unlock them that’s great. If not, no biggie.
- Progression: is now completely hidden. Again this is meant to remove some of the pressure of knowing how fast you are progressing, but is also aimed at making the whole system less transparent and hence much more difficult to grind. We don’t want you to worry about your honor progress. Just play and good things (honor) will come your way 😊
- H4H: will be punished by giving you little to zero honor, possibly hard locking your honor progress. You will not be banned for this, it will prevent you from increasing your honor level though.
- “Playing well”: while you can still honor other players at the end of a match, you now also receive honor for playing good games. We won’t publish how this works exactly (to avoid abuse), just know that you don’t need to worry about others honoring you too much.
Honor season 2 will start Monday September 4th and will run until the end of BP season 32. Just like last time we’ll take stock at the end of the season to see if this variant is any more fun than the previous season 😊
Other stuff
- Public API: can be used to post clan announcement and read clan quest votes
- Option to mass favorite / delete friends from your friends list (long click to activate)
- Option to kick players from friend games (similar to custom games)
- Two-way advanced role selection: games with fixed advanced role setups will allow selecting the base role when a proper card has been equipped
- Player notes card perk: notes are no longer lost when restarting the app
- Option to auto-equip talismans for challenges
Please let us know your thoughts and comments, we would love to hear from you! 😊 Talk to us on Discord at https://discord.gg/wolvesville
Thank you for reading and happy hunting! 🐺