Murder Server

[fishermatt3552]

Would it be possible for the murderer to be able to pick up a certain amount of artifacts, and then being able to disguise as a bystander?

That's a pretty good suggestion. I was also thinking of an idea to make the invis watch equip after X amount of kills. I think kills might be better though, as collecting artifacts shouldn't be a goal of the murderer, to provide fast gameplay we should be encouraging the player to start killing players instead.

Also for the disguisekit, i think it would be best to only be able to disguise as dead players, because there is no proper way to 'spy-check'. That way if he disguises as a player who was seen killed or isn't talking it'd give the murderer away.

I was thinking that after 2 or so kills, the murderer could go up to a dead body, click or press whatever button, and then disguise as that person

[Mitch]

Would it be possible for the murderer to be able to pick up a certain amount of artifacts, and then being able to disguise as a bystander?

That's a pretty good suggestion. I was also thinking of an idea to make the invis watch equip after X amount of kills. I think kills might be better though, as collecting artifacts shouldn't be a goal of the murderer, to provide fast gameplay we should be encouraging the player to start killing players instead.

Also for the disguisekit, i think it would be best to only be able to disguise as dead players, because there is no proper way to 'spy-check'. That way if he disguises as a player who was seen killed or isn't talking it'd give the murderer away.

I was thinking that after 2 or so kills, the murderer could go up to a dead body, click or press whatever button, and then disguise as that person

The only problem with dead bodies is that I would need to create prop_ragdolls where the players die, however the ragdolls could be very resource intensive. I'll look more into it.

[PembrokeWelshCorgi]

I joined murder and noticed that I was seeing a frame stutter. I thought it was odd since nothing had changed since yesterday, but I went ahead and tried a couple of troubleshooting steps for this problem. Then I changed to the prop hunt server and didn't notice any stuttering. It's only occurring on the murder server.

[Soup]

Yeah it does it for me too. Tommy also said he was having the same problem.

[Mitch]

It probably just needs a restart, it's been up since saturday afternoon and hasn't crashed (a pretty damn good uptime).
Not to mention it's been on the same map without changing.

[NerfPlayeR135]

The Murder server was recently locked with a password. Is something wrong with it?

[Mitch]

it's up now, sorry forgot to remove the password.

[Soup]

A group of us were playing for about 4 hours last night and for some reason we could only hear people some of the time. For example 3 people could hear each other but the 4th couldn't hear the conversation. Then a new person wouldn't be able to hear later. At times we all seemed to be able to hear each other. It was very odd. We didn't really see a correlation between who could and couldn't hear and who was sheriff or murderer.

[Mitch]

A group of us were playing for about 4 hours last night and for some reason we could only hear people some of the time. For example 3 people could hear each other but the 4th couldn't hear the conversation. Then a new person wouldn't be able to hear later. At times we all seemed to be able to hear each other. It was very odd. We didn't really see a correlation between who could and couldn't hear and who was sheriff or murderer.

This seems to be the voice chat plugin I made which seems to only work for a few people. I'll look into it later tonight.

Once I figure out why my test server is crashing I will have a new version up later this week for testing also.

[Mitch]

I believe I found a fix for the voice chat issues, and an updated version of the gamemode is live on the server now.
Changes:

• Potential fix for voice chat hearing dead people
• At the end of the round stats will be given about the murderer(s): Who killed the murderer (if he died), and how many kills the murderer got (if he got any kills)
• Changed artifact models to be gibs of buildables (teleporter, dispenser, sentry, and sapper.)
• Notify the player if their karma is low at the beginning of the round (I've noticed this may be broken and warn people who have good karma).

Features that I plan on implementing for testing Friday night:

• Throwable knife for the murderer. Just like in the Gmod gamemode, however you will need to hold R to charge etc.
• Pickup distance for pressing E on the knife
• Disguise kit, after X amount of kills (perhaps a ratio?) the murderers will be able to disguise as dead players.
• AFK system: If a player is deemed AFK and is a special role, the role will be rechosen and the player will be slain.
• If the murderer leaves within X seconds of round start then the role will be repicked. If the bystander with a gun leaves the revolver will be dropped.
• Last standing Bystander, a glow will appear on the last bystander, to avoid long games because they are hiding.
• Murderers should glow to each other, to easily determine who each of them are.

I also plan on adding some cleanup utilities to block voice spam in chat. Also there will be a !rules plugin and a custom MOTD with a how to play section for newcomers before the Public Open Beta.

Features can be tracked in this trello board (live): https://trello.com/c/BMGi2c6n