OBEY

OBEY on sale this week!

OBEY is on sale for under $10 through April 7th at 10:00am Pacific — for those enjoying an extended holiday weekend, or in the middle of Spring Break, it’s a great time to jump (back) in and run a few rounds with friends in a multiplayer experience unlike any other out there!

OBEY Video!

Hello everyone!

We have a new video by jacksepticeye that I wanted to share with you all! It’s well worth the watch.

Enjoy!

OBEY adds “Watchtowers”!

Something has been missing in OBEY: a viable way to win as a snitch!
Enter the watchtower! Watchtowers are a way that robo can reliably pay a snitch to stay put and watch for attackers. It simply drops the given autopay every 37 seconds. So now there is a way for a snitch to earn a reliable income, and possibly win if he plays his hand right.

NOTE to newer players:
Sometimes new players get frustrated when a a different player plays as a snitch, making it seemingly impossible to subvert. There are ways to counter a snitch:

  • Obtain a pointer before making a break for it. If the snitch sees you and starts pointing you out, make your own arrows in wrong places to throw robo off.
  • Subvert from behind or the side of robo, grabbing items on your way to climb robo and drop down in front of the door for an instant subvert
  • Trick robo into thinking that the snitch is about to win, and get him to kill or remove/reduce the snitch’s autopay.
  • Whisper to the snitch that you will give him major cash if he lets you subvert (use /w to type a whisper)

Other significant changes include:

  • Robo’s HUD now displays what buttons you can press when you hover over anything
  • A/D no longer change autopay directly. You have to LOOK at the feedbox you want to change, or the watchtower. Hence, you can also set different autopay on different feedboxes if a map has more than 1.
  • Added Polish and Dutch languages
  • Permanent “trophies” that will show by your name if you place in tournaments! (past winners let the me or the mods know so we can mark you with some ๐Ÿ™‚ )
  • Tons of bug fixes and improvements!

Comprehensive changelist (v .44r0):

  • added ‘watchtower’ map element. It can be used to pay snitches, and draw them to a location.
  • added context menus for robo to help know at all times what keys do what
  • added autopay can no longer just be set with a/d, robo must now look at feedbox/watchtower and press a/d to set it
  • added different feedboxes (and watchtowers) can now have their autopay set individually
  • added reduced sensitivity/increased precision to robo mouse during zoom (feels more comfy now to zoom + look)
  • added reduced sensitivity/increased precision to pointer as you look down it’s reticle
  • added directional indicator to pointer arrows for robo, robo will now clearly see where a snitch indicates
  • added directional indicator to watchtowers for robo
  • added watchtower to all maps (note: all watchtower positions subject to balancing changes or removal)
  • added minerals to official maps
  • added cover in tributary near obeying areas & inreased feedbox distance to make it slightly easier to escape
  • added sound effects to main menu chat so you can hear if humans are typing or mentioning your name
  • added in-game hint “You have turned off the robot’s passive income!” if you press the powerplant button
  • added in-game hint “Autopay above 4 gives bunnies higher profit than you.” the first time you set > 100 autopay
  • added in-game hint “Your reign ended.” on subversion
  • added when dropship is crashing, the interior sound pitch of the engines now slowly rises
  • added when you are in a dropship and it crashes, your screen will flash white
  • added Polish language! Thank you Milord!!! ^_^
  • added Dutch language! Thank you Dannyiscool4! ^_^
  • added /scores command. It can be used to get the final score tally from a past match
  • added /tourney command. It can be used to get tallied score totals from past matches
  • added /playerid command. Prints your playerID (stored in playerPrefs.txt which is used to track your stats)
  • added /trophy mod command. It can be used to assign a special public rankings to players
  • added /ptt # mod command. A moderator can now force a client into push to talk mode
  • added /allmute # mod command. A moderator can now mute a player for everyone
  • added /allunmute # mod command. A moderator can now unmute a player for everyone
  • added /clear command. It clears the log text on the left of the screen
  • added better feedback to map author if they forget to add spawn points
  • feedboxes/powerplants no longer need to be associated to a robo. If association is not specified, nearest is used.
  • reduced default dropshipChanceToCrashMod to 8000, to make it a little easier to crash
  • fixed bug where it was possible to put emplacements on map elements like feedbox/powerplant etc
  • fixed bug where locked/passworded servers would not display correctly in the server list
  • fixed no ambient sound in tutorial
  • fixed rare bug where it was possible to have a recurring overtime with the money goal crazily rising
  • fixed bug in the tutorial where messages would stop popping up if you esc or tab out.
  • fixed bug where a server running a long time would spam the master server
  • fixed visual bug that if you put your camera inside robo it looks less broken now.
  • fixed visual bug where ghost placement indicators would sometimes not scroll at the correct speed
  • fixed bug where ghost placement indicators could show in the dropship
  • fixed bug where robo gun windup and winddown sounds would not play
  • fixed minor error generation on smoke and spark particle random seed
  • fixed minor visual bug in mine, light, and sensor placement indicators
  • fixed minor visual bug in dropship lights
  • fixed minor visual tweak on spark particles
  • fixed minor excessive flare update logging in game and tutorial
  • updated Unity to 5.5.1f1
  • updated NGUI ver to 3.11.2
  • lowered main menu music volume

Big Update!!

Hey everybody ^_^!!

So some big updates are just in!
Both the dropship code and the way sounds are handled in OBEY have been largely rewritten:

The main dropship change is that it no longer relies on the 30 second mark. IT CAN NOW LITERALLY BE CRASHED AT ANY TIME!
Yes, it is even possible to crash it just before it lands as it hovers over the drop area (this is very difficult to do, though). Take a look below:

The dropship monitor shows 3 things:
– The time until drop
– The chance of a normal delivery
– The “weight imbalance”

To be able to crash at any moment, the dropship ‘rolls a dice’ every 2 seconds to see if it should crash. The “weight imbalance” shows the chance to crash each tick. The ‘chance of normal delivery’ is that chance, calculated over how many ticks are left until landing.

Another big change to the dropship is that what the robot buys now spawns behind this area here:

The key to this is that anything that is behind that area counts towards the BALANCE of the ship! This area is not easy for the bunnies to reach, and therefore robo can try to counter imbalance caused by bunnies by buying more things!

Some other important changes include major optimizations in sound effects, and also that autopay can now be set up to 200ยขห

To help make clear how much a ยข directive is worth, green ยขห means 25-100, and cyan ยขห means 125 – 200. Finally, their size helps distinguish their value (bigger = higher value);

Here is a comprehensive list of the changes:

The dropship can now be crashed at any time if it exists (no more 30 second time limit).
Items bought by robo are now protected behind a barrier, and serve to BALANCE the dropship.
increased weight of bunnies (was 2, now 4)
dropship monitor now displays “chance to successfully deliver” and “weight imbalance”.
robo’s dropship timer now turns red if the chance to deliver is less than 70% (used to be red for < 30 secs)
* removed text indicator for bunnies to know if dropship was purchased by robo.
* money directives can now be worth up to 200ยข
* money directives now bigger if worth more, smaller if worth less.
* money directives that are green are worth between 25-100, cyan are worth 125-200
* feedbox can now be set to pay up to 200ยข
 * major rework & optimization to audio. Having many sounds play should have much less fps impact
* added roboWeightBias server setting, a weight modifier for things in the balance area   (default .4)
* added bunnyWeight server setting. It is now possible to set the weight of bunnies      (default 4).
* added dropshipChanceToCrashMod server setting. Higher number = more difficult to    crash dropship (default 7000)
* slightly extended dropship time over the drop area by .5 secs
* getting subverted now plays a deactivation sfx
* fixed divide by zero bug in AI calculations
* updated loading screen tip related to crashing the ship
* numerous minor tweaks

enjoy ^_^