Town of Salem 2

First game was pretty fun, remember playing it almost every night years ago. However this one is just full of toxic players, you have to know what every single one of the like 100 roles do or you just get hanged, called a thrower or told to never play the game again. You need to play the game to learn it but you're not actually allowed to do that. Hard pass for me, unfortunately.

Overrun with throwers. Devs focused on monetization over balance. Impossible to learn for a new person.

I am torn on this game like how the devs did that to their player base. You used to be able to get into ranked games in ToS 1 fairly quickly and it was lively in most game modes, now the game is fairly dead and the only gamemode with decent queue times is Any All. This game isn't very different, the majority of game modes that have players is Any All, harder to get a full lobby for standard or ranked (which I haven't been able to play in ToS 2). I think the devs ruined a good game with a small player base, dividing it into two, even smaller player bases causing a decrease in user engagement and experience.

There is a lot to be said about this game, and while it has potential for recovery, in it's current state the game is not great for new or existing players [h2] Balance [/h2] The balance of this game as it stands currently leaves a lot to be desired, there is far too much killpower so the games end way too quickly which screws over all the slower roles. While roles like Seer and Jailor have been overpowered since the game's launch and remain virtually unchanged while weak roles like Coroner have yet to be fixed so that they're actually useful, with town as a whole continues to be far too powerful. This would be fine if the devs were taking steps to mitigate these issues, however, these changes come too slowly, and even if they do hit the mark, the same update generally causes more issues. For example, in the season 5 update, while Rit, Wildling, Monarch, Socialite, PM, and admirer all got well needed changes, only two of those roles is actually in a good position balance wise (Socialite & Rit) while the Neutral Apocalypse faction got buffed while already being far more powerful than the other evil factions which has only exacerbated the overall balance issues [h2] Community and the New Player Experience [/h2] Where to start on this one, originally the game had a casual mode designed for new players to learn the game, and while not great, it somewhat worked. The Devs recently removed casual to rework it, which in of itself is fine, but when casual was readded, it was no longer a tutorial mode and instead meant for experienced players. So while the new casual is a great addition, it does nothing for helping new players and instead forces them to jump straight into the deep end. While the newly added guide should theoretically help with this, it has a variety of issues. For one, who is looking in [i] SETTINGS [/i] to find a guide on how to play the game, like why was it even put here??? But, even if people do find the guide, not only does it not really replace hands on experience, large chunks of information was out of date at the guide's release, combined with the keywords with have been out of date for who knows how long, the devs are basically feeding new players false information. [h2] The Bugs [/h2] While a smaller issue, the game is riddled with bugs that have been around longer than multiple roles, like ability usage counting as spam or a RAM leak issue regarding keywords that causes even a few to start to devour your RAM or the soft word filter just not applying in whispers [h2] Conclusion [/h2] Overall, I do not recommend paying money for any tier of the deed while the game continues to be in this state. If you do want to try the game, just use the free version, however, you will basically only roll evil because of paying players getting scrolls and the tome Also I don't recommend interacting with the official Discord much because it's a pretty hostile environment between the ragebaiters, doxers and random bans

Genuinely the worst player base in all of gaming. The game would be decent in a vacuum, but almost every player you will come across either gamethrows, spams literal nazi shit (how are common hate speech terms not filtered???), quits every game without their favorite role, or griefs. Not worth the cost of free.

I really like the game, I feel it is better than ToS1 in my opinion, most people tend to be nice (Unless you insult them for no reason), the game might not be for everyone, but I like it Also Common Curtis L

Too many gamethrowers and toxic players. I was in a full cov game, straight away potion master reveals everyone. In another game, it was my first time as sheriff, guess what happened? Vet N2 goes on alert when I was gonna search them. I die, everyone calls me trash.

There is just too much to remember for it to be fun anymore. Roles being constantly changed does not help either. I used to have a decent understanding of every roles interaction and uses, but since then I had lost interest in the game. Recently I decided to come back to it, but it is just too overwhelming for returning or newer players as of now. The community has grown considerably worse over time with more trolls, leaving, and downright hostility towards anyone.

very fun game, new studio has been very consistent with updates and has shown the community theyre worth being trusted. fun new updates have since been implemented in the game and i do love the new roles/reworks. i hope more roles from the old town of salem can come into this game as well!!! i do wish more people would play this game like they used to, its hard not having anyone play ranked or the extra town of salem modes from BetterTOS2.

Got permanently banned with no prior warning for anti-white racism. Yes. I made a joke about people who live in the first world and I got permanently banned. I have had no other infractions in the 800 hours I've played this game. The explanation I got from the team for why I was banned when I contested it was very obviously AI generated because it made no sense, and also I made very similar jokes throughout my time playing the game and it was never called into question. The only thing I ACTUALLY did different was I recently put in my will (which is a thing in the game which shows up to other players when you die) a statement asking players to contact a British government office about the Madleen, a UK flagged ship whose passengers were kidnapped by Israel in international waters. It's possible someone on the mod team is a zionist and decided they wanted to ban me over this but couldn't use it as an excuse so decided that anti-white racism was a permabannable offense. Or maybe the mod was one of those Afrikaaner "refugees" that the US president brought to Amerikkka.

Horrible permalock. You get perma locked due to bad discretion by moderation that can suddenly deem if your messages are spam because people mass report you to take your messages out of context. Community keeps going downhill, and they will never reach the success of the original, as they bloat it with more roles. I should be refunded if I can't even play it, horrible devs either way.

Bans you for "abusive chat" if you say anything even non hateful words about any distict group especally anything about the LGBTQIA+ community

The game developers have changed hands multiple times in the two years or so that I've owned this title. They are CONSTANTLY fidgeting with the roles such that if you do not play for a week or two you're immediately rumbled, and the last straw is I log in and I'm banned for "abusive chat." No idea what they're on about but I've finally had it. It was a pleasant distraction initially now it's just rubbish.

you can be banned permanently without any previous bans or warnings to indicate your doing something wrong

very fun if you can get use to it hard at first

Toxic community

Giles Corey is always evil

Fun game can

Jester best TI.

It be fun

I kinda like it

ToS 1 better

town is dumb

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