Why not just play the Starcraft 2 version?

[Cryder]

Same price (free), more roles?
Also mm > werewolf

[B__ri__d__ge]

Because Town of Salem does fun, Starcraft 2 Mod is most likely outdated and almost nobody owns Starcraft 2 anymore.

[Gwyn]

Town of Salem is also free if you play via the web browser.

For me, after I called in sick to work because I stayed up all night playing, I figured the devs had done a good enough job to warrant me tossing $5 their way.

[Apple]

Town of Salem is based off of SC2:Mafia, in fact Dark.Revenant helped promote the game. The point is to bring the experience of the gamestyle to the masses. You do not need to download SC2 to play the same game, nor do you need a half-decent computer, nearly any computer can run TOS.

[Kaluvien]

Originally posted by TurdPile:

Town of Salem is based off of SC2:Mafia, in fact Dark.Revenant helped promote the game. The point is to bring the experience of the gamestyle to the masses. You do not need to download SC2 to play the same game, nor do you need a half-decent computer, nearly any computer can run TOS.

Wait, this game is based on an SC2 Mod? I learned something today!

Originally posted by JanFox:

Because Town of Salem does fun, Starcraft 2 Mod is most likely outdated and almost nobody owns Starcraft 2 anymore.

Everyone who has ever owned SC2...still owns SC2. And many people STILL PLAY SC2.

[Cryder]

Alright so after checking this version out a bit I've come to the following conclusion.

+ A lot more accessible, shorter loading screens, much faster to get in game
+ Bigger playerbase
+- Same amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as SC2
- A distinct lack of cultists and masons
- A lack of some other interesting roles (Beguiler, Crier&Marshall&Judge)
+- A lack of roles nobody cared about anyway (Triad, Coroner)
+ Plans of adding more roles, I was hoping vampire and vampire hunter would be cultist/masons but then I saw it was a neutral killing role...
- mm->ww

Hopefully they add Cultists.
I also don't fully agree with them leaving out Citizens, it's such a simple role, might as well throw it in right?

[Apple]

Originally posted by Cryder:

Alright so after checking this version out a bit I've come to the following conclusion.

+ A lot more accessible, shorter loading screens, much faster to get in game
+ Bigger playerbase
+- Same amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as SC2
- A distinct lack of cultists and masons
- A lack of some other interesting roles (Beguiler, Crier&Marshall&Judge)
+- A lack of roles nobody cared about anyway (Triad, Coroner)
+ Plans of adding more roles, I was hoping vampire and vampire hunter would be cultist/masons but then I saw it was a neutral killing role...
- mm->ww

Hopefully they add Cultists.
I also don't fully agree with them leaving out Citizens, it's such a simple role, might as well throw it in right?

Vampire = Cultist for the most part, Vampire Hunter is pretty much a Mason, just they shifted it Neutral.

[Cryder]

Originally posted by TurdPile:

Originally posted by Cryder:

Alright so after checking this version out a bit I've come to the following conclusion.

+ A lot more accessible, shorter loading screens, much faster to get in game
+ Bigger playerbase
+- Same amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as SC2
- A distinct lack of cultists and masons
- A lack of some other interesting roles (Beguiler, Crier&Marshall&Judge)
+- A lack of roles nobody cared about anyway (Triad, Coroner)
+ Plans of adding more roles, I was hoping vampire and vampire hunter would be cultist/masons but then I saw it was a neutral killing role...
- mm->ww

Hopefully they add Cultists.
I also don't fully agree with them leaving out Citizens, it's such a simple role, might as well throw it in right?

Vampire = Cultist for the most part, Vampire Hunter is pretty much a Mason, just they shifted it Neutral.

Will there be a "witch doctor" as well, or is that role just dropped?

[Apple]

Originally posted by Cryder:

Originally posted by TurdPile:

Vampire = Cultist for the most part, Vampire Hunter is pretty much a Mason, just they shifted it Neutral.

Will there be a "witch doctor" as well, or is that role just dropped?

Nothing past Forger/Vamp/Vamphunter is planned.

[Cryder]

Originally posted by TurdPile:

Originally posted by Cryder:

Will there be a "witch doctor" as well, or is that role just dropped?

Nothing past Forger/Vamp/Vamphunter is planned.

Is there going to be a "mason leader" or will vampires/hunters both target people in the same way? Will vampire hunters win with town even though they are neutral, since they aren't evil, or will they essentially by two different cults? Why not just have vampire hunters be town?

[Apple]

They haven't been planned out yet.

[Gwyn]

Why the obsession with having ToS be exactly the same as the SC2 version?

[Apple]

Originally posted by Caleb:

Why the obsession with having ToS be exactly the same as the SC2 version?

Have you played the game ?

[Gwyn]

The SC2 one? No. Does it matter? They're different games at this point.

[Cryder]

Originally posted by TurdPile:

Originally posted by Caleb:

Why the obsession with having ToS be exactly the same as the SC2 version?

Have you played the game ?

I deleted the other thread but I have another question from it; Why not have real names show up in unranked/custom games? I can tell I'm clearly playing with the same person several times but if I want to add him it's a matter of remembering it and being quick.

Originally posted by Caleb:

Why the obsession with having ToS be exactly the same as the SC2 version?

It's not about having this version being a replica of the SC2 version (Which, by the way, wouldn't be bad), it's about balance.
If the vampire hunter is neutral, I don't see what else he could do other than kill vampires. If he wins with town and has no enemies in the town why not just have him tagged as townie? Maybe they are doing so Masons is instead of 2-4 players just one vampire hunter, and therefore making him a neutral role that cannot be killed by cult but also wins with mafia if all vampires are dead? Seems like a really underpowered role in that case, since you have to kill a rapidly multiplying cult and also survive.
Witch Doctor, while being from SC2 mafia, is also a nice addition to the cultist pool, and I really liked when it was added, since it made cultist centric setups more exciting.

Either way I feel cultist is one of the more essential roles because a lot of setups rely on the cult.

[Maximum Sloth]

I really like this game. More than happy to pay $5 for all the enjoyment I'm getting out of it. I know it's free on browser too.