Looking back at Egg Hunt 2014.

Since the Egg Hunt is coming up, I recently went back to look at the old Egg Hunt '14 game (well, the testing place which is here) and played it for some time with a couple of RT'ers. Our experience was mostly lag-free, except for CS3, where our characters lagged badly. But we had a fun time looking for eggs. Which is weird considering that the Egg Hunt was plagued by lag and closings and people hatted the event because of that. 

A bit of history on Egg Hunt '14. The Egg Hunt originally launched on April 11th, but closed a hour later because of bugs. This began a series of openings and closings, some for adding eggs and CS4 and CS5 but mostly for the gazillion bugs in the game. The game was heavily criticized for the bugs, lag, and the terrain maps (I actually liked how the game was built). It finally closed on April 23rd. Despite being hatted so much, it had 14,000+ users at one time near the end of it.


So I ventured back into the Eggverse with Aokz, Fazana, legoseed, urtotalyright and robloxamusementinc. Replaying the game, I saw that the Egg Hunt had some good things about it. First was the music. My god, the music. Its beautifully composed and sets the mood for each world. For example, CS2 has light and happy music, while CS4 has glum and dark music. I like to say this Egg Hunt is like Sonic '06. Gameplay: Terrible. Music: Amazing. Same thing with the buildings. Mixing the terrain world with normal building was a good idea on the Games team behalf. The village in CS2 turns into a modern city in CS3, then into a apocalyptic city in CS4. The eggs were probably my favorite eggs out of the eggs I have since 2012. The plot was good, but we didn't really need it. The whole point of a Egg Hunt is to hunt for eggs, not to do challenges for them. 

So the next egg hunt, I found out, isn't entirely a Dev Hunt. There is lots of eggs that look unique, but also a lot that look like next to no effort put into them.

Yep, its a Dev Hunt. (plus quotes)

My friend SHASTAS leaked 3 egg textures today. Here are the links:

Innocent Egg

Mad Egg

Fancy Egg

Y'now, I had high expectations for this event. And then this. Here are some fabulous quotes about the eggs.

"hype train fell off the bridge and exploded on impact." - ranaldo10

"kill me now" - twilightwizard

"WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYHHHHHYYYY" - SteveBallz

"HERE WE GO BOYS! PREPARE FOR:

GLITCHY EGG HUNT!
EGG HUNT BEING TAKEN DOWN!
EGG HUNT BEING PUT BACK UP!
EGG HUNT BEING TAKEN DOWN!
EGG HUNT BEING PUT BACK UP!
SHOWCASE LATEST FEATURE (SMOOTH TERRAIN)" - Rocky28447

"AND YOU THOUGHT 2014'S EGG HUNT WAS BAD

OH BOY" - Krovnik

"bye drinking bleach" - ilezybet

"IM GOING TO HANG MY SELF" - fizey

"ARE YOU PISSING ME" - urtotallyright

"hi" - TheOneAndOnlyRalph

"NO

NO
NO
GOODBYE
I QUIT" - bawkington

"rip hope" - SidewaysEight

(Edit): I don't know whats with the highlighted text. Sorry.

Egg Hunt 2015 leaks.

So today some keen-eyed users on Roblox Talk noticed a account that's apparently working on the Egg Hunt. Now, if you were a Roblox user last year, you may have remembered that the Egg Hunt was TERRIBLE. So this year, users are expecting a step up from last year. Two threads earlier said about a account that is secretly developing the Egg Hunt. The account is named HarryBarrys and is developing a map that looks like a fort/beach. However, the account has been deleted. Some people have said that this account is a fake, and one of the images was literally a bombastic egg on a stick. Here's a picture of one of the threads that linked to the account: 

 Also, sorry for my absence. I might post a contest because of the absence. :)

Also (again), someone found decals for the Egg Hunt on the ROBLOX account. I don't have pictures, so you'll have to believe me.

New Update to the Game Page.

Oh boy.

A new update came to the site today, and part of it is not pretty. They changed two things: the copyright section at the end of the page and this. As you can see, they changed the game page to look more "mobile-ish" (someone said on Roblox Talk about a hour ago that the new update caters to "iPad-loving 8-year-olds"). It really looks similar to the homepage revamp we got earlier this year. My problem with this is that its harder to navigate through the 4 tabs below the thumbnail and "Play" button. Another issue with this update is that game titles need to be shortened. If your title is too long, it cuts off. Overall, this new update gets a 3/5 stars in my book.

In other news, Roblox is now apparently going to SXSW. Back in August 2014, a blog post was made asking users to vote for Roblox's submission into SXSW, a music and film festival. But Roblox is participating in SXSW Interactive, the technology side of the event. If you want to read the submission blog post, read here!

That is it for now, so see you later. :)

Twisted Murderer Tips

Since I'm in the mood for sharing tips, I thought I should share some about one of many games on Roblox, Twisted Murderer. This game was released last September and is still a huge hit, having 11.7 million place visits. You can visit it here. Now, to the tips!

TIP 1: How to deal with teamers.
I've always played with teamers when playing Twisted Murderer. Its a huge problem in this game and all murder games. But I have a solution.

Simply go up to the teaming sheriff. Wait for the murderer to come over. Then, try to use the sheriff as a bodyguard or jump around him/her. This can increase mistakes and the murderer can accidentally hit and kill the sheriff, opening the door for others to get the gun. This tip works best when there is a large group around (3-6 players).

TIP 2: Boom Blade and Gun.
All you really need is the Boom Blade and the gun of a fallen sheriff. Since the gun is a object you can throw your knife at it. This gives you time to venture out and kill innocents without worry of getting shot in the process.

TIP 3: When to whip out the knife?
If your on the mobile version of Roblox and if your playing this game and if your the murderer, when do you pull out your knife? Since you can't throw the knife and you can't use the Shadow Cloak (if you have it) I recommend taking it out 3-5 seconds after you are given the knife. 

For the PC/Mac version, you should take it out after 10-15 seconds.

TIP 4: Dance (and murder) Party!
This tip is the one I think is the funniest. If you have the Boombox gamepass and if your the murderer, find the ID of a popular song and invite people to a dance party. When there is about 10 seconds left in the game, take out the knife and start killing people like crazy. I got a full server killed in about 20 seconds because of this tip.

That's pretty much it. Use these tips the next time your playing this game!