Bug Fix

Fixed bug in kill when two players 'match' and only health is knocked off one person.

Change

Raised the maximum minimum bid on vehicles in the Auction House to $100m.

Feature

Added the number of times someone has won the cash/bullet lotto to the "recent winners" list on the Lotto Statistics tab.

Change

Add day alongside time in messages.

Feature

Roulette now shows the 10 previous results during your session.

Change

You can now hire detectives while in protection and hire detectives on targets in protection.

Bug Fix

Fixed Vehicle Theft display in Safari.

Change

Improved Vehicle Theft result message.

Change

Emojis can now be used in respect and mentor transfer messages.

Change

The Times now uses the same simplified YouTube code as profiles.

Feature

Implemented early stages of family war feature. At this stage, the feature only informs the two families when they enter war and when the war is complete. A war begins when one family member kills someone in another family without a silencer. A war is complete by a family being dropped/closed (the standing family wins the war) or a cease fire for 24 hours (the family with the most kills wins the war). Only unsilenced kills count towards wars.

Change

Implemented 1 second delay on Vehicle Theft "Look for more vehicles" button to prevent double clicks.

Bug Fix

The Delivery Heist haul will now always divide by 3 evenly, as someone complained about 1 bullet going missing!

Bug Fix

Fixed highlight for your own bids in Auction House on mobile.

Feature

Added Disrespect vs Respect bar to profiles.

Feature

The Scratch & Win icon will now highlight in the menu when you have scratch cards available to purchase.

Feature

The Respect icon will now highlight in the menu when you have respect points available to send.

Feature

The Bullet Store will now only highlight in the menu when there are bullets in stock at your location.

Feature

Life Insurance now covers your Vehicle Theft chances. For example a 50% policy will boost your vehicle theft chances up to 50% of your previous chances.

Change

You will now only witness a kill when in the same location as the killer.

Change

Removed non-tracking Witness Statement, this served no purpose as it was only sent out for non-silenced kills which everyone can now see.

Change

Improved Personal Record area of Vehicle Theft Statistics page.

Change

Death processing (e.g. dropping families, changing bosses, sending alerts) is now done immediately rather than within 60 seconds of the death.

Feature

Butchie will now post in main chat when someone is killed. He will also post in your family chat if a member is killed, or if one of your members kills someone outside the family (unless the kill was made silently).

Feature

The killer is now specified where possible (i.e. non-silencer kills) in family updates, family alerts and detectives alerts in relation to someone being killed.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with revealing kills.

Feature

Butchie will now post in your family chat when someone is invited to the family, joins the family or is kicked from the family.

Feature

Butchie will now post in main chat when someone wins the lotto or reaches Level 50.

Feature

Added "Personal Record" to the Blackjack Statistics page.

Feature

Improved "Personal Record" stat on Bank Bobbery and Delivery Heist with a new interface and additional Average Chance, Average Successful Gain and Best Gain stats.

Feature

Added "Personal Record" to the Lotto Statistics page.

Feature

A message can now be added when transferring a vehicle.

Feature

Prison Bribes are now stolen when killing someone.

Change

It's now against the rules to play from two devices simultaneously. This method has been increasingly used to create an unfair advantage, e.g. tapping the Slot Machine on one device while tapping Prison Busting on another. To help combat this, a new system will prevent multiple devices playing a single account during a 60 second period.

Change

The legacy mobile interface is no longer available. This means more time to work on the game without having to maintain a separate version of the code!

Change

Removed Emoji link from chat - most devices now have built-in emoji selectors. To learn how to use the Emoji selector in Windows 10, see here: https://blog.getemoji.com/emoji-keyboard-windows

Feature

Added image upload feature to chat.

Feature

Menu items which have a timer now show the actual time remaining when hovering over.

Bug Fix

Fixed "Use Profile" on mobile.

Bug Fix

The Android app has been updated to address a couple of small bugs. The app now requires Android version 6.0 and up, but if you're on a lower version of Android you can still play using Google Chrome (tip: use the "Add to Homescreen" option in the Google Chrome menu).

Bug Fix

Fixed Facebook app login for new players.

Bug Fix

Fixed value/cost on Vehicle Theft statistics page.

Bug Fix

Fixed Auction House interface on mobile.

Feature

Added streak to success message after stealing a vehicle.

Feature

Vehicle Theft now shows the damage of a vehicle, represented by a red bar at the bottom of the vehicle image. The actual value of a vehicle (with damage) is now also shown in brackets at the end of a vehicle's stats.

Bug Fix

Stop family bank distribution of $1 per member when distribution is set to 0%.

Bug Fix

Fixed menu icons for Roulette, Updates and Notepad.

Feature

Added Chevrolet Silverado to the vehicle pool.

Feature

Added small green shadow around chance bar on Vehicle Theft once 90% is hit to easily identify maxed out vehicles.

Feature

Added Tuning and Damage text to Your Garage.

Feature

Added Ford GT to the vehicle pool.

Feature

Added Garage Statistics page showing some information on crushed vehicles.

Change

Increased the base Vehicle Theft chance from 5% to 10% - double the chance of stealing a vehicle on your first attempt! Let's see how this goes.

Bug Fix

Fixed stat bar swiping on mobile. In turn, the swipe buttons have been removed but if there's demand to keep those they can be brought back.

Change

Replaced 'Most Common Vehicles' stat on Vehicle Theft with 'Top Streaks'.

Feature

Added option to look for more vehicles on Vehicle Theft.

Feature

Added Vehicle Theft streaks, build up your streak to lower your wait time - useful when ranking.

Change

Removed the original Vehicle Theft version, now running only Vehicle Theft Beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed link to profile in alert when transferring detectives.

Change

Rewritten how level points are multiplied during Deathmatch and Double XP. This means that points are now multiplied immediately upon earning them rather than once per minute. It also means that mentors will display the multiplied number, so it's no longer necessary to double the price per point during Double XP. Cleaning up this code will open the doors for us to potentially execute on some new interesting ideas in future.

Bug Fix

Fixed bug where level points would be multiplied by 100 for the entire last day of the Deathmatch. As per the guide, this should have been 50x level points until the last 2 hours where points are multiplied by 100.

Change

Implemented chat, forums and messaging bans to help moderate the game in a more fair and effective way. An admin kill of a Level 50 is not equal to an admin kill of a Level 5, so it made no sense to take such action in response to inappropriate messages. Instead we can now issue temporary or permanent communication bans, which makes the punishment equal for all players. This also prevents players from picking who to report for inappropriate messages in order to "have them admin killed". Admin kills will be reserved for cheating (duping, scripting).

Change

Replaced 'Rarest Thefts' statistic on Vehicle Theft Beta with 'Top Gangsters'.

Change

Removed Level 50 detectives tip off.

Feature

Added Personal Record to the bottom of the Slot Machine Statistics page.

Bug Fix

Fixed main "Bank Robbery" tab on mobile.

Bug Fix

Fixed main "Delivery Heist" tab on mobile.

Bug Fix

Fixed "Family Members" page on mobile.

Feature

Added button to jump to the bottom of the garage page, making it easier to choose actions after selecting vehicles.

Change

Implemented a delay between making bets on the Roulette table during heavy usage.

Change

Lowered the maximum bet per spot to $1,000,000 on Roulette.

Feature

Added 0% family bank distribution option.

Bug Fix

Family members can no longer see family chat messages from before the date/time of them joining the family.

Feature

Added Personal Record to the bottom of the Roulette Statistics page.

Bug Fix

Fixed the profile "Send Message" button on mobile.

Bug Fix

Improved mobile display of property protection collection area.

Change

You can now click the name of the person you have extorted to open their profile.

Bug Fix

Fixed extortion "Send back" function on mobile.

Change

Add base amount of 1000 bullets to the tuned vehicle mission.

Change

The tuned vehicle mission now offers a different amount of bullets depending on the vehicle given to Butchie.

Change

The Garage now shows "In Auction", "In Bank Robbery", "In Heist" rather than just "In Use".

Feature

Some love it, some hate it, but the "cap" is here for Round 17! For those who don't know, this is a cap on how many times the "Scratch & Win Refill" credit option can be used each day. This has been highly controversial, so we will quickly run through the reason for the cap. At the beginning of Round 16 we received a lot of feedback from players asking for this feature to be removed or limited because some players (only a few) were using it very heavily which effected the game balance. To be clear, we aren't blaming those players for using a feature available to them, however we would agree with the feedback we received that some usage was very excesisve - it was never expected for the feature to be used 30 - 100 times in a single day and enable a player to essentially "insta generate" hundreds of thousands of bullets at a fairly low and easily accessible cost. To our surprise, once word spread that we planned to limit the feature, we received a lot of counter feedback saying that the feature definitely should not be limited (even from lots of players who don't purchase credits or have never used the feature). As most of you will know, we have run various polls on this subject and the outcome is a pretty much 50/50 on limiting Scratch & Win Refill, with a slight sway (a couple of percent) in favour of limiting. As such we have decided to cap refills at 15 Refills per day - we think this is best for the game and this is what people have voted on. The purpose of this limit is to strike a balance for all players, focusing on stopping excessive refills for those (including ourselves) who believe this excessive usage effects the game negatively. The limit is designed to prevent refilling 30-100 times per day, which only directly effects a handful of players, so we hope this is a good middleground. Next round we will monitor the feedback and see how things go. Oddly this has been one of the most controversial topics of discussion in 13 years of the game but we sincerely hope the majority of you will be happy with the decision.

Feature

Added "Refill Now" button to Scratch & Win to make it clear this feature exists, as quite a few players were surprised to find this existed at the beginning of Round 16 despite it being in place (and unchanged) for a number of years.

Feature

Added 'Lock' function to the garage to prevent quick fingered players from accidently selling, crushing vehicles etc. This also means that 'selecting' a vehicle now requires the use of the checkbox in the bottom left corner.

Feature

Unrevealed kills made on previous gangsters can now be revealed.

Feature

Unrevealed kills made on previous gangsters are now visible to the account holder when visiting the gangster's profile.

Feature

Added "Send back" option to extortion. It's not recommended to send money back to anyone, even your friends, but as so many do this anyway the option has been brought back by request!

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with removing Roulette bids (setting to "0" would result in an error).

Feature

Added "Session Profit" to the Roulette table.

Bug Fix

Fixed bug in Roulette enabling an unlimited supply of money on a certain bet combination. Recovered the bulk of the falsely generated funds from two players who made use of this bug.

Change

Added 00 number on Roulette table to increase house edge and match American format of the game.

Feature

Added Roulette.

Change

Fixed Send Money, Start Auction and Make Bid number input boxes on mobile.

Bug Fix

Fixed credit transfer message on mobile legacy.

Bug Fix

Detectives can no longer be transferred to the target.

Feature

Added family profile content, removed cover photos.

Feature

Added stats to family profiles.

Feature

Added the ability for us to ban email addresses / domains from signing up to help deal with trolls.

Feature

Added an Updates link to the menu on desktop/laptop version.

Change

Added email verification to help deal with trolls.

Feature

Added Session Spins to the Slot Machine (desktop only).

Bug Fix

Fixed Slot Machine interface on mobile.

Bug Fix

Fixed New Conversation tab of Messages on mobile.

Change

The mobile "beta" interface is now the default interface, the previous interface will remain available as the "legacy" interface while we iron out final issues.

Bug Fix

Fixed Scratch & Win display on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed Forums display on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed Blackjack display on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed Family Banking display on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed Family Dashboard display on mobile beta.

Change

Removed week selection on Life Insurance - can now only be purchased in 1 week blocks.

Bug Fix

Fixed Open Fire "Firearm" tab display on mobile beta.

Change

The location of a target being tracked by detectives can now be transferred to another gangster.

Change

Removed level range from Detectives, added level range to Open Fire.

Change

Raised the minimum amount of bullets on Open Fire to 1,000 bullets per level from 500 bullets per level.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with "Recent" tab of character selector becoming out of date (avatars not showing, levels being incorrect).

Change

The minimum time a family must be active for before distributing bullets has been reduced to 1 day during Deathmatch.

Feature

Implemented 3 tier backfire system, enabling you to choose different amounts of backfire for the first, second and third attempts on your life.

Change

Remove minimum level requirement for each Vehicle Theft location.

Change

Level 50 is now 100k points (lowered slightly for a more round figure).

Change

Removed the slight randomness from kill scoring, meaning a scenario which involves the same variables (same level, same amount of bullets, same firearm, same health) on each side, will always yield the same exact result. Due to the nature of how our killing system works (figuring out the opponent's backfire, etc) it's not necessary to have the random element and it can only cause confusion or odd results (e.g. a situation where a shooter would die in backfire when overshooting by only a small amount).

Bug Fix

Made some optimisations to the Slot Machine Statistics tab due to this page loading extremely slowly (previously 10-15 seconds, now under half a second).

Bug Fix

Fixed header image on the Overview page.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue when editing article of The Times.

Change

Removed automatic name generation for new players, a name must always be chosen before entering the game.

Change

A witness statement is no longer sent for a backfire kill. This behaviour is no longer required because backfire kills are public these days (e.g. on the Open Fire statistics tab and profiles).

Change

The family garage can now be upgraded to hold 50 vehicles.

Change

Removed Silent vs Gangland kills, replaced with Silencer which costs $500,000. This works the same way as a silent kill previously but guarantees no witnesses (rather than an awkward low chance of a witness). This change has been made to simplify the system and slightly discourage silent kills, it's a revival of how Open Fire worked in a previous version.

Change

Silent kills no longer have witnesses.

Bug Fix

Fixed the lowercase :p emoji.

Bug Fix

Fixed family bank inputs on mobile.

Change

The prison busting mission now requires any 20 inmates to be busted out of prison, rather than Butchie's specific friends.

Bug Fix

The Extortion Settings tab can now be accessed while on timer or in prison.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with stealing the Sleigh 5000 during the festive period.

Change

The auction limit is now per clock hour, making it easier to know when you can next start an auction (6:00, 7:00, etc).

Feature

You can now add messages to bullet and prison bribe transfers.

Bug Fix

Added support for newer emoji images.

Change

Made the Christmas special vehicle (Sleigh 5000) less rare.

Change

Updated specification for the Bugatti Veyron and added a Chiron.

Bug Fix

Disabled pull to refresh on mobile.

Bug Fix

Fixed emoji shortcuts when sending mass family/friend message.

Bug Fix

You can no longer invite someone on your block list to be your friend.

Change

Bounties which you have added anonymously are now highlighted in green.

Feature

You can now auction vehicles at 0.5 x, 1 x, 1.5 x and 2 x value in the garage.

Feature

Added Success Chance and Haul Range to Delivery Heist, the range is now based on vehicle capacity. As a result, this means the internals have been changed - please be patient over the coming weeks while we tweak/balance the success chance and haul range.

Feature

New mission: Tuned To The Max

Change

Mission timer reset cost reduced to 8 Credits.

Bug Fix

Fixed bug with the value of a vehicle not appearing to update following a repair.

Feature

Added search function to the garage.

Change

Tweaked the gains from tuning vehicles and the chance of explosion.

Change

The Bank Robbery invite alert now shows the position you're being invited for.

Change

Removed single vehicle actions. If there is enough demand, we'll bring this back as a pop-up window for each vehicle, however we believe the multi-select box should be suitable.

Feature

You can now Auction multiple vehicles at once.

Feature

You can now Transfer multiple vehicles at once.

Change

Removed "Stolen" state from vehicles, removed Scrap and Spray actions.

Change

You can now click the family name on someone's profile to open the family profile.

Change

The way tuning works (in terms of the stat changes and the chance of exploding) has been slightly altered. The new Tuning stat has been added to indicate how tuned a vehicle is.

Change

Removed Durability from vehicles - an unnecessary stat which wasn't used much and wasn't very well understood.

Bug Fix

Improved Garage interface on mobile beta.

Feature

Added "Select All" to the garage.

Bug Fix

Fixed the Lotto interface on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed Bullet Store interface on mobile beta.

Change

Added support for bbcode to the forums (the same code used on profiles).

Change

The Garage Crusher upgrade cost has been reduced to $100k from Day 3 of Deathmatch.

Feature

Crack The Safe now displays properly on mobile beta.

Feature

Due to popular demand, the Notepad feature has returned.

Change

Family bullet distribution now has the following limitations: 1) The family must be active for 5 days before distributing bullets 2) There must be at least 4 members in the family before distributing bullets and 3) The family must wait 6 hours between bullet distributions.

Change

Removed bullet deposit tax from family banking.

Feature

The multi-vehicle 'Spray' and 'Repair' actions now work even when invalid vehicles are selected (the action will only apply to valid vehicles).

Feature

Added Tickets Held % to the Lotto Statistics tab on desktop / mobile beta.

Feature

Added timer for Extortion Protection to the Extortion page.

Change

Reduced minimum username length to 2 characters.

Change

Bullet deposits to the family bank now attract the standard bullet movement tax of 40%.

Change

Improved Auction House experience on mobile beta (side effect is the Auction House looks slightly different on desktops).

Change

Implemented word filter for some racial slurs (evading this filter is against the rules).

Bug Fix

Hide the message option from the Respect page while anonymous is selected, as the message is removed from anonymous respect.

Change

The default profile background colour is now based on a gangster's avatar.

Change

Moved profile actions to above the stats box and blended into profile background colour.

Feature

Added setting to configure the minimum amount to alert you for an extortion, found on the Settings tab of Extortion.

Bug Fix

Alerts now show the exact amount of health left after a shooting (e.g. 0.2% instead of 0%).

Bug Fix

Fixed issue allowing health to creep over 100% by a few decimal points.

Change

Removed daily auction limit (hourly limit remains in place to prevent spamming).

Bug Fix

Improvements made to RPS, Bounties, Detectives and Verify Killer on mobile beta interface.

Bug Fix

Fixed total attempts on "Statistics" tab of Fraud.

Feature

New "Username Picker" added to Username inputs (desktop and mobile beta).

Feature

Added Restore Profile feature to use profile (and avatar) of previous gangster.

Feature

Added sound effects to Crack The Safe (can be disabled via Preferences).

Bug Fix

Fixed avatar and family banner upload issue (file upload prompt kept re-appearing).

Bug Fix

Fixed Bank Robbery and Delivery Heist 'Personal Record' (personal earnings displayed as total for the team rather than your own cut).

Feature

Added support for profile content.

Change

Removed profile banner/cover images.

Bug Fix

Fixed menu timer indicators on mobile beta interface.

Bug Fix

Fixed display of Find Gangsters page on mobile beta interface.

Bug Fix

Fixed display of Sucide on beta mobile interface.

Bug Fix

Remove old 'Friends' tab from profiles on mobile interface.

Bug Fix

Fixed title of the Family Dashboard page.

Bug Fix

Fixed display of Help Requests on mobile beta interface.

Feature

Added "Subject" to Help Requests, allowing better tracking of different requests.

Bug Fix

Fixed display of Police Chase on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed "No Conversations" text position in messages window.

Bug Fix

Fixed "cannot be parsed" error message on Fraud with slower connections.

Bug Fix

Fixed re-focus of input box after sending a message.

Bug Fix

Fix layout of the Bullet Store's "Transfer" tab on mobile beta.

Bug Fix

Fixed display issue with long messages.

Bug Fix

Fixed a very rare issue with avatars and banner images going missing.

Change

Added "Property Protection" page to the Game Guide.

Change

The Property Strength (previously Integrity) Bar display has been improved, now displaying in clearly separated blocks.

Change

Property Protection "Integrity" has been renamed to "Strength".

Change

The property protection system has changed very slightly due to suspected automation on the existing system which was very difficult to prove.

Bug Fix

Fixed display of Accolades and History on profiles in mobile beta.

Change

Players who switch to the mobile beta version will now stay on this version until they decide to switch back (rather than being logged-in to the stable version by default).

Bug Fix

FIxed issue with removing friends.

Bug Fix

Dead friends will no longer display on the Friends page.

Feature

Added feature to message all friends.

Bug Fix

Fixed display issues with Messages when using Firefox.

Bug Fix

Fixed friends page.

Bug Fix

Oveview tab added to mobile beta interface.

Bug Fix

Fixed Stock Market interface on mobile beta.

Change

Improved alerts interface on mobile beta version.

Feature

Added friends page.

Feature

Added custom profile background colours.

Change

Added banner image to every tab on profiles.

Change

Accolades moved into their own tab on profiles.

Change

Friends tab removed from profiles.

Bug Fix

You can now change your family name to a name which was used in previous rounds again.

Change

Family dashboard page now shows the family's banner image.

Feature

"Bullet Rush" was trialled some time ago (2x Bullet Store restock for a period), this has now been implemented as a recurring event, twice per round.

Change

Added cover photo and larger avatar to "Overview" page.

Change

New profile layout featuring larger avatars.

Feature

Added "Send Money" feature to profiles (also available on mobile beta).

Change

Improved profiles on mobile beta, now includes banner images.

Change

You will no longer be logged out on mobile while inactive for short periods (e.g. if the tab or web browser has been closed).

Feature

Add (?) button to Credit Store to see description of items on touch screens.

Change

Added Life Insurance, Extortion, Slot Machine, Airport and Respect to the Game Guide.

Change

The Gold "Bank Job" accolade requirement has been lowered from $12m to $10m.

Change

Increased Bank Robbery payouts very slightly.

Feature

Image uploads (avatars/covers) are now automatically checked for adult content.

Change

"Invite Friends" (the referral scheme) has been discontinued.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with Verify Killer not working on desktops/laptops.

Feature

The chat room tabs will now highlight in red (rather than green) if someone mentions your name or private messages you while you're in the other room.

Feature

Players can now view and remove their blocks via the Preferences page.

Bug Fix

Fixed bug allowing missions to be given twice or more in a row.

Change

Daily auction limit is now 200. An hourly auction limit of 50 has also been added.

Change

Players are now limited to opening 100 auctions per day, as some people have been flooding the Auction House with hundreds or thousands of auctions.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with Butchie's auctions being hidden on the "Buying" tab of the Auction House.

Bug Fix

You can no longer invite someone who has blocked you to be your friend.

Feature

Added support for Facebook Notifications.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with error/success messages not appearing sometimes.

Bug Fix

Fixed various small issues with the Facebook app.

Change

The enter and spacebar keys can no longer be held down on the Slot Machine for continuous spinning.

Change

You will no longer be given the same mission twice in a row.

Feature

Added "Select All" to Your Garage on the desktop version.

Feature

You will now receive a push notification when winning the lotto (Chrome/Firefox only, notifications must be enabled in preferences).

Bug Fix

Fixed Mercedes Sprinter having 0% success chance on Bank Robbery.

Feature

Added push notifications when killed (only supported in the web verison with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox currently).

Change

Level 1s are no longer counted when calculating the restock for Bullet Stores.

Bug Fix

Fixed issue with sound mute/unmute not working properly.

Feature

Added success chance and payout range to Bank Robbery.

Feature

The current/winning bidder is now shown in the Auction House on mobile.

Feature

Vehicle stats are now shown in the Auction House on mobile.

Change

Mute/unmute sounds moved from the bottom of the Slot Machine to the Preferences area.

Change

Sound effect added to Scratch & Win.

Feature

You can now sort vehicles in the garage on mobile.

Feature

Added "Top Jackpots" and "Top Gangsters" to the Slot Machine.

Change

The mentoring page "Cost Per Point" now defaults to the last used amount.

Feature

Overview History tab is now available on mobile.

Feature

Round rankings are now available via Game Stats => Rounds.

Feature

Closed families are now shown on the "Closed" tab of the Families page.

Change

Level points earned during Deathmatch are now discarded once the Deathmatch is complete.

Bug Fix

Hidden Double XP rankings tab when Double XP isn't active.

Feature

Rankings for the previous 2 rounds are now available on the Statistics page.

Bug Fix

Hidden the "Sleigh 5000" from Vehicles page of Game Guide while unavailable.

Feature

Added "Top Streaks" to Missions statistics.

Feature

New car available: Lamborghini Centenario