Community:Nikilis/Murder Mystery 2

Murder Mystery 2 is a horror experience created by. The game is based off a Garry's Mod game mode called Murder.

On December 27, 2014, the game was changed to Version 2.0, now known as Murder Mystery 2. The game became the most visited game in February 2017, surpassing 500M visits. In July 2017, MeepCity overtook the game in visits.

Gameplay
A server holds up to 12 players, with 1 murderer, 1 sheriff, and 10 innocent at-most. The game features three modes: Casual, Hardcore, and Assassin. These modes can be switched at any time by the user.

Sheriff
The sheriff is the only player that spawns with a gun, which they can use to protect the innocents. If the sheriff is killed (either by shooting an innocent or getting killed by the murderer), the gun will drop, allowing any innocent to pick it up. Sheriffs gain XP for killing the murderer. It will increase the XP depending on how many innocents they successfully protect.

Hero
The hero is an innocent who grabs the gun if the sheriff drops it. They have the same task as the sheriff which is to kill the murderer.

Innocent
The innocents are unarmed and cannot harm the other players. Their purpose is to aid the sheriff by witnessing murders to figure out who the murderer is. If the gun is dropped by a killed sheriff, an innocent can pick it up, becoming the "hero" if they succeed in shooting the murderer. Innocents gain XP depending with the activity of the player such as the time survival and making their coin bag full, and the hero gets the same XP with the innocents with an increase of winning the round, multiplying after each hero.

Murderer
The murderer is the only player with a knife, which can be used to kill the innocents and the sheriff. They must stealthily kill all the innocents and the sheriff before time runs out. The murderer gets also the same with the others with an increase of winning the round and the number of eliminations.

Weapons
Weapons play an integral role for both murderers and sheriffs. Murderers wield throwable knives, whereas sheriffs are equipped with a gun. Both roles are able to buy different weapon designs (also called "skins") in the shop, or they can craft their own designs. The weapons can be decorated with special effects and death abilities, but they are merely cosmetics and do not affect gameplay.

Maps
Maps that have been or is in Murder Mystery 2, which players can vote for during intermissions. '''Note: If the name of a map is not bold, that means it is currently not in the game. If the name of a map isn't italic or bold, that means the map was never was officially released to the game.'''

Tips
Innocent
 * When the player hears a stabbing sound, they should take a peek outside their hiding spot to identify the murderer.
 * When the player is being chased by the murderer, they should think of where the murderer will go.
 * The murderer will occasionally go and tell everybody to dance together or get into a group and then kill them instantly making it more easier for them to win.
 * Think carefully about every move. Some murderers can predict where a player will go and end up throwing a knife in that direction!
 * There is a small chance that a user will be sheriff or murderer two or more times in a row. Because of this, many players may assume that once someone is the murderer, they will be innocent or sheriff the next round.
 * The player should try to move into different areas and rooms in the map to confuse the murderer, so they can get more time to hide/run.
 * If the player has a radio, it is unwise for them to use to it during rounds (if they're any role other than murderer) because the murderer can track where they are by the sound of their radio, increasing their chances of getting murdered.
 * Be careful when you see a dead body with the gun on it, the murderer might be guarding it.

Sheriff Murderer Other Tips
 * The only way to detect a murderer who has turned invisible is their knife being equipped, their boombox is playing, or they currently have an equipped pet or effect. The sheriff can only shoot the murderer if they're partially visible or totally visible.
 * MilBase, Mansion2, and Factory tend to be easier maps for the sheriff.
 * Revealing a gun may increase a player's chances of being killed by the murderer.
 * If the player is the Sheriff, they should try to go into open areas with a ton of people (try not to stand too close to the crowd of people) and monitor them. It is most likely that the murderer will be in that crowd, and if the player spots the Murderer kill someone, they can easily kill them.
 * It is recommended to keep the player's identity as Sheriff a secret, as the murderer will most likely target the sheriff if the sheriff poses a threat to them.
 * If the player is the murderer, deceiving the sheriff is a key goal to not being killed. Following the sheriff tends to increase suspicion! When trying to kill the sheriff, following him from behind increases the chances of not being seen.
 * The Office2, Office3 Hotel2, and Mansion2 tend to be easier maps for the murderer.
 * The worst place to be murderer is nStudio, as it is extremely laggy on older devices and the player is most likely to get shot.
 * It is also unwise if the player has the burning effect on while they are murderer (especially if they're the only one in the server who has it on); because the hero/sheriff can easily tell they are the murderer if there are burning bodies everywhere.
 * If the player is the murderer, Research Facility is the only map where they can interact with the map.
 * Guarding (mostly known as camping/puppy guarding) is NOT recommended to do once the murderer kills the sheriff/hero. Not only does it annoy the innocents, but the point of being the murderer is to eliminate EVERYONE, and not to survive the whole round.
 * If the player is the murderer, the best way to kill someone is to act casual, and when someone is near the player, they should quickly run to them, take out their knife, and kill them.
 * If the player is an innocent or a sheriff, they should think of who hasn't been the murderer in a while, it might be them!
 * If the player is the murderer/sheriff, it is recommended not to hold their weapon out in the open, as that increases their chances of being shot/killed.

Criticism
Murder Mystery 2 has received some negative feedback due to its obnoxious monetization, the radios, glitchers, people who team and do 1v1s which makes the game unfair, along with the lack of polish and bug fixes; the game also received criticism due to a popular TikToker known as Joey_Albanese played the game numerous times and encouraged their fans to play the game and so now the game has over 100,000 active count players normally and for being the most common place of both Copy and Pastes and Slenders appearances.

Trivia

 * Knives and guns from previous rounds have been known to appear on most maps.
 * On 11 April 2014, all servers on Murder Mystery were hacked by an anonymous user. The hack froze the timer in-game, generating lots of complaints and hatred and quickly fell off the Top Played games within minutes. By 12 April 2014 at 1AM EST, Nikilis took down all the remaining hacked servers and fixed the issue.
 * Murder Mystery reached 10 million visits on 27 April 2014 and 20 million visits on 23 December 2014.
 * Murder Mystery consistently stayed in the top spots of the front page within the first month of its release.
 * The game won an award at Virtual BLOXcon 2014.
 * If one looks at several viewpoints from 2 hotel rooms, the hotel is actually floating in the sky.
 * Versions 0.5.0b, 0.5.1b and 0.5.2b included the addition of music, a new GUI which showed every player, including the murderer and sheriff at the end of each round, how many kills the murderer made and how long the round lasted in total. For an unknown reason, this caused severe lag in-game and made people disconnect from the game when they were the Murderer and were to be shot by the Sheriff.
 * In the hospital map, is found laying down unconscious on a patient's bed, with Nikilis holding a knife.
 * Version 0.6.1a had a bug that rarely allowed dropped guns to be picked up by the murderer. This caused murderers to dress themselves up as the sheriff, tricking and luring the innocents to easily kill them.
 * The map Terraria is based on the two dimensional sandbox game, Terraria.
 * This game helped start the murder trend on Roblox, causing countless spinoffs and similar games to be created, such as Murder! by Clonetrooper1019, The Mad Murderer by loleris, Twisted Murderer by Taymaster, and the most recent murder game, Murder Mystery X by Jordy240797.
 * The names for the people are based on the NATO military alphabet such as A=Alpha B=Bravo
 * The game uses the font "True Lies" and "Friday 13".
 * In the hospital map, a computer is showing CloneTrooper10109's Murder! game.
 * Around 2017–2018, skins were easily dupeable, giving Nikilis negative criticism, and heavily ruining the trading economy.
 * The Shadow Item Pack, which was supposed to be available for a limited time, was in the shop for 2 years.
 * The Batwing, a former developer exclusive item was added in the Halloween 2018 update, but was met with mixed feelings from the community. During the days it was still a dev-only item it was a huge scythe with a different slashing animation. Due to high demand, it became a gamepass. It was then re-sized, and removed of the former animations. It was replaced by Nik's Scythe as a dev-only item, which is a blue recolor of the Batwing.
 * After Season 1 was released, players can now hold more coins. Most items in the shop such as crates have had their prices increased.
 * There are no current maps featuring the Sheriff-only door, but the interactive in the new map, Research Facility is for every player which they can access it.
 * The House map along with the Mansion are the only maps that have been updated but don't have a Roman numeral next to their name. They instead just have a normal number. (ex. 2,3,4 instead of II,III,IV)
 * Before the March 2020 update arrived, the effects with exclusive death effects were broken for a while but when the update was released, it had a setting where the player can turn on/off the death effect of a specific effect.
 * Research Facility is the only map where only the Murderer can interact with the map. They can slash or throw their knife at the door wires making it close, or they could slash or throw their knife at the Electric Box which turns off the lights completely until the end of the round.
 * There was a very good hiding spot in Hospital III. Players could hide behind the benches in the hallway besides the X-ray room. which the murderer could hardly notice. But in the March 2020 update, it was fixed.
 * Before in MM1, the Classic tier, which is now known as Vintage, were purchasable knives with an exclusive kill effect and perk
 * The RB Battles Season 2 event was the first event MM2 participated in. The House, nStudio, and Factory maps got updated where Russo, DJ, and Sabrina will appear in certain locations. Upon seeing them, the player could claim the RB Battles Knife.
 * However, it is now unobtainable, as the RB Battles event ended.
 * The Bombo's Survival Knife is the first gear to be a knife in this game.