Top 5 Largest Groups on ROBLOX

Hello guys, this is just a random article on the 50 largest groups on Roblox on Saturday 1st February 2014. I wrote out everything on here (But the links). I counted the members myself to make sure, but they change every few minutes anyway.

The First Encounter Assault Recon - 1

Leader: SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX

Members: 141,977 

Public: Yes

Main Place: FEAR Fort Alianor

Link: FEAR

Team Domino - 2

Leader: Pieperson50

Members: 120,315

Public: Yes

Main Place: TD Fort Aamon

Link: TD

Vortex Security - 3

Leader: Imnotaguestimagirl

Members: 97,309

Public: Yes

Main Place: VS HeadQuarters

Link: VS

The Roblox Assault Team - 4

Leader: Cjsaurusrex

Members: 74,682

Public: Yes

Main Place: Fort Borealis

Link: RAT

LOL - 5

Leader: Shedletsky

Members: 79,352

Public: Yes

Main Place: N/A

Link: LOL

Thanks for reading the first 5 guys! Check out the Group Leaders, their main places and the groups themselves.

-Prolixen

The ROBLOXian's Guide to Becoming a Virtual Serial Killer

Don't Panic.

Kudos to you if you get the reference

     The Basics:

     When the game begins, everyone is given a random name. You will be assigned the job of Sheriff (you receive a gun), Murderer (you receive a knife), and Innocent (everyone else, you receive nothing). This guide assumes that you have basic knowledge of the game.

     The Murderer:

     You have to think like an innocent. The main rule of being the murderer is "Don't Panic." If you start to freak out, you will probably kill someone in the open, not catch someone when you intend to. You have to stay focused. In the beginning of the game, get an idea of where people are spread. If you can single someone off by themselves, go for it. Be careful, though. If you are talking to someone and they die, anyone could put two and two together and realize it is you. There are two tactics you can employ to win.

     Sociopath Tactic: If you are good enough as the murderer, you might be able to get away with this. Else, you will have no chance. Immediately discover who has the gun. Inexperienced users will hold out their gun and walk around. Follow them around, befriend them, and when they are out in the open (it doesn't matter HOW many witnesses there are, so long as they are about 5 studs away). Murder that gun-wielding maniac and guard the dropped gun with your life. You can pretty much spin and swing your knife and get away with it, but some people are smart. They just realize that they can run out the timer. If you try to chase them down, one can grab the gun. Know that you can throw the gun by holding click for a second and aiming, play it smart, and you should be able to win.

     Lesser-Sociopath Tactic: For the people who aren't gifted with the inner ability to think like a genocidal maniac. No matter what, always:

• Restrain yourself from panicking.
• Only kill if you are within one or two studs of the person, and if there are no witnesses at all (does not matter near end of game).
• Know who has the gun, and never be near them when you kill.

The first thing you want to do is find someone who is wandering by themselves. Track them down for a bit, and then rip them apart. Take them down one at a time, don't be ambitious. If you are discovered, either play dumb or murder as many people as you can in a futile attempt to win.

     The Sheriff:

     You spawn with a gun in your inventory and see a blue GUI telling you to kill the murderer. Excited, you pull out your gun and start looking around. You have already made a mistake. Any decent murderer will immediately try to find the person with the gun first. If you hold out that gun you will be either the first person dead, or the murderer will stay so far away from you that you won't witness a thing. No matter how many times an innocent screams for someone to say if they have the gun, you have to keep quiet about it. There isn't much to say about being Sheriff, you are just an innocent with a weapon.

     The Innocent:

     Your job is to almost be killed...but not be killed. If someone starts chasing you with a knife, you have to go off like an alarm, screaming the killer's name. If the Sheriff shows his gun, he's going to be targeted. Its your job to follow him as a witness if he is attacked, and as an "heir" to the gun if he is killed. There isn't a lot to say for the Innocent either. Try to stay alive, always be on the run, and think logically. If there are five people in the same room as you and you hear the knife, you are obviously all innocent.

     Map Specific Tips:

• If the gun is dropped on a map , there is a likely chance the murderer will guard it. Get on the roof above the gun, and drop down on it and run.
• On the laboratory map, it is easy to kill unnoticed as murderer. The only problem is that you have to track down the innocents and will run out of time. Do not waste your time, and start killing right away (don't be too hasty and be caught, though).
• Any good murderer should be able to win on the office easily. It is very small, confined, and yet there are many walls that can conceal your blood-lust.
• On the city map, you can hide in the trees as an innocent and be almost completely concealed.

Of course, this guide isn't even complete and might never be. The game hasn't even officially left beta stages.

Looking for a review for Murder Mystery? Look to Banjobug's post for that.

Links:
Murder Mystery Game 
Banjobug's Review of Murder Mystery

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Did I miss any important tips or tricks? Have a game you want me to review? Tweet it or PM it to me.

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Thanks for reading,

     ~FiniteBlox

Murder Mystery Place Review

Unless you've been living under a rock you've probably noticed that Murder Mystery by Nikilis has recently shot up to the front page. At the time of this review the place has gotten 773,354 visits and has been the most popular game on ROBLOX for the past few days. The game updates frequently, so the version I am reviewing is version 0.2.5b.

Gameplay 8/10
The gameplay is really quite simple. There are three different teams. The civilians, the sheriff, and the murderer. The murderer's goal is to, of course, murder everyone in sight. The sheriff's goal is to shoot and kill the murderer. The civilian's goal is to find out who the murderer is and, basically, stay away from the murderer. Civilians are also able to pick up the sheriff's gun should he fall victim to the murderer's blade. Since no one knows who the murderer is at first the game can be quite hectic with people being incredibly suspicious and pointing blame at people for no apparent reason and confusing the sheriff. If the murderer dies or time runs out, the civilians win. If everyone but the murderer dies, the murderer wins.
Effort 7/10
The big problem I have with this game is the maps. The maps are all either copied from popular ROBLOX places like Crossroads, Chaos Canyon, and others, or they're relatively bland and easily built areas. The maps need to be about 20% cooler.
Creativity 9/10
I've seen a few games that are similar to this type of play (Trouble in ROBLOX Town, Deception Infection, ROBLOX Ultimate Assassin) but this one is different enough to pass the creavity test.
Overall 8/10

Suggestions

• The shop could use some more work
• Maps that are less bland
• More game modes
• A deputy with a tazer perhaps?
• Have a unicorn horn knife in the shop that grants the murderer magical powers.

If you want your place reviewed, or know a good place, simply contact Banjobug with a short message. Please don't stalk me. Also, if you find a really awful place that is somehow on the front page, don't hesitate to ask me to review it. It should prove humorous for both of us.

Place Reviewed: Murder Mystery
Reviewed By: Banjobug (I'm back!)

Chicken of the Month: January

So, I guess Brighteyes decided to start doing Chickens of the month, which is basically one chicken hat a month with a different theme. For some reason, January's chicken is a camo chicken, and not like, frozen or something (it's winter). Anyways, this chicken was made by TREVOR818730, and it's very nice.

Cotm: January Camo Chicken

"You think the sky is falling huh? Camo chicken is hiding out so the sky will never know where to find him. January's Chicken of the Month."

Appearance: 9/10

This chicken was made by a good friend of mine, TREVOR818730. It is primarily grey, but has blue 'blotches' all over it, which act like blue camo. It really looks nice, and it has a dark blue beak along with a sky blue mohawk type thing. Anyways, the chicken fits nicely on your head, and leaves an open area where the mouth would be that allows other players to see your face, or allows you to wear some other hat to go along with the chicken. All in all, it's a great looking hat, fits nicely, and, well, congrats Trevor.

Price: 10/10

This part of the article will mostly be ranting, but not because of the price. The price is fine, 100 Robux for this good looking chicken, so the price gets a 10/10. That part was simple. But.. I'm just throwing this into the Price section.. It's a "Chicken of the Month," so.. don't you think it should be on sale for, you know, the month? Or maybe a week? Or a few days? NOT JUST ONE DAY. So yeah, Brighteyes takes this amazing chicken, starts Chicken of the months, and put it on sale for a day. Why? Maybe to keep sales low or something? Dunno. Anyways, it's really not the best idea, but ah well. It looks great, and if you got a copy, you got a good hat.

Overall:9.5

This is a great chicken to start off a hopefully successful hat series of Chickens each month. Hopefully the next one is on sale longer than a day, though. 

~pbjms~

Hat Review: Cherry Pie Hat

Cherry Pie Hat

Mesh/Texture: 7/10

I find the mesh of the Cherry Pie Hat pretty nice. It looks just like a real pie and even has globs of cherries underneath the crust. The bottom layer of crust, though, doesn't look very circular. It looks like a 12-sided polygon, not very well modeled. The texture could have been better done. I like the texture of the cherries, it looks like realistic pie filling. Everything else, however, looks bland and poorly textured. They just slapped one color onto the crusts.

Price: 10/10

The pie's price was 75 Robux and it was on sale for approximately 24 hours. It apparently was available for Internetional Pie Day, not to be confused with Pi Day. For such a creative hat idea and hilarious hat itself, I find the price and time available very fair. You're lucky if you got it while it was available, it goes with quite a few hats and is a nice item to have.

Overall: 8.5/10

Although the mesh and texturing were done a bit quickly and lazily, this hat is amusing to wear, fun to own, and the price was definitely fair. Congratulations if you got this limited-edition food hat to add to your collection of hats.

An Update on Due Articles

Dear ROBLOX News -

It's been about three weeks since my return. I spoke briefly with some admins before posting this rather irregular message.

I want to apologize to RN for several things, among the first is an article I promised to have out this week which I will not have time to immediately work on regarding to "The Most Anticipated Games of 2014."

I also want to apologize for a more than less informative 'teaser' (hardly informative and for decent reason) for a new series i'm working on via YouTube called 'choices' - and while I am still going to go ahead with it, I have recently decided to add more things, more additions to the film's composition.

I'm going to be soon writing a set piece of series on 'getting organized' not only on ROBLOX, but everywhere. It could have the potential to give some insight to your potential and work from someone who does a lot of it on a professional basis with hundreds of people daily.

With that said, most of the reason for this less than predictable delay is Averate, my online internet communicate for creatives, gamers, content producers, and more. It's a serious work in progress right now, but we've reached 50 registrants in a little under 48 hours and we're heading forward to get 100 very soon.


With all said and done, I won't promise a precise date of release for anything. But if you have any questions regarding my 'getting organized and creative' series, I will write it here and publish to other places.


Thanks and sorry again,
^Noah (itsfutur)
noah@studioare.net
+FUTURTOPIA
@futurtopia on Twitter

PhireFox's View on New Site Layout!

Hi there! Today I bring you a video from the well known ROBLOX machinima creator: PhireFox. In this episode, PhireFox discusses his view on the new site layout. The new site layout has been rolled out to roughly 1/10 of the ROBLOX community as the developers wish to gradually implement the new design, test for bugs and to receive valuable user feedback.




Thanks for watching and look out for more content from the PhireFox soon!

Disclaimer: Roblox News and PhireFoxRBLX are in partnership to provide dual content and promotion of each other's media. Video content was used with permission from the respective owner. The views discussed in the video are not endorsed by Roblox News and are solely PhireFox's personal views.

Gear Review: Hockey Stick

So, I guess the Winter Games is ROBLOX's excuse to actually continue making gears, seeing as how there's been.. er, one gear..? Anyways, that gear is a hockey stick, or, as ROBLOX likes to call it, Hockey Stick.

Hockey Stick

"Shoot pucks at your foes and check them into submission."

Appearance:

Mesh: 4/5

So basically the mesh is just a hockey stick, which isn't very surprising. Like.. every hockey stick, there is a long wooden pole and a curved "blade" that you hit pucks with. Yet.. for some reason, the asset design team don't think that ROBLOXians need a nice comfy grip to actually hold the stick with. Shame on them. People are getting splinters, all because of a lack of rubber grips.

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Texture: 3/5

The texture is awful. The straight stick is red with random white stripes, under that is blue tape like most hockey sticks have, then the "blade" thing is just.. no. It's mainly red with yellow stripes.. but.. there is a "ROBLOX Winter Games" logo. Okay. I'm fine with tha- OH GOD. The other side. It's backwards and upside-down. A fantastic (heh) texturing job, that's what this is.

(So that's 7/10 for those who can't add.)

Ability: 10/10

Swing: 4/5

The first attack, done by clicking with the left mouse, is a normal swinging attack. You hit the puck, and it goes flying, hits your enemy if you can actually aim well enough, and knocks them down, doing 50% damage. It's a good attack, though there are two issues with it. First of all, if you jump and click in mid-air, you still swing normally, but the puck is flying in the air. Secondly, the puck goes on the ground for a while, then BAM. Liftoff. Watch as your puck soars above the ground randomly!

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Check: 6/5

For those of you (like myself) who don't play hockey, a check is basically hitting your 'enemy' with your stick, or just holding up your stick to block a puck or something. And no, it will not kill your rivals in two hits in real life. In ROBLOX, checking is just hitting your opponent with your stick after charging forward, which, like the Swing, does 50% damage and knocks your opponent down. "But pb, why did you give it a 6/5?" Well, when checking, you will charge forward about 20-30 studs.. but.. you won't be affected by gravity.. so.. you can get across large gaps because of this, and it can be used in many games as an escape tactic.

Price: 9/10

I don't really have much to say about the price. It's 250 R$... it's ability is amazing. Could it be cheaper? Of course. Is everything perfect? Nope. Except for me. And maybe arb (but mostly me.)

Overall: 8.5/10

To sum up this post, buy the stick if you have enough robux. It's most likely going off-sale after the winter games.

~Thanks for reading!~

~pbjms~

Hat Day Overview

Okay, so APPARENTLY there's a holiday called Hat Day, and to celebrate, ROBLOX made.. well.. hats! Along with some things limited (and other stuff).

So in this post, I'll talk about (and review) hats that came out or, in one case, went limited, during hat day.

I <3 Hats 2014                                                                                

     The first hat to come out was just a simple cap to 'introduce' the 'holiday.' It was just a simple cap priced at 10 Tix and set to go off-sale later that day. It got almost 50,000 sales, and was a pretty big hit during the day. It is a normal black cap, and has the words "I <3 Hats" on it, just like in the title of the hat. It's really nothing special, but it was timed, so it got a nice amount of sales before it went off-sale. But, in the end, it's just another cap that isn't very different from the rest.

7.5/10

Comically Oversized Hat                                                                 

     This hat is basically just an oversized top hat with a feather on it, nothing special at all. It sold for 100 Robux, and, like the cap, it was timed to go off within the day. Due to the price not being NBC-Friendly, it only got around 4,000 sales. It's a grey top hat with a red band on the main, er, "hat" part. There is also a feather on the bottom portion, colored yellow and getting darker and redder as it goes towards the stem of the feather. In the end, it's good for the money, but not something I'd wear.

8/10

Hat Stack                                                                                           

     The next hat to be released was the Hat Stack, which is pretty much an overpriced stack of ugly fedoras. It was priced at 250 Robux, and, like the other hats, went off-sale after a bit. Only about 1,800 of these sold, really getting across the fact that this is a failure as a hat, and not even a hat, it's three hats. It's basically three fedoras on top of each other, each getting uglier as they go up. The first is black with a red band and bow, the second is blue with a black band and a random orange leaf, and the top is brown with a black band and red feather. Ew. Not worth the money.

5/10


Marginally Less Modest Pile of Hat (Went Limited)                    

Dang. Long name. This item was a gift prize back in 2010, and came out of the Frosty Winter Collector's Gift, which was awarded to people who solved different riddles and were able to collect 6 out of 8 collectible items hinted, which was pretty tough. It sold for 1,000 Robux, which, back then, is quite a lot more than what that amount of Robux is worth now. Well, anyways, it failed, and is selling for negative profit based on what the gift sold for. Although it looks, well, okay (it's a mash up of a bunch of random hats), it still failed, so yeah.

7/10

Classic Hat Stack                                                                              

     That's better, a hat that looks great and didn't fail. Classic Hat Stack is basically just, well, a stack of classic hats. From the bottom to top, the hats include Summertime 2009 R&R&R, 2008 ROBLOX Visor, Green Banded Top Hat, and Golden Crown, all of which are either limited, off-sale, or expensive. To own all of those hats, you would have to spent around 5,000 Robux and 5,000 Tix (but a bit more than that). Anyways, this hat came out for 1,000 Robux and was a limited with 250 in stock. It took about a minute to sell out, and began selling for double the price. Triple.. quadruple... whatever 5x the price is called.. and all the way up to 15,000 Robux or more! It began to lower after a few days though, but is still selling for about 8,000 Robux, which is still a lot of profit. Plus, it looks great.

10/10

Stay tuned for next month, when I'll (most likely) be reviewing the Presidents Day sale!

Thanks for reading!

~pbjms~

"Choices" RN-Exclusive Film Series Coming Soon!

Many hellos. I mentioned a few days back that I was going to start a special RN-exclusive Video Series regarding to the story and production behind my work in progress game, memories that explains the origin, the idea, and the production of the film. Part One of the (three parts planned!) series will hopefully launch in March 2014. There are certain things that may curb this initial release date (such as the demand and success for The Averate Network.) Here is the first (and probably only) preview. Thank you. ^ItsFutur