Update to Friday the 13th: The Game will remove team kills and more

The last we heard, Friday the 13th: The Game has sold over 1.8 million despite the adversity the game faced at launch. Recently, the game received a patch that allowed the Xbox One Friday the 13th: The Game owners to catch up to the rest of the game's community as far as gameplay goes.

An upcoming update will be making tweaks to the game. Before we get to the post detailing the changes, which is fairly long, here's a shortened version – supplied by Gun Media:

• Public Matches – Team Killing is No Longer Possible
• Public Matches – Cars Can Still Kill
• Public Matches – Traps Still Can Hurt/Kill – no XP penalty Loss to Trap Placer
• Private Matches – Team Killing Still Possible

Now, here's the longer version of the list above from Gun Media on Reddit:

"So the biggest thing we’ve heard from our community with the game are issues pertaining to rampant team-killing that has unfortunately been abused by players on all platforms. While the mechanic’s intent is designed to promote life-or-death experiences into each and every game you play, the reality has turned into more of a Battle Royale scenario to a point our team feels a change needs to be made.

"In the next patch; Public Games will no longer allow counselor team killing through weapons use against other counselor players. The shotgun, machete, and other assorted weapons will no longer have any effect on friendly players.

"However; there remain a couple dangers. The biggest one is that the car will remain as-is. A car can and will be able to run you over and kill you. We decided on this as the alternative was abused during our beta where users would simply stand in front of the car, effectively blocking it from moving. The next consideration is that counselor-placed bear-traps will still cause damage to other counselors that walk over them, however a resulting death will no longer incur an XP Penalty. To that we say; pay attention to placed traps.

"Our team believes that the ability to hurt other counselors is something that this game should have as it adds tension and requires players to make tough calls. However, we do not believe this should be a mechanic that is abused by players to the point where the vast majority of our current communications from fans are complaints of rampant/unwarranted team-killing/griefing/trolling. We will include this mechanic in private matches for now, with the hope of better options in the future."

No more team kills and no more trolling.