Tag

Tag
Main Information
Introduction Date	December 30th, 2021
Bots	None (except for maps with secondary bots)
Player Piggies	1-5
Special	Only one survivor. The rest of the players will become taggers.
Extra Information
Thumbnail Characters	Crawling Trap
Background Color	Darkish Yellow

Tag is a gamemode in Piggy. This gamemode allows the infected players to tag the survivor, and the main goal for the survivor is to escape the map without getting tagged by a "tagger" (Umbra or Mousy).

Mechanic

The round starts off as normal and there's no one as Piggy until the 9:30 mark. At that point, everyone in the server, minus one player, will be turned into a tagger, with an appearance similar to the Crawling Trap. Be aware that you can also equip the Mousy skin, to become a tagger similar to her NPC counterpart. The taggers must hunt down the survivor and tag them. Once the survivor is tagged, they become a tagger and the tagger who tagged them becomes a survivor. This procedure continues on until either time runs out or a player escapes the map.

Trivia

• This is the first gamemode where you can be infected but have a chance to keep going as a survivor.
• When the timer hits 9:30, the game will show the message, "The game has begun!"
• After tagging a player, the player has a few seconds to run away, being immortal to the taggers.
  • The player is treated like a ghost in these few seconds, as they can't be attacked. The only difference is that they can pick up items, and open doors.
    • This is to prevent a never-ending loop of re-tagging.
• Along with Swarm, this mode never got to be in Sketchy or Piggy but it's 100 Players. They also have yet to be added to the Chinese Variant of Piggy.
• As a tagger, it was extremely difficult to go up any wedges or stairs from the bottom side. This was due to the hitbox of the tagger.
  • To avoid this, all you would have to do was go into first person and continuously jump up the wedge or stairs while looking sideways or backwards until you reach the top. This is now fixed.
• Abilities, along with traps are disabled when playing this gamemode.
• When you equip the Mousy skin, you become her NPC counterpart.
  • It is actually a remodel of the Crawling Trap, with Mousy's body parts.
    • However, she has the same animations as the regular Crawling Trap.
• Friendly NPCs are still functional in this gamemode.
  • They will go after only one of the taggers, and when caught, they will proceed to stun them for 20 seconds.
• If the survivor dies from a hostile NPC (Foxy, Mr. P, Willow, etc), lasers, acid, or fall damage, they will be able to rejoin the game as a tagger, and a random tagger will turn into a survivor.
• This mode swapped with Swarm every other round, similarly to what Infection had previously done with Traitor.
• If the survivor escapes, instead of the game saying "Game Over", it will say "Anonymous User Has Escaped!".
• This gamemode gives the Crawling Trap an idle animation.
• The game automatically ends if there is only one player left mid-round.
  • The timer will say 59:59 rather than the game saying "Game Over."
• It was added to Build Mode in beta on July 27th, 2024, along with the Build Mode-exclusive Survivor gamemode.

Glitches

• If a survivor was tagged at the same time they were killed by acid, lasers, fall damage, or a secondary bot, then they would be turned into a tagger, but their camera would be locked where they were killed. If this was done with Grandmother, then she would be stuck in place and not be able to kill any other survivors.
• If a tagger catches the player when they escape, said tagger also escapes.
  • This can also happen when a tagger is turned into a survivor from the other survivor escaping.
• The taggers used to be unable to go through any vents in Book 2.
• If a survivor is tagged in Distorted Memory, Heist, Distraction, or Mansion, then the taggers will spawn with their avatar rather than the intended character(s) normally played as in their respective maps.
• If there is any gameplay music playing (Like For You To Stay in Plant or Heinous Heist in Heist), when a survivor gets tagged, the music that is playing stops.
• If a survivor is tagged in Mansion, they both the tagged survivor and the new survivor will be able to see the timer, even if it has more than one minute left.

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