Roblox AUTOMATICALLY Bans You For Doing This?...

Summary

In this video, the host discusses recent updates and issues in Roblox, including a new feature in Roblox Studio for developers, the introduction of search ads, and the resolution of a long-standing bug affecting particle effects in first-person mode. Additionally, the video addresses the controversy over automatic bans for using certain emojis and the fluctuating price floor for in-game items. Finally, it highlights the reopening of the Video Star program for content creators.

Takeaways

• 🐛 Roblox has addressed a longstanding bug where the star program was causing automatic bans for certain chat messages.
• 📈 The introduction of visualization nodes in Roblox Studio allows creators to toggle debug modes and visualizations, enhancing workflow efficiency.
• 🔄 Despite being a welcomed update, the visualization nodes feature was temporarily rolled back due to performance and stability issues.
• 🎨 Roblox has added eight new base materials to production beta, enabling developers to customize physical behaviors and appearances.
• 📐 The new materials feature different weights and can be adjusted through material variants, offering more flexibility for developers.
• 🔍 Roblox is introducing a new ad format called 'search ads' to promote experiences to users actively searching for specific game genres.
• 🚀 The effectiveness of the new search ads is yet to be determined, with mixed reactions from the developer community.
• 🌌 A significant bug affecting first-person camera mode with particle effects has been in the works to be fixed in Roblox release 638.
• 🚫 The use of certain emojis in chat, such as the kissy face, can result in immediate bans without the need for reporting, though this may have been rolled back.
• 💰 The Roblox price floor has been fluctuating, with recent updates showing increases for hats and decreases for faces, impacting the virtual economy.
• 🌟 The Video Star program is now open for new applications, providing opportunities for content creators to join after a period of closure.

Q & A

What was the odd bug in Roblox that has been fixed?

The odd bug was related to the star program where people were getting banned instantly and automatically just by saying something in the chat.

What is the purpose of the visualization nodes update in Roblox Studio?

The visualization nodes update allows creators to quickly toggle various debug modes and visualizations in Roblox Studio to speed up and augment workflows.

Why was the visualization nodes feature temporarily rolled back?

The feature was rolled back due to some performance and stability issues that needed to be investigated.

What are the new base materials in Roblox and what can they be used for?

The new base materials introduce corresponding physical behaviors and allow creators to change their appearance and physical properties by creating material variants.

What is the new ad format being introduced by Roblox called?

The new ad format is called 'search ads' and is used to promote experiences to users who are actively searching for experiences or genres of experiences using specific keywords.

How might the introduction of search ads affect the visibility of Roblox games?

Search ads might increase the visibility of games by appearing as sponsored results at the top of search results for specific keywords.

What is the issue with particle effects in first-person camera mode in Roblox?

The issue is that particle effects would cover the screen when zooming into first-person camera mode, which has been a problem since the introduction of particle hats.

How is Roblox addressing the particle effects issue in first-person mode?

Roblox is updating the default camera script to hide particle emitters, beams, trails, fire, smoke, and explosions that are parented within the character when zooming into first person.

What happened with the use of the kissy emoji in Roblox chat?

People were getting banned automatically for using the kissy emoji in chat, without the need for being reported.

What changes have been made to the Roblox price floor?

The Roblox price floor has been updated with hats going up by 10 Robux, shirts going up by 5 Robux, and faces going down by 10 Robux but still being at 75 Robux.

What is the significance of the Video Star program opening again?

The reopening of the Video Star program is significant as it allows YouTubers and TikTok creators who meet the criteria to apply and potentially join the program, which had been closed since the previous year.

Outlines

00:00

🛠️ Roblox Studio Update and Bug Fixes

The video discusses recent updates and fixes in Roblox, starting with a bug affecting the star program that led to automatic bans for certain chat messages. The script mentions a new feature in Roblox Studio called visualization nodes, which allows developers to toggle debug modes and visualizations to enhance their workflow. However, this feature was temporarily rolled back due to performance and stability issues. The video also touches on the addition of eight new base materials in Roblox, which introduce different physical behaviors and can be customized through material variants. Lastly, the script hints at a new ad format being introduced to the platform, search ads, which aim to promote experiences to users searching for specific genres.

05:01

🎮 Roblox's New Ad Format and Policy Updates

This paragraph delves into Roblox's introduction of a new ad format called search ads, designed to promote experiences to users actively searching for certain types of games. The effectiveness of this new advertising method is questioned, as it's uncertain whether users searching for genres will find sponsored games useful. The script also addresses a bug that has been patched where particle effects would cover the screen in first-person camera mode, a problem since the introduction of particle hats. Additionally, the video mentions an automatic ban feature for using certain emojis in chat, which was initially reported to be fixed but later instances suggest it might still be in effect. The paragraph concludes with updates on the Roblox price floor, which has been fluctuating and now updates almost daily, and the reopening of the video star program for content creators to apply.

Keywords

💡Roblox

Roblox is an online platform and game creation system that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of different types of games created by other users. In the context of the video, it is the central subject as the host discusses various updates and issues related to the platform, such as the star program and new ad formats.

💡Bug

A bug in the context of software and gaming refers to an error, flaw, or unintended behavior that causes a program to behave in ways that are not expected by the user or the developer. The video mentions a 'really odd bug' that has been fixed in Roblox, which relates to users getting banned for using certain emojis in chat.

💡Star Program

The Roblox Star Program is an initiative that recognizes and supports content creators who make videos or streams featuring Roblox. The video discusses the reopening of the program for new applications, which was previously closed, and its significance for YouTubers and TikTok creators.

💡Visualization Nodes

In the context of Roblox Studio, visualization nodes are a feature that allows developers to toggle various debug modes and visualizations to enhance their workflow. The script mentions an update that introduces these nodes, which can help in debugging by showing wireframes and other visual aids.

💡Rolled Back

To roll back a feature or update in software development means to revert to a previous version due to issues or bugs. The video script refers to a feature that was temporarily rolled back by Roblox due to performance and stability issues.

💡Material Variants

Material variants in Roblox allow developers to create different appearances and physical properties for base materials. The video mentions the introduction of eight new base materials with corresponding physical behaviors that can be customized through material variants.

💡Search Ads

Search ads are a type of online advertising where ads are displayed in search results based on the keywords used by the searcher. The video discusses the introduction of this new ad format on Roblox, which aims to promote experiences to users searching for specific games or genres.

💡Particle Effects

Particle effects in gaming are visual elements that simulate natural phenomena like smoke, fire, or sparks. The video talks about a long-standing issue with particle effects in Roblox's first-person camera mode, which has been addressed in an upcoming update.

💡Price Floor

In the context of virtual economies, like Roblox's, a price floor is the minimum price at which an item can be sold. The video mentions the fluctuation of the Roblox price floor, which affects the value of in-game items such as hats, faces, and shirts.

💡Ban

A ban in online gaming is a punishment that restricts or prohibits a user's access to the game or certain features. The video discusses how users are getting banned instantly for using certain emojis in chat, which is an automated process due to a recent update.

💡Emoji

Emojis are small digital icons used to express an idea, emotion, or activity in digital communication. The video script mentions that using specific emojis in Roblox chat can lead to an automatic ban, highlighting the platform's moderation policies.

Highlights

Roblox has fixed a longstanding bug where the star program was causing automatic bans for certain chat messages.

The introduction of visualization nodes in Roblox Studio allows creators to toggle debug modes and visualizations for workflow enhancement.

A temporary rollback of the visualization feature was necessary due to performance and stability issues.

Eight new base materials with physical behaviors have been added to Roblox, enabling customization through material variants.

Roblox is introducing a new ad format called 'search ads' to promote experiences based on user search queries.

The effectiveness of the new search ads for developers is still uncertain and requires further observation.

Roblox is addressing a long-standing issue with particle effects obscuring the screen in first-person camera mode.

Some users have reported being automatically banned for using the kissy emoji in chat without needing to be reported first.

Roblox appears to have rolled back the automatic ban feature for certain emojis after user feedback on social media.

The Roblox price floor has been fluctuating, with recent updates affecting the value of various items like hats and faces.

The Video Star program, which was closed last year, is now open for new applications from content creators.

The Video Star program now features an application form on their website, making the process more accessible.

The reopening of the Video Star program is significant for YouTubers and TikTok creators who meet the criteria.

The star program's delayed reopening has caused some frustration among potential applicants.

Roblox's updates and bug fixes are part of an ongoing effort to improve user experience and platform functionality.

The community's response to updates and changes in Roblox is a critical factor in the platform's evolution and adjustments.

Transcripts

Roblox finally fixed this really odd bug

that has been in the game forever the

star program is open and uh people are

getting banned instantly and

automatically just by saying something

in chat once again but before I get into

all that and more I'm going to ask you

to subscribe because for every five Subs

I get I will pet my cat anyways let's

get to the video cuz there's actually a

lot of news I want to talk about today

with the first story being something

that's not that big of a deal but it is

something that's worth talking about

okay and it is basically just some

Roblox updates that have been added to

the platform that I think are mid to be

honest but I think they're worth

mentioning because the first update in

question is this right here with

visualization nodes in Roblox Studio

creators can Now quickly toggle various

debug modes and visualizations in Roblox

Studio to speed up and augment workflows

now I have no clue what this means but I

think what it means is it actually just

like shows you uh like certain things in

Roblox like if that makes any sense like

you can see in this screenshot you can

see like a bunch of lines going through

stuff you can basically see like

wireframes of stuff and there's also

like a bunch of check boxes that you can

enable so I guess this is good for like

debugging and stuff like that if you're

a developer this probably is cool uh I I

I just don't get it I don't get it that

much if we go to the de for post there's

probably a lot of people excited about

this cuz it is it's seemingly a big deal

I guess you can turn on specific things

that like highlight anchored parts and

like certain types of parts that's

pretty cool okay now that I like have

read the dev Forum post I understand

what's going on here and this is

actually pretty cool uh but sadly as you

can see here it was temporarily rolled

back and they said hey all' we are

unfortunately temporarily rolling back

this feature while we investigate some

performance and stability issues we will

be sure to update it when we reenable it

thank you for your patience and

understanding so yeah this update is

pretty dang cool but sadly you can't use

it anymore because there was like some

bugs with it I guess L but whatever

because now we can move on to the next

story which also is you know for

developers it seems like uh Roblox is

adding new materials pretty frequently

now I don't know if I've seen these

before uh I I think I might have

actually so maybe these are old and they

were just in beta and now they're like

fully out but basically bloxy news

tweeted up this these eight new base

materials are now pushed into production

beta each of these new base materials

introduce corresponding physical

behaviors you can change their

appearance and physical properties by

creating material variants so yeah I

guess a lot of these uh textures also

have different weights I believe which

is pretty cool but uh I mean it's

nothing new for Roblox I don't think but

uh yeah they just added some new

textures that's it very small very tiny

story but now we can move on to the next

story which is actually really

interesting and it's this br new ads

update so apparently Roblox is going to

be introducing a new ad format to the

platform which I think is quite

interesting let me show you so Blox news

tweeted out this introducing search ads

a new Roblox ad format used to promote

your experiences to users who are

actively searching for experiences or

genre of experiences using specific

keyword and I wonder how effective these

ads are going to be because usually when

you use the search bar on Roblox you

kind of like are looking for a specific

game in mind you don't really just

search Roblox for like genres of games

anymore because it's kind of impossible

to do so unless they fixed it and I just

haven't realized let me check let me

search up firstperson shooter in in

experiences okay I got like gunfight

Arena unnamed shooter you know just a

bunch of actual FPS games that's pretty

interesting okay maybe they did fix it

all right maybe I'm stupid maybe these

ads are actually going to be like the

best way to advertise your Roblox game

who knows but yeah basically whenever

you search stuff you now might have a

possibility of seeing sponsored games at

the top of your search result uh I don't

know if this is a bad update I think

it's completely fine to be honest honest

I just wonder how effective this is

going to be for developers like is this

actually going to be an effective way to

like market and advertise your game I

guess we'll have to see with time but as

you can see here's the dev for post that

kind of just goes through exactly what

this update is but yeah looking through

all of these Dev for posts a lot of

people are a bit uh iffy about this this

whole update they kind of don't know if

it's going to be that good but a lot of

people also are saying that it's pretty

positive so I guess we'll just see what

happens with time I don't think this is

actually added to the website yet I

think this is just an announcement of

this being added soon oh no is starting

today and this was 2 days ago so yeah

this is actually on the website for some

people I guess but now we can move on to

the next story which just happens to be

this a huge bug that has finally been

patched on Roblox or is being patched

soon so basically bloxy news tweeted out

this with Roblox release 638 particle

effects will no longer show and cover

your screen when zooming into firsters

camera mode now if you don't know this

has been a problem on Roblox since I

think the dawn of time like ever since

Roblox started releasing particle hats

which by the way I think was like 2009

or something there's always just been a

problem with whenever you like go into

first person you can see the particle

effects now granted before like I don't

know the past 2 years this hasn't really

been a huge problem because there hasn't

really been that many particle hats on

Roblox but as of the past 2 years Roblox

has been going crazy with particle hats

and uh now as you can see it's becoming

a very common issue for a lot of people

here's like a video example that I'm

stealing from bloxy news where they kind

of just show that when you go into first

person you have a lot of particles all

over your screen because they are

wearing like the hor blocks package as

well as like some event wings and stuff

like that and it kind of just gets in

the way dude but apparently Roblox is

working on fixing this because they have

like a road map for their updates and

whatnot and this is listed in it it says

changes to default camera script to hide

particle emitters beams Trails fire

smoke and explosions that are parented

within the character when zooming into

first person which is actually awesome

dude that's that's awesome now I I do

think this might break some things uh

like I have made a couple games in the

past where I've put part emitters inside

of the character and now I guess those

particles won't show uh which kind of

sucks but either way the main thing is

that it it is fixed okay and that that's

I'd say the bigger issue is being fixed

here but now we can move on to the next

story which is just people getting

banned automatically for saying the

kissy Emoji now this is something I

talked about a while ago but before you

actually had to be like reported to get

banned from this but now it seems like

as as soon as you say this in the chat

you have a chance of getting banned now

I think they did patch this cuz I did go

into a private server and try this

myself to see if I could get banned

automatically for just saying these

emojis but no I didn't get banned I even

tried reporting myself but that didn't

really work cuz you can't really report

yourself so but either way I didn't

personally get banned but I saw a whole

thread of people testing this out

themselves and getting banned such as

this right here that says Roblox

censored the following Emoji sending

this in Roblox chat will get you warned

SL banned for dating SL romantic reasons

the bot will detect this Emoji in chat

and will ban you for use again and they

say that someone was in a private server

just saying this in the chat because I

guess they were recording a Tik Tok or

whatever they got banned for it which is

interesting and I saw this and I was

like oh interesting you know I've seen

stuff like this but usually you have to

get like reported whenever you said that

to get banned but this person was

claiming that you didn't need to get

reported you could literally just say it

in a private server and get banned for

it so then I went into the comments to

see if anyone else had this experience

and it seems like a lot of other people

tried to test this themselves and also

got banned as you can see Lucas tweeted

out this saying goated with a picture of

his band note basically just saying uh

Roblox does not permit dating or

romantic exchanges between avatars with

the reason being him saying bre with a

like emoji and yeah you can see that

that Lucas isn't the only other person

that got banned through this there's a

bunch of other people that also got

banned here so yeah I guess you don't

even need to get reported to be banned

this way but it does seem like Roblox

has rolled back this update because I

personally couldn't get banned this way

and I haven't seen anyone else complain

about getting banned through this method

uh since it blew up on Twitter you know

yeah either way be careful using certain

emojis in Roblox because a lot of them

could be considered romantic or dating

and yeah you might get banned but now we

can talk about the price floor updates

cuz in my last video I talked about how

the Roblox price floor was changing

pretty frequently and as you could see 9

minutes ago the Roblox price floor has

updated once again and uh it's not

looking too good because hats are up 10

Roo hairs are up five Robux faces are

are down 10 Robux but they're still 75

oh my God and yeah you can read the rest

of these it doesn't look that good but

yeah as you can see the price floors are

now back to updating on a daily basis

almost which is uh kind of annoying now

I do want to say though that yesterday

hats went down 20 Robux as you can see

in this tweet here and it got 500 likes

people saw hats go down 20 robblox and

got so hyp but as you can see a day

later it instantly got destroyed because

uh yeah they went back up 10 now we can

talk about the last story which just

happens to be the videoar program

opening so I didn't talk about this in

my last video cuz I just simply forgot

about it but basically the videoar

program is now open to be joined once

again and the reason this is such a big

deal is because the Roblox star program

closed all the way back last year and I

think August and uh basically they said

that the star program would be opening

back up in April of this year but as you

can tell uh it is uh August so they're

kind of late here guys um but either way

it doesn't matter because it is now open

and if you are a YouTuber or Tik Tok

creator that meets the criteria you can

now apply to the video Start program uh

actually on their website which is new

because before you had to just email

them and and hope that they responded to

you but now they have like an actual

application form which is pretty cool

but either way yeah that's going off the

star program it's pretty cool that it's

back open