Yeah, I pretty sure it happens to me occasionally, mostly during cascades. Like - I have 0 Yellow AP and I just saw 3 yellow matched during the cascade, but after it ends I still have zero.
It commonly happens with environmental tiles after a cascade. I’ve noticed it a lot when using Black Panther and wanting environmental tiles for his yellow power. It’s particularly annoying when it would be a critical match since the 45+ environmental AP you were counting on to add multiple strike tiles don’t get counted.
I am quite certain it has happened to me as well, but didn’t post something because I thought it was just my mind playing games. It was definitely not environment tiles and it has lost me a couple of games so far.
Sort of related but I swear sometimes when it gets towards the end of the cascade and my turn again that I get enough AP and a power will light up but magically will go back down to missing just 1 AP to set it off…like really?!
I think that sometimes, during a cascade, it’s easy to mistake a couple of increases in an AP bar as the repeated pulsing of a ready skill. I’ve seen that myself, and eventually figured out that the skill was never actually ready.
It’s not a perception thing, there have been times I needed 3 yellow for an ability, matched 4, and get no new AP registered. I have noticed it happen on Match 4s and Crit matches
The only time I have specifically noticed it was when I did a match 5, the crit tile dropped between 2 environmental and 2 colored. It fired off and I did not get any environmental AP, did get the colored mana.
I’ve noticed this too, actually a lot more recently. One other thing I’ve spotted, similar to what Chim said, the AI gets a match 5 in a column, it drops the critical to the bottom, there is no match though, then other tiles fall on it, again, no match, but it still triggers the critical anyway.
Then, several times I have gotten match 4 or 5’s, yet no AP shows up.
I noticed this on the AI’s side. I knew the AI already made yellow match-4 twice. The AI didn’t need yellow. I was running with hood and obw. I was about to do aggressive recon and i before execution i checked enemy AP. The AI had no yellow. I only had the 3 yellow i started with from boosts.
Today I had an ability “pulsing” during an opponent’s entire turn and when my turn came up it stopped pulsing and I was one AP short, no Human Torch, no shenanigans etc. I don’t actually know if I had enough AP to cast the ability, just that the “ability ready” animation was DEFINITELY playing during the opponent’s turn.
Also, when did crits start disappearing in midair? It’s been happening constantly all day and I’ve never noticed it before the past couple of days