Many people have noticed by now that casting tokens, like from Not Forgotten or From Under the Floorboards, no longer count toward objectives in this Terror in the Shadows event. When you cast Deploy the Gatewatch and three spirits come out, you aren’t credited with casting any.
I understand this means the way objectives are met has changed, and that’s fine. It’s something we can all adjust to pretty easily. All I’m asking is that the devs maybe include this update to the mechanics in their release notes. It would REALLY help up. Thanks!
Apparently casting a creature that triggers a meld doesn’t count either. How can you be sure this is intentional and not a side effect of some other bug fix?
So basically they’re saying they won’t tell us when things change so that the players who don’t care enough to read have an equal disadvantage to those who choose to?
With this, there two possibilities, both of which have significantly compromised this event:
The secondary objectives now actually mean ‘Cast’, although the text still says ‘Summoned’ - this is misleading and undocumented and changes the way the nodes are played quite a lot.
The latest patch has introduced a bug that has this effect. So the text is still correct, but the game is not following the text.
Either way, it means the event now has artificially introduced distortions in the scoring and should be declared invalid.
Maybe this means they’ve fixed the objectives for other events so that when your werewolf gets turned against you and returned it won’t count as your third creature and bust your objective.
Agreed Lagartha. The worst part is, the change is illogical. The objectives state “Win the fight and summon 2 Wolves or Werewolves” or “Win the fight and summon 2 Spirits or Zombies”. Garruk’s second ability states “Summon X 2/2 Green Wolf tokens.” Not Forgotten states “Summon 2 1/1 White Spirits with Flying.” In both Garruk and Not Forgotten’s case, it clearly says summon while the associated objectives also say summon. Why doesn’t this count? I can understand Deploy the Gatewatch because it fetches and places them onto the battlefield so at least the wording works there. The inconsistencies are killing me.
so now they have changed the objectives into summon non-token wolves / vampires and that’s fine with me, however why there’s no heads up before the event? I’ve chosen Garruk for the green node and his token wolves were good for the first few matches but I’ve just found out his token wolves doesn’t count after the update which is in the middle of the event.
I wouldn’t use him if we know now the objectives needs non-token creatures.
I agree that notification would be nice if the change is intentional. However I think this must be a mistake. If it weren’t a mistake, why not just change the in-game text of the description of the bonus objective? It would take two seconds to change, “summon two spirits” to “play two spirit cards” or “cast two spirits” or whatever templating they use for this. The fact that they didn’t do that strongly suggests it’s a mistake.
They made a code change and chucked it over the wall to the QA department (the players). Might as well test in production, speeds up the delivery cycle.
My best guess is that they were sincerely trying to solve one of the problems that’s been complained about a lot on the forums. The secondary objectives that require you to summon two or fewer creatures probably won’t be counted against you when your opponent turns them into a moon. Or uses Turn Against. I like the mechanics better now, but even a tiny footnote in the update announcement would have been nice. And some consistency on the wording. ‘Cast’ versus ‘summon.’