I didn’t see a thread on the first several pages, so thought I’d put this up so it eventually gets addressed.
When a team has OBW on their team and create a crit tile through a match-5, the crit tile will check to see if it can make a match before falling. One of the devs has commented that all tiles, including crits, should finish falling before they check if there are any matches.
I’m pretty sure this has been in the game so long that players think it’s intended. But I remember the dev not even knowing this existed. It’s probably somewhere in the Espionage coding.
If there’s another thread on this, sorry. But it hasn’t been fixed in forever.
I remember it being mentioned before too and the dev responding it. I’m not 100% sure but I’ve seen it happen with other chars in play. It might be more complex a bug than initially thought.
I think when I’ve seen it, it’s when the opponent is downed as the result of a cascade that creates a crit tile. Rather than applying to the next enemy in line, the crit tile just seems to explode without damaging an enemy.
Ive also seen where sometimes the crit tile makes a match where it’s created but sometimes it neglects a match and cascades down. I can’t identify a rhyme or reason for how the game applies crit matches.
BTW, this happens with Mystique also. I would guess that whoever created the Mystique files, duplicated OBW’s files and then edited. They both have the crit exploding in midair bug.
Stealth (adj): The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
Nerf (n): To weaken or make less dangerous.
Critical tiles exploding midair without applying correct damage weakens OBW. There’s been no public comment on why it only affects a handful of characters or when it will be fixed, which makes it seem that there’s no hurry to change it.
Have also seen this happen frequently, I am now starting to wonder if D3 actually fix bugs, or just ignore until people stop complaining (publicly). Had a ticket logged with them back on 25th Dec, still haven’t heard anything on it. Surely staff are back from the xmas/nye break and working again?
searched the board to see why it happened sometimes and not others, this is the best answer i have found.
it really sucks when you see a good cascade chain that relies on a match 5 and a crit tile only to have the crit tile explode in mid air. it happens so much that i figured it was always supposed to do it until i started watching and saw that it was only sometimes. i guess those times were when i had OBW on my team (shes there a lot)
FYI, put in a ticket that included this issue last month—after a back-and-forth about it and a review of it on their end, they sent me this updated status: “This was indeed an error, and a fix will be released as soon as possible.”
Please note the date of the post - Jan. 17. The ticket in question was handled back in January. Customer Support is operating normally and handling tickets in a relatively speedy manner at the moment.
If you have an issue that you need assistance with they’d be happy to assist: https://d3publisherofamerica.zendesk.co … quests/new
This is happening because of OBW’s espionage power right? My guess has always been that passive powers (at least some of them) are resolving before allowing tiles to fall. This resolution is probably what is allowing the tile-match test to happen before first allowing the tiles to fall. The event-chaining is probably out of order for these powers.
