How is priority determined on matching multiple colors?

Kelbris
Kelbris Posts: 1,051
edited December 2013 in MPQ General Discussion
Example: I made a match 5 (l-shape) so that the tiles are about to drop in this situation:
B=Blue, C=Critical, E=Environmental, H-Hole in the board (tiles are falling into it). Dashes are redundant tiles that don't create matches.

- E -
- C -
- H -
- H -
B H B
- E -

The tiles will drop into this 3x3 pattern:

- E -
BCB
- E -

Blue got the critical boost on the damage, while environment matched but got normal amount of AP. I made the match 5 to try and get the critical to trigger the Environment for a Forest Fire. What made Blue get the boost?

For what it's worth, both Environment and Blue tiles were Magneto matches, so he handled both of them.

Comments

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    should be damage priority, environmental is ALWAYS last which is annoying when you want to match a crit to an environment tile (usually game over when that happens)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I don't think its damage priority, as I often have a critical tile that could match two ways with colours and for some reason it picks the much smaller damage.
    Can be the difference between a kill and a whole lot of damage coming back at you
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    Just had this happen in the Containment Breach stage: (Y = Yellow)

    E E C
    - - Y
    - - Y

    The critical boost went to the Environmental tiles (had 203 AP, so I'm positive). However, this time Thor owned Yellow and Magneto owned Environmentals. Now I have no idea.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Kelbris wrote:
    Just had this happen in the Containment Breach stage: (Y = Yellow)

    E E C
    - - Y
    - - Y

    The critical boost went to the Environmental tiles (had 203 AP, so I'm positive). However, this time Thor owned Yellow and Magneto owned Environmentals. Now I have no idea.
    Might be some sort of weird interactions with the boosts?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I believe it is just a sequential check - Horizontal matches have preference over vertical ones. I have seen this play out in many situations. I am less clear on whether a left match has priority over a right mathc or up over down (relative to the critical tile). Personally, I'm annoyed that we don't get critical damage on all matches with the critical tile.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    From my observations, it appears to resolve matches from left to right, top to bottom. But I haven't really thoroughly investigated it, just appears to be case to me.

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