Oh boy - has anyone encountered this **** yet?

Arondite

So I'm just going along, battling random guys and I encounter

IM40
OBW
cStorm

They collect 8 Purple AP (amongst other random colors). The following turn, OBW casts Recon. Okay, normal.
Next turn? With 0 Purple AP, she casts Recon again.
Next turn? 3 Purple AP, Recon.

For the rest of the fight she cast Recon every turn and I couldn't down her through the sea of Health she created and my inability to fire a skill. Has anyone encountered this ****? I thought after 3 consecutive casts I must've been missing something (like a huge cascade I missed with a stockpile of purple or something), but no. I checked her AP every turn after that, and there's no way she could've met the casting requirements.

d0nk3y

Never to that extent, but yeah, I've run into opponents that have fired off skills I know they didn't have the AP for. Last one I remember was also OBW's Aggressive Recon, but I know I've seen Rampage come off of Ares when they only had like 6 red. Not too bad, since I was running Patch / LDaken / , but still...

Unknown

Oh, I just posted that Ares used his green on me 3 rounds in a row. Nice to know I'm not alone.

Unknown

I went against a hood and two maggia. They generate 3 yellow per turn and hood made a match 3 yellow on first turn. That's only 9 yellow but he still somehow fired off twin pistols on me on the second turn. ****!! Then he fired it again 2 turns later. That shouldn't be possible.

Alucard_I_Am

gnocd wrote:

I went against a hood and two maggia. They generate 3 yellow per turn and hood made a match 3 yellow on first turn. That's only 9 yellow but he still somehow fired off twin pistols on me on the second turn. ****!! Then he fired it again 2 turns later. That shouldn't be possible.

Because the beginning of the 2nd turn the maggia generate another 6 on top of the 9 they had from the first turn which gives hood his 15 ap. They really need to change the boost back to 3+ at least for pve because of this. Between having Hood at level 300+ and putting him with a goon the nodes become impossible to beat with any teams. Really fustrating.

morph3us

I had the same issue in today's DDQ (vs OBW, 2* Thor, Bullseye). OBW was firing Aggressive Recon off every single turn. I was careful to check her purple AP, and she set it off with 7 purple AP one turn, 5 purple the next, and 1 purple AP the following turn. Luckily the level difference was such that I downed her the turn after that, but it was all a bit ugh.

_RiO_

Oh look; this thread again!

I remember from the last three times.
The devs are adamant that the AI does not cheat on AP costs and that this behavior, when encountered, is a bug.
They'd also like documented video evidence, because they believe it does not exist and people are simply miscounting.

[tinfoil-hat]
Ofcourse, the semi-random nature of occurence means nobody will be recording their screens at the time it happens, which works out nicely for keeping this litle gem of a health-drainer in the game unprotested.
[/tinfoil-hat]

Usually this bug surfaces as a sneaky, sneaky off-by-one though, and nothing as blatantly obvious as casting a skill 'for free' completely. So perhaps this is not a 'feature' after all.


Sofar, I've personally seen it happen with:

• Ares' Rampage;
• Ares' Onslaught;
• Mystique's Masterstroke; and
• OBW's Aggressive Recon

Possibly there are others left undiscovered.

snlf25

I had LThor call the storm on me 3 turns in yesterday in PvP when he only had around 6 green AP. It happens.