R114: All passive abilities now trigger after board settles

CrookedKnight
CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
edited December 2016 in MPQ Bugs and Technical Issues
After installing the new patch on Android, passive abilities that trigger on tile matches, such as Pheromone Rage, Psychic Feedback and Adamantium Bones, now wait until the board has settled and any cascades have cascaded before they kick in. Previously they would activate immediately after the match, before new tiles could fall. Not necessarily a bad change, but it wasn't listed on the patch notes so it may be unintended.

(My best guess is that it's a byproduct of the fix for Espionage/Shapeshift/etc causing critical tiles to match in place)

Comments

  • ngoni
    ngoni Posts: 112 Tile Toppler
    You can add PNX "From the Ashes" to this list. Problem is now she's dead and the passive doesn't trigger.
  • Jaedenkaal
    Jaedenkaal Posts: 3,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    Except for From The Ashes, which is clearly bad, I don't really mind this change.

    Also, the board doesn't have to completely settle, just fall so that all 64 spaces are full. The passive will then trigger (too late for Jean, apparently), and THEN if there are still matches on the board, the cascade will continue, occasionally matching away a special tile that was just placed by the intervening passive trigger.

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