Known Issue: Galactus Boss Not Unlocking *Updated (1/6/17)

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  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,460 Chairperson of the Boards
    Cartz wrote:
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    I just finished a clean round, where I closed the app each time I beat Galactus himself (and before going into the side nodes), though whether that's more RNG fickleness or not, who knows.

    Just tried this and it worked for a full clear. Will try again next time to confirm but so far so good.


    I missed 1-2 tries per refresh until I started trying this way. So far so good in the last 2 refreshes!
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    St1nkf1st wrote:
    I run through two full clears during round 7 and Galactus unlocked every single time. All rounds before I had 1 or 2 times per clear that the boss fight won't unlock.
    I didn't do anything special like checking leaderboard or restart the app, just played. Maybe it's related to the fact that we have lower active player count at same time during higher rounds now.

    That's an interesting theory. I have yet to encounter the issue at all and I'm in an alliance where there only about 2-4 of us on the ball and only 14 have even joined so far.
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    I just had my first unlock failure. R8, played Galactus node, played BW node, Galactus remained locked, played Wolverine node, Galactus unlocked
  • HaywireII
    HaywireII Posts: 568 Critical Contributor
    Thank you everyone who posted to reset the game each time you beat Galactus. I just had my first clear where I was able to hit galactus after every side node. Looks like I should be able to make progression now. Of course I missed out on all of the iso and command points already for all of the times he didn't unlock but I should be good from here on out.
  • STOPTHIS
    STOPTHIS Posts: 781 Critical Contributor
    Anyone have their timer randomly reset? My Galactus boss node is showing 7 hours even after a restart, when my last clear was hours ago. My alliance didn't beat a round or anything between now and then. Just seemed to reset for no reason.
  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 562 Critical Contributor
    STOPTHIS wrote:
    Anyone have their timer randomly reset? My Galactus boss node is showing 7 hours even after a restart, when my last clear was hours ago. My alliance didn't beat a round or anything between now and then. Just seemed to reset for no reason.
    Yes. I experienced the same problem on the second node refresh. I finished my first set of clears around 1:00 pm CST Thursday (event launched 11:00 am) and took an almost 8 hour road trip. The Galactus node still showed multiple hours to go when it should only have had maybe an hour left. The nodes refreshed fine at 7:00 pm as expected, but I missed the 6th clear for that reason.

    Edit: It just happened again to me. I finished my clears this morning at 8:00 am, and the nodes reset at 11:00, 30 minutes ago. Galactus shows 7 hrs 55 mins to go, nodes 7 hrs 30 mins to go.
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    STOPTHIS wrote:
    Anyone have their timer randomly reset? My Galactus boss node is showing 7 hours even after a restart, when my last clear was hours ago. My alliance didn't beat a round or anything between now and then. Just seemed to reset for no reason.
    Happened to me twice yesterday, unexpected unlock
  • Lemminkäinen
    Lemminkäinen Posts: 378 Mover and Shaker
    I have now missed twelve Galactus fights due to this bug. I have yet to even come close to losing to Galactus (in Round 7 now) so that's an awful lot of points that I and my Alliance are missing. And then what I'll get is some sad "mass compensation" of a token which is the same that some other guy who has missed zero fights will get.

    I'm quite pissed.
  • Cousin Simpson
    Cousin Simpson Posts: 1,086 Chairperson of the Boards
    Cartz wrote:
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    I just finished a clean round, where I closed the app each time I beat Galactus himself (and before going into the side nodes), though whether that's more RNG fickleness or not, who knows.

    Just tried this and it worked for a full clear. Will try again next time to confirm but so far so good.

    Reposting this for users who may not have seen: I've completed 4 clears with this method without getting locked out, and several others have reported the same.
  • HaywireII
    HaywireII Posts: 568 Critical Contributor
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    Cartz wrote:
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    I just finished a clean round, where I closed the app each time I beat Galactus himself (and before going into the side nodes), though whether that's more RNG fickleness or not, who knows.

    Just tried this and it worked for a full clear. Will try again next time to confirm but so far so good.

    Reposting this for users who may not have seen: I've completed 4 clears with this method without getting locked out, and several others have reported the same.

    I got no unlock bugs the last two full clears using this method. I managed to get full progression and my Purple Reign token so I've only missed out on the iso and command points from the bug now.
  • Crowl
    Crowl Posts: 1,581 Chairperson of the Boards
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    udonomefoo wrote:
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    I just finished a clean round, where I closed the app each time I beat Galactus himself (and before going into the side nodes), though whether that's more RNG fickleness or not, who knows.

    I just came online to post the same thing. I thought I was really smart, but you beat me to it.

    At least we have one more instance of data so maybe it is more than just us getting lucky.

    I managed another full run without getting locked out. Three data points!

    I did the same thing and had two lockouts on my most recent run, my current estimate is that it has cost me 200k points so far.
  • Hendross
    Hendross Posts: 762 Critical Contributor
    I failed to unlock approx. 1 in 5. but reached max progress anyways
  • mega ghost
    mega ghost Posts: 1,156 Chairperson of the Boards
    On my last two playthroughs I tried the "Force-quit the app after beating Galactus, before attempting any mission nodes" approach and so far it's worked! He didn't unlock 8 times for me, about half of which were in Round 5, which is a bummer, but this has certainly helped.
  • Cartz
    Cartz Posts: 73 Match Maker
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    Cartz wrote:
    Cousin Simpson wrote:
    I just finished a clean round, where I closed the app each time I beat Galactus himself (and before going into the side nodes), though whether that's more RNG fickleness or not, who knows.

    Just tried this and it worked for a full clear. Will try again next time to confirm but so far so good.

    Reposting this for users who may not have seen: I've completed 4 clears with this method without getting locked out, and several others have reported the same.

    Just went through another full clear without issues using this method. Great work finding it!
  • Fabmammouth
    Fabmammouth Posts: 9 Just Dropped In
    edited December 2016
    I also have same issue at round 6 after clearing my last node (wolverine).
    Unlocked again at round 7 after clearing first node (ghost rider).
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    I tend to find it's the survival nodes that seem to mess it up for me more than anything else.
  • rg72
    rg72 Posts: 120 Tile Toppler
    Round 5 - Cleared Wolverine and Galactus hasn't unlocked. Happened a few times in rounds 1 and 2 and I've been resetting after each Galactus clear so bit annoying it's happened again
  • vinsensual
    vinsensual Posts: 458 Mover and Shaker
    Happened twice to me in round 8, after the first and fourth nodes, if you count from the left. This could really hinder people/alliances hitting progression if it's happening in the last round on the last day.
  • mhorham
    mhorham Posts: 28 Just Dropped In
    Just for the record it happened to me 3 times at level 6 and one time today at 7 so it's not fixed and that's about 100k just for me. I don't know about compensation but at the least alliance clearance scores should be lowered significantly for this event
  • ZeiramMR
    ZeiramMR Posts: 1,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    I have been using the technique mentioned here for the last day and that has worked for side nodes unlocking the Big G.

    Unfortunately, I woke up this morning to what should have been an open Galactus node after 8 hours wait, and instead he had a full 8 hour timer. icon_e_sad.gif I've hit the personal top progression, but it sucks getting hindered in helping my Alliance.

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