Anyone else not get AP when matching sometimes?

Clintman

It is very uncommon, but I have definitely noticed times where I get a match 4 and it does not register in my AP. Anyone else have this happen?

Unknown

Yeah, I pretty sure it happens to me occasionally, mostly during cascades. Like - I have 0 Yellow AP and I just saw 3 yellow matched during the cascade, but after it ends I still have zero.

reckless442

It commonly happens with environmental tiles after a cascade. I've noticed it a lot when using Black Panther and wanting environmental tiles for his yellow power. It's particularly annoying when it would be a critical match since the 45+ environmental AP you were counting on to add multiple strike tiles don't get counted.

Unknown

I think this happens to me and I'm never sure if I zoned out or not. But it's happened quite a few times.

Unknown

reckless442 wrote:

It commonly happens with environmental tiles after a cascade. I've noticed it a lot when using Black Panther and wanting environmental tiles for his yellow power. It's particularly annoying when it would be a critical match since the 45+ environmental AP you were counting on to add multiple strike tiles don't get counted.

Environmental AP is subject to the cascade penalty, unlike normal APs.

Unknown

I am quite certain it has happened to me as well, but didn't post something because I thought it was just my mind playing games. It was definitely not environment tiles and it has lost me a couple of games so far.

Unknown

Sort of related but I swear sometimes when it gets towards the end of the cascade and my turn again that I get enough AP and a power will light up but magically will go back down to missing just 1 AP to set it off....like really?!


.....no I'm not against hood or OBW lol

Dayv

nettripper wrote:

Sort of related but I swear sometimes when it gets towards the end of the cascade and my turn again that I get enough AP and a power will light up but magically will go back down to missing just 1 AP to set it off....like

I think that sometimes, during a cascade, it's easy to mistake a couple of increases in an AP bar as the repeated pulsing of a ready skill. I've seen that myself, and eventually figured out that the skill was never actually ready.

Unknown

DayvBang wrote:

nettripper wrote:

Sort of related but I swear sometimes when it gets towards the end of the cascade and my turn again that I get enough AP and a power will light up but magically will go back down to missing just 1 AP to set it off....like

I think that sometimes, during a cascade, it's easy to mistake a couple of increases in an AP bar as the repeated pulsing of a ready skill. I've seen that myself, and eventually figured out that the skill was never actually ready.

And they still not fixed tab-changing either, that can also mess up the picture.

Unknown

Clint wrote:

It is very uncommon, but I have definitely noticed times where I get a match 4 and it does not register in my AP. Anyone else have this happen?

I havent noticed the specific instances but at times i feel that i ought to have more accumulated AP than i actually have.

Clintman

It's not a perception thing, there have been times I needed 3 yellow for an ability, matched 4, and get no new AP registered. I have noticed it happen on Match 4s and Crit matches

Unknown

The only time I have specifically noticed it was when I did a match 5, the crit tile dropped between 2 environmental and 2 colored. It fired off and I did not get any environmental AP, did get the colored mana.

daveomite

I've noticed this too, actually a lot more recently. One other thing I've spotted, similar to what Chim said, the AI gets a match 5 in a column, it drops the critical to the bottom, there is no match though, then other tiles fall on it, again, no match, but it still triggers the critical anyway.

Then, several times I have gotten match 4 or 5's, yet no AP shows up.

Unknown

I noticed this on the AI's side. I knew the AI already made yellow match-4 twice. The AI didn't need yellow. I was running with hood and obw. I was about to do aggressive recon and i before execution i checked enemy AP. The AI had no yellow. I only had the 3 yellow i started with from boosts.

JamieMadrox

I've noticed this too. At least once a day and sometimes multiple times a match. I also play PQ and PQ2 and have never had this issue with them.

Dayv

Enough people are reporting that this that there might be something going on, but General Discussion is the wrong sub-forum.

Could a moderator please move this to Bugs and Technical Issues?

Clintman

DayvBang wrote:

Enough people are reporting that this that there might be something going on, but General Discussion is the wrong sub-forum.

Could a moderator please move this to Bugs and Technical Issues?

I agree, I would like to request this be moved as well.

OzarkBoatswain

I have noticed that when matching a critical tile in two directions, one of the directions doesn't get AP awarded.

Unknown

DayvBang wrote:

nettripper wrote:

Sort of related but I swear sometimes when it gets towards the end of the cascade and my turn again that I get enough AP and a power will light up but magically will go back down to missing just 1 AP to set it off....like

I think that sometimes, during a cascade, it's easy to mistake a couple of increases in an AP bar as the repeated pulsing of a ready skill. I've seen that myself, and eventually figured out that the skill was never actually ready.

Today I had an ability "pulsing" during an opponent's entire turn and when my turn came up it stopped pulsing and I was one AP short, no Human Torch, no shenanigans etc. I don't actually know if I had enough AP to cast the ability, just that the "ability ready" animation was DEFINITELY playing during the opponent's turn.

Also, when did crits start disappearing in midair? It's been happening constantly all day and I've never noticed it before the past couple of days

mags1587

gamar wrote:

Also, when did crits start disappearing in midair? It's been happening constantly all day and I've never noticed it before the past couple of days

This has been happening since the last client update for me. I don't think I like it; I can never tell what the crit is actually matching.

Unknown

I don't think it's matching anything. The first time it happened I thought the cascade was just happening too fast and flashily for me to follow, but in the past two days I have had multiple times where something happens like:

XRXX
XRXX
XXRX
XRXX
XRXX
GXGG

So I match that R for a cascade into delicious greens but the crit just vanishes and I get no greens