Ultron Board Flip

cooperbigdaddy
cooperbigdaddy Posts: 408 Mover and Shaker
edited March 2017 in MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
I'm chugging along doing pretty well against Round 7 Ultron and being meticulous with my placements of LCap's shields and about to gain some AP from IM40 and slowly building up purple/green with GSBW for some nuke-ability...

And the board flips and a bomb is put on the bottom row and it instantly kills GSBW.

Um...ouch!

Thankfully I still won, so I guess I'm just complaining for nothing? But playing a very tricky puzzle carefully and then a bomb goes off because there are no more matches isn't my fault and sucks, right?

Comments

  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    I have noticed the board shuffle being delayed sometimes lately. Got a board shake after the opponent's OML used his black, for instance. You didn't happen to use the last available match before Ultron's turn?
  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards
    I did not know the board shuffles with Ultron.. never experienced that in the past few times the event ran.. that def sucks
  • mega ghost
    mega ghost Posts: 1,156 Chairperson of the Boards
    That does suck, but the alternative would have been sitting in a battle with no possible matches until you turned gray and old, or force-quitting the app and losing the match.
  • Felonius
    Felonius Posts: 289 Mover and Shaker
    I've experienced board flips in Ultron that cause immediate bomb detonation, before too (just yesterday, in fact), move bombs closer to the bottom, or put bombs out of reach/into unmatchable positions...

    But I've also had board flips save my tuchas, by putting otherwise unmatchable bombs into a matchable position and/or putting close-to-the-bottom bombs back up near the top, giving me more time to act.

    RNGesus is a fickle God. Sometimes He giveth, sometimes He taketh away. 'Tis the nature of the game.

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  • cooperbigdaddy
    cooperbigdaddy Posts: 408 Mover and Shaker
    Ok, fine, I'll be TOTALLY honest:

    I was going to lose one IM40 recharge CD tile and it flipped and my reaction went from "Oh yay! That's great!" to "What?! Nooooo! Black Widow!" in one second.

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  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    mega ghost wrote:
    That does suck, but the alternative would have been sitting in a battle with no possible matches until you turned gray and old, or force-quitting the app and losing the match.

    Or maybe treat the bombs like Surfer's black hole or 5* Strange's eye of agamotto. The board shuffles, but the bombs stay where they are.
    Or at the very least, put them on the same row.
  • madok
    madok Posts: 905 Critical Contributor
    Dragon_Nexus wrote:
    Or maybe treat the bombs like Surfer's black hole or 5* Strange's eye of agamotto. The board shuffles, but the bombs stay where they are.
    Or at the very least, put them on the same row.

    How about we just send the bombs airborne? Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards
    cooperbigdaddy wrote:
    Ok, fine, I'll be TOTALLY honest:

    I was going to lose one IM40 recharge CD tile and it flipped and my reaction went from "Oh yay! That's great!" to "What?! Nooooo! Black Widow!" in one second.

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    I am sorry but I totally read this as you screaming "Black Widow!" then crying over her death icon_lol.gif
  • DeNappa
    DeNappa Posts: 1,397 Chairperson of the Boards
    Huh. I had a board reshuffle vs Ultron just now, where it landed 2 bombs on the bottom row. But they didn't trigger. Might have been because it was my turn still, though/
  • mega ghost
    mega ghost Posts: 1,156 Chairperson of the Boards
    Dragon_Nexus wrote:
    mega ghost wrote:
    That does suck, but the alternative would have been sitting in a battle with no possible matches until you turned gray and old, or force-quitting the app and losing the match.

    Or maybe treat the bombs like Surfer's black hole or 5* Strange's eye of agamotto. The board shuffles, but the bombs stay where they are.
    Or at the very least, put them on the same row.

    Having the bombs work the same as those special tiles would mean that they then also wouldn't fall each turn as the bottom row is destroyed. The devs would have to create new code and exceptions to get this behavior to only be applied in specific scenarios. And honestly, the devs playing with the code scares and hurts me way more than any shuffled Ultron bomb ever could. It's the lesser evil!

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