Permanent support not changing color [Fixed]

ArielSira
ArielSira Posts: 522 Critical Contributor
edited 19 November 2024, 19:21 in MtGPQ Bugs & Technical Issues

Today in Revolving Planeswalk I noticed the permanent supports didn't change colors anymore, resulting in a chain of matches when lined up with 2 other supports.

No idea if this is also the case in other events but worth checking out.

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  • Magic:PQ Support Team
    Magic:PQ Support Team ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 3,449 Chairperson of the Boards

    Hello @ArielSira ,
    Thank you for all the information provided, this issue will be investigated!
    If you have any additional information that you consider relevant, please don't hesitate to send me 😊
    Rebeca.

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    I noticed this in Revolving Planeswalk today.

    Specifically, the 'Brotherhood's Bidding' event support, in the black (top) node of the 'Well of the Autocratic' event variant. Prizes in the reward ladder were BRO boosters.

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    There's already a thread for this bug (which often costs players games in coalition events!)

    I'll crosspost both of them and hopefully some nice dev will combine the two into one thread @Magic:PQ Support Team

    https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/90887/permanent-supports-not-changing-colors-glitch#latest

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    @Janosik said:
    I noticed this in Revolving Planeswalk today.

    Specifically, the 'Brotherhood's Bidding' event support, in the black (top) node of the 'Well of the Autocratic' event variant. Prizes in the reward ladder were BRO boosters.

    I also notice this with 'The Quiet Furnace' event support, in the red node of 'Revolving Planeswalk:Battle Cry of the Furious' (Prizes in the reward ladder were ONE boosters).

  • stikxs
    stikxs Posts: 533 Critical Contributor

    +1 Have seen this also.

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    @Janosik said:

    @Janosik said:
    I noticed this in Revolving Planeswalk today.

    Specifically, the 'Brotherhood's Bidding' event support, in the black (top) node of the 'Well of the Autocratic' event variant. Prizes in the reward ladder were BRO boosters.

    I also notice this with 'The Quiet Furnace' event support, in the red node of 'Revolving Planeswalk:Battle Cry of the Furious' (Prizes in the reward ladder were ONE boosters).

    I also notice this with 'Urza's Utopia' event support, in the blue node of 'Revolving Planeswalk:Faculty of the Wise' (Prizes in the reward ladder were BRO boosters).

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    Oh! I notice nobody has so far mentioned in this thread one of the principle reasons this bug is important!

    If three unkillable supports (such as infinite event supports, or supports with the 'Resilient' keyword) form a match, and they do not change color, the game gets stuck in a loop and the only way out is for the player to quit and lose the game.

    You'd think the loop timer would detect such a thing (and it should!) but it doesn't.

    You also might think it'd be quite hard to get 3 unkillable supports lined up, but I hear accounts of players losing a game to it every few weeks. I believe that some events will start with 2 such supports in play, although the names of these events escape me for the moment. It's generally more likely to happen in a Legacy event where players are setting up looping decks, powered by gem conversion spells, and drawing with cards like Wizard Class or Prism Array, which might make the loop timer time out several times in a single turn before they win (decks like this will convert the gems on the board so many times that supports will inevitably end up at the bottom of the board)

  • Janosik
    Janosik Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    In the Following the Clues event: The event support 'Disappearing into the Crowd' does not change color when matched, altho the event support 'Detective of the Month' does change color when matched.

  • TheHunter
    TheHunter Posts: 322 Mover and Shaker

    I can add that the permanent supports in Night of the Hunt do not change colour on matching. This just caused me a difficult few turns in this weekend's coalition event.

  • TheHunter
    TheHunter Posts: 322 Mover and Shaker

    Hi @Magic:PQ Support Team can we please add the permanent supports in the new Battle for the Crown event. They don't change colour, and I've already read a report of someone getting an artifact caught between the two event supports and having it destroyed (plus the huge unfair mana gains to their opponent) because of this.