OBW Critical Tiles explode in mid-air (and now Mystique)

I too have experienced this. I get frustrated when I have it set up for the created Crit Tile to fall and make another match only to have it matched away in mid-air.

I hadn't paid enough attention to know exactly why it was only happening sporadically. I will pay more attention to it now.

_RiO_ wrote:

FaustianDeal wrote:

This is happening because of OBW's espionage power right? My guess has always been that passive powers (at least some of them) are resolving before allowing tiles to fall. This resolution is probably what is allowing the tile-match test to happen before first allowing the tiles to fall. The event-chaining is probably out of order for these powers.

Oh, there's a lot of flawed and failing out-of-orderness in tile event handling in general. It's a steaming pile of mess, but most of it are edge cases and they are kind of hard-to-spot in play when the board moves fast. So, you don't get a lot of complaints about them.

There's the matched tiles that do not disappear but become attack tiles when you down Hand Teisatsu opponents.
There's the fact that countdown tiles can be made to tick down twice in one turn: if one timer procs and shifts the board to move another timer tile further down, that second tile ticks down again.
There used to be the problem with Ares' Sunder tiles sticking around post-death, because their creation and removal event ran in the wrong order.
etc.


Probably the only way to actually fix this issue is a grounds-up rewrite of the entire tile handling system into something more sane.

(For the software development aficionados among us: in particular the double tick on countdown tiles is indicative of the fact that the devs are performing a naive 2D array scan over the board for each 'event pass' instead of doing it the proper way and registering each individual tile's events in the proper order in a dedicated event queue.)

The strike tiles forming on tiles that should have cleared on the death of a Teisatsu aggravates me to no end.

The crit tiles seem to explode in midair based on /where/ the crit tile forms. Like, in certain patterns it always seems to happen when the crit tile occupies the top spot /and/ when the crit tile would have made a match with the two tiles on the side. For instance:





Where you would expect the crit tile to form in the elbow position of the five greens and fall to make a match with the three reds, instead it explodes because it could have matched with the two blues. It doesn't always do this, and I've seen it without OBW and Mystique because I rarely use either of them. But I will see it with Thor when his green's make a bunch of matches and with KK when she stretches.

Problem is, sometimes it seems to work and other times it doesn't, so there seems to be more to the bug than this.

Ultron Sentries Core meltdown crits have enhanced chance to pop, making OBW or Mistuque to use way more riskier in the Ultron event, than in normal circumstances.

Seems fixed for obw as of r75. thanks, d3

edit: nvmnd, still happening