Bugs and thoughts about the season
Hi all, i got to 3k a week ago and these are the bugs I noticed.
Golden Knight (1) - a very common and annoying bug - the troop dashes to a given troop and starts hitting the other troop standing nearby. E.g dash to a musketeer and start hitting the valkyrie next to it. This should be fixed cuz it ruins the purpose of GK.
Golden Knight (2) and echo comparison - when the GK dashes to a troop and the specific troop dies during the dash animation, the GK still goes to the location (an empty tile) and walks towards another troop. In contrast, the echo automatically retargets to the next nearest troop when his first target dies before he dashes to it. The mechanic is essentially the same, the difference is the damage and the way the ability is triggered (killing a troop for GK and charging for echo). This should be foxed so both troops either automatically retarget (like echo) or go to an empty tiles (like GK).
Giant - literally the most annoying troop this season. His ability does NOT count as damage. You can verify that by opening the stats bar or when the monk deals 0 damage back to him. A 3 star troop hard counters a 5 star troop. Also the giant already has an advantage over the monk because he usually starts with a full ability bar thanks to the superstar trait. To put things into perspective, when an echo hits a monk during his ability the echo dies, however the giant keeps on recasting.
Musketeer - 2 ranged troops were in the range of the musketeer. After a while a melee troop enters the musketeer’s range and walks next to her. After finishing the first ranged troop, the musketeer targets the second ranged troop (3-4 tiles away) instead of the melee troop right next to her.
Lastly, there is a major bug: you buy a troop to make a merge, you sell the merged troop, you buy a new one and after a second you notice that your elixir is at 0 and the troop you thought was merged and sold is back on the board. This does not happen often but it costs games.
Thoughts on the season - essentially the season was meant to reduce the pick rate of the spirit empress. The extra one elixir is one of the reasons you see echo so often. I have played since s1, and this season the echo sage pick rate is through the roof. The second reason for this increase is how cheap the tanks are. Get a 2 star knight and a giant skeleton -> the echo will be level 3 before (or during) round 3.