A Form of the Rajhin Bug is Back?

Personofsecrets · March 17

Hey designers, I know that you are here.

There is something else that I hope that you can look into.

Alot of games that I play, I am only half paying attention, but one recent game, yesterday or the day before maybe, has been lingering with me for something that happened.

I had the feeling that I should have a patron use. I believe that I wanted to use the Almalexia patron.

The patrons were blacked out.

I used a card effect, I think that of the hagraven matron, and then the patrons all became unlocked again. I then used a patron, I believe Almalexia.

This wasn't the same issue as agents not being able to be discarded an agent, it was something else.

It was reminiscent of the Rajhiin bug where patrons would be locked after certain game actions.

Anyhow, apologies that I can't be more specific, but with all of the household happenings, some games are sort of in a haze. Some games I even lose in embarassing ways because of that! And that's fine - my daughter has fun telling me which cards to pick as we sit together.

If you have tools to look at games that already happened, then it was one of my recent games where I had either the Hagraven or Hagraven Matron. And that is quite a rare card for my to purchase, so that would greatly narrow down the games to check for the bug. Thanks.

DragonRacer · March 17

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

Personofsecrets · March 17

DragonRacer wrote: »

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

That's interesting.

There are plenty of dynamics going on so I wonder what could be going on.

- Is there a target for the effect
- Are all cards that are part of a combo still either in play after having been used that turn OR in the played cards pile
- Is the menuing for Confine effects not being confused with the menuing for Donate effects
- Is the menu being clicked through by accident to quickly

NOTE - I'm not saying that any of these things are your experience whatsoever. I'm just pointing out where potential points of failure of the game system COULD be.

It may be worth you testing against NPC players.

Seraphayel · March 17

DragonRacer wrote: »

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

What happens annoyingly often is that you want to confine a card, but the opponent has no cooldown pile, which renders the confine effect useless. Maybe that was the case in the matches it didn’t work for you. Then not the game is to blame but personal unawareness (which happens for me more than I’d like to admit).

DragonRacer · March 17

Seraphayel wrote: »

DragonRacer wrote: »

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

What happens annoyingly often is that you want to confine a card, but the opponent has no cooldown pile, which renders the confine effect useless. Maybe that was the case in the matches it didn’t work for you. Then not the game is to blame but personal unawareness (which happens for me more than I’d like to admit).

The most recent memory of this happening was having a contract agent and after multiple hands of never getting the confine prompt, I finally just sacrificed it to Hlaalu for the prestige because it was not serving its purpose.

I definitely can understand it not working once if there were no confinable cards in the cooldown pile and I didn't notice. But this went on for about 3-4 exchanging of hands. During which the opponent definitely played some confinable cards.

Personofsecrets · March 17

DragonRacer wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

DragonRacer wrote: »

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

What happens annoyingly often is that you want to confine a card, but the opponent has no cooldown pile, which renders the confine effect useless. Maybe that was the case in the matches it didn’t work for you. Then not the game is to blame but personal unawareness (which happens for me more than I’d like to admit).

The most recent memory of this happening was having a contract agent and after multiple hands of never getting the confine prompt, I finally just sacrificed it to Hlaalu for the prestige because it was not serving its purpose.

I definitely can understand it not working once if there were no confinable cards in the cooldown pile and I didn't notice. But this went on for about 3-4 exchanging of hands. During which the opponent definitely played some confinable cards.

Did you click on the agent to activate it?

DragonRacer · March 17

Personofsecrets wrote: »

DragonRacer wrote: »

Seraphayel wrote: »

DragonRacer wrote: »

Almalexia seems like a very buggy deck to me in general. I have had several games where I have grabbed contract agents or non-cntract agents from the Tavern that allow you to imprison opponent cards and are set off by playing another Almalexia card, I have met those conditions in that hand, but I never get the prompt to imprison any cards. It's like it bugs out in some matches and you don't get the essential function and purpose of that agent card at all.

What happens annoyingly often is that you want to confine a card, but the opponent has no cooldown pile, which renders the confine effect useless. Maybe that was the case in the matches it didn’t work for you. Then not the game is to blame but personal unawareness (which happens for me more than I’d like to admit).

The most recent memory of this happening was having a contract agent and after multiple hands of never getting the confine prompt, I finally just sacrificed it to Hlaalu for the prestige because it was not serving its purpose.

I definitely can understand it not working once if there were no confinable cards in the cooldown pile and I didn't notice. But this went on for about 3-4 exchanging of hands. During which the opponent definitely played some confinable cards.

Did you click on the agent to activate it?

Yes, I did.