Recent posts by Socran on Kongregate

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / Draft Reports - Official

(Oh wow, my bad, didn’t know there was an official post for this now. I’m too used to doing it the old-fashioned way.)

http://www.freewebs.com/socran/Another%20Bug.PNG

I was in Draft ID 230092 when this happened. Somehow, Blob was listed against Blob in the Loser’s bracket, and I ended up not getting to play the second round at all. I believe Blob may have disconnected, but I noticed his/her opponent was listed with 3 wins, which was also odd.

What’s worse, unlike past draft bugs, I didn’t even get my fourth place consolation prize. My place in the match is listed as N/A.

I don’t mean to rush you, but considering that this is a limited-time event, and I won’t necessarily be sitting here for the next four-and-a-half hours (nor be back within that time when I leave)… Well, actually, I suppose just giving me the third-place prize would be enough compensation anyway, since that’s the most I could’ve gotten without this bug. I suppose you wouldn’t refund packs of this caliber as frequently as you would with common drafts.

Update: After enough time passed, my place in the match is now listed as 3rd instead of N/A. (I suppose Blob timed out against him/herself.) However, I still don’t have the third place prize, even after refreshing.

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / Draft Bug/Utter Wierdness

Draft ID 198862. I… don’t even know what was going on here. At first, my opponent didn’t play their first two turns, letting it go to autopilot. Then I found that I couldn’t pick my card on the third turn. After my time ran out, the opponent played a card as if it was their turn and one of my cards autoplayed. Things went RELATIVELY normal after that, with the exception of one of my cards getting randomly discarded at one point (and then drawn from my deck the next turn…) – which was particularly troublesome, since I would have been able to set up a “Halo-Pointed Arrows” combo with “For Old Ravishing’s Sake” on that turn.

The second round went relatively normally, except for another random turn skip and my opponent greying out before the end of the match. After that, I found myself in the overall draft matchup window, even though my opponent and I had 1-1. Suddenly, I was pulled back into a third match, where we both greyed out halfway through. On one turn, I heard the gong and saw “Your turn!” show up three times in a row before I could play. On the next turn, my hand was discarded – ruining another combo identical to the one I had planned before. I ended up losing that match.

So I returned to the matchup screen and saw that my opponent had been responding to my in-game comments… on that screen, for some reason. And one of the other players had been responding to him. I clicked to start the next match, and was suddenly given the reward for third place.

So… Yes. Whatever the crap that was. Many, many wierdnesses.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Sluriasma WR

Originally posted by doomteen17:

is thir a loot table that can be added or a link for it cant find a loot able

There was a link in my original post…

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Sluriasma WR

Bump, for people who still need it.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Sluriasma WR

For those people who can’t use/didn’t see the links on the home page, or any other reason you’d need this.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thPlanetGames/dawn-of-the-dragons?kv_action_type=raidhelp&kv_raid_id=3356587&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=sluriasma&kv_hash=54j6797Ayg

Loot: http://www.dawnofthedragons.com/images/sluriasma.jpg

Raid type is Dragon, Epic, and Normal. The raid now says Dragon under the name, so people will insult you if you try to ask in chat, even though the patch notes that mention this feature aren’t on this forum. Heaven forbid you should try to figure out the best way to fight the raid before you start fighting it… For that matter, here are the patch notes: http://www.dawnofthedragons.com/forums/forums/showthread.php?18290-Patch-Notes-February-8th-2013&p=531382#post531382

Topic: Legacy of a Thousand Suns / Cerebral CEO Event Raid

http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thPlanetGames/legacy-of-a-thousand-suns?kv_action_type=raidhelp&kv_raid_id=6894478&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=cerebral_ceo&kv_hash=gkT87rGS1L

Loot: http://i.imgur.com/7TzuHjl.jpg

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / Niknak displace bug? or GRH displaced bug?

I’m not 100% sure, but it seems the bug is with the Sacrifice effect. There have been many reports of Sacrifice cards not triggering their effects.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Blood of the Bandit Queen 24-hour WR (Resummoned)

Originally posted by MiwAuturu:

Would have been real bloody nice if the devs had given some sort of warning that it was coming in the first place.

Careful. Them’s fightin’ words around these parts.

But yes.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Blood of the Bandit Queen 24-hour WR (Resummoned)

Sorry for anybody who didn’t know about it until now, 7 hours into it. EDIT: And it’s back up as of 2-4-12.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thPlanetGames/dawn-of-the-dragons?kv_action_type=raidhelp&kv_raid_id=3259213&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=alice&kv_hash=S46Fr8VC4h

Loot: http://www.dawnofthedragons.com/images/bloodofthebanditqueen.jpg

Topic: Chronicles of Blood / Game window doesn't stretch all the way

I’m not sure exactly what the issue is, because I’ve tried this with three different browsers, but the game window will only stretch so far before being cut off. This prevents me from choosing any option far enough down the page, including the Kongregate challenge quest.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Krykagrius WR

I know the raid can be accessed from the game itself this time, but some people check down here before the home page. Not to mention that some browsers don’t like the in-game link to the loot table.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/5thPlanetGames/dawn-of-the-dragons?kv_action_type=raidhelp&kv_raid_id=3185871&kv_difficulty=1&kv_raid_boss=krykagrius&kv_hash=Nh676Q5LL5

http://www.dawnofthedragons.com/images/Krykagrius2.jpg

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / Draft Reports - Official

The game froze (for everyone) while I was in the middle of picking for a draft. It’s still on the loading screen (I hit refresh thinking it was just my end, and hoping to get back in), so I’m not sure what the draft ID was.

EDIT: Never mind, I managed to get back into the draft when it unfroze. It seems to have autopicked the last pack, though. Gonna be pissed if it turns out I missed a legendary…

FURTHER EDIT: Someone did end up missing the draft altogether, though, I’ll report this on their behalf. Name was Havy, Draft ID 164881

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / World Raid: Kessov Siege- Boold will run cold

The link is at the start of this topic.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / World Raid: Kessov Siege- Boold will run cold

So what’s the name of this dragon, anyway? It doesn’t seem like it will be mentioned in any of the loot, and isn’t in the “lore” of the raid…

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / World Raid: Kessov Siege- Boold will run cold

Gotta watch out for that “boold”.

Topic: Legacy of Heroes / Bug Reports - Official

“Weight For It” gives me a bonus to “Marital” attacks. I haven’t gotten married yet.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / NEW WR just launched!

On a less ragey note, I am pretty upset with the way these things are handled as well. It’s ironic that the raids where it’s actually important to know about them beforehand, because of how easy they are to miss entirely, are the ones that are never given any warning ahead of time.

What’s more, despite what people may argue to the contrary, the yellow text on the front page is the absolute worst way to present it. I should know, as I’ve run this through with my friend who’s a professional graphic advertisement designer. It’s the absolute busiest screen in the game, and 99% of it is known to only change once per week. The things that jump out at you are the things that don’t change, and since they jump out at you every time you start up the game, you’re essentially trained to ignore it until the next major update. This is a known psychological factor that professional advertisers like my friend are trained to circumvent.

Now, I’m a pretty forgiving guy, and I don’t want to run off saying that 5PG is a bunch of idiots for doing this. But one thing I can’t stand is when people go off and accuse anyone who didn’t see that text of being the idiot. There will always be individuals that notice things like that, but those people have absolutely no right to say the people who didn’t have “short attention spans” and “no right to complain”. The fact of the matter is, it’s poorly implemented. I won’t be a dick to 5PG about it, so for the love of god, stop being a dick to me and others about it.

Utlimately, I believe the ideal solution would be to implement a way to see world raids in the raid window itself. Similar to how Clash of the Dragons and Legacy of Heroes gives you an alert during Mega Brawls and draft events. Of course, those are all given plenty of forewarning as well…

Topic: Legacy of a Thousand Suns / Bugs!

More of a mistake than a bug. I was checking out the new backstory feature on the alliance raids, and it seems that Crazed Santa was given the text for Raging Snowman – which isn’t even an alliance raid.

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / unlock ben

Um… Do you mean “ban”?

Topic: Clash of the Dragons / Something causes matches to lock up against Insane Dwarf Warrior

I can’t quite figure out what’s causing it, but I’ve had five matches freeze up while fighting this enemy. After the first two I switched over to the other enemy in the same node and completed 11 fights before switching back and freezing three more times, so it must be something in his deck. What happens is that my turn begins but I can’t play a card, even if I have autoplay on.

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Dawn of the Dragons BETA??

Originally posted by Nalut:

So according to what you are saying here, any upgrade released by a company for this o that game make “this or that” game a beta version…which is a stupid thing.

To be fair, pretty much any time a “real” game releases a patch to fix bugs in the game, it’s immediately followed by people on forums complaining that the devs released the game in an “unfinished” state, often saying things like “We just paid $60 to get in a BETA!”

I want to punch those people so hard. <shrug>

Topic: Dawn of the Dragons / Just terrible.

I’m too tired to form a full argument, so here’s a link to wikipedia’s article on Wang Long (normally romanized as Huang Long, but Wang Long is more hilarious without being incorrect), the yellow dragon of Chinese myth. He’s a guardian deity, who sits at the center between the four divine beasts of the cardinal directions, and is apparently associated with a certain “Yellow Emperor”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Long_(Four_Symbols)

Topic: Legacy of a Thousand Suns / Cerebral Destroyer 11/16

Is this just a copy/paste of the information from the last raid? Because it still lists those troops as “new”, and I’m getting lots of on-hit loot that isn’t mentioned here.

Topic: Legacy of Heroes / Issue 9 storyline

Spoiler warning.

After returning from your adventures in the past, the computer in Aloysius Zeroth’s space station sends out an alert to the heroes in order to resolve a confusing issue: There are two Zeroths in the space station, and they’re currently fighting with each other. One of them, Absolute Zeroth, has been confined in the station for 30 years, and they both claim that the other one is evil. The various heroes pick sides with one of the Zeroths, and start fighting each other. Meanwhile, Dr. Tessera and other miscreants have somehow gotten onto the satellite and start causing trouble. Once the fighting dies down, it becomes clear that Absolute Zeroth was the true enemy. Zeroth split himself into two halves and sent AZ back in time in order to use Dr. Tessera’s research to create the first emergents, by altering the DNA of couples who were expecting children. Rather than returning to his own time, he fell in love with Dr. Tessera, but his actions in the past frayed a hole in time that the Schism was able to peek through. Dr. Tessera was driven insane by nightmares about the Schism, and tried to stop the nightmares by experimenting on herself. That only made things worse, however. In order to bring peace to his now-insane lover, Absolute Zeroth decided to widen the hole in time and allow the Schism all the way through, in order to end all existence and (possibly) start over.

Granted, I may have misinterpreted a detail or two.

Topic: Legacy of a Thousand Suns / WR link (29.10.2012)

Thanks. I still need a link to the actual forum topic, though…