I'm a bit miffed, although I doubt it would have made any difference to the outcome except that I did have a slim chance whereas now I have none. So has this happened to anyone else? And just recently or before the update?
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I don't know if this is a new bug, or something which always happened now and again, but I've just had 2 very frustrating turns in a spawn game I'm playing. My opponents splatter blew up a little way in front of my queen which had been left on green red deliberately. The queen then proceeded to slime over to where the splatter died, and chew on fresh air for 2 secs before deciding to go towards the genuine corpses and an enemy buzzer which would have died if she'd just got a move on (instead it flew away and killed my goo-spitter)
I'm a bit miffed, although I doubt it would have made any difference to the outcome except that I did have a slim chance whereas now I have none. So has this happened to anyone else? And just recently or before the update? |
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Re: Queen eating nothing | #1 | ||
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Not happened to me and I play Spawn quite a lot. Leaving Queens to do their own thing though often gives you a surprising result that you hadnt quite counted on.
Maybe the server is getting on a bit and sometimes cant remember if a Splatter leaves a corpse or not? Any chance of posting the game when finished? |
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That's a very, very, very old bug. The Queen when left alone without orders tend to go eat corpses around, which is nifty when you don't know what to do with the Queen and wish her to go her own way. However, stuff like what you described can and will happen from time to time...
As for the chewing part, the splatters leave invisible corpses on the ground. If you don't give order to your Queen and the corpse is in LoS, she'll try to eat the corpse. However, since the corpse have 0 food rating, you get absolutly nothing from this. It's not a bug that you meet often, because 1) Splatters tend to explode well away from your Queen(s)(in ennemy territory) and 2) Spawn corpses tend to be cleared immediatly by the opposition when they are killed. A Splatter corpse can be cleared up just like another corpse. |
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Re: Queen eating nothing | #4 | ||
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didn't this get fixed once, but it caused problems with the scoring inasmuch as splatters didn't give points when they died?
needs a new fix
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A simple way out would be for the Splatter to leave a visible corpse, but with no food value (it's only smoking chitin; the protein was all vapourised). Then the Queen behaviour would still be the same, but at least it wouldn't be confusing.
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Re: Queen eating nothing | #6 | ||
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I seem to remember this was fixed server-side once upon a time....
Perhaps Halloween resurrected the dead bug. RM |
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Re: Queen eating nothing | #8 | ||
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Oh well, it appears everyone already knew about this one then
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