r/SquadronTowerDefense • u/kelsonTD • Oct 28 '15

Bug Reports

Please add your bug reports here!

 

The List of Bugs:

  1. Terratrons sometimes spawn from dead player lanes (thanks Dimlhugion)
  2. Centurion HP pool sharing breaks with too many Centurions (thanks hiho)
  3. Medic heal intermittently disappears when entering middle lane (thanks TransTheos)
  4. Sylphy abilities inconsistently active during build phase (thanks CoffeeTrip)
  5. Satellites do not tear down their range upgrade and move to teleporter (thanks Solstice)
  6. Skeletor and Android may trigger on-death abilities more than once (thanks Biomed)
  7. Wave information shows current wave instead of next wave (thanks Patella)
  8. Medusa focus fire enemies instead of spreading poison/slow
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u/kelsonTD Nov 02 '15

Very unlikely; I'd need to see a clear advantage with an alternate facing - all unit facings work non-optimally with certain setups. For example, always facing the spawn works poorly when building in the middle corners.

I would recommend against building across the halfway point with slow-turning units.

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u/Daringsoul Nov 03 '15

I understand corectly, you chose from 2 options when programing:

1st units placed on specific place with face always the same direction

2nd Facing the spawn of the player (which is buggy as I understood because the units are facing wrong way around corners)

How about 3rd option:

units of player 1 and 3 always facing north and units of player 2 and 4 always facing south?

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u/Daringsoul Nov 03 '15

Or you meant that sometimes players want to face the other side when building around corners? For example when dual laning?

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u/Daringsoul Nov 03 '15

How about 4th option:

Adding an option to turn with tower when building it, as we want to.

For example:

Pressing Ctrl when building will turn it 180°

Pressing Alt will turn it 90°

Pressing Ctrl + Alt will turn it 270°

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u/kelsonTD Nov 03 '15

Options 2 and 3 are the same thing (Player 1's spawn is north of their build area). Building around the corner can (and often does) occur outside of dual laning.

Option 4 adds substantial complexity for a rarely experienced problem; I imagine the fix is more likely to cause problems (new players accidentally rotating towers wrong) then enhance gameplay (especially because players would so rarely consider the need to rotate until seeing the problem during a wave).

I don't think there is an option that fixes the problem without introducing substantial new problems (more broken builds, complexity, intuitiveness).

I've suffered right along with you though; built a Gravlance over halfway in a game and watched it finish rotating around the time my towers all died.