[239] Spore Missing
ultranewb
Pro Bug Hunter Join Date: 2004-07-21 Member: 30026Members
Pro Bug Hunter Join Date: 2004-07-21 Member: 30026Members
I've had this happen 3 times so far. I'll go lerk and once the research is finished, spore is missing. This remains until another upgrade is available (3rd hive), or if I die and have to re-lerk.
If I had to guess on the timing, spore was either started before I evolved, or research was started while I was evolving. If no-one else is griping, I'd hazard to guess the latter was the case.
If I had to guess on the timing, spore was either started before I evolved, or research was started while I was evolving. If no-one else is griping, I'd hazard to guess the latter was the case.
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I'd call this a game breaker, since a Fade or a Lerk that already has 2 upgrades can't use spore/blink until either they die or a third upgrade is available.
My guess is that I couldn't use it because I evolved into gorge and picked the shift and crag abilities right away. they were a bit faded out the whole time I was the bile unable gorge. As soon as I evolved my shade ability too, I could finally bile bomb.
pretty annoying bug!
Also, we can get blink as fades without the research again. and this time it doesn't instance for only commander eggs.
For test 2, I evolved Cara first, then Cel later. When spore was researched later, it worked as expected. [EDIT: Tried this again and spore failed, so this is not correct.]
It seems occurs when you select 2 upgrades and evolve at the same time. Once an ability is researched (like spore), it will not function for the current life.
And a couple of other bugs too, all evolution related.
Like having Celerity (2nd hive is up), but my evolution-menu shows no shift hive > so I can't evolve celerity.
I can't remember the others, because it was very confusing in the heat of battle.
Thanks guys.
Any further reproduction steps would be greatly appreciated!
Attempting to reproduce this now.
TIP FOR FADES: Don't upgrade your adrenalin until blink is up IF it's available, problem solved.
I was thinking this would be reset by gestating (but we only had 2 upgrades) though could not test it.
Sounds like its pretty common as heard other mutter about not being able to get upgrades that where researched.
As dignome pointed out it also seems that upgrades are reset as you start gestating not at the end (which means you cant camo your egg)....making the upgrades reset at the end of gestation makes more sense.
Thanks everyone
I mailed you a howto, ironhorse. Its about the getting blink free, rather then not getting it at all. But still.