Anybody else having this issue? Droids are blowing up (Unstable Batteries triggering) without doing the big damage (80% Max Health) and Burning on enemies.Anybody else having this issue?@CG_SBCrumb can you check on this?

Remember that 80% of max health can be as low as like 40% of protection

"Val_Galahadred;c-1857596" wrote:Some additional information. It might be related to an interaction with Thermal Detonators. Thermal Detonators explode, causing damage to a Droid on the attacking team. Unstable Batteries happens to trigger, which destroys the Droid, but for some reason it doesn't trigger the damage and burning to the enemy team.@CG_SBCrumb Yeah, I posted a thread about this last TW where we had these droid "bonuses". Same thing happened to me. A detonator caused my droid to explode and it didn't do any damage. I'm pretty sure it's bugged if the self-destruct is caused by a detonator.

"Whazn;c-1857754" wrote:Well if the detonator does it, it doesn't have a max hp so I can see why it wouldn't work. Good to know what causes this though. That should have zero impact on it. The "bonus" says that droids "have a 15% chance to be destroyed when damaged by an attack." Doesn't matter whether the detonator has max HP. When destroyed by this "bonus" ability, the droid deals "damage to EACH enemy equal to 80% of that enemy's Max Health". It is supposed to deal the damage to every enemy and not just the attacking enemy. So, again, there is no reason a detonator should impact this any differently than any other type of attack. However, there was previously a bug where Boba's contract wouldn't get triggered if the contract target enemy was defeated by a detonator....so clearly there are some coding issues where detonators aren't treated the same as other attacks.

"ChristophIV;c-1857782" wrote:"Vos_Landeck;c-1857771" wrote:"Whazn;c-1857754" wrote:Well if the detonator does it, it doesn't have a max hp so I can see why it wouldn't work. Good to know what causes this though. That should have zero impact on it. The "bonus" says that droids "have a 15% chance to be destroyed when damaged by an attack." Doesn't matter whether the detonator has max HP. When destroyed by this "bonus" ability, the droid deals "damage to EACH enemy equal to 80% of that enemy's Max Health". It is supposed to deal the damage to every enemy and not just the attacking enemy. So, again, there is no reason a detonator should impact this any differently than any other type of attack. However, there was previously a bug where Boba's contract wouldn't get triggered if the contract target enemy was defeated by a detonator....so clearly there are some coding issues where detonators aren't treated the same as other attacks. But detonators are in the same boat as DoTs, they are effects, not attacks. Yet they can trigger the explosion "bonus" at full health apparently. I was going to comment the same thing, but then I realised that despite the wording of the abilities, detonators actually trigger half of the effect (explosion but no damage to enemies) while they should deal only normal damage.

I agree it sounds like a bug. And it's totally believable that this bug would sneak in, since in many ways detonators don't count as damage from an enemy. They should trigger both effects or neither effect.

Unstable Batteries Not Working Right

28 Replies

Valerian1973
6 years ago
Some additional information. It might be related to an interaction with Thermal Detonators. Thermal Detonators explode, causing damage to a Droid on the attacking team. Unstable Batteries happens to trigger, which destroys the Droid, but for some reason it doesn't trigger the damage and burning to the enemy team.

@CG_SBCrumb
VeeKnea
6 years ago
This bonus has been weird from the start. Every time it’s live posts like this come out.
yohann269
6 years ago
"Val_Galahadred;c-1857596" wrote:
Some additional information. It might be related to an interaction with Thermal Detonators. Thermal Detonators explode, causing damage to a Droid on the attacking team. Unstable Batteries happens to trigger, which destroys the Droid, but for some reason it doesn't trigger the damage and burning to the enemy team.

@CG_SBCrumb

What was the full team you were using and facing?
Vyselloyd
6 years ago
Remember that 80% of max health can be as low as like 40% of protection
Keydash1
New Ace
6 years ago
It's working for me, as far as I can tell. If there's a problem, it's situational.
Valerian1973
6 years ago
"yohann269;c-1857677" wrote:
"Val_Galahadred;c-1857596" wrote:
Some additional information. It might be related to an interaction with Thermal Detonators. Thermal Detonators explode, causing damage to a Droid on the attacking team. Unstable Batteries happens to trigger, which destroys the Droid, but for some reason it doesn't trigger the damage and burning to the enemy team.

@CG_SBCrumb

What was the full team you were using and facing?

Resistance (JTR, BB-8, Finn, Scavenger, and Trooper) against Bounty Hunters (Bossk, Boba, Dengar, Zam, and Cad Bane).

Dengar used Mini-Mine Mayhem, and Zam used See What Sticks on their first turns. Those Thermal Detonators explode in the next turn or so (maybe even triggered by Zam's basic) and my BB-8 explodes. No issues with that, as it was a risk I was ready for. However, when he blew up, Unstable Batteries did zero damage (or Burning) to the opposing team. None whatsoever.

Several guild mates had a similar experience when using their JTR + BB-8 squads against the Bounty Hunter wall. Not all did, but one wouldn't expect Unstable Batteries to trigger every time, since there is only a 15% chance for it to do so. However, when it does trigger, it should work as advertised in the event description.
Jimbo3772
6 years ago
"Val_Galahadred;c-1857596" wrote:
Some additional information. It might be related to an interaction with Thermal Detonators. Thermal Detonators explode, causing damage to a Droid on the attacking team. Unstable Batteries happens to trigger, which destroys the Droid, but for some reason it doesn't trigger the damage and burning to the enemy team.

@CG_SBCrumb

Yeah, I posted a thread about this last TW where we had these droid "bonuses". Same thing happened to me. A detonator caused my droid to explode and it didn't do any damage. I'm pretty sure it's bugged if the self-destruct is caused by a detonator.
ryl88
6 years ago
Well if the detonator does it, it doesn't have a max hp so I can see why it wouldn't work. Good to know what causes this though.
Jimbo3772
6 years ago
"Whazn;c-1857754" wrote:
Well if the detonator does it, it doesn't have a max hp so I can see why it wouldn't work. Good to know what causes this though.

That should have zero impact on it. The "bonus" says that droids "have a 15% chance to be destroyed when damaged by an attack." Doesn't matter whether the detonator has max HP. When destroyed by this "bonus" ability, the droid deals "damage to EACH enemy equal to 80% of that enemy's Max Health". It is supposed to deal the damage to every enemy and not just the attacking enemy. So, again, there is no reason a detonator should impact this any differently than any other type of attack. However, there was previously a bug where Boba's contract wouldn't get triggered if the contract target enemy was defeated by a detonator....so clearly there are some coding issues where detonators aren't treated the same as other attacks.
ChristophIV
Hero+
6 years ago
"Vos_Landeck;c-1857771" wrote:
"Whazn;c-1857754" wrote:
Well if the detonator does it, it doesn't have a max hp so I can see why it wouldn't work. Good to know what causes this though.

That should have zero impact on it. The "bonus" says that droids "have a 15% chance to be destroyed when damaged by an attack." Doesn't matter whether the detonator has max HP. When destroyed by this "bonus" ability, the droid deals "damage to EACH enemy equal to 80% of that enemy's Max Health". It is supposed to deal the damage to every enemy and not just the attacking enemy. So, again, there is no reason a detonator should impact this any differently than any other type of attack. However, there was previously a bug where Boba's contract wouldn't get triggered if the contract target enemy was defeated by a detonator....so clearly there are some coding issues where detonators aren't treated the same as other attacks.

But detonators are in the same boat as DoTs, they are effects, not attacks.