Vulture droids not fixed?

It's definitely FUBAR. I kept Executor for offense this GAC because I expected the Malevolence counter to be less reliable due to the Exe AI changes, and now I just lost with Malev against Negotiator. Malev is completely broken. I didn't see single assist from the vultures throughout the entire battle. Methinks a makegood is in order since this will likely cost me the win.

It's bugged. Saw it myself. The first summoned Droid would assist until the second Droid was summoned, then only the second summon would assist.

I totally understand that there's only a 70% chance of each assist, I've got no problem with that, either. That's good game balance. But with the number of people reporting this and reporting the same thing, it's for sure a bug. Fingers crossed it's fixed soon.

"WookieWookie;c-2346884" wrote:
If we had a significant amount of video evidence from several sources showing the replacement driod summoned upon the player droid's death assisting zero percent of the time it would be more likely that would bring it up to the dev team. (As compared to a lot of salty players who just lost battles/GAC matches providing hearsay from a single battle without evidence and conflicting stories about how it went down)

Just a clarification that it’s not never assisting. It stops assisting when a new summon appears. Presumably a subsequent summon could turn off the previous one, but I haven’t played with it to find out.

I don’t know how to record in-game, but I can futz around and give detailed observation and folks can replicate it on their own later.

"WookieWookie;c-2346937" wrote:
Edit: and to address your second point, tagging Kyno is more likely to garner discussion of valid points than tagging the devs.

Or you could post it in the feedback forum, which they do read.

People don’t normally do that, though, because players don’t read that section of the forum so the posts don’t get the heat and attention the average forum-goer wants.

Kyno hasn’t been online since February.

Wonder why.

Another Malev vs Negotiator lost in GAC that should have been an easy win. I only get assists when Spy comes in, otherwise the Vultures just sit there and look pretty. I swear there better be a makegood for this. I understand you guys have to pimp Echelon packs, but like this? That's low even for you.

When are CG going to do something about this? This is a MASSIVE debilitating bug that has impacted 2 TWs, several rounds of GAC, and we have a TB coming up. It's absurd that they can't do anything in this game without breaking something.

"InyakSolomon88;c-2347193" wrote:
When are CG going to do something about this? This is a MASSIVE debilitating bug that has impacted 2 TWs, several rounds of GAC, and we have a TB coming up. It's absurd that they can't do anything in this game without breaking something.

Even "we're looking into it"

"24_Tuesdays;c-2347228" wrote:
so do we think its the second sumon and after that is the problem

i just beat a tarkin and got a bunch of assist but that was only one summon and the original

every time my vulture droid dies and the dupe droid shows up, it works. Up until Malevolence uses an ability and a 2nd vulture droid returns. At that point the dupe droid stops working. When I have managed to have a 2nd vulture droid summon (so 1 replacing player vulture droid, 2 from malevolence abilities summoning them) both of the ones that Malevolence called still worked. It's the dupe droid/shadow droid/player droid replacement (whatever you want to call it) that stops working. It only assists when the ally ship forces it to. However, both of the 2 Mal called in itself still assisted THAT ship and each other still.

"24_Tuesdays;c-2347228" wrote:
so do we think its the second sumon and after that is the problem

i just beat a tarkin and got a bunch of assist but that was only one summon and the original

Little hard to test without a fleet GC up but it seems like the replacement VD you get from level 8 of Swarming Terror isn't assisting at all. Just did a test run where I never used a Mal ability other than its basic and went 0/4 on possible assists from the replacement summoned VD. Not a huge sample but it's been consistent with my observations of its behavior in past fights where I've had multiple VDs out.