Kang (or Kodos?) shooting at ray gun

Just done my friend visiting for the day, all of the ones with the ray gun had kang/kodos shooting at it.
Can see why people think its a glitch and why people think it may be incorporated into a story line, as it isnt glitchy and has good animation. Personally I think it's a glitch but only time will tell!

rdee22 wrote:
In thinking we might be able to shoot him down with that new cannon

Possible but I think unlikely since Sideshow Mel is directly related to the cannon for a mission.

I'm more convinced its a bug today I tried out quite a few ways to get him to no avail I tried:
Tapping the ray gun in the neighbours town while being able to and not being able to collect from other buildings
Tapping the saucer itself
Being in the neighbours town with the saucer flying around while they click on their own ray gun to see if that would work.
Also from what I can tell he only seems to appear to people who don't already have Kang which suggests it isn't a secret character. I may be wrong on this though.

Kodos shooting at the raygun does happen in Springfields that also have Kang! I peeked at my Springfield (which has Kang ) on a friends iPhone and sure enough there was that alien wailing away at my shiny nice ray gun. Not sure if this is a glitch or not, I'm just glad other people are seeing it too BC it kind of freaked me out the first time I saw it!

What I meant was that he only appears to those who don't have him when they visit friends that do.

Shelleys20 wrote:

Also from what I can tell he only seems to appear to people who don't already have Kang which suggests it isn't a secret character. I may be wrong on this though.

So you mean that you don't own a version of Kang? You see him only if you don't have Kang in your own Springfield? Or is Thadygirl's understanding ?orrect? I have seen in other threads on this topic that those who saw Kang flying about in other Springfields could also see a Kang doing tasks or just walking about in the same town. There's even a screen capture of it here somewhere. I'd like to see this for myself!

Sorry if I'm being unclear. In my Springfield I own the ray gun and thus Kang. In my friends Springfield he does not. When my friend visits my Springfield he sees both a flying saucer around the ray gun and Kang on the floor doing his own thing. However when I go visit other Springfields that have ray guns the saucer doesn't appear but Kang is still wandering around. My Theory is that it is that you can only see the saucer if you don't own Kang and are visiting a neighbour that does. Hope that clears up what I was saying :)

I haven't seen it in any of my friends spring fields and I also have kang but have never seen this.

Shelleys20 wrote:
Sorry if I'm being unclear. In my Springfield I own the ray gun and thus Kang. In my friends Springfield he does not. When my friend visits my Springfield he sees both a flying saucer around the ray gun and Kang on the floor doing his own thing. However when I go visit other Springfields that have ray guns the saucer doesn't appear but Kang is still wandering around. My Theory is that it is that you can only see the saucer if you don't own Kang and are visiting a neighbour that does. Hope that clears up what I was saying :)

Okay, that answers my question, thanks. Sadly, this means that I won't be seeing flying Kang, though. It is wicked of the developers to tantalize people with Kang since he was available only during the Halloween event. :)

From what I've seen, back in Halloween if you visited someone with a raygun, you'd get to see Kang unless Kang was shot down.

Some of those people bought a second raygun. The first gun is destroyed by Kang, but the second isn't.

It's my belief that the glitch happened at Christmas when some developers didn't allow for the 2nd raygun and old programming leftover from a small unregarded section took over untested. Namely an undestroyed raygun will show Kang shooting at it to a neighbor visiting only.

Since 1 raygun would have been destroyed by Kang the developers probably tested for that but with everything else didn't think to test for two rayguns. Hence the Kang bug.