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I noticed a bug in a recent match of Beastmoon hunt that happened in two fights (same match). When the Ninja Death Pig used their -200 weakness (Siphon Strength, I believe), it caused a repeating -200 weakness for the rest of the fight. Although the weakness symbol was gone after the first attack, the -200 applied to each successive attack--even after the Ninja Death Pig had died. It happened both to me (playing a Storm Krok) and my teammate (playing a Balance Wolf).

Hi, I'm trying to join a beastmoon hunt with my fellow wizards by joining with a group. Both of my storm and balance wizards cannot join a group beastmoon hunt. I'm not sure what's happening but on top of this, I seem to be able to not find a match all night. I'm not sure if my wizards are not finding a match may be because I haven't gotten any badges but I am kinda disappointed.

Here are some issues I encountered.

1- Heal over time now goes on a dead player. If revived, it heals them. Is this a bug or intended?

2- I cast a Feisty Sprite. A teammate had a blade. I did not get my shield.

3- Pip wisps are not always able to be collected. And they go through walls where we cannot go.

4- At the end of my first hunt, it said I earned 870 pts. I did not. I have a screenshot of that.

And now for the real important issues:

- We are not able to chat from within the hunt to players outside the hunt. This is terrible. No one wants this. People do not even know they are not able to chat anymore.

- Penalties are being given out with no fault of the accused.
While waiting in the queue to join the hunt, I have gotten a 15 minute penalty, saying I got it due to inactivity.
This has happened to me 4 times already. It is a lie, I was not inactive. Three of the times I was prepping for the hunt, checking my beastmoon seeds, waiting for them to grow, or I was checking the beastmoon stand in the arena, etc. One time I went to the bathroom for 1 minute and come back to see another 15-minute penalty. This has got to stop. We have an option to click to join the hunt now OR to let the countdown timer count us into the hunt. But now it seems if you do not click to join right away, you get a penalty. It's just not right. Please fix this asap!

This evening we encountered players able to interrupt the "Capturing" timer by running around the center of the play circle.

If someone is defeated and then healed back to life in the same round, both before their turn, they will cast the spell they selected to cast at the beginning of the round. This doesn't happen if the person is revived through the afterlife spell.

Casting an afterlife spell on a defeated player will revive them.

If you select to use a shamanic pact on a target and they are defeated before your turn, you will still cast the spell, but will only get the heal.

Pip wisps are not appearing on any of the duel circles after you win a battle. This makes it hard to collect enough pip wisps, because around half of the available pip wisps are broken.

Problems I've encountered:

• Only like half of the pip wisps can be picked up.
• Anytime I begin the game or get defeated, the timer to enter the arena does not match when I can actually go back in-- it always makes me stay in the base an extra 5-10 seconds.
• When capturing bases, once the timer hits zero, it takes about 10 extra seconds to actually capture the space.
• When two people are capturing, the timer immediately goes to 0, but then it takes an extra several seconds to actually capture.
• Whenever I get disconnected from the game, the entire game freezes and I am forced to shut down the whole Wizard101 program and wait 10+ minutes to play another beastmoon game.

It's been mentioned here before but adding to this thread anyway because this isn't just an annoying but, it's a frustrating game changer.

Once the Ninja Pig casts the -200 weakness, it stays on that player for the rest of the match. When a player with the -200 uses a hit, the weakness is gone from the screen and no longer on the player, but the next time, and next time, and next time they hit, the -200 shows up and is applied to the hit. And every hit fort that entire fight.

Clearly this is an exploit as it gives a huge advantage to any player using this.

Casp

Here is what Support said:

"We need to state clearly up front the following.
Our developers do not consider Beastmoon to be broken.

They consider it to be working as intended.

We have provided the link where you can reach them directly and you state you have done so."

I told them what I think of this reply in a lengthy email.
They also asked me to do a trace route and I obliged.
Oh, and I also used their words against them in telling them that they can now go check out the link that guided me here. They can read this thread themselves, then let them tell me again how it's not broken, and "working as intended". LOL

Btw, A 5th time I was not able to enter a Hunt due to "inactivity". This time I did click the join match button, and I was waiting and waiting and waiting until I was given the 15 minute penalty for waiting so long.

One other thing people here might not be realizing is, we are no longer able to whisper chat if one person is in the beastmoon and the other person is not. This is major and needs to be changed. Not even chat channel or group chat seem to be working.

Sparck, I think lunari should be considered as compensation to players experiencing all these beastmoon bugs. Or, at least do as what was done with Pet Promenade and add extra lunari to an earlier reward.

Not a bug but other things that can be changed too is -
The tiny triangle representing our character. I think this is part of the reason I get turned around so many times. I cannot figure out which way I am walking sometimes.

And card descriptions. I can not always figure out what each card is supposed to do. It is especially harder now, seeing as many of them are being reported here as not working as intended. If there is any way to clarify spell cards, that'd be most helpful.

I have this same issue the ban timers are counting up not down. This is ridiculous, why not take it down and fix it and then put it up ? My timer went from 500 min. yesterday to 2000 plus min. today and I never had a chance to play that char.
Here is another post with same issue:

TIcestone2008



Rank: Survivor
Joined: Sep 05, 2008
Posts: 1



May 06, 1:19 PM


Re: Beastmoon "Time-Out" penalty - orange chain of death in game
I also got the "orange chain of death" last night. But mine appears to be a total ban on Beastmoon. At first last night it said I was banned and then it quickly changed to a 4 hour ban, however, this morning it is a 12 hour ban. When I reached out to Tech Support this morning they replied that their systems were working...nothing else. I replied back to them with a screen shot of your post and I am waiting on a reply. I was kicked out and was able to reconnect last night several times but I didn't get any points for those battles because "I" left the game. The final time was on the last round of the spiral fight and we won because my wife was on the other team but I was counted as missing so no points for that one either. Hopefully they fix it and we are able to play again soon.

I also have a problem with the count down of time-out. Yesterday my Rowan Sea wizard had first a 4 hour Banned time out. So I figured OK I can play again around 4 PM. Imagine my disappointment when I figured the time had run out. It let me click join match, then the second click but instead of joining the match I got another time out message - this time in minutes, not hours - ok 600 minutes equals 10 hours - SAY WHAT? I was so angry. I had not been allowed to play all day and now I couldn't play until Saturday morning? So these accumulated "orange chain of deaths" that produced "Banned" notices were all stacked? and as soon as one was expired the next one stepped up to ruin my being able to play Beastmoon. OK Saturday morning I get on, all happy that I can finally continue my Beastmoon game and might be able to get to the 570 point award. NOPE - NO WAY - AIN"T GONNA HAPPEN. Upon getting to my Rowan Sea wizard - all happy I can play the 10 hours have passed. I click join twice - I am beyond despondent - I now have to wait 2850 minutes ( over 47 hours ) I most likely will never be able to play at all in this Beastmoon event. The event will be finished before all the stacked up banned notices will ever expire. Who knows if the only way to get rid of them is during a Beastmoon event . . . I may not be able to play any Beastmoon events for the next 6 months due to the accumulated, ever increasing in length of time bans due to the wide-spread "orange chain of death" that a multitude of players encountered.
KI, PLEASE find a way to remove all these "punishments", when It was nothing I did, it was out of my control. It was not a red chain disconnect, it only went to the orange stage and stayed there ( I actually left it to see if I might rejoin the game for 45 minutes), it always stayed orange- so that tells me that either the Wizard program had an error, or your servers had an error. And now it is early evening Saturday, and I suspect there are very few KI "program fixers" working on the weekend. Maybe Monday someone might read this, but by the time the restrictions on playing are "repaired" - if they ever do get revoked - This Beastmoon event will be over, or down to short time.
One glimmer of hope - because I love Beastmoon so much, I started using one of my other wizards - happily it appears the "orange chain of death" has been fixed. But this wizard is a never played "noob" and has none of the necessary items to level up, tier up, and is restricted what beasts can be selected.
Now please fix the accumulation of all the "time-outs" that are stacked to ever increasing lengths of time.

The death ninja pig ability Siphon Strength is giving infinite -200 debuffs to the opponent. There is no visible negative charm over the affected enemy's head. One person exploiting it was named Catherine Lionflower and I had no way to report her. I also want to add a feature to report enemy players in beastmoon hunts.

One very interesting thing I have noticed while reading the posts. Look at how long these members have been playing Wizard101. Many are long time players and payers of the game. Then look at how many times they have felt the need to take the time post on the message boards.

Wizard programmers and administration should notice this. This is a group of people that have financially supported this game for many years. This is a group of people that has endured many of the game program glitches and just "rolled with it" and never felt the need to post a problem on many of those bumps in the road.

One interesting aspect of this problem I noticed Sunday night. I was using my young alternative Fire Wizard to try and play Beastmoon. The one I started playing with when my other two wizards were prevented, banned, suspended from play for outrageous amount of days. I was in Unicorn Way chatting with a friend and first I noticed my chat wasn't working. Then I noticed once again the "orange chain of death" But I was not signed in for a Beastmoon match. Surprise Surprise . . the "orange chain of death" only lasted about 15 seconds, then briefly turned yellow, then I was back to normal play. So I now know this is happening in the rest of the game, but so brief I suspect many players don't even look for the disconnect icons in the lower right of the screen. They just are paused in play for a moment and never knew there was a connection problem. It is in Beatsmoon that I get locked up in the "Orange chain of death", and penalized for ever increasing lengths of time. Due to no action of my player in the game, or my end of the connection. I have many screen grabs if the "problem fixers and KI" want to see them. I have submitted several tickets and pretty much got back the notice response that other have received. It implies that it was my problem and then the follow-up message that it has been 24 hours with no reply back so the ticket was closed.

I have no idea where your programming error is. It coincides primarily with the changes for the new Apple upgrade and the Spring Update. Please in the future take more time testing things in the test realm. I remember when the test realm was several weeks or months long, then it took a month or so before it was incorporated into the game. And sometimes there was a second test realm period to be sure all the fixes worked. That doesn't seem to be the way anymore. You are so quick to release a new item that it is not fully tested and then you try to fix "on the fly". Please take your time and make sure it is working correctly before releasing a new program change /update.

KI this is not the way to treat any paying member, especially those that have been playing for many years and seldom found the need to communicate a problem in the past. I sincerely hope the game administrators step up to this issue and find a way to resolve the not quite disconnect issue, remove the stacked "time-outs" from my, and others, assorted wizards, and find an amicable way to compensate all of us for the disruption in play and the emotional angst we have had to endure during an country and global pandemic that already has us almost at the end of our ropes. Please do not forget many of these player posts come from individuals that have been supporting this game financially for many many years.

I Love this game but it is getting to the point that I seriously wonder if it is worth my frustration and high blood pressure to continue playing. It used to be a fun time out to escape from real world problems. It is not fun when the game is more problems than the real world.