The past few weeks I've ran into an issue where my Shield breaks upon joining a party and it never restores, rendering it useless. I've tried waiting, holding my shield button for a minute to see if it would restore, switching shields (in Basil's store), exiting and rejoining parties, and even exiting down the ENTIRE GAME and re-opening it from scratch. I'll then try joining the party again and my shield is still broken.

This makes the game completely unplayable and I've wasted hundreds of energy now because of this. It's absolutely unfair.

This doesn't happen every time I join a random party, but it tends to happen at least once a day. It has been happening to my brother as well. I run on a Mac, and he runs on a PC with completely different specs, so it clearly has nothing to do with our computers. The shield glitch happens to everyone who joins the party we're in.