Sometimes in PVP, I either can't drop bombs at all or even with 5 bombs (according to powerup), I can only drop like, 2.
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Also, sometimes my character will just drop a bomb automatically at the beginning of the match. If I don't die, then I am unable to drop bombs for a prolonged period of time afterwards.
Is anyone else having this issue?
I agree with your bomb dropping problem. It seems that once you drop two or three in succession if you wait too long before trying to drop the next bomb it doesn't work. Usually with full power-ups I can drop 5 in a row if I do it quick but it never lets me drop 3, run somewhere else, and then drop the other 2.
The bombs also have other bugs. Sometimes the bombs just don't blow up destructible boxes next to them. Also, sometimes the bombs will revert back to a 1-blast radius. It's a little weird throwing down 3 bombs in a line and the first only doing a 1-blast radius and the other 2 doing a 15-blast radius.
I also fully agree with you Sarcose, the pathing in blast network needs some fixed. It seems like the need to reduce the character box size and the indestructible box corners by a tiny bit or something so you can properly get into the spaces. Too many times have I gotten blown up because my spiral knight's breath is over the edge of the box I'm hiding behind.
Edit: I forgot a problem that I also think should be fixed in the blast network. The spawning system is better now but there is a problem with people spawning mid-game. Mid-game spawns appear invincible and can walk through bombs (which they should) but they can also lay bombs. This is a serious issue. Many times people will spawn next to you and just immediately drop a bomb to kill you because they are invincible. The spawn system should be changed to either:
1) Newly spawned characters cannot drop bombs at all, or
2) Newly spawn characters become vulnerable again as soon as they drop their first bomb.
A change like this would help get rid of some situations that shouldn't happen.
Hopefully they fix these issues sometime soon because I really like playing in the blast network.
I think it might have something to do with chat focus state maybe?
When I was having bomb "count" / locked bombs, I found I could drop them again by hitting enter twice (open/close chat box). This allowed me to drop 1 bomb at a time (too much effort!).
...but then I thought, if it had something to do with chat focus, this might work:
so I hit enter to open the chat window, then clicked out.
I think that might fix the problem when it arises.
That was mostly stuff from 5am last night, so I uh, will try again when it happens again XD
I don't know if i've ever been able to drop more than 3 bombs at once.
Same here, I've never been able to drop more than 3 bombs at once despite how many powerups I have.
The lane recognition is also completely screwed. It's nigh impossible to tell if you're going to hit by an explosion because who knows when you actually start being in one lane. I dropped a bomb in one lane and then, without moving, got hit by an explosion in an adjacent lane. Why is that possible?
There's also the problem of other players dropping bombs at about the same spot you're in. It looks like, and almost seems like, you can walk past it. Indeed, you can continue walking until you're about to exit the lane in which the bomb was placed, but then you're stopped. You have to turn around and walk back through the bomb to inobvious freedom.
I have been having this issue a lot lately. I would start a team match and then my character woudl drop a bomb without prompting, right on top of myself, and I almost always die, giving the other team a headstart.
Pathing is also absolutely terrible in Blast Network. It is absurdly simple to just get stuck on a wall because for some reason you can't move around them in a square fashion - proper bomberman movement entails that you weave around blocks like a serpent, holding multiple directional arrows at once and pressing toward a wall so that you round it as soon as you are given the opportunity. This technique, in Spiral Knights, apparently causes you to get stuck on the shape of the wall. I'm a bomberman veteran since my childhood and in that I can move and avoid bombs with absolute precision. I am sorely unable to play Blast Network with the same ability - in fact, my experience with bomberman has most likely hindered my ability, because the above movement habit causes me to get stuck constantly.