X-bow bug

[222aragorn]

Many of my clanmates are experiencing it both ways... A friend pushing to Masters had his x-Bows on ground-and-air, but they completely ignored attackers balloons and minions. Or, when attacking, another friend tried to use all dragons on a base with X-Bows on ground; even though they had a range of 14 tiles, they ripped his dragons to shreds.

[Sontaran]

I have had 17 attacks affected as a TH9 loonion with this bug attacking mostly dual inferno TH10 in masters. I have seen 1 sometimes 2 xbow to ground start shooting the loons and last night the grand crowning, all 3 xbows start firing at my loons, honestly it was contagious, won the battle but a lot harder than it should be as extra spells and heroes going down that would not otherwise be needed. On the converse attacking a TH9 I was expecting the air and ground xbows to start firing at me, nope they both just peacefully watched as I destroyed that base. That is a 17:1 ratio for the bad outcome. Hasn't happened to me in war yet, now that would really make you mad.

[Jasper2600]

It seems like my xbows started work right when I set another base as my active one then switched back to the one I want to use.

[fizzler]

Just had this bug ruin a perfectly good loonion raid. Not amused.

[Singlefin]

Hi guys, like you I have not been best pleased with this bug. I suspected it was linked to the edit mode bases for both home and war. I went into each of my edits and set every bow to air and ground(this is my default preference). I saved each change so every base showed bows pointing skyward.

I then reviewed my previous defences against loon attacks, worked out which bow was the culprit(i.e. failing to engage air units) then I swapped that bow around with another bow. Set them all for ground, then all for air.

My next would-be bug benefitter got a sound slapping, his loons lacerated and his minions minced. So far the bows are now behaving as they should. I will monitor the next few airborne interlopers and see if they are still engaging correctly. If they fail again I will post a quick update.

It may be worth you trying this to see if it helps until they figure out the best way to patch it.

Hope this helps at least a few of you.

[Jeeves67]

We can have maintenance breaks to add 1 gem boosts..
We can have maintenance breaks to increase server capacity..
But we cant fix a xbow bug that has basically rendered the game unplayable for hordes of people that are pushing cups and attacking by air?
Im on the sidelines watching my townhall get sniped every time my shield runs out until this gets fixed and somehow just cant find any excitement from a 1 gem boost.
On a side note Rovio and my wife thank you as a lot of stuff around the house is getting done and any free time I have is being used Plundering.. Arrrrr

[JimmyNitro]

This bug has made me drop 800 odd cups, was just p***ing me off being hound/looned non stop at over 4k. Thanks for the merry xmas glitch. Nothing more exciting than seeing my xbows do nothing, appreciate it. My xmas itunes will be spent elsewhere, no skin off my back.... Yes my sig needs to be updated btw

[stripes8335]

So now my Air x bows did not shot air. 12/22/14

[bertskywalker]

in my clan there was an replay shared and the xbow was loaded but it din't work :eek: i am sure it happened to more people.

[Kishk]

I just attacked with balloonion on a base with 2 loaded xbows pointing up. They did not fire a shot at me.