I was going to start this post off by saying “I’m not sure if anyone else has been experiencing these issues but,” as I’ve talked to people from other servers and other alliances through BtH messaging and main server messaging this is a widespread issue.
Observation towers are completely invisible in BtH for 95% of the players. This one simple thing is insanely broken on its own for the few people that can see them. On top of that issue with observation towers there’s another bug related to the players that are, in fact, able to see them. The players that see them and end up capturing any of them have their profiles blanked out (see image below). This makes it so much harder to attack these players, and their capitals if they are the capital holder for their respective alliance, which many are, especially considering the next but I will be talking about.
these issues seem to be fixed now.
The next bug is a visual bug. Depending on where to go to the world map from, different locations will become invisible. Start at your main castle and go to the map, some players will be invisible, go to another persons castle, visit it and go back to the world map other places will go invisible (including, quite a few times, your own castles which makes it harder to send support to yourself sometimes.) To make a note, these two bugs together means it’s impossible to steal observation towers from other players as well, because you quite literally can’t see them or travel to them through their profile to attack those castles.
these issues seem to be fixed
Our next bug I will travel to talking about is about incoming attacks. When I’m off the app, I’ll get my notifications per usual from BtH about incoming, as I should be. But when an alliance mates castle is under attack, I’ll get a notification, come online and there won’t be a horn sometimes. Because the visual glitch is ongoing I assume, these castles are invisible to me therefore I’m not getting that horn. That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
this issue has gotten worse. And this I am very…. Upset by. For the amount of errors in this BtH… these specifically were the worst.
Our capital was broken because there were no horns. I got a call once defense reports started to pile up and by then it was too late.
to reiterate; these hits were visible. You could see them under movements tab but no horns were shown and nobody was notified.
this is absolute bull crap. To spend hundreds—sorry, thousands* during this event and to have… that be the ending? Come on. All the errors on their own were enough, this was just the icing on the cake. So incredibly frustrating that I can put it into words without going ballistic.
All in all, this BtH has been riddled with bugs and glitches. It’s practically unplayable. I was and still am, unfortunately, willing to spend more and more money on this game through events and wars… but if I’m doing so I expect those events to be playable ffs.
If anyone knows any methodology that I haven’t already came up to get around these bugs please enlighten me. Although I’m sure the observation tower bug is unfixable player-side.
Most others have work arounds (inconvenient but it works), invisible horns, check the Movements tab. Invisible castles, go to profiles and enter their castle to attack, etc etc. But we shouldn’t have to do these things.
(from new post update as well)
We've also noticed a new bug. People are getting stuck in BtH, unable to reconnect back to main server or vice versa and have to fully uninstall and reinstall app to fix this issue. Even reinstalling the game seems to be not fixing the issue anymore. First few times that was fixing it but now it still leaves them stuck after reinstalling
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk
-Short
P.S. Fix this godawful event. It’s BROKEN and should not be okay to put out your content like this. On top of that it will just drive people away from a game that already seems to be going downhill at a faster and faster rate.
Image 1; glitch that players holding observation towers profiles become invisible
Image 2; showing both A. Invisible observation towers (shown by the connected player castle lines) and B. Invisible Castles in general although, I suppose you can’t really tell because well.. you know.. invisible.