Taskmaster is Broken and needs to be, “Normalized.”

I apologize for the clickbait title but I don’t know a better way to raise awareness for this... Taskmaster is broken. He’s not reducing ability accuracy appropriately - maybe not at all. I’ve made this video to help explain the issue and would appreciate if you might take a look to see what’s going on.

If you’re already familiar with Taskmaster’s abilities, skip to the 1:25 mark...

https://youtu.be/xhtZSO6ri-Y

Okay, so in the video you can see that Taskmaster doesn't seem to stop X-23 from activating her defensive abilities when he should otherwise prevent them completely. I have my theories on what’s causing this but it’s really just guesswork;

1) Taskmaster’s ability accuracy values are coded incorrectly so that they don’t apply the values stated in his character description. This may be as simple as moving/removing a decimal point or it may require some real coding expertise. I dunno, I’m a pleb.

2) There’s a line of text in Taskmaster’s Photographic Reflex description that basically says this ability is reset if struck by a Special... Is it possible that this is triggering every time a special is used, regardless of whether is makes contact? I dunno, but this line has always bugged me; Taskmaster’s concussions are temporary as is so it’s not like he’s shutting down abilities 100% of the time anyway. If it is causing issues, It would be a very nice solution if they just removed this hurdle entirely.

3) Maybe Taskmaster’s Signature Ability and his Unique Attacks don't work in tandem? Like one overwrites the other? Maybe Defensive and Regular Ability Accuracy Reduction don’t stack? I dunno, I’m a pleb.

4) It’s Magik.

Okay so that’s all I got. I appreciate you taking the time to read this. Please comment and discuss below. Thanks and have a nice day.

Comments

gforcefan

I have one at r3. I've been waiting for him to be fixed before r4 him. Thanks for making the video.

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Mirage_Turtle

For a little more background, Taskmaster was "fixed" in the 25.2 update:

TASKMASTER: Photographic Reflexes will now correctly reduce opponent’s Ability Accuracy.

At this point, it's unclear if they ever worked properly. It'll be very hard to get to the root of this issue without looking at the code. I hope Kabam can look into this.

Kabam Zibiit

We've passed the video on to the rest of the team. If we have more questions or information, we will post an update.

Mirage_Turtle

@My_Superior

I know there have been some conversations elsewhere where people chalked up your test to possible bad RNG. I wanted to take your concept and try to make the test a little more visible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIAV3uqMQP8

I used Colossus as a test. He's got an ability where anytime he has his ability accuracy reduced under 100%, he gets +100% power gain on hits. This means if Photographic Reflexes is working properly, Colossus will gain double power on each hit.

At the very least, I think this will be a solid test to see if any potential fix is actually working without having to worry about RNG.

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theMercenary

This thing becoming annoying. You guys announced at January that he is fixed

We were happy. I was happy. I didn’t even double check and decided to rank him to r5. Maxed his sig ability. Because I love this champion. That’s enough for me. He has great utilities in the game.

But he’s still B R O K E N!
God I can’t even believe.. 6 months passed from supposedly FIX. But nothing even changed.

If this was an issue about Ægon or Nick fury, you’d fix that in a hotfix not even wait till end of the month. You’re dragging people to rank up only “working” “new” and shiny champions instead of giving them a chance to widen their diversity.

I never wanted to say this but if you can’t fix it, just tell us like you told in Namor Cull nerf and let us rank down our champ.. because I don’t wanna use him in this way...

theMercenary

Another day another Doug...

Someone should tell us About this issue. Seriously what’s wrong here? Is it really so hard to fix a champ like you always do? I don’t wanna hear “we passed it to the team” thing because it makes me wanna cry. You told that already in January. Maybe even before!!!

Question is simple;
Why he’s not working properly. Why he’s not working as stated in his abilities. Why you can’t fix him. Why why why... you gotta be respectful to your community and yessir that’s your obligation as a company. Now your community/customers saying that this champion is broken then you gotta listen to them.

issamaf80

still not fixed

Kabam Zibiit

Hey there, as mentioned in the known issues thread, there is a fix scheduled for this in the next update.

theMercenary

Hey there, as mentioned in the known issues thread, there is a fix scheduled for this in the next update.

Yea we have a little trust issue about that. I wonder why he is not in the other 28.0 patch notes?

theMercenary

It’s fixed boissssss. Huge shoutout to @My_Superior for bringing this to the attention. Thanks to our best moderator. @Kabam Zibiit
Here are the images that we’ve been asking for years. Wanna cry with joy :’)

Mirage_Turtle

@theMercenary

I'm just catching wind that this fix has taken effect. When I tested it against Colossus as I did in the video above, I saw no difference. Colossus had normal power gain during all attacks and only increased his power gain when under the effects of a Concussion. His text reads:

If all of Colossus' Abilities are below 100% Ability Accuracy, he gains +100% Combat Power Rate for the duration of the attack.

Since Photographic Reflexes reduces Offensive and Defensive Ability Accuracy, shouldn't Colossus gain +100% Combat Power Rate? Is there another type of Ability Accuracy that is not affected by Photographic Reflexes? After all, Colossus only gets the boost if ALL of his abilities are below 100%.

What am I missing?