17.1 is coming and...

Bug Fixes:
• Fixed an issue where receiving Help from your Alliance Mates could cause slowdowns in gameplay THANK YOU
• Fixed an issue where M.O.D.O.K. was able to trigger Parry when auto-blocking THANK YOU
• Fixed an issue where Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself THANK YOU

It will be interesting to test Scarlet Witch after this. I always assumed that it was a working as intended as her powers were so chaotic. But this could end up being pretty awesome.

Comments

Kabam Miike

Keep in mind that Scarlet Witch also has a Power Drain. This will still drain all of the power from Herself AND her opponent.

beyonder8421

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Keep in mind that Scarlet Witch also has a Power Drain. This will still drain all of the power from Herself AND her opponent.

Oh ok. So that will not change

Will be interesting to see both in action now anyway, as they were behaving alike before.

DaMunk

If that fixes the lag from help requests that would be huge...amazing...fantastic.. stupendous..thank you. I was about to abandon asking for help completely

shchong2

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

beyonder8421

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

Yes, it is a feature.

Kabam Miike

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

Correct. Not even Scarlet Witch has true control over her Chaos Magic.

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Saiyan

Power Steal should be fixed and will be so good.

Power Drain is fine as is anyway. It only works when she's getting hit. I like that it resets both champs to 0 power. Makes it harder to actually fight her honestly even tho she's not that hard.

beyonder8421

Saiyan wrote: »

Power Steal should be fixed and will be so good.

Power Drain is fine as is anyway. It only works when she's getting hit. I like that it resets both champs to 0 power. Makes it harder to actually fight her honestly even tho she's not that hard.

Her Poison is hard. (I know Blade is good against that, but still).

DNA3000

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

I don't see what about this is especially unusual. The intent of power steal was to take power from the opponent. The intent of power drain was to drain everyone's power on both sides. There's no specific reason why both effects should be identical in net effect.

beyonder8421

DNA3000 wrote: »

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

I don't see what about this is especially unusual. The intent of power steal was to take power from the opponent. The intent of power drain was to drain everyone's power on both sides. There's no specific reason why both effects should be identical in net effect.

But it only behaves like that on Scarlet Witch, that is why it seems weird. Winter Soldier Power Drains without losing power. To name one. So I remember it was because of the chaos magic, but since she is being mostly overlooked these days, I can understand people getting confused about it.

Speeds80

Well because the definition of steal is gain by stealing, not both lose, when someone steals they gain, that’s common sense, and was how she used to work, one of the updates bugged her

Ahitlaw

How about you fix the Ai's recovery timing that you've been working on for oh so long @Kabam Miike

DNA3000

beyonder8421 wrote: »

DNA3000 wrote: »

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

I don't see what about this is especially unusual. The intent of power steal was to take power from the opponent. The intent of power drain was to drain everyone's power on both sides. There's no specific reason why both effects should be identical in net effect.

But it only behaves like that on Scarlet Witch, that is why it seems weird. Winter Soldier Power Drains without losing power. To name one. So I remember it was because of the chaos magic, but since she is being mostly overlooked these days, I can understand people getting confused about it.

I can understand thinking the intent was different than the description they used, but not being incredulous about the devs actually intending the two abilities to act differently regardless of what they are called.

Boboman

Kabam Miike wrote: »

shchong2 wrote: »

Scarlet Witch’s Power Steal would also steal power from herself <-- it is a BUG, will get fixed in v17.1
Scarlet Witch’s Power Drain would also Drain power from herself <-- so is this NOT A BUG, hence no plan to fix since it is a FEATURE rather???

Correct. Not even Scarlet Witch has true control over her Chaos Magic.

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