[Eric Giese]

Hmm, today has been better. I wonder if it depends on what your goals are. For example, when I have to defeat Matilda however many times, I end up rarely having battles against Matilda. It’s really frustrating and time-wasting how much they seem to stack the arena against you.

[Eric Giese]

Well this was lame. Rovio should give everyone 500 points, an extra day of competition, or something. I was on my way to finishing in first today, but instead I got 5th, and now I can’t buy the last accessory. In addition to that, the coin toss in the Epic Arena decided that it wanted to become rigged today (worse than 1 in 10 odds). Then there’s the fact that every update to a Rovio game these days brings huge bugs that even basic QC should find. How does the company that made one of the most successful mobile games have such bad QC?

[Eric Giese]

What on Earth happened to the coin tosses today? I seemed to win more than I lost in the past, and suddenly that changed today. Getting 3 birds with 1 attack took more than the allowed 3 tries due to losing the first turn nearly every time. I think I won maybe 1 in every 10 coin tosses (if not more), including when fighting low level friends to skip some battles. I have never had odds like this. Is anyone else suddenly having this issue? If this keeps up, I’m going to give up on the Arena. It completely takes the fun out of it.

[Eric Giese]

@kingpiggy087

I was able to get it fixed by contacting Rovio.

Man, I really wish they would beta test their products more and fix some of the very obvious bugs that really cause problems…

[Eric Giese]

So here’s a new one for me. There is a long-time bug in Android where if the game takes too long to load for whatever reason, the “Your game has been synchronized…” whatever else it all says message will appear, the game flashes to black for a second. The big problem with this is that it leaves the game extremely unstable (essentially, you need to restart the game or it is very likely to crash).

Anyways, this happened to me at the end of the recent event, causing the game to crash just after rolling the wheel. Well, since I restarted back in, none of the buttons on the world map for menus show, and in order to get to try spinning the wheel again (the spin didn’t take because of the crash), I had to go into the arena by selecting it on the world map. Even now, none of the buttons are showing, my trophy for diamond league isn’t showing, and the problem persists after erasing the game data and re-syncing (and the game appears to work fine until I sign back into my account). Also, hitting the back button to bring up the exit prompt is not working either.

[Eric Giese]

This update is a joke. All it’s done is add bugs.

The objectives are badly worded, and don’t work. I currently have the objective to knock out 3 birds in 1 turn 3 times. I got it to 2/3. Now it won’t go to 3/3. I have knocked out 3 birds in a turn at least 10 times at this point.

None of the previous bugs that I know of have been fixed.

How does a company as big as Rovio do such a poor job of bug testing?

[Eric Giese]

I’m sure someone has already mentioned the weird numbers for the set bonus damage for the new set for Bomb.

Here is the weirder issue I am having: I cannot win set items for The Blues. I have had the advanced Golden Pig Machine since it came out, and I only roll it when I get free rolls and when I have a 5x chance of winning set items. I have nearly every set item in the game at the max level except for The Blues. I have not won a single set item for The Blues since since 47 was the max level. Maybe this is just me getting unlucky, but it seems a bit odd that I have won tons of other set items (many repeats that I have sold) and an insane amount of non-set items that I already had, but can’t win a single set for The Blues.