[Gameplay] Towers randomly gain some armor; Tower stopped atking minions

ThatHaleState·Nov 12, 2015·6 votes·723 views

In my last game, while i was attacking the tower, my dmg would lower all of the sudden every couple hits. I clicked on the tower and saw that it was gaining armor randomly.

Also in this game, while supporting, i was going to stop the minion wave from hitting tower to save cs. When i got there the minions had already reached tower, but the tower wasnt shooting. It would shoot at the enemy champs if they attacked us, but not the minions all the way under turret. They stayed until the tower died after a huge hoard eventually piled up while everyone was mid.

As for repeatable, I have no idea how to repeat it, and Ive only experienced it once. Possibly just a small bug thats hiding in the new code.

7 Comments

abadhaikuNov 12, 20151 votes

I can confirm the armor gain; this has happened to me in multiple games.

SympleSynzNov 12, 20151 votes

I can also confirm that last night, playing with friends in both custom and normals, that whenever the outer turrets would be hit, the armor would jump between 0 to 30. In addition, I believe the patch notes were saying that turrets were supposed to get stronger as the game went on, but they never seemed to happen. The turret towers fall like paper now.

blackmomaNov 12, 20151 votes

PBE Testers can't find simple bugs? What are they even doing on the PBE?

SympleSynzNov 12, 20151 votes

PBE testers are players. This doesn't mean they are software engineers and can catch everything. That's the purpose of preseason. Also, PBE isn't exactly the same as the active servers, so things can interact differently on the PBE server than it does on the active server.

Kyoko KirigiriNov 12, 20151 votes

Turret resistances BASE ARMOR AND MAGIC RESIST 100 ⇒ 0 WE CAN REBUILD Turrets gain 2 armor and magic resist per minute, up to a maximum of 30. Outer towers begin scaling at game-start, Inner towers at 15 minutes, Inhibitor & Nexus towers at 30 minutes. REINFORCED ARMOR Turrets gain 300 ⇒ 200 armor and magic resist if no minions are nearby

Perhaps this is what you're experiencing? Can't say the same for the other note, though.

ViralblitzkreigNov 12, 20154 votes

I've done a single player game to test out something I saw with the towers. I can verify that the tower's armor + magic resist were bouncing between positive numbers and zero. This was happening every 3/4 of a sec.

ThatHaleStateNov 12, 20151 votes

Yes, i also watched it on my friends game. When he clicked on the turret while he was attacking, the armor would jump from 0-6-8-0-8-0-6 etc. randomly almost every second while he was attacking.