TC howitzers deploying after TC sabotaged

[Festivus]

In our current war we've noticed on a large number of attacks against multiple bases that howitzers are deploying from town centers even after they've been sabotaged. This is a huge problem, as we are wasting precious sabotage tactics on town centers only to see howitzers pop out of clearly sabotaged TCs anyway. They're not being obscured by the TC, they are literally deploying from sabotaged TCs.

How is this happening? Is it a cheat or a glitch? We're going to win the war anyway, but this is a very annoying glitch or cheat, whatever it is.

 

[TinSoldier]

This is a bug that we are looking into. Thank you for specifically calling out the Howitzers! Details like this help with reproducing bugs.

 

[Xerxes]

Was the TC sabotaged before initially being triggered? Or after being initially triggered but before the defender-spawn bar fills up? It has always been the case that alliance-donated defenders spawn the instant the TC is triggered, unlike the TC foot soldier defenders that only spawn once the spawn bar fills up. So if you wait to sabotage the TC until it's triggered (like you can do with the castle/fort to prevent general from spawning), the donated defenders will still spawn. You have to sabotage it before it's triggered.

Now if you're saying that donated defenders are still spawning even though the TC was sabotaged before ever being triggered, then yeah, that's new.

 

[kokomango]

Donated troops spawn out more quickly than TC defenders. It is likely you were in range of the TC when you used sabotage and assumed that the "spawn timer" at the top of the TC is an indication of time you have left before DONATED troops come out. That is not the case, as DONATED troops will spawn almost immediately when your troops are within the TC's spawn range.