Unlimited night witches?

[jezral]

I unlocked the night witch building for the event and put it into my inventory since I am not ready to use it. I keep trying to use the 3 free night witches I was awarded from the event in combat though, and whether I win the battle or lose and destroy them, 3 more will appear in my inventory when relaunching the app.

Should they keep respawning every few minutes after a battle even though I do not have any buildings available to build aircraft?

I'm loving the easier victories, but it seems like it might be bug.

 

[Manifesto]

This is the kind of bug you keep to yourself .....

 

[Woody82]

This is the kind of bug you keep to yourself .....

That's exactly what I suggested to my Alliance member who was "complaining" about this as well.
It seems there's something in the 5.5. release notes about it to fix it though, cant be bothered to look it up as these release notes suck.

 

[Veldan]

I just went through the 5.5 update notes, there's nothing about this. They are fixing a lot of troop tactic related things though, so maybe this also gets fixed and they just forgot the note.

 

[Kaiser Shag]

Well it's also kind of annoying, ok I like the witches when I use them, but opponents constantly use them to get my oil without loosing any troops, I loose over 10k oil per day only because of the witches ...

 

[ScipioA]

I have noticed this as well. A night witch regenerates herself about 10-15 minutes after battle. While, it may be quite useful to have a regenerating night witch this unit is a two edged sword. The presence of these night witches makes it very difficult to accumulate any significant amounts of oil. It is just too easy to raid for oil with this unit. I've had to reduce the amount of oil in my storage as I have lost over 13,000 in oil quickly.

 

[Divyank Khetawat]

Everyone is right this problem is occuring where this unit comes back after 15 min.

One way its good if we are using it.
But
The other way round when its been used against us, we feel bad.

Best way is build air defense which i did.

 

[Phippo]

They dont get destroyed. So AA is pretty much useless

 

[Woody82]

I just went through the 5.5 update notes, there's nothing about this. They are fixing a lot of troop tactic related things though, so maybe this also gets fixed and they just forgot the note.

yeah, that's what I meant.

 

[Veldan]

FWIW I can confirm nothing changed and they still magically reappear

Since BHG does no fixes between major patches, it looks like we'll have night witches for a few more months...

 

[obsidi]

this issue with the night witches started off cute, but now it's truly a problem.
my night witch hangar has expired and the event 'card' bombers are still there; i could use them every attack.
in our new friendly attacks (wonderful feature) we all use them ... so the exploit renders the exercise unhelpful and less fun.

this changes too much how we think about strategy; if it is our new norm until the next patch it is a certain disincentive to those like me who enjoy the strategic tension in the game.
some comment above suggests this might persist for a while; that is a real disaster.
admittedly i'm also a little grumpy because i only have *two* persistent night witches and others have *three*....

while we all have to adjust to the new tactics situation with some discomfort, that is simply releasing attachments and a probable improvement.
please nexon, attend to these persistent night witches. it's a bigger deal than the other minor problems i see which are just troll food.

again, love the friendly attacks. next let us replay alliance ww attacks... and a little more sophisticated chat interface with private whisper/tells. <3<3<3

 

[phil_dee]

Mine have taken considerable damage here and there, so they *can* be destroyed--it's possible that Nexon's intent is that they work just like fighters and such...existing until they are downed.

 

[ReekyBullet]

New problem with the night witches is that they no longer activate SAM traps now in 5.5 update. Not a good thing in combination with access to unlimited amounts.

 

[DomiNationsVigiles]

Hi everyone!

Our internal team has been investigating the Night Witches respawning issue now. Thank you so much for the details in this thread! It should go a long way towards tracking this issue down!

 

[Veldan]

For what it's worth: the trigger for my night witch to reappear seems to be a relog... No matter how long I wait online, it won't appear, but if I relog it's there again, even if I relog right after a battle

 

[obsidi]

*nod* concur with veldan; just reboot app and they reappear. last fight could be won, lost, or many games played since they were used.

 

[Javahart]

It's not working for me but is for other alliance members

 

[vincentdang4]

Terribly unbalanced bug, with update 5.5 my s.a.m missiles cannot even shoot down night witches. Now every day I lose a few million resources to people with 2-3 night witches flying over my base as everyone look on helplessly. Whats the point of having atomic defenses if they are useless? This is worse than the demolition on oil (which was nerfed) as they can only take one resource building back then...

 

[Berttie]

Night witch BUG ...

Please please provide an update on this bug. It's impossible to collect oil.

constant attacks from respwaning night witch attacks.

AT LEAST NEXON COULD PROVIDE AN STATUS ON A FIX.

personally I am a few days away from quitting .... it's just a joke.

 

[Nb4powerup]

Hi!

At this time, the only information I have is that the developers are working on a fix, no ETA.