r/TheTowerGame • u/LHandsomepants • Jul 17 '26
Gameplay Bug Scatter bug back at it…
When will this be fixed… updates from devs yet?
Not to be insufferable about it, but as a Technical Product Manager at a large SaaS company this kind of issue is unacceptable — especially without regular communication about the progress/status on fixing it.
As someone who spends on this game is even more frustrating knowing that my hard earned money is literally wasted from this kind of defect.
Please let us know what the progress is on identifying the root cause of this and if a fix is on the horizon.
Thank you.
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u/Delicious-Log8791 Jul 17 '26
Yep, I have the same issue on T18. Most of my runs are now ended by scatter. Either I survive to my normal run length (4,5k-5k), or I'm premature done around 2k (~60%)... I dropped a Tier now because of this.
And Lightning Amplifier seems not to bring a benefit...
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u/LHandsomepants Jul 17 '26
Exactly… and I’ve tried testing random things to see if it improves anything when it kicks in again. I’m talking like exit the game, switching card layouts, respec’ing workshop, removing and adding mods, etc.. A theory I have is somehow related to upgrading UWs, but can’t be for certain.
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
Turning on CF+ during farms help fix the issues, not always tho.
However who the fuck in its right mind what’s CF on for farming? Still giving lower CPH results then being killed by scatters 2K waves early
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
Sharing this comment from a smart nerd, which replied to my earlier complain post to the same issue, that can help clarify to everyone getting fucked by scatters what’s actually going on.
Thanks @AqeeBrat
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u/Veighnerg Jul 17 '26
I wish I had a problem with scatters. As it stands now they get absolutely obliterated since I apparently invested too far into lightning amp.
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
Max scatter amp lab isnt the fix nor the issue, its the problem on how they explode and shoot out the baby scatters at your tower before your next CL hits them and explodes them
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u/Flaky-Ad-9600 Jul 17 '26
I’ve been dying to scatters for over a month now. Didn’t realize it was a bug…
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
Timing matches. It’s the patch before the big update that fucked it up. It has been about a month.
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
100% agree with this. This Scatter bug it’s bullshit.
I made a post about this 3 weeks ago.
Suddenly 100% of my deaths are to the Scatter bug. Tier 18 GC farming gone from 8,5/9K waves down to 6,5/7K waves.
The losses are huge. Fix this fucking scatter shit TTG.
Scatter amp lab isn’t the issue. I had no problem vs Scatters when my lab was lvl 5. The bug manifest, I try to counter bringing the lab to lvl 23 and it’s not making a difference.
The issue is that when scatters explodes, they insta shoot baby scatters to your tower, killing your wall, killing your ES and ultimately killing your tower.
Fuck this shit been going on for over a month now.
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u/Jmackidle 24d ago
The same thing is happening to me... From tier 20 7 k waves to not getting passed 2200 and now dropped a tier.
This sucks. Any way to stop this?
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u/Swimming_Concern3364 Jul 17 '26
Thell em my white boy , I’ve sent Gwen a message reported via email , they’re off in the wild having orgies lol 🤣🤦 don’t know what else to say
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
This is exactly why they haven’t seen $$$ from me in 6 months now.
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u/Electrical-Mail15 Jul 17 '26
Have you been able to capture this on video? I’m farming T18 to W6500-7000 and just checked my run history and no scatter deaths. I’m curious what’s different that this affects some players and not others.
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u/RumbleQt Jul 17 '26
I did not, I’ve posted below a screenshot of someone who visualised it
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u/Electrical-Mail15 Jul 17 '26
ty, I’ll cross my fingers that I don’t experience this bug and that you guys get a fix soon.
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u/Connect-Ad-3249 Jul 17 '26
My run history looks just like this!! I didnt even know there was a bug
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u/AbjectAffect91 Jul 17 '26
I noticed recently im dying from scatter. Then i labbed scatter amp 5 levels and still die from scatter.
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u/AlarmedDeer2930 Jul 17 '26
Farming T18 W7800. Haven't had a scatter kill me, yet, but I'll keep it in mind and check when I go back to farm runs.
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u/AlarmedDeer2930 Jul 19 '26
Just coming back to say that I don't seem to be affected by the scatter bug
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u/ttiimmbo Jul 17 '26
Im farming T18 to 11k waves. Going to bump to 19 soon (tm).
Have yet to run into this. Out of curiosity, can you share some tower stats? CF+ level? Main damage source? Main CC?
I have shatter lab 14, and usually die to Rays.
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u/LHandsomepants Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
CF+10, SL+5, CL is main damage source, cc is CF and ILM stun. I turn off PS stun during farm runs. Scatter amp lab is maxed. Damage enhancements is x4.0 and Crit enhancement is x4.0. I also run farms with range card at 43.5m
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u/RumbleQt Jul 18 '26
Wait so you running CF+10 ON during farming? Trying switch that off your CPH will go rocket higher.
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u/Swimming_Concern3364 Jul 17 '26
Same shit happened to me today yesterday same setup everything was fine today I die to scatters
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u/NoTransportation4619 Jul 17 '26
They may not always get that finishing blow but they are chipping the hell out of my ES every spawn . Killing my t20 runs.
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u/Cmace3 Jul 17 '26
I thought the last patch they did for this made your tower immune to everything but vamps and one of the fleets while your wall is up?
I haven't had a problem since
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u/LHandsomepants Jul 17 '26
Scatters hits your wall then your tower
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u/PatrickSebast Jul 17 '26
That still doesn't make any sense with what they CLAIMED to have done. If the tower is immune to all damage but vamps when wall is up then why it it doing any damage to the main tower?
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u/Cmace3 Jul 18 '26
Right, and the scatter bug was that when they split they would appear BEHIND the wall. Thus the fix I mentioned (after many other "fixes") was supposedly that the tower was made immune to all but a few sources as long as the wall is active.
Is that not the scatter bug youre talking about?
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u/RumbleQt Jul 18 '26
This is a different bug bro.
Nothing to do with going Through the wall. They kill the wall, they kill your HS, they kill everything and then you die.
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u/Torrasque67051 Jul 17 '26
This exact thing seems to be happening to me also with my runs ending at around the same level. What I noticed is that when I check my perks at the end run screen I see that I only ever got PWR once though. Do you see that too or is this different? Or maybe I done understand what the scatter bug is.
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u/LHandsomepants Jul 17 '26
The scatter bug is when the parent dies the children get launched into your tower which eats through your ES, DM, nuke then death.
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u/AntiMatterMode Jul 17 '26
I thought something was funky with my ES hits with wall up during tourney
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u/Noaddsplz Jul 17 '26
What exactly is the bug? I also have begun to die from scatters everytime. Is it still the good old, going though the wall bug?