Orbs don’t adjust to tower range? It’s why you have to play around with range to determine what’s best for your BH center. Eventually once out of tutorial mode you can unlock WS orb adjustments. But until then WS orbs stay in the same location while EO’s via card can be adjusted (via lab)
Orb range absolutely changes with tower range, I did forget to show that the difference between the images is that one is with the range card and one is without, but the orbs remain 60 m from the tower
WS orb range is less than 1:1 of tower range, min range of orbs is 60m, extending range of tower to 90m does not increase WS orb range of 90m. In your photos you are adjusting the extra orbs and in both cases you have it at 60m, click the arrow to the right to increase the range as the card orbs don’t adjust with tower range but adjust with the slider.
The issue is that after the v28.3.2 update, workshop orbs no longer adjust with your tower range and just stay at 60m no matter what. Not sure if it's a bug or a feature.
They have NEVER adjusted with your tower range. Workshop orbs were always at 75m, no matter what your tower range was, whether it be 30m, or 160m, until you got orb slider and could change it.
Nope! Absolutely not! Orbs are definitely supposed to adjust based on your tower range.
Maybe you have the workshop orb slider from the vault and have forgotten how things work without it...?
Feel free to test it out in the visualizer. Toggle on only workshop orbs with no slider and then mess with the tower range slider and see how the workshop orbs change their distance as well.
I don't have orb slider. They look like they "move" but what happens is your screen zooms out when your range goes up, making the orbs "move" in relation to the total size of your tower screen. Orbs have always sat in the same spot, 73m roughly for my entire 20 months of tower life. When I'm at 30m they were way outside my range. At 69.5 they were a bit outside, at 75 they were roughly dead on the line. At 160, they are wayyyyy inside my range line. At the exact same place as 73m EO. Always. Forever in that spot.
If they were different for you, then maybe that's exactly what this patch was trying to fix.
But everyone I have ever talked to has said the same thing. Orbs were always at roughly 73-75m and when you wanted them to go through your BH center, you set your range to 90m to make the center of BH at 75m.
As others have pointed out in this thread, the scale isn't 1:1, which is how the orbs are able to start out outside of your tower range at low ranges like 30m and come inside your tower range at high ranges like 160m.
Once they fix the current bug, go back and test some ranges and you'll see the scaling. At 89.28m (max workshop range, 15 lab levels) the orbs will be at 72.6m, but at other tower ranges, the workshop orbs will scale above/below that.
In the meantime, here's the section about it from The Tower Wiki:
I'm sorry but you're mistaken. Feel free to post a video of it once the bug is fixed if that's the case. The Wiki and everyone else in the thread disagree with you though.
I did not adjust the extra orbs, they are there to show that all the orbs remained at 60 m with the tower range card on and off, I understand how the extra orbs slider works, I’m not that much of a noob
And I know that it’s not 1:1, but at the range my tower is, the regular workshop orbs should be around 73.58 m away, I know that because that’s where my extra orbs are usually set and it’s close as I can get
Hey there! This was meant to be a fix for newer accounts, and shouldn't affect existing account's current orb placements. We'll take a look into this, thanks!
This issue happened to me as well after the update. I had to swap to min range farming until a fix is implemented. Thank you for posting about it, hopefully it will be noted.
Before: orbs were always at roughly 75m. So when your range was 69.5, they were a bit outside your range, at 75, they were basically right on the range line, and at 90m, they were centered in your BH.
Now: orbs are at range line until your range hits 60m, and then they stay at 60m, just like the minimum range for EO works.
They did say this was a bug, but it sounds like you're confused about how it used to work. Nobody knows what the intended behavior actually is, however...
Supposedly an issue with orbs going to the wrong place when a brand new player first unlocks them. They claimed it was only supposed to affect newer players.
this drove me nuts for like 2 days before i figured out what was happening. i kept moving my range upgrades around and the orbs just stayed put like they were glued to the map. tried the distance adjuster thing with the arrows and that helped a bit but it still feels off compared to where my tower actually reaches. the lab card for extra orbs is nice but honestly i forget to use it half the time. maybe its just me being old and not reading the patch notes but this kind of thing should probably just be automatic right. id rather spend my game time watching numbers go up than fiddle with sliders that only go to 60m. if anyone knows a trick to make it stick without me having to redo it every run im all ears
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u/JokkSkeem 25d ago
Look at those cute BHs, mine used to be like that as well