RembobineThe Tamagoyle’s tantrums
One player died three times in the same spot. It wasn’t their fault. It was 30 pixels.
The Tamagoyle is one of Rembobine’s bosses, and it throws tantrums. During a tantrum, you have to step on its buttons in the right order, A, B, C. Hitting the wrong button makes it angry.
One player, in Detention +8 and then +9, died of it three times. Two rages, the second one on the red card.
Looking closely, the problem wasn’t the player. The middle button is 30 pixels from the straight line between A and C. One tantrum in three asks you to go from A to C: if you went straight there, you brushed the wrong button, and the rage hit before you even reached the second one.
The fix is small: passing over a wrong button no longer counts. You have to stay on it for 0.6 seconds.
To check, a bot that walks straight from one button to the next. Before: 8 tantrums failed out of 24. After: 4, all in the same game, where the bot gets stuck against a piece of furniture.
Along the way, another tweak. In Detention +6, the Tamagoyle got angry after 90 seconds. Even a bot that took no hits and got every tantrum right reached the Reprimand with the boss still on a third of its health. It now gets angry at 130 seconds.
This is version 1.7.2. Thanks to the player who died three times.