Navy Patrol Coastal Defense Forum

Well, this is a vast improvement from the previous versions, so hats off to ya'll.

Overall, I'd say that the system is more stable. While mine crashes more often than I remember, it is more solid than when it crashed before. What I mean by that, is that it used to crash and then my game was not recoverable. Now I can reload it and play from the last point (or near enough). While the "unrecoverable" instant-crash-upon-load game has happened before on this version, if I reset the iTouch (though annoying to have to reset twice), I have been able to recover the game and continue playing as normal.

The biggest annoyance to me is that I am still unable to save a game on Artica Island. I began a new game and it crashed after about level 102, and when I re-entered the game, I cannot resume it as I can with Barren Island (there was no saved file). I have yet to try this with other maps, but I was under the impression you could save one game from each map simultaneously, or can we not anymore?

With regards to Barren Island, I have noticed that after several special IR turrets lock onto a ship, the red cross-hairs occasionally will glitch, lagging the game for half a second, then become roughly 2-2.5x the size of the smaller cross-hairs for a while. The ship will move about 5 squares, then it will lag again and become smaller like they normally are.

As a final glitch, while not harmful, in endless mode, the waves are still shown out of 100. So, in Barren Island, I am currently on wave 274/100.

Also, I keep bringing these up as nobody has explained whether they are actual glitches or not yet, but:
-Barren Island does not have an aircraft carrier attack it as do the other maps at level 55, and,
-Turrets mounted on platforms receive no bonuses, to strength nor range, in comparison to normal sea turrets.

Great stability fixes though, guys. It has no issues loading a game with multiple aura turrets and rarely crashes when I use missile barrage on a lot of enemies (though it has a better chance of crashing if you use missile barrage when the game is in 2x mode as compared to standard; when the missiles launch in 2x mode, the game slows down to 1x for a few seconds then resumes, which I believe may be a contributing factor to those crashes).

Finally, I have no errors in getting my specials turrets and the points switch problem is a thing of the past.

Addendum

-I was playing a new game on Mt. Cruze Island when my game crashed. Upon rebooting, the turrets refused to target the aircraft carrier that was still on screen. It appears that this error is still active.
-Also, the aircraft carriers on Mt. Cruze island get strong too quickly. I am on level 110 currently and I cannot beat the carrier using H.U.G.E. bombs, the full airfield and 8+ IR turrets attacking it on every pass.

(3/4)

-I just found out that I am able to block the ship's path using the battleship on Mt. Cruze island. I filled most of the rest of the screen with different turrets and near the base, I placed one ship horizontal and three in line vertical, blocking the enemy ship's pathway. Shortly thereafter, I had a series of crashes until the game removed the ship and allowed me to continue. I checked shortly thereafter and after another 50 or so waves and I could still place the ship in that spot (though I did not actually place it for fear of a permanent crash).

Addendum 3/13

-I was playing on Avalon Island when the aircraft carrier traveled over my base, preventing me from counterattacking the aircraft (since they launched on the base, fired and returned almost immediately after launching).
-After several start-up/shutdown and even hard restarts, I am still unable to save a game on Artica Island.
-I am also unable to save the scores for my game locally on the device prior to getting on wifi and saving it to the leader boards. A message claiming that "An error occurred while trying to post the score to the leader boards" always pops up, and when I return to the map on the map selection, it says I am unranked and I have no best score.

Release 2.6 crashes too much....

I want my money back!