Bug #2057

Crow Placement Bug: Sending Empty Crows and Incorrect Cooldown Triggers

Status:	Open
Priority:	High
Added by:	steponabee on March 24, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	9.5.0
Actual Result:	placing nothing on the ground, giving you the ability to send the crow - doesnt tell you the crow is botched and allows you to "punish" yourself by sending it (gives you a cooldown)...
Expected Result:	place the crow down, charges decrement by one, the crow is real, can be sent - has flight path and will take off(increases its speed by ~15m/s) at the end of it - allowing you to injure with the path and flock/injure flocked survivors across the map
Severity:	Blocker
Reproducibility:	Frequently
Platform:	Steam
Additional Notes & Comments:	very disruptive to Artist' gameplay;

Steps to Reproduce

1. pull out your hand by holding m2 till the bar is charged
2. press m1 to place the crow
3. repeat till you get your number of crows decremented by one without the crow actually appearing on the map
4. then finally send the invisible bird to get full cooldown of however many crows you sent with one(potentially more) of the crows missing

Explanation

Artist placing a void || null crow

During artist play sessions, you place crows down, however... Now you can pull your hand up(hold m2), press m1 and it doesnt place the crow - begins the countdown - as if the crow was placed(10 seconds) and at the same time it allows you to send an empty crow*

*basically "sends it" with her left hand - points and screams as if she sent a crow which makes your power go on cooldown without ACTUALLY sending a crow).

This bug manages to turn 4k's into 1~2k's
It has the same effect on the gameplay as when the crow would end up pathing above the map, the crow is just wasted and does nothing but it just allows you to send an "empty crow"... further more, if you attempt to actually "fix" the issue yourself and place the second crow, you get cooldown as if you sent 2 crows - even though you sent one...

From the gameplay perspective, if you send 2 crows after someone TO FLOCK THEM, they can repel before your cooldown is back, unless you can force them to vault something or drop a pallet, so its just kind of breaking the gameplay loop of the Artist.

I'll upload a clip of this bug later once I have my clipping software sorted out since the latest windows update has botched it... If somebody has a clip of it happening - feel free to upload it, I would like to actually play Artist without getting robbed every other game;
Screenshotting doesnt really work due to the nature of the bug.
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