🐟 You Asked, We Listened – The Fish Just Got Better!

christinewupp · May 19

Some improvements are great, but others still need work.(Please, leave a comment...)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3328124#Comment_3328124

Thank you for your kind reply. Unfortunately I don't hold much hope on this one. King's answer to the problem of players not getting used to using the frog will be to kill the frog. I don't want them to rewrite these last few interesting levels and remove the frog from them, so I would prefer it if you did not pass this feedback on to them @QueenB .

SH24 · May 20

Still the stupidity exists. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Fiush can neverr attack asnother fish. So if a fish is on a jelly, in place where you can't make a move easily, you never could clear that jelly with asnother fish. Only striped or wrapped or colorbomb works.

The first launch didn't have this issue, the fish attacked other fiush in that version. But after about a week they changed the version to that nonsense.

hortangel · May 20

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/494375/you-asked-we-listened-the-fish-just-got-better

I really love how there's an addition of fish to every game i play...it's really nice and helps a lot..thanks so much

jessybears · May 21

I know they just improved the fish, and I agree they have gotten WAY better. I’m on level 3542 and I cannot for the love of god pass it. I nearly had a color bomb combo lines up and my only move was to match a fish and striped candy. Guess what, this fish took it, popped a wrapper candy, and the striped hit my color bomb wrecking my entire set up. I have a video recording of this (not sure how to post it here) but it’s absolutely ridiculous. I spend way more time on this game than I’d like to admit and I’ve been stuck on this level for way too long. The fish don’t recognize the brown blockers (I can’t remember what they’re told) as a problem which makes them completely useless if not work against me in this level and others with the brown blocks. Please improve this feature because I genuinely am so frustrated.

jessybears · May 21

also out of curiosity is anyone else having issues with the fish and brown tiles? (Not the chocolate, the ones that stack)

Peaches12 · May 21

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3329036#Comment_3329036

Yes, my fish avoid those too. It's really frustrating when they are what you need to clear the level.

christinewupp · May 21

Some improvements are great, but others still need work.(Please, leave a comment...)

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3329036#Comment_3329036

The jelly fish do NOT attack toffee swirls (that's what they are called). So unless a toffee swirl is sitting between a dragon and its exit they will never eat those. They will eat anything that sits directly between a dragon and its exit, but in my experience that is the only time fish will eat toffee.

You were meant to fail the level and in such a case the fish go for the wrong candy. It's all in the way King have coded each board. It's either "pass easily, pass if you carefully play the correct last few moves, fail badly or fail unless you play the required booster". These four final outcomes are written into each game board and the fishes will do whatever they have been instructed to do. If you are on a "fail" board then they will go to a place that will stop you from passing, if you are on a "pass" board they may go for a place that will help you. It's part of the game design. We are just puppets playing the game as King have written it. The only control players have is to figure out the algorithm of the board and play it as intended. The fishes are King employees that carry out their instructions.

christinewupp · May 21

Some improvements are great, but others still need work.(Please, leave a comment...)

To illustrate, this is a "play one lollipop hammer to pass" level. Most of the outcomes for level 3542 are "play one UFO to pass", so this one is a bit cheaper.

As there are no jellies here the original design never accounted for fishes and as the dragon drops diagonally the fishes will not target the toffee beneath it. They only target toffee in a direct vertical line (and with no portals), so we have to play the original strategy to make wrap + stripe combos and colour bomb + stripe combos to pass this level. Playing the coconut wheel is also a good idea.

@jessybears Since you have now crossed level 3000, you have passed the range of those levels rewritten by King last year with the super colour bomb and jelly fish in mind, you will now come across some older levels which have not (yet) been changed by King. So for levels like this one it is a waste to create and set off jelly fish and I would recommend to try to avoid moves that make them. (Strangely though some of the hinted moves are to create fish.)