Changes with the way Striped and Wrapped blast now!

In addition to the new graphics (which I agree are not an improvement), everytime I make a stripe/wrapper combo my device vibrates once the move is complete, even though I have vibrations switched off in game.

It seems they’ve changed the way these combos now work. After commenting that mine were fixed, I saw that they now spin and blast outward (like 2 color bombs) rather than blasting vertically and horizontally, taking out full rows and columns. NOT an improvement!

That is odd. I don't know what device you play. I never have vibration on for anything and have not experienced this. I play on iPhone.

It looks like an explosion in real play because the graphics have been changed to take out both vertical and horizontal rows simultaneous and are too fast. Someone in the design team needs to look into this. But it does not affect what is happening to the candies. In fact there is a light haze to be seen where candies are destroyed and it is three lines vertical and three lines horizontal, just as it used to be with wrapped/striped combo. More generally, King have made some levels from 140 to 250 almost impossible to pass until you are tired of waiting for a lucky board. But the lucky board will come eventually. And from level 260 the game gets better again.