# 5.6 Patch Notes (Gnome-a-Palooza)
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912
**Category:** Official News
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912 "2021-07-14T00:21:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/83 "2021-07-14T10:03:57Z")
I’m not 100% sure if it happened to me before the update, because most of what I’m doing can be divided as follows:
- Low-tier daily/campaign things where being hit by skulls doesn’t do enough damage for me to notice either way,
- Running a Venoxia loop where they never actually hit me, or,
- Doing faction events where I am not surprised at all to be triple-hit by skulls from above the screen and write it off as the _usual_ horrendously bad luck.
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### Author:  [@MagiBelgr](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MagiBelgr)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/84 "2021-07-14T10:42:29Z")
How about a double gnome four day gnome weekend as compensation…
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### Author:  [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/85 "2021-07-14T10:49:08Z")
> [@Kafka](#):
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> No problem, I was hoping to provide a little information on things as I get how frustrating it is looking from the outside in and honestly, we’re all kicking ourselves too, we always do when stuff slips through the net.
Well, as much as the bug is annoying, communication about it has been excellent so far. 👍
Please keep this up in case Gnome-a-Palooza really turns out to work exactly as previewed. Once players realize the full potential and start adjusting their play style accordingly I’d expect some drastic changes to happen, possibly right after the upcoming weekend.
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### Author:  [@jpraveensn](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jpraveensn)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/86 "2021-07-14T11:22:35Z")
An ally was able to create a situation where board reset could happen:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68NZz8FjB5E)
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### Author:  [@Whiskeyjack](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Whiskeyjack)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/87 "2021-07-14T11:33:27Z")
Nice, thanks for sharing. The board reset is actually a good feature.
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### Author:  [@aurora\_x](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/aurora_x)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/88 "2021-07-14T11:38:44Z")
I posted the video on our discord-server (with mention of course), if that’s ok.
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### Author:  [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/89 "2021-07-14T11:45:20Z")
> [@Whiskeyjack](#):
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> Nice, thanks for sharing. The board reset is actually a good feature.
100% agree, given the behavior it replaced: a soft-lock that caused you to lose the battle due to resetting the game.
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### Author:  [@CobraMJD](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/CobraMJD)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/90 "2021-07-14T11:46:58Z")
So that’s why I started losing some battles in explore today.
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### Author:  [@NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NerdieBirdie)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/91 "2021-07-14T12:45:32Z")
The double skull damage bug was not caught in Beta - currently unsure whether or not it even existed on Beta, as I can’t hop on my PC right now. It’s definitely annoying, but overall this update is an extremely welcome one with lots of bug fixes to boot.
This update is a very positive one, in my eyes! 😄
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### Author:  [@Aragorn1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Aragorn1)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/92 "2021-07-14T12:52:16Z")
I have had this happen as well in Arena. I am on Xbox. If my memory is correct it always seems to only happen at the beginning of the match. As in the first move of the match for the AI is a skull match and my top troop will die from one hit
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### Author:  [@Snooj](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Snooj)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/93 "2021-07-14T13:41:31Z")
@Saltypatra and @Kafka, interestingly, not everyone in my guild can reproduce the skull damage bug.
Both @blindnighto and I are on Android using x4 animation speed.
Like others here, the enemy AI does double skull damage to me. I confirmed this in both PvP and adventure board. Here is a gif from adventure board with double skull damage:
@blindnighto, being a showoff, doesn’t have this issue.
> I matched the red on the bottom right, then they matched the newly aligned skulls on the right
> 106-59 = 47 + 2 for using knight class = 49
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### Author:  [@Hawx](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Hawx)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/94 "2021-07-14T14:06:56Z")
Yes ai skull damage is also bleeding over to the second troop if your first troop dies for the skull damage.
Hazard posted a great example of this on the GoW Alliance discord server and I’ve submitted videos of this bug to the Devs (along with the double mana video too)
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### Author:  [@HounganAtLarge](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/HounganAtLarge)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/95 "2021-07-14T14:16:50Z")
So what y’all are saying is: The only safe mode to play is Treasure Hunt.
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### Author:  [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/96 "2021-07-14T14:17:37Z")
Or, the only way to win (in 5.6) is not to play (in 5.6)—glad I haven’t upgraded my version just yet.
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### Author:  [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/97 "2021-07-14T14:22:49Z")
I want to be excited about the new update. But I’m too intrigued about how they broke the way skull damage operates. And how it only favors the AI.
Is this finally written proof that the AI operates under a different set of rules than the human?
Can the devs also go on record and finally admit that the AI targetting a “random” troop and doing damage is not an actual even weighted dice roll?
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### Author:  [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/98 "2021-07-14T14:40:32Z")
I updated the game today and did world events without any problems, for those that is wondering if they should update the game themselves. Looking forward to the fix tho.
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### Author:  [@Fourdottwoone](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fourdottwoone)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/99 "2021-07-14T14:48:00Z")
> [@awryan](#):
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> Is this finally written proof that the AI operates under a different set of rules than the human?
I don’t think it has anything to do with AI rules, this rather seems to be a timing issue. Whenever you lose interaction focus, the first event to queue up seems to get processed twice if it happens fast enough (at double speed or faster).
If you watch the video in post #21 very carefully you’ll notice that it not only processes skull damage twice, it also seems to process the associated explosion mana twice, awarding 2 green mana instead of 1 to the last troop. I wouldn’t be surprised if this also happens for colored matches, not just skull matches.
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### Author:  [@igniteice](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/igniteice)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/100 "2021-07-14T15:12:47Z")
Game is absolutely unplayable in current form with skull damage bug. I’m playing at 4x speed on Steam version and every enemy skull hit SAYS it’s hitting for normal damage but actually does twice as much AND hits my next troop.
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### Author:  [@Estella](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Estella)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/101 "2021-07-14T15:13:17Z")
Bonjour ! Pour les Francophones qui passeraient par ici : il y a un bug avec la dernière mise à jour. Pour tous les joueurs qui jouent en vitesse x2 et plus, les dégats de crâne de l’IA sont doublés (entre autres). La vitesse de jeu x1-x1.5 n’est pas affectée. Il n’y a plus qu’à jouer au ralenti ou attendre le correctif.
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### Author:  [@Bowmanator](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Bowmanator)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-6-patch-notes-gnome-a-palooza/70912/102 "2021-07-14T15:18:21Z")
It seems like not everyone is experiencing this bug one of my guild members has no issues with it. Could have something to do with how everyone’s game updated
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