Two bugs, one problem, and one wish...

During my many hours playing Orbz I have encountered two bugs;

I was playing solo against other bots, on challenge 25 and up. When you play the higher challenges, you often get in those situations when you know that you definitely won't get the gold, 'cause of a mistake made or something - that first chain-bonus-gathering breaks too soon or such similarities. And you know that there is no point in continue playing - that you rather have to start over...

When such a situation presented itself, one of the bots had just activated a time-stopper - I couldn't do a thing, lost my chances of getting gold, and so I escaped to main and launched the challange again. As the challenge begun, so did that tick-tack sound from the time-stopper - the sound probably got stuck in a loop or something. At the menus, the tick-tack was gone, but as soon as I started a challenge, it came back. I had to restart the game completely for the sound loop to stop. I later confirmed the bug by escaping during similar circumstances on other challenges and the tick-tack loop appeared every time.

The second bug is a kinda strange one. If someone takes a star right before you come flying at it, if the time in between is short enough (not more than a second or so) you bounce on the now EMPTY air as if the star was still there. It seems like it takes a second or such for the star's physical properties to get removed from the world, and before they do - you can still "bounce on the star" despite that someone else has just taken it.

A small problem with the game is when other Windows-applications interfere, when you maybe have to tab out and close them or whatever - the mouse-speed-setting in the game lets go and never comes back. Instead it's the Window's pointer-speed which takes over. Even if you go into the game's configuration and try to change the sensitivity, it doesn't apply. Only way to get the game's sensitivity back on is to completely quit and restart the game. It happens sometimes that I forget to shut down MSN before I start to play and suddenly, in the middle of a challange, one of those annoying mass-messages pops up, and that usually makes the Window's sensitivity-settings overtake the game's settings.

One wish I have is to fix the backspace when you chat with other players. You can't just hold down backspace and erase the whole sentence you just wrote but which you, for some reason, not longer wanna say. Instead you have to play machine-gun-finger on that poor key to erase every letter - and that takes time.

Otherwise, I'm having a blast !!!