Hello,
This is the first I've heard of someone having this issue with the new client. This is supposedly fixed with the new client. I will kick this up to support and see if they have any information. Meanwhile, a few questions for you that will help with the issue:
What physical region are you playing in, and what game region are you playing in?
Do you have a strong internet connection?

If you're comfortable sharing, what country are you in?
Thanks!

Strong connection: yes

Country: United States of America

Physical region: U.S east and game region NY server U.S east.

Had this problem 3 times yesterday and twice more today.

OK, I am being told that this does happen to other players, though it's quite rare. Apparently this happens when the PC in question does not have enough system resources to handle whatever is occurring. It happens most often with AC Kakuzu, but does also happen with units such as SS Konan (her mystery when many targets are affected) and SSP Naruto (when many standards are launched).

The recommended fixes for this are to minimize the amounts of other programs you have running in the background. Alternately, you can try swapping back to an older version of the miniclient to see if that is more stable for you.

I have gotten black screens cus of kakuzu AC mystery skill tons of times, that bug been there for months :/ like how itachi and itachi kimono's mystery bug was......Now** regarding the Itachi part mostly no black screens from Itachi kimono but it still happens from time to time....pls forward these 2 bugs to devs, thanks.

edit: after seeing your 2nd reply, I switched back to the old mini client, and no other apps but still kakuzu AC mainly when used against me i get frequent black screens (sometimes not but still there) i mean still the same nothing changed.

Thanks for your response! The pc I play on is pretty new and has the hardware specifically for gaming so find it hard to believe that it can't support it but okay. I know this would be put in suggestions but could the game implement a settings function where players can choose to see simple effects instead of the drawn out animations. Not sure how difficult it would be to add but I know other games have this.

I Guess Like How They Implemented The "Skip Battle" Feature In Ranked Battle A While Back (That Is As Such Though), Mielekki San..Where Your Character's Units Are Stationary But The Only Action That Happens To You Is That Your Health Bar On Your Units (At That Time Though) Will Slowly Or Rapidly Decrease Overtime Depending On How Strong You Or Your Opponent Is At That Time (Currently Though)..Mielekki San

I was thinking more along the lines where it would just remove the animation that some ninjas have: itachi kimono, sage of six paths, madara edo tensei, and etcetera where it shows a giant image of the one specific ninja doing that mystery. The other effects during battle don't seem to cause mini client to become unresponsive.

Do You Happen To Mean (By Any Chance) The Video Clip That Plays By When The Mystery Is Cast..Right..? And If So Then What I Suggested Prior To This Comment Do Consist Of The Same Element (Also Too Though), Mielekki San And If You Don't Happen To Believe Me For That Instance (Currently Though) You C-a-n Always Go To The Ranked Battle Area In The Game (Currently Though) And Pick An Opponent To Battle With And Then Click On The "Skip Battle" Option In The Lower Right Hand Corner Of Your User's Interface Screen And See For Yourself If What I Suggested To You Earlier Could Possibly Work As A Reference Point For Your (Current) Matter At Hand Here (Currently Though)..Mielekki San

I have a question for you and anyone else in this thread reporting the issue - does it only happen when Kakuzu is used against you or also when you use him on someone else? I don't have him but I might get him in the future so I'd like to know. I have friends who have Kimono Itachi and they say that when they use him, sometimes the game crashes. I've fought both Kakuzu and Itachi many times and their mysteries have never crashed my game (Kakuzu's sometimes causes a little lag during the animation but otherwise fine) so I want to know if there's a difference between using the ninja and having them used on you by the opponent when it comes to if they crash the game.

well i am not the only one at my group of merged servers who experiences that, and my pc is very strong for this game and i don't experience any lag normally. (saying in general)

regarding ur question @Korren;

1. most of the times that kakuzu AC blackscreens u while using mini client are when used against u, but fewer times (or even much fewer, so don't worry about buying him) happen when u are the user or team mate of the user.

2.a. akatsuki itachi was frequent before the fix, now it's rarer

2.b. itachi kimono, it happens alot whether u are the user or the one being used against

also before some one says it's a performance just for us, why it's just these 2 (kakuzu AC and itachi kimono), and itachi was commonly known for that bug so it's not just us...... ^_^

for a period of time madara 5k was causing problems back then, i dont have it to test it now, so you can try that one as well

Thanks for your reply. So it seems like it's both cases, but leaning a bit more towards having these mysteries used on you causing the crash since you said Kakuzu it's mostly that and Itachi it's like 50/50.

I really don't know what's up with it in terms of computer specs. You mention your computer is pretty good for gaming. Like I said I can't recall any instance of their mysteries blackscreeining my game and I definitely don't have a gaming optimized computer at all, I play on an old MacBook pro partitioned to run Windows. The only thing upgraded on it is the RAM, from the stock 4gb to 16gb. I'm sure most players have better hardware than me and still experience these issues, makes me wonder what's up with the games optimization or whatever.

at any time ^_^

akatsuki itachi was like that, but they fixed it and it was announced, afterwards it's very rare for him to crash the game. itachi kimono i guess (not sure) it was said to be fixed but it wasn't, it just happens fewer times after it was almost always and but it's just these 2 (itachi kimono and kakuzu AC), sometimes give black screens preceded by a sudden game freeze, but kakuzu is less than itachi (doesn't happen each time you face him and much lesser times when you are the user).

I did flush dns , cache , uninstalled and reinstalled mini client and tried the latest and older versions, but still just these 2 ninja. hope they check and fix them.

Unfortunately, this is not workable. The reason for this is because it will cause a mismatch between two different players that will give one player an edge over another player in a battle. Essentially, the player using this mode can potentially be anywhere from seconds to rounds ahead of the opposing player.


As mentioned previously, the vast majority of issues with AC Kakuzu and Kimono Itachi have been fixed with the newest miniclients. I was surprised to hear that there were still problems with either of them. This is relatively new news to me. As far as I'm aware, the devs are aware of the bugs, but, again, the current iteration of the miniclient fixes most of the issues and the majority of users no longer experience crashes or blackscreens from these ninjas. Hopefully future versions of the miniclient will further refine and iron out these remaining issues for the users that are still experiencing it.

so, tachibana, are you guys not gonna do anything about this scam posts that advertise shady websites? and before saying it, yes they are reported via report *on, there are multiple posts like this all over the forum for days, reported, nothing happens...

Sorry to up this old topic, but is it normal that AC Kakuzu still doesn't revive other unites when reviving himself from time to time ? I thought that was fixed some time ago, or maybe there's some mechanics I don't know.