Platform, device version and operating system:
Steam, Android (could be others but i have played on these)
Screenshot or image:
Not required. Its related to offer screen animation in explore.
What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:
Issue: Offers during Explore cannot be exited by tapping back button or pressing ESC on PC. Player has to wait for offer to fully load before they can decline it. Happened after latest Gems update.
Expected: Back button functionality should work like before to quickly bring up decline screen on the offer if not interested.
How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?
Every single time on an offer screen in Explore.
Steps to make it happen again
Play Explore and wait for an offer to pop up (genie/daemon/angel/merchant) - try to tap back or esc & it wont work.
Only work around right now for this is wait for offer to start loading and quickly press the X button in the offer. Can be done with mouse on PC & tapping on Phone but if playing with a controller on PC (which i usually do as its more comfy for me), there is no option but to mouse click it.
This has already been reported by lot of players in GW imagined thread but since i did not see a bug logged, here you go.
I think the offers trigger about 30% of the time (correct me if I’m wrong), but waiting about 5 seconds for the merchant/angel/genie/daemon to show up, makes explore, and even delves so slow. Moving around the world map is much slower too.
How these problems got past beta testing is beyond me…
No, it’s was pretty much on purpose. They’ve always complained about the speed we’re able to play since introducing x4 time.
Explore has been constantly slowed down to make it as annoying as possible, so you can’t grind it without going nuts. Then they added in the most random troop drop.
Every time they update Explore, I just wish more and more I took the time to get Hoard Mimic before that update. My will to play is decreasing more.
Jeto, can you please answer this question? On the patch note, it’s posted that skipping past the wandering merchant system, is a bug. There has to be a mistake. When those offers popped up, you could back out of the offer before it fully loaded. The game would then give you a confirmation screen, asking if you were sure you wanted to decline. Sometimes we’d press exit by mistake. If you wanted to see the offer, you could cancel the decline. The merchant and angel are the only offers worth looking at.
The others come in on an explore run, way too late. Their timing is off. They should affect fresh runs, or a set of runs. Merchant and angel are the only ones that make chronological sense. Can you clarify this portion of the post?
I am on PC and I am noticing that I cannot close the offer anymore except for when I click on the X in the top right corner, no matter how much the offer has or hasn’t loaded. I was before able to quit the offer by clicking to the left and right of the offer window.
@Jeto - still waiting for an update on this. inspite of the game being mostly gems of pvp in the current state, there are still people who grind on Explore and this is quite annoying. it will be even more so once Vault weekend starts. would really appreciate a response for a potential fix date.
Hopefully it’s a bug that will be fixed asap. Otherwise they can stop working on the game completely as there won’t be enough players left for a 2nd guild war …
I thought I had already replied in here, so apologies!
I am trying to get an understanding from the team on what is intended here and what the process was.
The button mashing (as mentioned elsewhere) causes issues when trying to skip animations, so it appears to prevent those issues from having a chance to happen, the ability to skip the animation was removed.
I have passed on the feedback that, obviously you want to be able to skip the animation so you can then exit the offer, but if it is to be changed it will require a client change - also need to make sure that there is a resolution to the issues that are caused from preemptively mashing to skip.. because not everyone is just going to stop doing that, in all instances.
But any bugs that are caused from tapping/clicking where you expect a button to be, is likely to cause an issue. Reported when mashing to go to the next battle in Vault battles, which then just exits you out completely
@Jeto Not canceling out of the offer animation wastes about 5 seconds, which is not user friendly at all. Over the course of the day, it can really deter people from playing. It’s like you’re watching annoying ads while watching television.
The reasoning for this decision probably had to do with the same error we got when canceling the victory screen animation to make paloozas go faster. I don’t know why problems like these are introduced into the game without our consideration.
With 2 scheduled vault weekends coming up, not canceling out of offers will upset the community even more. It will take longer to find gnomes, get resources, and enjoy the game. Since this requires a client fix, we’re going to continue to deal with an issue that should have never been introduced in the first place.
Thanks to not being able to skip the animation anymore, I had the lowest trophy count this week in about 5 years. Often I do more trophies in 1 day. But currently I can’t be bothered to play at all. Sometimes I log in, pick a team to play explore and log out again before playing when I remember that I can’t skip the animation anymore. That’s extremely frustrating because SKIPPING THE ANIMATION BEFORE NEVER CAUSED ANY ISSUES FOR ME OR ANYONE I KNOW. NOT ONCE.
Maybe I should just go back to my main game which I stopped playing a while ago for Gems of War. That’s going into year 16 in 2 months and still doesn’t have any micro transactions or any paid stuff at all. But functional gameplay. Only downside it’s on XB 360 and I prefer the new controller …
I don’t play with a controller (Switch, handheld/touchscreen) but I imagine that the button used to “skip” is the same button used to back out of the offer – and is also the same button used to confirm out of the offer?
… No, that’s not it. I think the issue is related to how you can press ANY button to skip through the rewards screen, which is probably too convenient for its own good (as noted by players who accidentally backed out of useful Merchant/Angel offers prior to the latest client update).
I think i speak for everyone here when i say it NEEDS to be reverted back to the way it was…It is destroying our progress in farming gnomes and trophies.
Can you please pass the feedback that we would prefer you REMOVE the animation altogether. It’s not beneficial at all, it just slows everything down, and it’s clearly not necessary. The animations are only there to slow players down or to show off animation ability, and players don’t appreciate either of those (EDIT: especially when they’re apparently causing bugs as well). There’s already too many things slowing players down when they’re trying to just play the game, and these pointless animations are a massive waste of time that could easily be cut and nothing would be lost. Much like overcomplicating the pause menu in battles, if players were consulted, you’d know we don’t want this.
