A 'Stuck' button to fix UI freezes.

ZW2007-
ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
edited March 2017 in MtGPQ Suggestions & Feedback
Re-posting this as it's own thread. It would be nice to see a 'stuck' button in the menu of matches. There are a lot of bugs that "freeze" the game but still allow you to open the menu and tap the quit button. The stuck button could refresh the UI and let you continue playing instead of being forced to lose the match. Obviously there are some cases that this wouldn't fix but it'd be a start. For example, in the last Avacyn event, I was playing as Ob Nixilis and used his third loyalty ability. I made the mistake of moving too fast and opening my hand and attempting to rearrange cards before the support was generated. This resulted in me being stuck with my hand open and one of my cards filling the screen after the support came into play and I tapped it away. The only option I had in app was to open the menu and hit quit. A refresh of the UI would most likely fix this. Just my two cents.

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  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
    Why is this not yet a thing? How difficult would it be to code? I just got a soft freeze in a match during the Revolt Against the Consulate event and I have no idea what could have even caused it. It was my turn, before I made a gem swap. I opened my hand to check my cards, closed it, opened the pw ability menu to check my loyalty, closed that, game locked up. I can still open the menu, open and view battle log, open and use in game chat, open the pw ability menu. I cannot activate a pw ability (haven't activated one yet this turn), open my hand, or swap gems.
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    How do you want to make sure that it is not abused?
  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
    How would it be abused? I guess you could keep hitting it if you wanted to maybe try and freeze your game? The intent is that it just refreshes whatever is happening in the background that causes the game to soft lock. Your hand would stay the same, the board would stay the same. I really don't see how it could be abused.
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    Sorry, I read your post again and my question was nonsense.
    I probably mixed it up with something else.
  • buscemi
    buscemi Posts: 673 Critical Contributor
    Perhaps add a crash report button? To deter spamming and allow players to refresh the UI at any time, disable the crash report button until a minute or two after the last UI interaction.

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