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Sandmaker

dash16 said:

aesthetocyst said:

dash16 said:

D3 you absolutely screwed up this release for iPhone X....

Oh dear, they failed to accomodate special phone with its aberrant aspect ratio.

It was fine on R140.  They made it worse on R141.  Thousands of other developers have no issue making 'special accommodations' for the screen size.  

http://bgr.com/2017/10/12/iphone-x-release-date-3-weeks-photo-shows-new-problem/

dash16

Sandmaker said:

dash16 said:

aesthetocyst said:

dash16 said:

D3 you absolutely screwed up this release for iPhone X....

Oh dear, they failed to accomodate special phone with its aberrant aspect ratio.

It was fine on R140.  They made it worse on R141.  Thousands of other developers have no issue making 'special accommodations' for the screen size.  

http://bgr.com/2017/10/12/iphone-x-release-date-3-weeks-photo-shows-new-problem/

I'm sorry, that article has nothing to do with the issue here.  D3 released an update that made it smaller than it previously was on iPhone X.  Many, many other apps have been updated by other developers to take advantage of the entire screen.  I'm not even asking for a full screen release of the app, just reverse whatever they did in R141 and go back to what it looked like in R140.

CHRISJN

Good move from D3! Animations are not actually dead, you still have an option to turn it on, if u think the gaming experience is not that good. But for most of us who wants clearing speed in PVE, and fast hopping time in PVP, this is great!..

Thanos

aesthetocyst said:

bOmbast said:

Apparently banners are showing for passive abilities, but not active. Might cause a problem or two. 

Active didn't have banners before. Looks like they didn't add them.

If you're confused, turn the animations on.

I suppose a more sophisticated design could let users choose between actives and passives and indications for each. Maybe MPQ will be that game someday.

It took four years to get to this point, I wouldn't hold my breath on it being refined that much anytime soon. Also, I'm on steam and i'm seeing banners for all enemy abilities fired including TU's.

Dogface

On the plus side, with that OLED display on the iPhone X, the black is truly black smile:

Brigby

Hi Everyone. If you would like to discuss the issue of the smaller UI, please discuss in the Bugs & Technical Issues thread that has already been created HERE

Pongie

aesthetocyst said:

Moon Roach said:

aesthetocyst said:

Moon Roach said:

If it's on Steam, shouldn't it be "clickers" rather than "tappers"?  Unless it's a touchscreen, I suppose.

For a ridiculously huge download, the only other visible effect so far is the "Gamora in falling snow" loading screen.

I played steam version on a touchscreen often, yes. Think tapping was a reference to the action, not the hardware employed tho.

Ah, not the physical action of tapping the screen?  More like tapping a tree for rubber, or a keg for beer?

Seeing as it's mindlessly repetitive and time-consuming, I'd thought the former.

I think it may be lingo borrowed from Magic. Maybe?

Or it may indeed be from tapping a finger as time passes.

Or all of the above

Tapping in magic can either be referring to tapping lands for mana, activating abilities or attacking with creatures. Tappers on the other hands are creatures (or artifacts) that have the ability to lock down other creatures (or artifacts and lands) by tapping them. FYI tapping is the act of turning the card sideways. 

byc

I LOVE THIS.

So much faster now.

broll

I’m playing without the animations and it’s ridiculously boring.  I’m probably gonna do a few with them off and few with them on and see how bad the placement difference is. If it’s stark I might be done with the game. If it’s minor I’ll put them back on just accept slightly lower placement. T10 is impossible due to time slices anyway...

bluewolf

If you want top 50, it’s usually about getting the clears vs how fast.  There’s a big drop off of commitment after that.  I can enter just about any slice late and still end up top 50, even once at 900 or so.  It just requires clearing 6-7 times.

After seeing how fast and plain it is:  Does anyone else wonder if the AI has been thinking, “Hurry up already!  Make your match! Let’s get this over with!” all this time?

Daredevil217

bluewolf said:

If you want top 50, it’s usually about getting the clears vs how fast.  There’s a big drop off of commitment after that.  I can enter just about any slice late and still end up top 50, even once at 900 or so.  It just requires clearing 6-7 times.

This. Top 50 should be super easy with animations on. 

I’m a T10 guy (just got 2nd overall in Sim and 1st in the last sub with animations off for the first time!).

Definately will be keeping them off!

Pr0spect0r

it is really weird with out the animations, but the fact that abilities just blow up the board or people now with no title is a bit unsettling. all i did was the 1 star node of DDQ and it felt weird like using storm and jugg skills and people disappearing.

justsing

I love having the animations off, but I'm going to need to start paying more attention to my team's health bars. Since it's much less obvious when the enemy fires off a power, it's easy to lose a ton of health without noticing lol

RemcoLoki

I guess I'll be one of the few playing with animations on and suffer in placement, because apparently the people in charge feel that the people who spend the least amount of time and interest on their game need to be rewarded the most. (Tappers don't count, sure a lot of time spent but no interest)
I play this game for the Marvel heroes, I like seeing them doing stuff and making things happen. Where's the M in MPQ without animations? (On that note, where are the P and Q anyway?)  They could just turn off the character pics and only show the AP bars and call them spells or whatever. Oh and rename the game Bejeweled while they're at it.

I imagine the news was great for the artist(s) as well:
"Hey, you know all that time and work you put into creating nifty different poses for characters firing powers? Yeah, we're going to let people be able to turn that off."
"Does that mean we don't have to do them anymore then?"
"No, we estimate about 1% will still play with animations on, they need to be able to see them."
"Sigh, can we at least just do a sloppy job of it then while we update our resumés and work on our webcomics?"
"Sure, sure, those few extra complaints will also be ignored easily enough. Keep up the good work!"

/end rant
P.S. Sorry but imo games are meant to be fun and relaxing, which is when you can play them leisurely. This is not that. They should just get rid of placement and let us enjoy all this game has to offer.

qandols

I think I will let the animations play. The few nodes I tried did not feel right.

Thorstienn

Tried animations off, with a prof X to see how it went. It all just feels a little off I think. Gonna keep them on personally, never cared about top placement anyway.
Can' wait to try it again though in Sinister six carnage wave: Make a match, then just lose.
NOTE: I know it's normal with this game to never mention anything in game (minus sweepstakes and "rate this app") but they should seriously put some pop up in game so everyone actually knows about this option.

UNC_Samurai

Stax the Foyer said:

I think it's important that we all take some time to evaluate this change, and see whether there are any additional consequences, before rushing to any concl--[[killed by hail of arrows]]

Good thing I can turn off the animation where Stax gets perforated.

UNC_Samurai

Jaedenkaal said:

You wanted no animations, you got no animations.

Edit: Ok, at least once I've seen a banner fly by quickly. But it's much easier to miss than the 3-second Fury-on-throne pic. As only one example.

Member when Ambush -didn't- have a banner, and one turn you just made a Red match and DD just kicked you in the face for seemingly no reason?

And one more for Elektra and the wimp.

ThaRoadWarrior

Finally got this update. I'm not even going to bother turning the animations off, but I do really love the quality of life UI improvements that came with it. The new health bar and the character switching button are awesome. I'm in the camp that removing the animations strips the flavor off the game, so even though many of them get very repetitive I'd rather they be in than out. I used to have a theory that leaving an animation-heavy team on defense in PVP led to a lot of people skipping the match, but that is a very un-testable theory so I guess I'll never know.

byc

My favorite so far is when I KO somebody with Thanos on the team.  All of a sudden the other team dies from Court Death.