This game can be immensely frustrating when you can’t complete a turn because over half the turn timer is spent waiting for animations to play out… too many games have my turns and entire game been ruined because the turn couldn’t be completed as it takes so long for numerous animations/card effects to play out… Every second spent loading or executing a card animation effect should either pause the turn timer or add to it… it’s SO DUMB.
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The time it takes to play animations is dependent upon the particular situations of the client. For example, what other programs are running, processor speed, GPU speed, available RAM, etc.
In order for the turn timer to dynamically increase on the basis of animations, the Hearthstone servers would have to receive data from the clients regarding the progress of animations, believe that data, and make actual adjustments to the game state on the basis of that information. This is equivalent to the Hearthstone servers putting on a clown wig and makeup, and wearing a large sign that says “HACK ME.” It will never and should never happen.
Get a better device.
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And if it goes to BGs they need a serious graphics programmer to look into the effects load. The mode is practically unplayable on ~$200 tablets (hangs that last seconds). On my expensive phone it’s choppy every few seconds.
It’s not the device, the animations play at designed speed, I can play any game on maximum setting with no issues. There’s too many animations that take too much time. Think of yog saron for example. You can watch 20 cards slowly being played and that’s the entire duration of your turn while you sit and watch all the animations/effects play out… The problem is the game and the fact that animations eat into play time and so when there’s many of them happening in a row, you can end up missing over half your turn. Animations playing out should not eat into your turn time… Similarly stupid is battlegrounds in how the duration of the battle that you’re forced to watch in full eats into your allotted time in the tavern… it’s really dumb and poor game design… If you fight a player with no minions and insta win, cool, you have 30+seconds more of tavern time on average… if you fight against undead or beasts that summon a million minions, cool, you have 30+ sec less time in the tavern… I’ve had BG where when I get loaded into the tavern it says like 5 seconds, sometimes just loads me back into the next battle after loading me into the tavern with no time to do anything at all… TERRIBLE… and it’s programmed into the game design and not a device issue…
Eliza Goreblade’s animation is actually slow though