Too slow secret reveal

[Sparkle-2998]

After the 10th time now, that I ended my turn to find out 5 seconds later - yes really 5 actual seconds! - that halfway during my turn the rat trap secret was triggered, it is finally time to write up this bug.

It often happens that a secret triggering is shown 10 seconds after you did something to trigger it. Often I’ve already concluded that it’s a different secret then what I’m testing for, except sometimes I stand corrected 5 seconds later when I’ve already continued my turn with the conviction that no secret-interaction happened.

I believe the problem behind this whole issue is that the animation of a secret triggering is stacked on top of the waiting list for other animations to happen. - (which by the way is another issue, please give me settings where I can set for myself how fast I want to see animations! It shouldn’t be that difficult to change that in the game, right?) -
So especially, for instance, in case of the rat trap: “I’ve just played 3 cards in a row within say 5 sec, that would probably mean about 15 sec of animations, meaning the secret triggering is shown 10 seconds after I performed my last action. By which time I usually already ended my turn. I was able to deal with it, but alas, I already ended my turn because I concluded there was no rat trap…”

My proposed solution:
Please Hearthstone Devs; make it so the secret instantly triggers when you play a card or perform an action that triggers it, instead of queing it into the mix of all the animations.

Btw. I noticed someone already made a report of this problem 3,5 years ago, but nothing got solved:

Secret triggered animation to slow!

I am a bit impatient during my own turns and play cards really fast when I already know what my play. Something that always breaks my stride and frustrates me is the looong waiting for animations to see if a secret has been triggered. Many, many times have I waited and waited for the secret to trigger and when I felt safe I kept playing cards but then suddenly the secret triggers long after my card is played and I get frustrated since I would have changed my turn if I knew the result of said s…

[Skizzy-11719]

@Sparkle-2998

make it so the secret instantly triggers when you play a card or perform an action that triggers it, instead of queing it into the mix of all the animations.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s any practical way to do this.

I would stop playing so fast if I were you, especially if this happens to you with any frequency.

[Mountaineer-11770]

For me it was death rattles. I had to learn to play more slowly, & wait for the resolution.

[Derkan-2593]

Playing too fast and not waiting for all events and animations to unroll is like crossing a multi lane raod by only checking that the car on the first lane stops and going all the way down without checking the second lane, and risking being hit by a car that you couldn’t see because of trafic

Both cases you see one scene, come up with a plan, go for your plan, don’t take the time to check what happens when the scene changes and invalidates your plan, then suffer the consequences
You can blame it on the car/d, but you could have avoided it