Devs seem to be ignoring this and/or don’t seem to acknowledge that this is a common issue, so I’d like to see some numbers.
It’s been reported that CS said it was an isolated incident to a PC user… I’m on PC and this happens to me all the time, so no. It’s not.
From what I’ve heard people are losing (especially over the period of time this has been around) thousands of points, positions and prizes over this. And make can make all the difference in a successful shield hop to a bitter waste of HP.
Happens to me pretty daily. If I’m lucky every second day.
Yeah it definitely happens on mobile as well. I have a long standing ticket with CS that I update every time it happens. I don’t want any kind of compensation just want them to know that it is an ongoing issue so each time it happens I send in an addendum to the original ticket.
My laptop stays in standby all the time but my desktop goes into shutdown every night.
In neither case is MPQ left running. I exit the app whenever I’m done with it, and I still get the Board Drop of Death regularly; sometimes it’s the first match of the day, sometimes the fifth, and sometimes the tenth.
Restarts haven’t had anything to do with it for me.
I get this type of crash at least three times a week. It has been mitigated since they make health loss only 10% instead of 25% now.
I do have a theory that some of the crashes might have to do with resets or updates to certain events.
For example, for me I believe it is more likely to occur after a new lighting round has just started or an event has started or an event has flipped after getting the 1000 people to fill it up.
oh, thanks for the tip!
I have actually 102 crash reports, starting from August 2015, there may be a few that aren’t related to the same underlying issue though edit: I see now that the frequency is below once per day… but sometimes I cancel the creation of the report
I play on PC, on a very nice high end gaming rig and this has been happening 2-3 times per day for at least the last three months. It takes all of ten seconds to restart the game so I don’t lose anything over it. In pve it’s not that big of a deal but it keeps me from playing pvp most of the time.
I have this happen several times a week, and every time it’s happened when there’s a match-5 available on the board. I think there’s something to that, but that may be confirmation bias on my part. Attempting to fit a symptom to an unrelated problem.
I’ve opened a couple of tickets on this problem (running the game on PC). The first one was back in 3/19/2015, then another on 10/13/2016.
Crashes used to be much rarer. My first crash file is from 5/30/2014. I have 54 crashes dumps between then and 9/12/2016. Since 9/12/2016 I’ve had 65 crashes. According to what I wrote in one of my tickets there was a release on 9/12 that dramatically increased the number of crashes (I had only 11 crashes in 2016 prior to 9/12).
I also wondered if board configuration (especially match 5’s) had an impact so I did screen capture several crashes, but there was no direct correlation that I could see.
The biggest costs to me from the crashes are the losses as I try to hit 900 in PVP and the loss of seed team fights in Lightning Rounds.
It is getting frustrating enough that I’m considering a new MPQ motto: “No more cash until you fix the crash!”
It’s a +3 year old bug they havent managed to fix yet, that should tell you something
At least you lose less health now, not sure if the change was 100% because of the bug but it’s appreciated.
Just wish they’d fix it altogether seriously, this is not a minor bug, how do you let your game be released
in this state?
I play on iOS mobile and I think the game has crashed on me like…twice, ever, in a year and a half. I don’t remember if it was on a board drop, though.
