Earlier today, post update, I was playing a Story mode level and the “suggested match” flashing icons were for a black rune with a support shield (3) present, and a planeswalker rune. Switching these two runes would not have made a match to anything around them. There were other choices available that would have generated mana or planeswalker rune matches.
Out of curiosity, I tried to switch them to see what would happen, and they did indeed switch without matching anything.
The game then waited, as if waiting for the match to generate mana as appropriate, but as this match was zero, it stopped mid game. I was unable to access my card list, my planeswalker, or the enemy planeswalker, as is the case during the generation / cascade phase. The game had not frozen in any other respect, as the animations behind/around the PW portraits were still active.
I was able to bring up the pause menu, confirming that the engine was still running in the background, and then quit the game as normal. A pity as I was winning, but nothing else to do.
The following game ran correctly, as have all others since.
I remember seeing a similar match suggestion pre-patch a week or so ago, with a different deck against a different opponent (unsure if story or QB), however chose not to match them as there were other matches available that I wanted.
Another post on the forum here…I acknowledge it happens. And what’s worse, the AI can even make the screw up, resulting in a game-breaking move in their favor on QB. Never happened until the update.
Update: Had another match. Glitch was visible. I went for another gem that looked like it would shift over okay. Then the gems changed color and it still froze. Yes, this update is buggy as something.
Noticed this also - looks like it happened after an AI turn where there were no possible matches, a reshuffle occurred and gave me a board with no possible matches! The suggested switch (which wouldn’t match anything) caused the game to appear to stop. Like a previous person mentioned, the quit option is available at least.
Guess my 88% win percent is gonna be dropping even faster with this bug & the constant games dropped due to connection issues
Is it happening after a ‘No More Moves’? I get lock ups after those sometimes, and also weird board states: sometimes duplicate supports are allowed on the board… and sometimes 2 supports will be on the same gem (The gem might then be 2 colors, it will appear to be one color, but it will match with another color; sometimes this makes the ‘suggested move’ appear to be an illegal move, but if you make the suggested move you’ll get a match).
Not for me. I had plenty of moves to do sometimes. Just happened again a moment ago. Seems whatever they did for this update really mucked things up where it’s happening one out of every few matches. And it infuriates me where I dominate for a match, get midway or near the end, and I have to forfeit because of a glitch.
