Board Game Arena

Not sure if it's just me, but there seem to be new animations for the game. When using the fill button, the marbles fill one at a time instead of all at once. It's a little change, but I find it slows the game play. Does anyone know if it's possible to revert to the old way somehow?

Yes, it seems to have started yesterday. It's horrible!! Totally slows down game play and makes the game overall more clunky and less enjoyable to play. Also, a lot of the time the auto fill option for the second potion doesn't work, I have to keep clicking and get "Action already in progress" notifications and it takes forever to fill again.
The whole game page also 'slides' up and down with every little move - this is so visually disturbing, I feel like it's going to trigger a migraine. It was already annoying when this happened with the 'last round' announcement after the previous update.
It was completely unnecessary to make any changes. The notification of how many skill tokens are in play is maybe relevant for complete beginners, as well as pop ups like 'Do you really want to do this move? It seems like you wanted to trigger an explosion'. But beginners learn, and you've just made the game 100x worse for everyone else.
So frustrating, I really love this game but it's almost unplayable now.

I put in a suggestion. Hoping they implement Those red banners will drive me to stop playing, and it's my favourite game on this site! Was considering getting premium to be able to play it more often, but absolutely won't like this!

The new animations are absolutely awful, they don´t improve anything but ruin the whole game experience. There has been also a change in game mechanics, which took mi by surprise!

I agree, these animations don't bring anything and just slow down the flow of the game as they take time and you can't do anything while they're happening. Now I have that red bar "action in progress" warning popping up all the time. I wish there was an option to unable them or that they'll be removed alltogether

Annaabanana wrote: ↑17 October 2024, 09:32 It was completely unnecessary to make any changes. The notification of how many skill tokens are in play is maybe relevant for complete beginners, as well as pop ups like 'Do you really want to do this move? It seems like you wanted to trigger an explosion'. But beginners learn, and you've just made the game 100x worse for everyone else.

Good news: Those two things can be deactivated in the settings! I haven’t found an option for the slow animations, though.

I don't think it was unnecessary to fix many bugs.

Perhaps you should be more patient and be more polite with people trying to improve the game experience, on their spare time.

tchobello wrote: ↑17 October 2024, 22:02 I don't think it was unnecessary to fix many bugs.

Perhaps you should be more patient and be more polite with people trying to improve the game experience, on their spare time.

I don't think I was being impolite. I simply asked if anyone knew of a way to turn them off.

Hi,
You can discuss here, i have no problem with that but in parallel fill a separate bug report about each problem you would like to be solved.

I just fixed the following animation: When using the fill button, the marbles fill one at a time (https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=142549)

i saw somebody complaining that the whole game page also 'slides' up and down with every little move, can you please create a bug because for me it
concerning pop ups like 'Do you really want to do this move? It seems like you wanted to trigger an explosion', there is a preference to disable it.
you have to know that it happen to a lot of people, including me, to click on wrong button ("take ingredient" or "get help"). it was requested by a lot of users ( tsee https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=20428)

you have to know that i did all those improvements for free on my spare time, bga doesn't pay for most of the games develop on the site even for bug fixes

There has been also a change in game mechanics - when using eg. Filter of Lavamancing potion to remove all marbles of a one color, it now gives you an option to continue removing the ones that were not visible when you triggered the functionality of this potion. This was not previously possible and it changes the game tactics quite significantly. Is this intentional and does it stay?