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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 20.3 hrs on record
Posted: 28 Nov, 2024 @ 7:46pm
Updated: 28 Nov, 2024 @ 7:49pm

So incredibly buggy that you can have a game waste 10 minutes of 2 peoples' time and manage to do it THREE TIMES in a one night. Good lord.

Been a gamer for 45 years and not seen any boardgame implementation as buggy as this.

You don't even realize how bad it is unless you purchase 2 copies and play them side by side.

Then you get to see things like 2 screens that each say they are waiting for the other, and in fact neither can play.

Or maybe you'll get the blinking screen glitch where the loading screen goes on and off literally every second?

That's just the beginning of the failures here.

Invitations to somebody's table are called "Rooms",a nd it appears in the "News" segment of the chat, so now you have a chat with a room mentioned, But is it a chat room? Nope. It's another button to destroy an entire game for multiple people, because if you push it, you are invited back to the "room" that is the game your wife invited you to prior, not the game she is in now! Do you think my wife invited me to a game other than the one we are currently playing? Well, I would have known not to push it if i'd understood that the "room" in my chat wasn't a chat room.

Here's an idea: Call it a ******** table, not a room. Every other game calls that situation a table. Have you ever looked at a board game online in your life?

So yea. Push that "room" button, get taken out of your game, go back to your original game, but take a bit of time to figure it out because you have to confirm "Abandoning a room" to get to the game YOU WERE JUST PLAYING, and by the time you get there, your move has timed out.

you'd think maybe give us the common decency of allowing a universal-vote turn-undo, at least if you're going to release something so horribly buggy

Can't believe we bought 2 of these on 1 ******* income.

The BrettSpielWehlt implementation was better than this. And that's saying something. Not one of the 100 games i played there was ever ruined. And it was free.

I don't know if i'll be able to bring myself to try this again. At the very least, it seems it's unplayable if you have abandoned games in the lobby. Maybe if i wait 24 hours and the abandoned games disappear, the damn thing will work like it did the other few times we played successfully.

But then i go to the forums, and there's just an embarrassing amount of bugs.

YOUR COMPANY IS SCREWING UP WITH THEIR SOFTWARE TESTERS. You're supposed to catch developers' mistakes. Basic business concept you don't seem to be adhering to in your rush to cash in.
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FroBodine 3 Jan @ 12:43pm 
That sounds pretty messed up. I have played online against other players with no issues, but never with two computers side by side.
If you think this game is the buggiest you've ever seen, you haven't played Commands & Colors: Ancients by HexWar. One of my all time favorite board games ruined by the developers HexWar. Just a shamble of a PC game. Or the Blocks! games by Avalon Digital. Hammer of the Scots, Richard III. Great board games completely ruined as a PC game. Horrible developers.