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Has anyone else had a game were they couldn't play at all?

For context i logged in started a ranked match and my turn got skipped before it made it to my turn do to in activity i think. I'm not sure what happened because my opponent finished their turn and as they did the timer came up with like 2 or so seconds. Then before the turn switched to me it ran out of time and once it was my turn it just flipped back to my opponent.

My question is this a known thing(bug), something else like a "bad actor", or just something beyond that that I"m not thinking of?

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  • TechHog
    TechHog Member Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It's a connection issue. It could be on your end or server-side. It's a common problem.

  • Thunair
    Thunair Member Posts: 1
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    well I monitor my connection and itis stable at it can be but I did not rly play at all yet :/ either opp concede, I was not able to pick a card searched by pokéball or drawn card just stuck on my screen and wont draw at all:/

    At this point is ranked even playable or is it only concede race?

  • faegesubsig
    faegesubsig Member Posts: 16
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    It is not a connection issue. Your game is lagging behind the opponent's game, but it is not because of a poor connection.

    The problem is that your device can't display the animations of in game actions as quickly as intended (processing issue).

    The timer shouldn't start for you until it's actually your turn (i.e. when the game displays the 'your turn' message). But because the timer is not linked to the animations that are being displayed as you are seeing them (slowly), you end up watching animations that have actually already happened, but are only just being shown to you.

    From your opponent's perspective, they would have played their turn out normally with the animations happening at the proper speed and accurate timer. Then they will see you draw a card and do nothing for a minute and ultimately time out your turn.