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6 months ago

Extreme Lag at Seemingly Random Times During Gameplay

Platform: Android

Device Model: Nokia G300

Operating System: Android 11

Where Issue Occurs: Anywhere in the game at seemingly random points in time.

Issue: I'll just be playing the game like normal, and it'll just start lagging really bad. The lag is so heavy that my phone's System UI starts lagging and I can't even go to my home screen. I often end up having to restart my phone since it's the only thing I can access with the lag. I've had this happen numerous times while on the map, and in levels. It also happens very variably from anywhere between a minute or two in and an hour or two. Luckily most times I was in levels, I was about to win. The last time frustrated me to no end though. I was just about through a very easy level, but it was like 3 flags long so it was taking a while. It starts lagging right as the Final Wave is about come out and then crashes. I wouldn't have cared if ended there though, but no. I reloaded the game and realized it counted it as a loss. Because of that, I lost my Threepeater power ups. I then had two of the most annoying levels possible to deal with after all that. I had to restart my save in the 18.0.6 update from square one yesterday because of forgetting to link my progress. When I say I didn't find a single level I disliked up to that point (just over 100 levels in), I mean it. I really love what you all have done to improve the game since the soft-launch. I can look at how far it's come since then, and see the care you guys have put into having it be as best as can be for a full release. I know this issue will get fixed at some point, so I'm not too worried about it now. My luck usually goes bad when it's least convenient, so I'm at least used to this kind of thing happening by now. I just needed to channel my frustration into the description of how much of an absolute pain this bug can be sometimes.

2 Replies

    1. I am not running any other software when encountering this.
    2. I have play numerous other games on my phone and none of have this issue.
    3. I did download it from a distributed APK.
    4. Yes the issue only happened after updating. Although I updated from version 8.something I believe. It had been quite a while since I had updated the game, since I was too busy with other stuff to play.

    I do hope this ends up being helpful since I’ve really been enjoying this new update. Luckily it’s not too hard to work around the issue most times, as it usually just requires restarting the game or waiting for it to stop. I usually just get unlucky enough to experience the worst of most issues in anything.

  • Hi @PokeMiles_Plays 

    Thanks for your report, this issue sounds really rough! I do have a couple more questions that'd help this investigation if you're able to provide more insight.

    1. Are you running other software on your device when you encounter this?
    2. Have you seen this happen for any other titles that you play?
    3. Was the game downloaded from the App store or a distributed APK?
    4. Did this only start happening since you updated to 18.0.6?

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