Trick effects such as buffs (+2 HP or +2 Damage) or any animations (zombies/plants doing bonus damage for example) should PAUSE the timer to give players the time to choose what's next. It is not my fault that the effects are taking too long.Wait, what am I talking about exactly? isn't the time just enough for you to pick cards?Let me tell you what happened to me several times.. I was playing as Professor Brainstorm with heavy (Draw a card) cards, tricks, Trick or Treater (gives you a treat for your first trick) and Papparazzi Zombies (those benefit from tricks, get +1 DMG +1 HP each trick you play).So, I was having 2 Paparazzi Zombies, 1 Trick or Treater and I had Lurch for Lunch (a zombies does a bonus damage trick), so what happened was I couldn't use all my cards because the game was doing the animation + buffing 2 Paparazzi Zombies simultaneously + Trick or Treater was giving me a treat while locking the ability for me to pick cards from the deck. And then in some games, I use Fun-Dead Raiser with all that as well or other trick cards... so I end up having no time to deploy the rest, even though I pick as fast as I can.My suggestion is that, that the timer is paused while doing all those effects.

We've suggested this(or being able to skip animations) before. No one seems interested in addressing this.

Everyone who has run out of time due to waiting for zombies to animate please "ME TOO" this post!

The problem is not about skipping the animations... It would be a bit hard to actually skip animations, as both players must agree to skip them.All what I want is for the animations NOT to take time from your card picking time.Thanks for the reply

This also has happened to me. I agree!

Trick effects should NOT count from the player's time to pick cards

11 Replies

Anonymous
9 years ago
We've suggested this(or being able to skip animations) before. No one seems interested in addressing this.
Gabochido
Seasoned Veteran
9 years ago
Everyone who has run out of time due to waiting for zombies to animate please "ME TOO" this post!
GammaX6
9 years ago
The problem is not about skipping the animations... It would be a bit hard to actually skip animations, as both players must agree to skip them.

All what I want is for the animations NOT to take time from your card picking time.

Thanks for the reply
Anonymous
9 years ago
Me too
Gabochido
Seasoned Veteran
9 years ago
I should probably clarify that there is a button on each initial post that says "me too" and you can press that button to indicate that you agree with the statement or you have had the issue. It makes the issue much more visible to EA devs if they get lots of Me Toos.
Anonymous
9 years ago
lol thanks, I'm new.
ajz1357
9 years ago
This also has happened to me. I agree!
Goo0di
9 years ago
I completely agree
GammaX6
9 years ago
The same problem happened to me when I used chickening on 2 pear cubs... their animations took too long for me to use the rest of the tricks that I wanted to use...

I really hope that these posts just don't go into the void, unread by the developers.

We need the game to pause the timer whenever any animation is taking place.

What that means programmatically, there needs to be a pause/resume functions to pause the timer until the effects had ended and then resume. This includes trick animations/buffs/nerfs/deflecting damage/... any effect that has nothing to do with the players' card choice.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Well, the problem here would be that the turns will take too long. The players waiting for you to play your cards will be irritated. I suggest on the ability to have multiple animations at once. It is like two paparazzis will click at the same time. As for sharkatronic chickening combo, sharkatronic can do his animation once then all plants can die like how a weedspray works.