So I have been seeing some weird stuff on ladder lately. In the past when I would have a game on lockdown, I have seen another player hover a card and then freeze the game, the rope never burns and it is stuck, I lost a couple of games like that before I learned to alt tab out and close hearthstone and then reconnect. I dunno if it was a bug or something the opponent did on purpose. It seems like on purpose because it only ever happened when I was winning.
So today I was playing reno priest against a pirate warrior. Game was going well and I managed to drop a wyrmrest and heal on turn 4 while I was still above 20 like had more cards in hand and a bigger board. It immediatly said failed to reconnect to game and froze. I tab out and use task manager to close, and the game was gone, I did not have a loss, I did not have a win, and it did not even attempt to reconnect to the game. Bnet appeared to be working fine and my computer connection was fine. So my question is, is this something others have experienced? Was this just a bug or bad luck? Or is there a new crash hack out there?
This has happened to me as well in arena, but i have gotten losses for them instead of the game never happening at all. I also am curious why this is happening.
Ok, for one thing, there has never been a documented case of any actual hack for hearthstone in the sense that either of the players is able to gain control of any game aspects that would normally be uncontrollable.
Very rarely, blizzard makes a coding mistake which creates the possibility of in-game exploits, where by performing some exact combination of perfectly reasonable and allowed game actions, a player is able to trigger a response that those game actions were not supposed to cause under the normal rules of the game. The most recent example was a coding mistake related to unearthed raptor that made it possible for players to cause the opponent to disconnect. These exploits go public pretty quickly and are subsequently fixed by blizzard within a few days or weeks.
Since no such exploit has been documented lately, it seems likely that you are simply experiencing a chain of badly-timed but otherwise inconspicuous server disconnects, as are known to happen with this and many other online games.
Edit: Apparently blizzard has recently reported on a known server disconnect problem affecting some games so that could also be a likely cause.
So I have been seeing some weird stuff on ladder lately. In the past when I would have a game on lockdown, I have seen another player hover a card and then freeze the game, the rope never burns and it is stuck, I lost a couple of games like that before I learned to alt tab out and close hearthstone and then reconnect. I dunno if it was a bug or something the opponent did on purpose. It seems like on purpose because it only ever happened when I was winning.
So today I was playing reno priest against a pirate warrior. Game was going well and I managed to drop a wyrmrest and heal on turn 4 while I was still above 20 like had more cards in hand and a bigger board. It immediatly said failed to reconnect to game and froze. I tab out and use task manager to close, and the game was gone, I did not have a loss, I did not have a win, and it did not even attempt to reconnect to the game. Bnet appeared to be working fine and my computer connection was fine. So my question is, is this something others have experienced? Was this just a bug or bad luck? Or is there a new crash hack out there?
This has happened to me as well in arena, but i have gotten losses for them instead of the game never happening at all. I also am curious why this is happening.
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Ok, for one thing, there has never been a documented case of any actual hack for hearthstone in the sense that either of the players is able to gain control of any game aspects that would normally be uncontrollable.
Very rarely, blizzard makes a coding mistake which creates the possibility of in-game exploits, where by performing some exact combination of perfectly reasonable and allowed game actions, a player is able to trigger a response that those game actions were not supposed to cause under the normal rules of the game. The most recent example was a coding mistake related to unearthed raptor that made it possible for players to cause the opponent to disconnect. These exploits go public pretty quickly and are subsequently fixed by blizzard within a few days or weeks.
Since no such exploit has been documented lately, it seems likely that you are simply experiencing a chain of badly-timed but otherwise inconspicuous server disconnects, as are known to happen with this and many other online games.
Edit: Apparently blizzard has recently reported on a known server disconnect problem affecting some games so that could also be a likely cause.
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This is a known issue which Blizzard finally posted with a notice in game. Both players get disconnected and both incur a loss.