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kroyee / SpeedBlocks

Fast paced tetris game cloned from Cultris II
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[UX] IF player has a high stack and does a soft drop - harddrop / insta drop of next and current piece occurs #70

Closed zDEFz closed 7 years ago

zDEFz commented 7 years ago

Steps to reproduce

  1. Do some decent stack
  2. Do some sort of Soft drop while your stack is somewhat high

Expected result

There are no additional Harddrops ocurring, Stack is controllable and I won't get like an insta death

Acutal Result

High stack is not controllable when you soft drop really often. We saw this also ocurring on many players already.

Here is a frame by Frame Video - First slow and after that some footage of the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQa6RPQ5qOs If you need also to know which keys are being held or pressed i could search for a good key sniffer...

Client = latest Server = latest

kb1900 commented 7 years ago

Yes. I can confirm this bug. Originally I thought that it was just something to do with lock delay or incoming lines of garbage. but it seems hard to tell exactly what is causing it

kroyee commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure I understand what is happening. When I look at the video the speed of the pieces are quite high. Currently the lock down time is connected to the speed at witch the pieces fall by themselves. All I can really see is that your stack is high and that your topping out.

zDEFz commented 7 years ago

How to explain that ? It seems like if i did the Softdrop there the piece did lock down 1 block to early and i did not assume that it did lock in. So i did press Hard Drop the same time and got a massive amount of insta Hard drops and was already dead.

kroyee commented 7 years ago

Ok, from looking at it again, I looks like the blue L is being Hard Dropped, but the pieces after that are just falling normally. Because the falling speed is at max = lockdown time is very low. Could it be that simple?

zDEFz commented 7 years ago

Yes its probably like this but i didn't had control to go left / right after the pieces going into "normal-mode" It's easier to die on top in this game as in cultris 2 I also played a long Training game so because of this falling speed is current max

kroyee commented 7 years ago

Yes, I don't think this will be a big problem as multiplayer does not usually last that long. And if they do my idea was that making it hard to have a high stack by having very fast falling speed would naturally end the game. A little bit the same way as increased lines sent does now in cultris.

kroyee commented 7 years ago

We can also change how long it takes for the falling speed to increase and reach max.

zDEFz commented 7 years ago

Wait but it doesn't only has to do only with falling speed. I already told you the max falling speed is quite slow for me.

If you compare : In Cultris II the max falling speed is almost instant. And i don't have those multi - instant drop issues.

iirc other people had the same problem. If falling speed is the cause then let us figure that out by forcing it to some slow number.

kroyee commented 7 years ago

Ok, so the difference is in how the lock-down time works then probably. In speedblock the lockdown-time is the exact same as the current falling speed. So when falling speed is high, lock down time will be almost instant. I could try setting the lockdown time to a fixed value instead. Gonna go and experiment a little with cultris to see how it works there.

kroyee commented 7 years ago

Yeah, from what I can tell this definitely has to do with the lock-down time. In cultris, even if falling speed is very fast the lockdown time is still close to (or exactly) the same as when the falling speed is slow.

kb1900 commented 7 years ago

yes @kroyee i think i and other players who softdrop a lot to have a completely fixed and static lock time (lock delay). it allows for much more consistent play while receiving lines and playing at low mid and high positions of the matrix