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Fix Coming for Battlegrounds Animation Issues

Hey everyone,

We’ve been receiving several reports of players experiencing animation issues in Battlegrounds since the launch of the 16.6 patch. This is a result of a change to our Battlegrounds animation catch-up for low end devices. Before 16.6, we would skip animations when we detected FPS drops in Battlegrounds so players wouldn’t have their turn skipped; this worked well but was inconsistent with the amount of time players had back in the Shop phase. In 16.6, we changed this to be more consistent so that players would have a more normalized amount of time back in the shop. However, we’ve heard from many of you that the animation skips are affecting a larger number of players than we intended, which is something we’re planning to fix in the coming weeks.

Thanks for your patience and understanding while we get it sorted!

  • syah_hs
    Posted 5 years, 9 months ago (Source)

    I thought that’s what they meant at first also. I have an 11 pro max also and I think the animations designed to help low end devices catch up are making our high end devices run them too fast l!

    Yeah, it's just that the method we use to determine if you're falling behind was changed for 16.6 and is a bit too aggressive. This causes high end devices to use the catch up mechanism (skipping animations) because they think they're falling behind schedule, even when they're running as well as on pc. The upcoming fix will make it so you should only experience animation skipping in extreme slowdown conditions.

    On another note, this is completely separate from the new faster animations and responsiveness when playing your cards.

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