Issue with ETB triggers

[Mercsetronics]

Dear Team!

Since the last update, 9 out of 10 times, whenever I cast a creature with its evoke cost, the window "choose which triggered ability goes on the stack first" does not appear.
If I try to relaunch the client, without disconnecting, I can rejoin my game, the window appears, but there are not abilities (or anything) in the window.
I cannot click anywere, I cannot text, cannot change window, forcing me to quit the match.

Previously I barely had any quit games, now I have doubled it due to this issue, as well as lost 100 places in rankings :(

I have tried to update Java, force update the client, but nothing seems to be working,

If you could propose me a solution, I would be greatful.

Thank you for your time!

[xenohedron]

Sounds like #8851- a general bug that occurs when choosing an order for multiple triggers. It's real annoying, hard to reproduce consistently but still breaks games every so often. Hasn't yet been investigated and I'm not sure really where to start. I doubt it is specific to recent update though.

As a potential workaround, reconnecting (new client without closing old one) fixes sometimes, but might take multiple attempts and no guarantees.

[Mercsetronics]

Thank you for your response.
I have tried your workaround (7 times at one point) with no success

[JayDi85]

There are possible bugs with player's priority lost on broken continues/replacement effect. Maybe /fix command in the chat can help, but it useless in most use cases.

Game engine support only one choose dialog per player. If some broken effect try to ask a player in the middle of game cycle then it will broke original dialog. Examples:

• continues or cost reduction effect try to call choose dialog on apply method;
• another effect try to call choose dialog in applies or canActivate method instead apply;

So try to find another active/buggy card. It's can be a real reason.

[Mercsetronics]

When this occurs I cannot use the chat or click anywhere in fact.
Seems like the issue happens 100% when I cast Fury with evoke, 90% when I cast Grief with evoke.
The issue just happened again, I tried the cold restart of client about 12 times, but does not resolves the issue.

[Mercsetronics]

Now the issue happened with Kroxa as well.

[Susucre]

Is that all in the same deck?
Can you link it, there might be a card inside that makes the issue reproducible.

[Mercsetronics]

How can I link my deck on Xmage here?

[Susucre]

Just paste or drag on drop the .dck file. github takes care of upload and linking it.

[Mercsetronics]

For some reason it does not allow me, it says it is unsupported.

Also, same happened to a player: "11:45: Ogoun Badagris: Rich: sorry... game was asking me to choose order to stack triggered abilities, but it completely froze up the client. I couldn't do anything, couldn't even type a response"

[Mercsetronics]

3 [ARB:46] Terminate
3 [ONE:248] Blackcleave Cliffs
4 [RNA:245] Blood Crypt
2 [THS:107] Thoughtseize
2 [KTK:239] Polluted Delta
4 [KTK:230] Bloodstained Mire
4 [MH2:397] Dauthi Voidwalker
4 [MH2:311] Grief
4 [MH2:126] Fury
3 [AFR:103] Feign Death
3 [VOW:134] Undying Malice
2 [SLU:1] Marsh Flats
4 [MH2:138] Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 [UNF:238] Mountain
2 [UNF:237] Swamp
1 [AFR:258] Hive of the Eye Tyrant
4 [NEO:141] Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
4 [LTR:103] Orcish Bowmasters
2 [USG:132] Duress
2 [HA5:20] Kolaghan's Command
2 [3ED:162] Lightning Bolt
1 [THB:221] Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
SB: 2 [5DN:118] Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 [NEO:221] Hidetsugu Consumes All
SB: 2 [2X2:94] Surgical Extraction
SB: 1 [VOW:124] Path of Peril
SB: 2 [TSR:326] Leyline of the Void
SB: 1 [BRO:128] Brotherhood's End
SB: 2 [MH2:102] Tourach, Dread Cantor
SB: 1 [DMU:331] Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
SB: 2 [9ED:176] Blood Moon

[Mercsetronics]

From the list, the issue appeared with Kroxa, Grief and Fury

[Susucre]

So I could not reproduce, cast all three around 10 times with no problem.
This might be a network code issue or a server under heavy charge issue, that I am not able to replicate locally.

[Mercsetronics]

That is unfortunate. If that helps, I have never faced this issue before, only since I have updated to the current version

[JayDi85]

@Mercsetronics as a last chance -- you can reset xmage settings to default by delete all values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\mage\client (see here for example). But be careful -- you will lost all changed hot keys, new game settings, saved password, images paths, etc.

[Mercsetronics]

I tried @JayDi85 recommendation, but the problem still persist, even though a bit less frequently

[Mercsetronics]

Tried deleting and reinstalling the whole thing, first game and it still does not work

[Mercsetronics]

After the update, it still does not work

[Mercsetronics]

Tried a clean install once again, removing that value from regedit, but still does not work

[Mercsetronics]

Is there a way to reposition the window somehow, once it is supposed to appear?

[JayDi85]

@Mercsetronics did you member when it all starting? Is it works fine before August 25?

[xenohedron]

Over the past week or so, there's definitely been an uptick in reports (on Discord) of game getting stuck when asking to order triggers. It still sounds like #8851, and I know we experienced it a few times back in July and earlier (specifically on Patagia Viper at least twice). I am not sure what recent adjustment could have increased the frequency of this issue. Seems like it happens with quite a few different cards/effects.

[Mercsetronics]

@JayDi85 prior to the release 2 weeks ago, it was working fine. Then around the 27 of August, after the update it stopped working.

[JayDi85]

@Mercsetronics if you catch that bug then collapse and expand app's window (change window size) to call game update -- it will show choose triggers dialog again.

[Mercsetronics]

@JayDi85 I tried what you have mentioned, it fixes the freeze, but the dialog window does not appear still

[Mercsetronics]

I tried again the above, the window appears if I click on any cards in my hand, thank you!!

[JayDi85]

fixed by #11189