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[Seprix]

http://forum.makingfun.com/showthread.php?6883-Version-2-Open-Beta-launch-underway&p=35086#post35086

Hey! Can't wait!

[dudeabides]

That post says, "...when it is live, which should be in a few hours (mid-afternoon Pacific time). On that page you will see a big green button to download Dominion for PC, Mac and Linux."

It's now late-afternoon Pacific time, and I'm still waiting for that big green button 

Literally seconds after I made this post, the big green button appeared! The universe is conspiring to shower me with blessings 

[Kirian]

There's a big green button there for me.

[jsh357]

I want to take this moment to say my favorite new feature of Dominion Online is the crystal ball loading screen with floating heads of various cards.  It cracks me up every single time.

[Wolphmaniac]

So now I need a 300MB app on my hard drive instead of playing in a browser?
This big green button is more like a big green pile of dog shit!

Haha OK I'm overreacting. 

But seriously, good luck remembering your password everyone!

[Kirian]

I find the input configuration the most interesting.  Apparently I may need to fire and/or jump in this new Dominion.

[DavidTheDavid]

And scroll down on the web page to play on the old site.

[Seprix]

There are some... bugs.

And no log.

But it's Beta.

[Wolphmaniac]

Yeah I just won a game and my record is 0-0-0.  Ah well, just happy to play.

[jsh357]

Yeah I just won a game and my record is 0-0-0.  Ah well, just happy to play.

The rating system is not working yet, they said so in the announcements.

[Awaclus]

I've been trying to log in for like 5 minutes or so, it just says "Please Wait...".

[DavidTheDavid]

There are some... bugs.

And no log.

But it's Beta.

Click on the bullet list to get the log. A sidebar is in the works.

There are definitely some bugs, but the devs are continuing with weekly builds.

Yeah I just won a game and my record is 0-0-0.  Ah well, just happy to play.

That should be in the next release. I also learned that wins and losses update when you login, so if you spent an hour playing three or four games, you wouldn't see that card updated until exiting and re-entering, which admittedly strikes me as a bit annoyoing. And your existing records should have carried over--you just can't see it yet.

[Kirian]

Oooooooo... kay.  So.  My eyes are screaming at me.

Every single addition of an action/buy/coin... every time you're able to gain a card... there are these incredibly bright animations that fly around the screen.  I mean... wow.

I am hugely glad my epilepsy is not the photosensitive type, or I'd be having a lot less fun right now.

Please tell me this bullshit can be turned off?

[werothegreat]

There are definitely some bugs, but the devs are continuing with weekly builds.

Two of the bugs - the wrong deck size bug and the askew text - make normal play frustrating in the extreme.  Would it be possible for this to be fixed *before* next Thursday?  As in within the next couple days?  I think weekly updates is a great way to go, but for this first few days where we're encountering bugs that make gameplay dissatisfying, this needs to be addressed on a more flexible schedule.

[jsh357]

Oooooooo... kay.  So.  My eyes are screaming at me.

Every single addition of an action/buy/coin... every time you're able to gain a card... there are these incredibly bright animations that fly around the screen.  I mean... wow.

I am hugely glad my epilepsy is not the photosensitive type, or I'd be having a lot less fun right now.

Please tell me this bullshit can be turned off?

I also complained about this day one; there's a big thread on it.  It's actually been improved considerably from how it was.  I believe Jeff (Lord Humanton) said he's still tweaking the look of some things.

[DavidTheDavid]

Oooooooo... kay.  So.  My eyes are screaming at me.

Every single addition of an action/buy/coin... every time you're able to gain a card... there are these incredibly bright animations that fly around the screen.  I mean... wow.

I am hugely glad my epilepsy is not the photosensitive type, or I'd be having a lot less fun right now.

Please tell me this bullshit can be turned off?

I also complained about this day one; there's a big thread on it.  It's actually been improved considerably from how it was.  I believe Jeff (Lord Humanton) said he's still tweaking the look of some things.

And I think (but am not sure) that there will be an option to turn off animations, which I would like.

[mameluke]

so, revealing cards one by one, like with Sage, seems very, very slow. Esp compared to Goko.

[Voltaire]

Now this is how you do an interface (for the start/new lobby). Simple, clean, easy to use, pretty. Now to actually play a game and see this animations...

EDIT: Ugh, I take it all back. Those animations!!! Why?

[Seprix]

so, revealing cards one by one, like with Sage, seems very, very slow. Esp compared to Goko.

Same thing with playing Fortune Teller. Slow cycling.

Now this is how you do an interface (for the start/new lobby). Simple, clean, easy to use, pretty. Now to actually play a game and see this animations...

I think the lobby could be much better. Like, you can still have other rooms, but they should be private offshoots created by other players for invite only. This could be done for tournament purposes and finding friends easier. Also, I'd like to know who is online, so a list of online people is fine. In addition, the 'Seek a game' section could use a bit of revamping, though it's a great start.

[mameluke]

Games with Tournament and Ruins -- the Ruins NEED to be on the first page, not the second. Ditto with anything else that bumps Supply cards to the 2nd page.

[Seprix]

Games with Tournament and Ruins -- the Ruins NEED to be on the first page, not the second. Ditto with anything else that bumps Supply cards to the 2nd page.

They are on the first page. I guess your resolution isn't that high.

[mameluke]

I'm playing at the highest resolution. I only see 12 cards on the first page -- the 10 kingdom and the Bag of Gold / Diadem.

[Throwaway_bicycling]

so, revealing cards one by one, like with Sage, seems very, very slow. Esp compared to Goko.

Same thing with playing Fortune Teller. Slow cycling.

Also Golem is painful to watch cycle through cards, which I guess is consistent. And the weird thing is that other things play at the speed you would expect.

I assume the deck size bug is the the thing that gives you giant cards? Also, my screen resolution setting ended up so that I couldn't see my coin tokens, which is not what you're looking for in a Butcher game...

But...repeat after me...this is a Beta release, and there will be things to fix.

That said, I want to burn the "you can trash this card" fire with fire. And the whirly-wind stuff on cards you can gain...eeuw.

[werothegreat]

The deck size bug is that the number saying how many cards you have left in your deck is usually wrong.

[Awaclus]

The thing you have to open to see how many coin tokens your opponent has is doing something crazy instead of being openable by clicking.