Sooooo many bugs and issues is making this very unenjoyable. I jumped in to play some arena thinking this would be a good time to get excited again by Gwent. Big mistake as the bugs are unbelievable. You are only allowed three losses but so much counts as a loss that the free entry papers are now gone as is a lot of ore due to the games constant issues.
- Reconnect issues where the game then ends (either my side or the opponents side) which forces you into a loss. I have a 50 mbs connection that routinely tests at the speed, no single issue on my home network for anything else or any other game, just gwent.
- NUMEROUS times I would find an opponent, the game would say loading and do its little animation and NEVER finish. One time I waited 10 minutes just to see if it would do anything and it never got pass the loading screen. Had to exit the game and restart. The match had not even started yet but this still counted as a loss. That was really lame.
- I played a card that pulled another card, while I had the screen up to select a card I could not select it, I could hide the cards, I could show the details of cards, I could do a ton of other stuff but I could not select A to select a card. Timer ran out, was still on the screen to select a card. Waited 15 minutes just in case the game would do something or the opponent left, etc. nothing. Had to restart, counted as a loss.
- Numerous times it will say, Ooops something went wrong, and not find an opponent. Had it happen 10 times in a row, going back to the main Gwent menu and back in does nothing, have to quit the game and start over.
I can't believe how many scenarios count as a loss when you can only loss 3 times. Plus, if you finally manage to get a good draw and build a great deck, you will usually lose that deck because once you lose three matched due to disconnects you lose the deck too. No way should it count as a loss before the freaking match even loads and starts. They really need to fix this. Oh and they are aware of some of these issues. Its the same issues reported throughout the last month or so as it happened before the Arena even came out, ever since their last major patch/overhaul.
This arena has HUGE potential to be fun, they just have to fix these bugs first.