iOS: Asynchronous Multiplayer Issues

[mathemagic]

So, my friends and I have noticed a few times where we would get different results from our Worms games. The first one that we knew about was when I used earthquake: in my game, my last worm landed safely, in his game it landed in water and it said he won the game. My game is still waiting for his turn.

We shrugged it off as a random glitch, but then we noticed something really bizarre. Find below two screenshots from the same game. In fact, these shots were taken at the same time, from my side and from my friend's side. Notice how differently the games are playing out? In the top game, the leftmost red worm is currently active. In the lower game, that worm has been dead for some time, you can see the crater where I dropped dynamite via jetpack.

My friend used an airstrike type attack on his turn, but they occurred on very different parts of the map for each of us (no screenshot). Hilariously, things carried on, each of us making nonsensical moves (from the other's perspective, as the worms are in completely different locations), until the game ended. Best thing of all? We both got notification that we won the game when we eliminated the other's last worm.


http://www.mathemagician.net/WormsDesynch.png

[Thurbo]

I've noticed that too. Basically, if the game desyncs in this game mode, it doesn't resync as in the other modes for some reason. And naturally, it only has to desync a single time to completely throw off the outcome of any further turns thus this issue to occur is unfortunately not even that unlikely. Needs some fixing.

Along with this, it'll be great to allow the first player to choose a scheme and a landscape to outscore the normal "real time" mode. Asynchronous Play is awesome except for those unnecessary restrictions. In addition, why not allow four players friend matches as well? (With strangers I can hardly imagine 4p matches to ever come to an end but it would do well with friends I suppose.)

[Ryangt04]

I'm also having several issues with the online mode. I have 6 games in the "my turn" section that won't even open because it says that the other player has resigned, but I can't get rid of them. So now I have only 10 open slots...this is also after only 2 days so pretty soon I won't have any open game slots.

[etiennez0r]

Im having the same issue on most matches with a friend of mine in turn based mode, its a shame to have different games ocurring in our screens, really sux badly.

Need to be fixed asap

[mart1jn]

Yep, same problem here. Two different games while it is the same game. Fix plz :)

[sammyboy]

I too have the "xxx has resigned" issue.

Edit: To fix this find the game in game center, then slide your finger/thumb across it from left to right. If done correctly, you'll have the option to quit that game, thus removing it from your 16 alloted games

[Thurbo]

It appears today's update has resolved this issue. At least I managed to complete several matches without problems. Can anyone confirm this?