As some people know there’s a bug with the mobile app as people get disconnected and the game softlocks or it just randomly softlocks, the game is still running but doesn’t think it’s been disconnected, so why not have an extra button in setting that tells the game “you’ve been disconnected, reconect with the game that was going”. It’s not a great solution but it saves more time than exiting the app, closing it and waiting for it to reopen and by then you’ve already lost the game plus could be useful if it helps fix game breaking interaction for example the old infinite shudderwock animation, would be a good way to skip all those animation with the cost of still being you disconnected and reconnected from hearthstone servers so game is recorded and a extra few seconds of waiting to reconect to hearthstone servers
If the game is able to detect a disconnnection, it automatically reconnects. I have seen this happen.
The problem is the disconnects that the game is unable to detect by itself. Your idea of popping up a button when this happens fails on that issue.
That being said - I do like the idea of a permanent button (I guess an extra option in the game options menu where you also control sound, concede, etc) that will force a reconnect. It should come with a warning because it will drop and then attempt to reconnect, so you lose some time, you lose the game history bar, and there might even be a small chance that the disconnect fails - but overall it should be faster than force-quit + restart so in cases where it’s needed it sounds like a great idea.
But the purpose of the button is to say you’ve been disconnected and reconnect even if the game still thinks your connected which is why I called it a “Force reconnect” but I do know it’s not the perfect solution but it’s at least some sort of failsafe if a silent disconnect or other occasions requireing something like this is needed.
Also it wouldn’t be difficult to implement, make button, copy code that begins the disconnect and reconnect, if anything most time consuming aspect is making art for new button
I misread your original post. I just went back to it and noticed my mistake.
I thought you wanted the “force reconnect” button to only appear when there is a disconnect. My response was that this is not viable, for the reasons stated, but that I do support the idea of a “force reconnect” button that is always available.
(Which, as I now realize, is exactly what you already proposed in your first post)
No worries when there’s a lot to read it’s easy to miss something plus I’m not always good at wording, anyway glad you like the idea of always having a reconect button in the settings I just hope this gets noticed by someone on the hearthstone team and decide to implement it since again wouldn’t be a difficult implementation