Put "You Lost" message on the game board?

[fatelovesyou]

Okay, I just lost a match against a Level 5 and I have no idea why. Granted, I had 20 HP left, but here's the story. 20 HP left, 5 Cards left (NOT in hand, in the DECK. Had about 4 more cards in hand)...finished my turn, pressed Space, then suddenly I lost. It makes no sense because even if the enemy's attack was enough to kill me, it should have at least showed the damages being made. There's no way that the enemy's first attack killed me because that would only happen if they had a monster over the dmg of 20... it didn't. Besides, it didn't even SHOW anything about the opponent's turn. I just pressed space bar and I was immediately dead. I'm 100% sure that I did not lose because of lack of cards. I JUST looked right before pressing space and I had 5 cards for sure. I'm... really puzzled.

Putting that aside, it occurred to me while staring puzzled at my "You Lost" screen that there's really no need to have a whole new You lost screen, is there? Could there just be a little pop up message (like the one that comes up when you're using spells with targets) that says "You Lost" and a button for the menu? This way the player could actually look at what the hell killed them... Idk, just a suggestion because I DO see a lot of posts like this where people say, "what the heck killed me??"

[Olidot]

Did they have an Unstable Gas? That does 20 damage once

[Chemist]

Wouldn't he have noticed an Unstable Gas? Dead immediately would indicate a single spell - and the likely candidates for that are Fire Bolt, Ice Bolt and Drain Life.

Someone suggested the game keeping a log of what happened during the last match -a feature like that would also do the job and could be handy for other reasons like seeing whether a person hacked or figuring out what causes desyncs.

[Reefa]

Experienced that also a few times. Just out of nowhere I was kicked off the game to read "You lost" without an explanation. Would also want to check, what was the killing blow.

Regards, Reefa.

[miniwally]

I had that vs a level 3 (earth) AI was disappointed as that's the one with Pharaoh in.

[fatelovesyou]

No Unstable gas. Besides, even if the opponent used a spell, there would be a couple seconds before you're killed because there's the time for the opponent to draw a card at the beginning of the turn PLUS the AI ALWAYS takes a little bit of time to "make decisions" as to what card to play or what ability to use..etc. But this is sudden. I pressed Space to end the turn and immediately it was just BAM. The end. Not even ONE second inbetween my end turn and You Lost message...

[JETZAL]

Wouldn't he have noticed an Unstable Gas? Dead immediately would indicate a single spell - and the likely candidates for that are Fire Bolt, Ice Bolt and Drain Life.

Someone suggested the game keeping a log of what happened during the last match -a feature like that would also do the job and could be handy for other reasons like seeing whether a person hacked or figuring out what causes desyncs.

That sounds like a good idea

[fatelovesyou]

A log might be tricky because that would take up memory space... In all honesty, I don't know much about computers. If you could make it so the log was on that person's computer then I guess that would be a good solution.