Official Feudalife CHALLENGE feedback Thread

andrew-smith.1 · Dec 10, 2020

Just got something I've never seen - "giveaway locked due to suspicious activity". Eh?

freakill · Dec 11, 2020

andrew-smith.1 said:
Just got something I've never seen - "giveaway locked due to suspicious activity". Eh?

We had a lot of those at the end of October, it's part of their anti-cheat system basically and sometimes it still seems to flag people for no apparent reason, usually it clears up after several hours.
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Official Feudalife CHALLENGE feedback Thread

Indiegala sure has its problems , but today before I got the stupid locked giveaway error , I managed to win Stalker complete pack key , now even tho I already had Stalker games (except Clear Sky), its still impressive that you can win that phenomenal fps trilogy on giveaway challenge, also...

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cheerie132 · Dec 11, 2020

aaaand like a charm, server error, malus received

I keep wondering why the server is smart enough to know I deserve malus but stupid enough not to know about the key. but still, free stuff so no complaints, just wondering aloud

myconv · Dec 11, 2020

I won and got error reaching server. Is this something they might fix for me with proof?

Not only deprived of my win, it also means the rotation of that one minigame I can win is now in the back.

And I'm suffering malas like I won without getting a reward, like cheerie mentioned.

I've gotten this error many times before, it's just with my low win rate, this is the first time I got it with a win.

tugamix666 · Dec 11, 2020

Got the "trouble reaching server" error on the first challenge today.

zoliv · Dec 11, 2020

I have found a visible sign of troubles on the game, that could avoid losing a challenge because of the sudden accelerations problems and maybe other network issues : yesterday i had the sudden accelerations problem on the trees challenge, and when i got back to the game menu, i noticed that if you do circles with your mouse pointer in the game window, you can see that every second, there is a stutter. I came back later, tried again and had no stuttering, played, and had no bug. Might be useful.

freakill · Dec 11, 2020

OK, I think I might have a partial solution to our problem with "trouble reaching server" giving us undeserved malus.
From what I see, whenever a challenge ends it can go three ways:

you lose the challenge and the message telling that you won some gold coins shows up immediately;
you win the challenge and the congratulatory message shows up immediately or after 2 or 3 seconds (maybe up to 5 seconds, I'm not 100% sure);
you win and the "trouble reaching server" message shows up after a much longer pause (I had to wait more than 10 minutes for the message to show up a couple of days ago). Can also show up immediately according to cheerie123 Official Feudalife CHALLENGE feedback Thread

So based on that, I tried to reload the page before the message showed up, when it was taking too long yesterday and I didn't get malus. It seems that the game only updates your win count when the message arrives. (And let's once again marvel at the dumb fact that the "there was an error, you get nothing" message still gives you a "win")

To sum it up: if you're waiting longer than 5 seconds you're probably getting an error message anyway, so it's better to reload the page and dodge any unearned malus.

What do you folks think? Do my timings on successful and error messages look like what you're getting?

cheerie132 · Dec 11, 2020

freakill said:
To sum it up: if you're waiting longer than 5 seconds you're probably getting an error message anyway, so it's better to reload the page and dodge any unearned malus.

What do you folks think? Do my timings on successful and error messages look like what you're getting?

this might be useful, thanks for sharing. What do you think if I did this everytime time runs out after a win? like I don't wait to see whether it's the "error" or "congrats" message, just as soon as the time is over I close the browser or refresh - do I get the key?

I'm asking this because my timings are slightly shorter than yours - 5 seconds usually means trouble, but not always. Today I got the "error" message immediately, like the game had the message prepared before I even finished - timer hit zero, the message appeared right away, 0 seconds later. Like the error occured while I was playing or something, I have no idea

freakill · Dec 11, 2020

cheerie132 said:
this might be useful, thanks for sharing. What do you think if I did this everytime time runs out after a win? like I don't wait to see whether it's the "error" or "congrats" message, just as soon as the time is over I close the browser or refresh - do I get the key?

That's what I'm talking about here:

freakill said:
It seems that the game only updates your win count when the message arrives.

If I'm right, then no you won't get a key, if you reload before the "congrats" message shows up.

cheerie132 said:
I'm asking this because my timings are slightly shorter than yours - 5 seconds usually means trouble, but not always. Today I got the "error" message immediately, like the game had the message prepared before I even finished - timer hit zero, the message appeared right away, 0 seconds later.

Aha, so error message does show up immediately sometimes. I wasn't sure, because I only recently started to really pay attention to message timings. Thanks for data!
Now we need to know, if "Astonishing! You won a Steam Key" message ever shows up after a big delay. If it doesn't then reloading if the pause is too long is fairly safe - you only lose 10 silver, but if actually getting a key can also take over 5 seconds than we're back to step one unfortunately.

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cheerie132 said:
I'm asking this because my timings are slightly shorter than yours

I'm erring on the side of caution and trying to find maximum time, where "Astonishing" message definitely won't appear. And since I've only started tracking time recently, I don't have that much data yet.

tugamix666 · Dec 11, 2020

freakill said:
To sum it up: if you're waiting longer than 5 seconds you're probably getting an error message anyway, so it's better to reload the page and dodge any unearned malus.

What do you folks think? Do my timings on successful and error messages look like what you're getting?

Another question is knowing if this would lead to "giveaway locked due to suspicious activity" because you refresh the page before "losing"?

freakill · Dec 11, 2020

tugamix666 said:
Another question is knowing if this would lead to "giveaway locked due to suspicious activity" because you refresh the page before "losing"?

I don't think it should, since I always get to the saplings challenge with too big of a malus and just refresh the page soon after starting. Also I skip other challenges the same way, if I go for more then one rotation of challenges. So that's at least one skip per day and if skipping was suspicious I'd be constantly getting locked out and I don't think I got that message since the period where everyone got hit with it.
The way I see it, all refreshes between the game starting and the end message appearing are technically the same, regardless of what's on the timer - you just lose 10 silver and don't get a key or gold coins.

kirbybuddy · Dec 13, 2020

Five keys won in the most recent challenge with three already activated. Oh, well. That's the most I've received in one day.

myconv · Dec 14, 2020

The challenge has been down for about a day for me now, I do hope it comes back before the malas reset time. Has it been down for everyone else the whole time too or was it up for a short while?

zoliv · Dec 14, 2020

myconv said:
The challenge has been down for about a day for me now, I do hope it comes back before the malas reset time. Has it been down for everyone else the whole time too or was it up for a short while?

I think it hasn't opened in a day too (unless it was during night time for Europe).

jer7cho · Dec 14, 2020

Sometimes gameplay giveaway challenge goes on break , sometimes it last a day , sometimes week or even more. I am guessing they are restocking at that times .

zoliv · Dec 15, 2020

It's on !

....aaaand i got 2 duplicates and a free game on 5 keys.

cheerie132 · Dec 15, 2020

yeah, it's back

although I suspect the malus reduction for positive feedback is not coming back, but nevermind I got some decent games out of it

hoangmarcel2001 · Dec 15, 2020

Switch to Google Chrome and the game runs a lot better. Won 6 keys and 1 of them is invalid. Strange.

jfrr · Dec 15, 2020

hoangmarcel2001 said:
Switch to Google Chrome and the game runs a lot better. Won 6 keys and 1 of them is invalid. Strange.

Chrome was perfect for me before an update, but now it is really slow (the mouse), and i have hardware acceleration on. I have to use Firefox that is far from perfect. Hopefully they fix it someday

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myconv · Dec 15, 2020

I am stuck getting fetching user data on a browser that normally works, been so for hours. Anyone else?

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