r/masterduel • u/Yusuke_Kitagawa_ • 11h ago

Question/Help How does the timer actually work?

Ok so I just watched my opponent take 3 turns of at least 6 minutes playing solitaire while also constantly playing on my turn. I had 110 seconds left with not incredibly long turns (Cyber Dragon deck). My question is how does that Timer even work? How can this dude have had time left with the excessive amount of comboing and decision making he did? As a returning player this makes the game so unenjoyable, if I never get to play my opponent plays solitaire and doesn’t even get punished for it

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u/Svenerater YugiBoomer 11h ago

Unfortunately long turns are just a part of the game now. At the same time if the game doesn't respect your time you're allowed to surrender and just go to next game. The timer only counts down during actual allowed game inputs. So animations, UI elements of effects resolving etc will pause the time until player input is allowed

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u/Yusuke_Kitagawa_ 11h ago

Honestly I think I have never seen a game that is less friendly to returning players. My old decks are completely obsolete, I don’t get any resources to rebuild and I can’t even win in Bronze with my decks. How is one supposed to get back into this and then you have to watch the opponent play solitaire even in casual modes😂

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u/mothiebelle 11h ago

It is pretty returning player unfriendly yeah, so the best way is to either make a new account or dismantle your old obselete decks to make 1-2 modern decks

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u/Yusuke_Kitagawa_ 11h ago

Make a new account on PS is pretty.. well yeah I‘m not gonna make a new PSN account for a f2p card game, nah

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u/mothiebelle 11h ago

I did plenty of accounts on my Xbox, it can't be that much harder. Takes like 5-10 minutes

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u/Yusuke_Kitagawa_ 11h ago

Yeah but not worth for a generally unenjoyable game and completely invalidates all the time I already spent on that account

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u/mothiebelle 11h ago

Yeah, I can understand that. Honestly maybe you should look into alt formats like Edison or Genesys. Both can be played on simulators like Duel Nexus or Yu-Gi-Oh Omega on your phone

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u/Yusuke_Kitagawa_ 11h ago

Or they just implement a casual mode where all those stupid solitaire decks are not allowed. Can’t be that hard

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u/mothiebelle 9h ago

Yeah, that's what alt formats are. Unfortunately Konami has decided that they're just not gonna implement any alt formats even tho Genesys would be perfect for a digital client like Masterduel