When a message is a bit long in a private message, it crashes and the message doesn’t send; I have to copy and paste the message every time and resend it a second time for it to work. I should point out that I’m using an Apple device; I haven’t encountered this bug on any other platform. I’ve also noticed several other bugs on the iPhone; for example, when you tap a tab, it doesn’t always work the first time. Also, in the middle of a match, when you’re in the instructions section, the game crashes and takes you back to the home screen. Similarly, in the instructions, there’s sometimes a bug that prevents you from changing your style or other settings; you have to close and restart the game. That’s pretty much all I’ve noticed recently; if Aymeric could do something to fix them, that would be great and it would avoid these minor annoyances!

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This bug has clearly been around for a while (though it was minor)
Lately it’s become unbearable – as soon as you spend more than 8–10 seconds on a page, it crashes (so, for example, just the time it takes to write a message or browse the machines in the shop…)
Or worse still, when you’re in the instructions screen in the middle of a match

PS: Just so you know, there’s an iOS update available here; I’ve done a quick test and it seems to be sorting itself out. To be confirmed

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It’s a right pain – on the app, every time you send a private message, post on VFO or anything else, you have to copy and paste your message and restart the app

Do these crashes happen whilst the app is running in the background, or when it’s active? Does it only happen with messages, or on other pages as well?

For me: the app is active when I’m replying to private messages I’ve received.

Same as Ced – the messages are better now but they still appear in duplicate, and bugs during matches happen quite often; they take you back to the homepage
or to the live match screen, but I haven’t noticed any today.
Also, sometimes when I tap a tab at the top, I get stuck on the previous tab; I have to tap another one for it to work.

OK, I’ve managed to dig a bit deeper; it seems that it’s iOS’s ‘jetsam’ mechanism that kills the game’s rendering process when memory is full. It appears there’s no way to prevent this, just to reduce the game’s memory usage. Except that the trend is actually likely to see VF’s memory usage increase, with the recent 3D stadium project and other things coming down the line. I do have another option: changing the rendering technology for Virtuafoot, but this is a major undertaking that would take time and delay other projects.

Next week I’ll be releasing an update to the app, which will use iOS’s native rendering mode, which should prevent the system from crashing the game. It’s been quite a major undertaking, and it’s not impossible that some bugs may have crept in with this update.

Same issue in Mozilla Firefox regarding email and the display of contacts – whether they are highlighted or not

There’s also a bug: when you’re kicked out of an agreement, you don’t receive a message telling you that you’ve been excluded from the agreement.

We can no longer conduct post-match interviews in the league

If I made one just a little while ago

Yes, like Michbou, I managed to do an interview earlier, after my second league match

Yes, that’s fine, it’s back

Hi, does anyone know how to decline and open a message? It’s not working for me and I’m on a PC

I don’t even know whether it’s been rejected or accepted

I know how to cancel the request via the app

It’s all sorted, it’s fixed. Thanks.