At the time of making this post, clicking/pressing on a casino button will instantly press it.
This is quite troublesome if you were to accidentally deal/draw on a potential royal flush in Video Poker.
My suggestion is to change controls for pressing buttons to be on-release instead of on-press (at the very least for DEAL/DRAW in Video Poker).
I don’t understand how this could stop accidental button presses, surely if you accidently click the mouse you are not going to hold it down.
I’m pretty sure that most people actually play with spacebar and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on the keyboard rather than with the mouse. At least once you discover that you can do that, it’s much more convenient in my opinion.
Setting the control to on-release makes it so you can drag your mouse off if you accidentally click the button. It’s not too hard to realize you have accidentally clicked on a button. There’s a reason the X button on our browser is mouse release and not mouse click.
I also expect to be able to change my mind after pressing down on a button. I do this by dragging my mouse away before releasing. People change their minds when they act too hastily. Maybe they wanted to click something, but their game lagged and they pressed on DEAL/DRAW instead. Maybe they’re using a bad mouse, touch pad, or controller and click the wrong button.
Playing with the keyboard is indeed much more convenient when normally playing on a casino machine, but after an extremely long playing session (I spent 24 hours on the video poker machine yesterday) I tend to want to sit back and it becomes hard to reach my keyboard then. At this point, using a mouse is actually much more convenient than a keyboard.
But what I’m saying is when you accidently press your mouse you don’t tend to hold it down during the accidental click
Please read the rest of my response. Specifically
It’s not too hard to realize you have accidentally clicked on a button. There’s a reason the X button on our browser is mouse release and not mouse click.
I also expect to be able to change my mind after pressing down on a button. I do this by dragging my mouse away before releasing. People change their minds when they act too hastily. Maybe they wanted to click something, but their game lagged and they pressed on DEAL/DRAW instead . Maybe they’re using a bad mouse, touch pad, or controller and click the wrong button.
Still does not make sense, you can’t realise you accidently clicked the button when it takes under a second for it to actually click, it just seems like a useless feature and easily avoidable.
My point with accidentally clicking the button is that you can actually realize it at times.
That’s not the main problem though. I still feel that you haven’t read the rest of my response.
It’s also not really a “feature”; It is simply a quality of life improvement. If it was useless, then it would not be present in several buttons. Even the Reply button is a mouse release button. The context menu buttons on your computer are also mouse release buttons. It can save your day, especially if you press the “delete all your work” (which in this case is the “reset your cards when you’re about to get a royal flush”) button inadvertently. While it may sound easily avoidable, it can be damaging on the occasions it is not prevented. Imagine having to go to the stress of having to play for another 1-24 hours just to get an achievement all because your mouse skipped (or game lagged) and you clicked a button (whether it be on accident or just pure hastiness).
I mostly only want a mouse release for the Video Poker DEAL/DRAW button (even though I won’t touch it for a decade after getting a royal flush) because it will help in cases like this. I do not think this suggestion will matter as much for the other buttons as they do not really finalize anything unlike the DEAL/DRAW button does.
I’ve never had this issue with video poker and I’ve spent maybe 20 hours sitting on it.
Possibly just be more attentive to what your clicking? Idk
Being more attentive is not the issue when your game lags or your mouse skips.
If this is the case, time should not have been spent to add this confirmation box. People should just pay attention to the buttons they’re pressing on their keyboard.
These safety nets help prevent these problems from happening. Just because you alone have not run into the problem does not mean other people will not. I haven’t really run into unintentionally pressing the draw/deal button too much during my time using the mouse, but I believe this really isn’t a bad quality of life safety net to add to the game. This is not really an urgent, high priority suggestion either; it can be implemented whenever time is available for suggestions like this.
they should also guide them how to play in keyboard.
Agreed. I have seen several people that did not know that space bar worked for spinning a slot machine and would instead use their mouse to turn and click on the lever.
(I think it’s fairly intuitive/obvious but showing something similar to some small text saying to press space for first-time casino-goers could help)
Personally I feel that accidentally clicking off flushes is more rare than going to click and either lag, moving mouse too quickly, accidentally dragging while clicking, or a mouse delay of some sort not register your clicks (if this were to be implemented) and then the game doing nothing when you expect it to. Which seems dreadful. I have accidentally misclicked on video poker, sure, but that’s more of me not paying attention, a click-hold I doubt would matter at least in my case.
If I were to click and the game didn’t register my click and did nothing, most likely due to clicking on the tiny button and then inadvertently dragging while clicking so the cursor is now off the button when I let go, I’d be super annoyed after a bit of that.
(keyboard controls displayed would be nice yes)
My views of dreadful and annoying seem to be different here.
I would rather accidentally go too fast and not have my click register because I was going too fast (which is extremely rare) than
and have a potential royal flush go away,
but this is all turning into conjecture now.
But if I had to give a reason for keeping it the way it is right now:
if it was for the sake of consistency, I would keep the button as a mouse-click button because you’re really (in a 3D FPS) aiming at a target and shooting it.
I got my royal flush a couple days ago so this really isn’t affecting me too much, but if the reason for mouse-click staying is to stay consistent then I would understand (but it would be unfortunate). In this case, my suggestion to anybody using mouse controls is to use an on-screen keyboard.
There are two great positives in using an on-screen keyboard over using the in-game mouse controls:
Honestly, my biggest issue with Video Poker at the time of this post is having 1-2-3-4-5 be both the hold/cancel buttons and the credits buttons. I know several people that have accidentally hit the 1 or 2 key during an end phase and started a new hand with the 1/3 credit options. This has happened to me several times as well. During my time on the video poker machine, I met someone that skipped over a jackpot because they accidentally switched to the 1 credit option. In the end, it’s the user’s fault. I don’t think a fix is too necessary, but video poker would be a lot more comfortable to play if something was done such as giving the user an option to change some controls or having one set of controls be SHIFT+1,SHIFT+2, etc..
I very much agree with this.
