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Junior Member
The many issues of the World Dance Floor
Dear Ubisoft,
I would like to point out the many issues and bugs that I have been seeing while playing on the WDF on Just Dance 2020.
Firstly, for the bugs. As mentioned in another thread, the game likes to freeze in the middle of the song which usually results in a bad score or at the very least confusion or discomfort and as far as I can tell this issue occurs even more frequently on the WDF. Another bug I have been seeing is that whenever there is a Team Battle, the results show your gamer tag on all of the scoreboard - as in : highest score, first start, last star, highest perfect streak and so on, even if you didn't achieve all those things. It basically puts your gamer tag over other people's scores.
Secondly, issues that could be just gameplay related but could also be bugs. While on the WDF, none of the progress that you make actually counts. I specifically have the Song Rewards in mind. Dancing to a song, scoring superstar/megastar or anything that is needed for the song rewards will not contribute towards the task from the WDF. I feel like all of it should count. Some people really like the WDF and they don't want to specifically go to a song to dance to it 5 times on it's own outside the WDF.
Lastly, is there a specific reason why none of the alternative routines (including the extreme routines) show up on the WDF? In the past games we always had those. Additionally none of the unlockables show up either (High Hopes,Get Busy). It would be great if we knew the reason why those routines weren't included and if they will be added eventually.
Thank you for reading and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
ajaxx9871
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Member
Thank you for detailing the WDF issues. I hope Ubisoft addresses some of these.
It would be nice for the songs to count toward rewards. I wonder if this has been an issue in the past. Let's say that some dancers are earning rewards and others are not, and that this triggers an extra screen for some dancers. That could cause dancers to be out of sync relative to one another. (Though if that was an issue, it seems like the simple fix would be to show some screen for everyone for the same duration, just substitute some other screen in place of rewards.) But you should be able to get credit for dancing to a song the fifth time even if the screen doesn't come up on the WDF; it seems like this should be fixed. Similarly for getting credit for Megastars.
If you hit a new personal best score for a song on the WDF, does that improved score show up when you leave the WDF and check your hi scores?
I wonder if there were complaints last year about Fire on the Dance Floor. Imagine a player visiting the WDF, competing in a tournament, and this song comes up for the second or third song, and the player has never even seen the dance before. For me, the moves were counterintuitive, and I had to have practiced it recently to hit a strong score on it. Perhaps this is why you're not seeing High Hopes, Get Busy, maybe even the extremes. If a player hasn't even unlocked an extreme, it's asking a lot for them to do that dance on the WDF.
Personally, I have mixed feelings about the extremes and the WDF. I do love the extremes, but they also take consistent preparation for me to stay fluent in them. I always felt like I had a strong advantage in tournaments dancing to Kinect or the PS4 camera when the extremes came up. So maybe this would help even things out?
Communication is a great thing and knowledge is power. As you said, "it would be great if we knew the reason why those routines weren't included" or any reasons for other issues that you've noted. Sometimes it's a little easier to not let an issue bother me when I understand the reason behind it. (Unless of course the reason doesn't seem to make any sense.)
Happy dancing. :-)
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Ubisoft Support Staff EMEA
Hey ajaxx9871 & greekphysics,
Thanks for reporting these issues to us here, we apologize for our delayed response to your feedback.
For the issue with the results would you be able to provide us with a screenshot showing that issue? This will help us pass this on to the team for you.
For the other issues, are you seeing these yourself as well greekphysics?