Hi,

Anyone else getting a glitch where a captured ghost just stays frozen on your screen instead of disappearing into your album?

For example, I was collecting snow globes for today's DQ and one of them got stuck on my screen. Here's a screenshot to clarify:

The lower center one is frozen, the upper right one is a new capture. This screenshot with two captured ghosts at the same time should be impossible in normal game play. Moving to a new section or even a different area of the map didn't make the stuck ghost disappear. The only fix was exiting the game and going back in.

Today wasn't the first time I've had this glitch either. It's never happened to me in previous events though, just this Winter Event.

Anyone else getting this glitch? I do see another glitch (Christmas Capture Bug topic), but it's a different glitch.

Fingers crossed that it remains a harmless (if annoying) glitch.

I had this happen a couple of times. Just rebooted the game and I was gone.

I had that happen last night 1-18-23.  It was so aggrevating.    I finally shut my game down and restarted my computer and it quit.  Hope that helps.

Happening to me as well.  Game seems to carry on ok, but sure a pain to close and go in again.  Hope it will get fixed soon.

Playbelle said:

Anyone else getting a glitch where a captured ghost just stays frozen on your screen instead of disappearing into your album?

I had that happen a couple of times while playing the game.

The floating object becomes embedded in the screen so regardless of where you go, it comes with you.

Simple solution is to close out of the game and re-open it. 

Prevention: Be sure to click on the newly captured floating object before you leave the screen. It will happily go to it's designated spot in the album and you can happily go to the next screen without fear that it will "attach to your coattails" (giggle, giggle) and come along with you.

(Since I've started to actually tap on the captured item before leaving the screen, I have had no issues with it happening.)

Playbelle said:

The only fix was exiting the game and going back in.

Not necessarily the only fix.....just click on that captured ghost before leaving the screen and it won't be there to become embedded. (That works for my game so I don't have to close/reopen it.)

Also....please read comment 5 on the Christmas Capture Bug thread....I posted a theory in answer to your question posed there.

AEGram said:

(Since I've started to actually tap on the captured item before leaving the screen, I have had no issues with it happening.)

Excellent! I'll do that next time I'm ghost hunting.  Thanks! 

Also, I did read your theory in the Christmas Capture Bug topic. I think you're probably right. If the original developers were still there, it just makes no sense why they keep struggling to basically just reproduce something they had mastered before, even with the challenges of changing technology/software. I kept thinking along the lines of "Come on, it's not like you have to reinvent the wheel or anything," but actually, if it's new people they might be doing exactly that. Or as you put it, adding shiny modern car parts to an old Model T. That would explain the constant break downs. 

Yes, It happened to me two times on different days.

I clicked on the captured ghost each time it happened to me and they stayed frozen anyway. I still had to close out the game and reopen to clear them from the screen. The amusing one was the warrior snowflake freezing to the screen.

This happened in my DeeDee game. I had a very cute reindeer stuck. I actually enjoyed seeing it in every scene. Did disappear after turning game off. This happened two different times.

DeeDee/Diane(z)