Units dying as they're placed in combat

[Parmenion]

I've had this quite a bit recently. Sometimes when I place units at the edge of the forest during a battle they die straight away in a puff. No defenses, traps or defenders are nearby so I find this very odd. What is going on?

 

[Denquin]

Maybe some spikes were disguised as grass. Green spikes.
Or it was a wizard.

 

[acied]

Yep noticed !!!

very very strange, indeed instant death, maybe robin 'nexon' hood is hiding there, sniping those troops with a head shot

 

[Eddie F1]

Modified towers with +25 extra range perhaps?

 

[Quovatis]

Noticed this too. If you put a second troop in the same spot, they survive.

 

[Danix den Andre]

Spntaneous combustion, or someone figured out a way to make them invisible after as well as before, can't see the point though

 

[Parmenion]

It's a relief to hear I'm not the only one experiencing this. Hopefully a mod will notice this thread and look into the problem.

 

[Aussie guy]

Ive noticed the same thing...both when I deploy them, but also later in the raid too. Troops disappearing in a puff after all defensive towers and troops are gone....its like they die through fatigue.

 

[acied]

Or maybe a unhuntable boar got to them

 

[Zodiac]

I can attest to encountering this problem as well. On two occasions the loss of troops was 1/4 of my entire army, albeit they were horsemen, but still significant.

 

[xGraves]

This has happened to me as well. For me, it was mid-raid, and yeah... the introduction of the plague? Chemical warfare??

 

[Guest]

That's not good. Replays?

 

[Parmenion]

Ah nuts, I had a good example where several died but it has dropped off my log.

I have a theory with the issue. The forests have been glitchy for some time, with patches of forest disappearing from where they're meant to be and appearing layered over the base somewhere. In combat, if we place units over a glitchy area (without knowing it), could this make the game think we're placing units over a piece of forest and hence kill them?

 

[Eddie F1]

Not sure about the forest - I lost one or two motos on the shoreline to raid the storehouse - there were two gold mines right next to the drop off point though.

 

[acied]

Gold mines can be a hazardous place to ride a motorbike nowadays...as it seems

 

[Parmenion]

Hmm, could be certain objects triggering it then, or perhaps the forest glitch placed a patch of forest at the shoreline but in your visual it didn't show up.

 

[ivan.]

Ok i knew I wasn't the only one. I managed to easily notice it today when I dropped a moto by itself during an attack. I recorded the replay and you can see the poor moto literally goes poof before it even gets a chance to deploy. No traps are sprung and there isn't any space for one where I deployed. I drop a second moto and everything's fine then.

Ironangel (Since you requested a replay)

Video link: https://streamable.com/q8tg

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ivan! I've linked that to our ticket on the issue.