To clarify, for staff reading this, Diamantina is in both slots 1 and 4, with the trait Song of Bones (Bonestorm at the start of battle). Essencia is in slot 2, with a Lightstorm trait.
At the start of battle, traits trigger in order – left to right, top to bottom top to bottom, left to right. This should mean Diamantina in slot 4’s Bonestorm should overwrite Essencia’s Lightstorm (to verify, check with just one Diamantina, in slot 4, substitute another troop in slot 1). This isn’t happening! Hence bug.
I just tried Emeraldrin/Garnetaerlin/Emeraldrin/Emeraldrin for comparison.
Similar result. The first Emeraldrin creates a Leafstorm, Garnetaerlin creates a Duststorm. Then the other 2 Emeraldrins’ first trait is ignored, resulting in a Duststorm at the start of the battle.
1st Diamantina - bone storm
Essencia - light storm
2nd Diamantina - let’s pretend you’re not there?
BTW that also happens if there is another troop with a bone storm, a different one.
I think you didn’t understand the issue to be honest.
If Essencia was the bottom troop then that would make sense. But if Diamantina is the bottom troop, or another bone storm troop is, the bone storm should be happening.
Essentially: if there are two troops with the same storm and in between those is a troop with another storm, the doubled troops get ignored.
It happens with all troops - doesn’t even have to be the same troop twice, just two troops with the same storm and one with a different storm in the middle.
It’s certainly a bug but I guess - just like the storms - that fact is ignored (for now).
I placed purple storm on slots 2 & 4, brown storm on slot 3
If you put on a slow motion, what the game does is - trigger purple storm 2, trigger purple storm 4, trigger brown storm 3. So that is why middle storm does not get overwritten. EDIT Mind you, it is only storm traits that run out of slot sequence. After more tinkering, it seems that all traits of the same name activate out of sequence; when trait A comes up first, it activates on all troops that have it, then game proceeds to resolve the next trait… If we take, for example, this setup
Tbh with that team I put Essencia above first Diamantina. Makes little difference and keeps Bone Storm, plus you can’t two shot without more skull hits.
Could be different troops with the same storm and you may want one to be in the last position whose storm then gets ignored. Just like we are ignored now.
I know you said tagging doesn’t work but just in case you’re dismissing this thread because it was falsely marked as “not a bug” even though it clearly is one - please revisit.