When villagers are commanded to attack-move, they sometimes stutter before going idle.
Trigger Event: Using attack move with villagers
I can’t determine what triggers it. All I know is that throughout a game, there are times you cannot use the villager attack-move. It may work for one or two villagers, but the rest stutter before going idle. Throughout a game there may be stages when you can and cannot use it.
I know the problem doesn’t appear to affect Kuafu, possibly because of their ranged attack.
Unlike a normal attack-move, in which the unit attempts to target a nearby enemy building or unit and then moves to the point that the user set as the attack-move destination, this bug will have villagers remain idle in their position regardless of where the attack-move destination was set. Again, they sometimes stutter before going idle.
Image of idle villagers that were commanded to attack-move.
Repro Steps:
Use attack-move with melee villagers throughout the game. (seems to be a bit random since no one has figured out how to reproduce it)
This bug has been in the game too long. It ruins the game balance (making 1tc play stronger than it is supposed to be) and is generally unfun because your expectations of defending a raid are destroyed by a bug.
I might add that the A-move does actually work, it just lags 2-5 seconds. When vills are instructed to A-move, they will freeze for some time and then correctly attack move. This is also very unintuitive - if i command my vills to A-move, and i see them freeze and die, i will command them again, and again, making A-move virtually never work as the process is reset every time the command is issued and therefore the initial freeze will be repeated again and again
for some reason i remember seeing them not unfreeze but i might be misremembering. But what you said it definitely most often the case. Ty for the clarification and input <3
I’d like to add that soldiers also have an issue with A-move. At some point of time, they ignoring enemies, forming a formation, and moving toward the position where the A-move is set. Its happend at list one time per game in every game.
This is probably the most negatively impactful bug in the game right now. And it has been broken for like over 6 months. Fixing this should really be a priority.