Monsters' Natural Selection card frequently spawns 1 drone too many (!)

[Blomsterkrans]

Although the special card Natural Selection's description reads "Damage an enemy unit by 4, then spawn an Arachas Drone in a randow row for each excess point of damage dealt", I have on numerous occasions witnessed the card kill one of my 4-power units, then spawn in an extra drone. Perhaps the extra drone spawn is caused by a deathblow? I'm making a thread about this now because I recently lost a ranked round by 1 point because of this bug.

 

[StrykerxS77x]

Although the special card Natural Selection's description reads "Damage an enemy unit by 4, then spawn an Arachas Drone in a randow row for each excess point of damage dealt", I have on numerous occasions witnessed the card kill one of my 4-power units, then spawn in an extra drone. Perhaps the extra drone spawn is caused by a deathblow? I'm making a thread about this now because I recently lost a ranked round by 1 point because of this bug.

Not a bug. Look at the leader your opponent is using. Then look at the type of card natural selection is.

Organic cards spawn an extra drone with that leader.

 

[sanabas]

What happens if it kills a 2 power unit with 2 armour?

The NR? leader ability that is damage a unit by 7?, and if there is excess damage, apply bleeding to the adjacent units for that many turns is one I noticed issues with when using in arena. If I used it on a 5 power unit with 3 armour, it'd correctly leave the unit on 1 power. But if I used it to kill a unit with 7 or less combined power + armour, then it'd ignore the armour when calculating excess damage. e.g. use it on a unit with 2 power, 3 armour, and the adjacent units would be bleeding for 5 turns, rather than 2.

 

[Vo1fger]

What happens if it kills a 2 power unit with 2 armour?

The NR? leader ability that is damage a unit by 7?, and if there is excess damage, apply bleeding to the adjacent units for that many turns is one I noticed issues with when using in arena. If I used it on a 5 power unit with 3 armour, it'd correctly leave the unit on 1 power. But if I used it to kill a unit with 7 or less combined power + armour, then it'd ignore the armour when calculating excess damage. e.g. use it on a unit with 2 power, 3 armour, and the adjacent units would be bleeding for 5 turns, rather than 2.

Clarification: NR leader - namely Adda - deals 8 damage and then applies bleeding to adjecent units by the amount of excess damage. The only leader that deals 7 damage is Syndicates Whoreson Junior; but returning to the topic - I did notice that Whoreson somehow gives money when he should not, i. e. when there is a unit with power 3, armour 3 he should be giving you 1 coin; instead he gives 4. Since I didn't play Adda for a long time I can't confirm it but there were threads in which players declared Adda has the same issue with armoured units as Whoreson Junior.

 

[sanabas]

Haven't tried it with the syndicate leader, but it was happening consistently with the NR leader. So I'm curious what happens if you use natural selection on something like a scarab or endrega larva with 1 power, 2 armor. Does it spawn 1 drone for the excess damage, or 3?

 

[Vo1fger]

Haven't tried it with the syndicate leader, but it was happening consistently with the NR leader. So I'm curious what happens if you use natural selection on something like a scarab or endrega larva with 1 power, 2 armor. Does it spawn 1 drone for the excess damage, or 3?

Funny thing is that natural selection - unlike Adda and Whoreson Junior - works as it should - if your leader is not an Arachas Queen it will spawn 1 drone when used against endrega larva and scarabs. Although there IS probability that natural selection is in the wrong side of coding and not leaders; however we will only know that for certain when developers release a patch that hopefully fixes these misleading situations.