Essence bonuses (new player ally, etc) sometimes awarded in incorrect situations

[timber patrol]

Sometimes the 'New player ally' bonus is granted when the ally is not a new player (specific case: my ally in last game has ranked emblems in their profile for seasons 1-6).
Sometimes the 'Win against higher ranked players' bonus is granted when the game announces I'm the highest ranked player.

[timber patrol]

Again, New Player Ally -> Expert in 2022, Diamond in Season 8.

[pallid burrow]

Do you perhaps have the name of the said player? New players are defined by their XP/account level so it might be possible that it's some smurf that didn't play many games yet

[timber patrol]

I can start naming these players (I intentionally avoided that for name-and-shame concerns). This seems to happen basically every game (where I receive the new player bonus). But how does a player receive so many end-of-season rank 'trophies' for so many seasons while not playing many games yet? 🤐 My only guess was maybe xp was introduced somewhat recently so players who played a lot in the past but not recently wouldn't have any xp yet (but they still shouldn't count as new players). Check the levels below.

These are all the multiplayer games I have in my history. All of which I received the new player bonus: Their levels: 19, 18, 15, 14 (maybe not in that order). EDIT: Thanks Discord => rauG, telkas, Octavius, Ryze Boat

[slender sparrow]

I can confirm that it's showing up sometimes when it shouldn't. Actually every game in my match history has the new ally bonus lmao, not sure if this is just a match history bug or if the essence was actually awarded.

[timber patrol]

It doesn't just show up in match history but also in end-of-game summary. But I don't know the essence formula so can't verify if it actually affects the gained essence.

I also screenshot all my end-of-game summaries so I have a few hundred if needed. 🙄 It looks like Feb 6 might be the last time I didn't get the new ally bonus. Ally was BigPapaDinkus

As a tangent: 'Non-matchmade game (reduced)' no longer shows up under essence bonuses. I have no idea if the reduction is still applied or not.

[timber patrol]

Since I've been paying attention: I get the new player ally bonus every match. Every time I check the 'new player' has something ridiculous like level 20 and Expert in the last 3 seasons. I think we can conclude something is screwy with the new player ally bonus (visual, detecting new player, etc; but something isn't right with it).

[pallid burrow]

Hmm yeah that sounds like a bug. The new player bonus shouldn't be awarded unless you're in a team with someone that is lvl 4 or below

If you can send me a specific game (either your log files) or the game id where this happened I can take a look

how to find the log files:

!bugreport

[thorny cloak]

1. Right click Legion TD 2 in Steam library > Manage > Browse Local Files
2. Browse to Legion TD 2 > Dev > Logs > [date you experienced bug] <-- zip this folder
3. Create a bug report at http://legiontd2.com/bugs and upload the zip

[pallid burrow]

Not 100% sure but might just not be displayed anymore because there's just too many bonuses, including this new one

[timber patrol]

As far as I can tell it's every game and seems to be happening to everyone. These are the matchmade matches in my history:

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25a5f4c4db7c56484b4ba3bc36b6b5c136e16f24e1a51dde9cec36b66d0d16c9
new:
c07b00cb61f117f36cb8357c6a904289e01c5762a14836f770b4a2baaa60fab4
1e47b985b0cfe5211dfe0ec08a7bc5cf1d93a78340cf6a3af368f241a89131d1
50d2103762a4c62381691ba011a90678008757ed44597dce119c54c2d09d1cce
4eca269d4f1aae90a4979c325435b91c840194a9620ce38316a7f2ede772e013
dde3c263c221e423cc5f47d5e18fbeeb8eeb893d44927a063657d088347eb927