Sleep Talk fails on repeated attempts

Question

Sleep Talk fails on repeated attempts

Closed this issue 3 months ago · 9 comments

Description

Sleep Talk works fine on 1st attempt but every attempt after this fails.

komala.mp4

Here's the Komala from the video:
.lvl = 30,
.species = SPECIES_KOMALA,
.ability = ABILITY_COMATOSE,
.heldItem = ITEM_CHOICE_BAND,
.moves = {MOVE_SLEEP_TALK, MOVE_LAST_RESORT},

Version

1.8.5 (Latest release)

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Answer 1 · 2024-07-12T16:46:08.000Z

Do you know if this behavior occurs for moves other than Last Resort?

Answer 2 · 2024-07-12T16:54:04.000Z

No idea. I did try some basic moves but the problem is that it's hard to test because then the AI will prefer using them directly

Answer 3 · 2024-07-12T16:57:02.000Z

Have you tried reproducing this as a player? Does Sleep Talk fail if you do the things the AI did, with the Komala the AI had?

Answer 4 · 2024-07-12T16:59:18.000Z

Not yet but I can try

Answer 5 · 2024-07-12T17:03:29.000Z

Same issue when used by the player

Answer 6 · 2024-07-12T17:04:39.000Z

Perfect, thank you! Could you check if it's specific to Last Resort? I ask because you could imagine Last Resort getting a bit weird due to it caring about which other moves have been chosen.

Answer 7 · 2024-07-12T17:07:26.000Z

Tried with rapid spin instead and had the same issue. However, I think the issue is with the choice items instead because i tried unequipping the choice band and both last resort and rapid spin started working fine afterwards

Answer 8 · 2024-07-12T17:08:27.000Z

Ah, cool, thanks for digging into what's going on. That'll make it easier to work out what's going wrong in the code :)

Answer 9 · 2024-07-12T17:09:55.000Z

I also tried it in vanilla Ultra Sun to see if it was intended behavior but it seemed to work perfectly fine there