[General] Does a unit get removed from a unit group if it dies AND decays??

[Golden-Drake]

so if a unit dies and is decayed away.. will it get removed from the unit group in triggers?

for instance:
a unit is put in a unit group because it entered a region - The unit then dies and after 60 sec it is decayed - if i try to get the ammount of units in the unit group after that - will the unit count as 1 or is it removed complitely?

 

[A Void]

The unit will not get removed, the corpse will still be inside the unit group it was placed in. Everytime the unit dies remove unit from the group. Triggers are still able to affect and enumerate corpses who are saved inside variables or groups.

 

[Chaosy]

My guess that the group still contains a reference to the unit.

 

[DracoL1ch]

illusions stays in da group forever unless cleaned. just 4 ur info

 

[Dr Super Good]

I have had conflicting results to this.

Hero units do appear to be removed from the group when they are auto removed due to the maximum dead hero limit. ForGroup will not output any null values for those heroes which were automatically removed. However if this is just an API filter or physical removal from the data structure I do not know.

In the past this was not the case. I remember back at WC3Search that there were snippets used to filter unit groups of removed units. In such a case ForGroup would return null for every removed unit and the data structure definitely had a leak until cleared. However that was several patches ago so maybe a hidden change fixed the issue.

I would recommend people re-test.