Odd things I've noticed playing "warfare"

[polar bear 10]

I assume these are bugs, but maybe it's something wrong with my setup? Anything I can do to avoid these issues?

1. Invulnerable AI. A few times I run into an AI defender in a town and it seems you can shoot them millions of times and they don't die. Unload an entire vehicle mounted clip into them. Blood flies everywhere, practically at point blank range. I've seen my AI controlled players run out of ammo shooting them. The invulnerable AI then turns around and shoots me after absorbing thousands of bullets and of course I die.

2. Cannot convince the AI to drive. If I kick the AI out of the driver's seat of a vehicle and then move the team to where I want, how do you get the AI to drive again? I order them in and out of the vehicle but they won't ever sit in the driver's seat again once I've driven that vehicle.

3. AI moving too slowly. Sometimes the AI just move at a snail's pace. If I travel at a normal speed they wind up way, way, way behind me. Even if they are in vehicles and I am on foot.

Any thoughts? I'm a n00b I don't know whether this is normal or if I'm doing something wrong.

[packtloss 10]

1. I havent seen this in warfare.

2. Use the mount (4) menu - after you select the vehicle you can select the specific seat. Unless youre speaking about all of this going on without your AI dismounting?

3. Do they have a 'bullseye' on their icon? They are likely in 'Danger' mode. You can put them in safe, tell them to stand up, and they will move without looking for cover or worrying about being in formation. As soon as they hear/see anything alarming, they will go to ground again. You're also 'pathfinding' in a way the AI does not. Pathfinding is something all of us in the arma community have been complaining about...

Keep in mind warfare is a mod/script set - Benny and the modules he use extensively modify the default OA behavior - so a lot of bugs while playing warfare are hard to determine - is this from warfare? Is this from a warfare module i have enabled? Is this an engine bug?

[maddogx 13]

I've heard that putting the AI in "compact column" or "delta" formation makes them more committed to sticking closer to their squad leader and thus makes them move faster.

[TinManNFO 10]

From my admittedly limited experience so far playing warfare online, I've seen some of these issues to some extent in some of the games I've played in, while other games seem to run really well.

My gut feeling is that some of these things start happening when a server has been running for a long time and needs to have the mission reset or what not; I don't know if there's some memory leak somewhere or some other process that's taking up processor cycles, but AFAIK the AI can get really stupid or weird if the CPU is heavily loaded on the server side.

[AlienZoo 10]

Benny needs to fix all the bugs in Warfare too many to mention, some of these bugs are Biz's problem and some are created by the mod makers.

HQ you need to unlock click straight away to drive, or it goes back to locked thats a benny bug as it does not happen in vanilla.

Those invincible vehicles and men happen only in warfare, and I have not seen that happen in Domination so I say another benny bug.

The money system has a bug if you have $500 and an item cost $400 it will still say you are missing say $180 thats does not happen in vanilla.

In warfare enemy never seem to show up on screen from only 500m away, I have to walk closer to town, and only then do they all show at say 400m, I then either get killed or have to retreat back to repair truck where i had a Metis that was setup on the hill, that never happened in vanilla.

To get Ai to drive truck and say your Ai is the F2 key you use F2 key 4 and then it will have a choice of what vehicles to choose to enter, like truck at 12 o'clock then once you select that number it should have the next option to get in as driver or anywhere so then press that number.

The Ai vehicles never have been able to keep up with the one you drive so the only thing to do is, slow down and wait.:)

[enforcer1975 0]

1. Had this a couple of times. The AI is dead but the animation doesn't activate and the guy just stands there...

2. AI sucks - sucks - sucks - sucks. They can't even drive down a slope or a hill without getting stuck on the edge or flipping the vehicle. Did i say AI sucks?

3. Normal...when you have them follow you they always try to keep the formation, that's what makes them slow. If they drive on their own, better alone or small groups rather than columns they are much faster.

@AlienZoo

You won't see them until 400-500m because that's the activation radius. If the defending AI would be on when the game starts the server can't handle it. Never seen a game slow down bit by bit when more or too many towns are attacked?

[polar bear 10]

You won't see them until 400-500m because that's the activation radius. If the defending AI would be on when the game starts the server can't handle it. Never seen a game slow down bit by bit when more or too many towns are attacked?

I would think the solution to that would be to drop the AI's on the map at init time, but freeze them all with "stop" and/or "disableAI" then use a trigger with a 750m range or so to enable them whenever enemy units approach? A trigger could then stop them again if the enemy units leave.

That way if you attack a bunch of towns the AI would still be sleeping even though you left/got killed.

Guess that's a change to "warfare".

As for the invulnerable AI: I know in this case it isn't always dead just with the animation, because I drove up to one once and unloaded an entire crew mounted machine gun on an offroad into it. After hitting it at close range with hundreds of bullets I dismounted and unloaded my clips into it. Then it shot me and killed me.