KP Liberation Zeus control

[Dwarfakiin 0]

Alright, so... I'm having general issues with the AI of this game, and I highly doubt it's because of the actual AI, since enemy AI seems to be more than capable of doing exactly what I'd like to do... such as move.

So for those of you unfamiliar with KP Liberation, you control your forces using Zeus, which is a fantastic idea. You can't edit any troops, and you can't even interact with enemy forces, but for some reason, whenever I am using the AI, they always do the most ridiculous things you've ever seen, worst part is they generally do this during combat. I'll list my issues below, and if anyone has any kind of fix for these issues, please please please! let me know.

 

- AI getting into a vehicle then instantly dismounting, then repeating the cycle, sometimes even when I haven't told them to get in a vehicle. They seem to do this mostly whenever they're in combat, as when I set them to safe, they (most of the time) work fine and get in their respective vehicles, but of course if I'm using something like a Gorgon or Marshall, where the intent is to keep them in these vehicles to transport them safely, and so they can make use of the fire power they have, it generally isn't helpful when the gunner is playing musical chairs.

 

- AI sometimes having incredible detection range, and other times having god awful detection. So this one is really annoying, I find that sometimes, we'll say for instance in a MBT, the AI will start engaging from 1 - 1.5KM, which would be fantastic if the liberation mode didn't penalize you for destroying buildings, which the MBTs seem to be adept at from long ranges. However by far the worst side of this, is when a enemy tank is maybe 100m away and is firing at my allied tank, and yet my tank doesn't seem to care about it, it just sits there and ignores it, even my AT soliders that accompany my MBTs seem to ingore the tank until it has completely decimated my tank.

 

- So this one is kinda hard to explain, but it is an issue I'm dealing with right this second, at the same time as dealing with the first issue. My AI for whatever reason, are considering the OPFOR MBT which is about 2.5KM away a major threat, and they are gunning for it constantly, even though I am telling them to go the opposite direction, as I am trying to mount an offensive and don't fancy them going in one by one. Often times when I have this issue, the AI make things even more frustrating by exiting their very expensive vehicles and just walking, which causes me to lose the vehicle aswell. There's also the matter of when I do actually want my troops to move in, they seem to get wet feet and decide they aren't paid enough for this, because they start sprinting in the other direction, funnily enough, often to get in a vehicle. I can somewhat mitigate the fact they're trying to get in vehicles by just giving them 100-200m between each move marker, but it doesn't always work. For some reason they seem to think it's alot easier to run 2km down the road to grab a HEMTT from my FOB, than it is to walk 400m forward (and yes, I've had them try a frontal assault with HEMTTs and even an unarmed Huron before, where they flew over and just hovered there for about 20 seconds before the pilot died, killing all on board)

 

- Lastly, the AI are just all round awful. Their Pathing doesn't seem to work half the time, they often don't take cover, sometimes they'll throw grenades at technicals and APCs but won't use the AT Launcher on their backs and they'll occasionally spread themselves so thin, that they can easily be picked off without the rest of the team ever knowing where the fire is coming from. Oh there's also the fact that putting AI in control of vehicles seems to be an all round terrible idea since they seem to love to travel 130mph head first into the nearest building.

 

Sorry for so much reading, but the AI in this game are so infuriating at times (Anything past this is kinda a rant so y'know, read ahead if you wish) They really do ruin the game for me, as they make life so difficult when you have to command them and such. It'd be nice just for once to spend 10 mins on setting up my team and getting to the AO which would require an hour to take, rather than it being the other way around. I know the AI in this game can at times be amazing, truly amazing. But it only ever seems to happen every once in a blue moon, the rest of the time you're spent watching them run each other over in apparent fits of friendly fire and rage. I really do hope that if we get an ArmA 4, the AI will be significantly improved because they're supposed to be special forces, not "special" forces. I'll admit, at times I do get a slight giggle out of the stuff they do, like one time when one of my MBTs just mowed down a troop of enemy soliders because they decided to stand infront of it when it was traveling at top speed, but most of the time it's just frustrating and annoying. Not to mention that there's been alot of times when I've made a convoy of some kind, sent them on their way, and then as I'm catching up to them, I'm finding either completely destroyed prowlers and hunters, or just vehicles that had difficulty getting round a corner and decided "Oh well, they're too far ahead now, might aswell just sit here and wait for them to come back" meanwhile the convoy leader is just sat there thinking "Yeah I'm sure they'll catch up" little bloody deserters. Most of the time when I bring it up with anyone about the AI, they're always saying "Well that's why you play with players" but unfortunately I don't have 16 friends I can use to fill in my Huron, so I guess the amazingly stupid AI has to fill in the gaps. The weirdest part for me is that all of these issues seem to go if the soliders I'm using are in my own squad, and are ordered the normal way rather than by Zeus, which is odd since I originally thought that Zeus would have far more control than the normal squad system ever could.

 

Anyways, rant over, if you can help with any of this they please dear god do, it'd make my life so much easier and I would greatly appreciate it, and thank you so much for taking the time to read all of this, I am very grateful.