Why did my AH6 not attack enmey?

[inferno7312 0]

I built a very simple mission.

a group of enemy rifleman, guard a place.

player with three rifleman far away the enemey place.

a ah6 support rifleman.

at begin of the mission, I set ah6's waypoint on the location of enemy location. set the waypoint type as "destory", "open fire, engage at will!".

I previewed the mission, the Ah-6 fly to the enemy, but it doesn't fire, it fly pass the enemy again and again, no metter the enemy fire to it!

next, I changed the target to a Bmp-2, used ah-6 attack it. the ah-6 still did not attack, it still flew pass the target again and again, till it was shot down!

what is wrong!

[Barry the baldy 0]

I'm assuming you mean the AH-1Z since the AH6 isnt armed.

The AH-1Z will attack armour and it also attacks infantry units.

In my test I just had the AH-1Z fly over an enemy patrol, they started firing on it with small arms and the AH-1 did a circle and came back in firing its guns. I've also seen it use its rockets and hellfires.

Do you have 1.05?

[inferno7312 0]

NO, I am talking about AH6,

AH6 isn't armed!?

so you mean the rocket and machineGun out of AH6 is just ornament ?

but I can find the AH6 has TwinM134 from the biki Weapons

[sniper pilot 36]

the AH-6 IS armed... Just there is ...drum roll please.... a bug.

[Ilyushin 1]

AH6 is armed MH6 is not armed see the differance is the Prefix

[Törni 0]

No the helicopter stuff is not called a bug. It's a game feature!

As the Community Bug Tracker puts it down

I lost almost two days with helos before I simply gave up.

[inferno7312 0]

We know AH-6 is armed. but it doesn't fire!

we can not let AH-6 fire at infantry, like the AH-6 in the movie

"Black Hawk down" .

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Did anyone try adding MapFact's invisible armor target close to a group of infanterists?

Hmm, something to try when I get home I guess

[DecimusAquila 0]

Inferno you are right, the AH-6 is equivilent to the M-17 gunship, and it does not fire too. Both these choppers do not attack either infantry or vehicles. I used a lot of commands like dofire, commandtarget, the commands that concerned shot and destroy.

I also put on the waypoint find and destroy but it goes round and round and round without shooting.

So if I want to attack inf, I use black hawk and if vehicles I use Cobra.

I do not know if there is a solution to this.

[quiet_man 8]

the AI does not manage to get an firing solution with helos and fixed guns

a possible workaround might be to give the weapons a slight angle downward or give them some up/down rotation.

or a script which forces the helo to point at target for a short time at a certain ranges. (hoping the AI catches it)

QuietMan

[inferno7312 0]

using the "fire" command, I can let heli fire its weapon. however, I cannot find a may to forece the heli or its weapons to point at target! "dowatch" seems not work

in this case.

[chris3270 0]

I just don"t get it. In OFP all the heli's fired at ground targets without hesitation. Why can't this be so in Armed Assault??? I understand that the engine is different, but come on BIS, why put vehicles in a game that are useless??

This includes the Strykers M2 and ATGM that only fire when the player is looking down the gun sight.

Don't get me wrong I love this game, but it gets frustrating in missions design.

[inferno7312 0]

I test all the heli last night,

  Mi17,Ah-6 does not fire almost in all the case, no metter what kind the target is.

  Ka-50 does not fire, if the target is M113 or infantry?

 

  UH60 fires, when target is infantry. however, after

  UH60's fire, no enemy soldier died! accuracy is too bad.

The conclusion is the heli in arma is just a transport!

 

[ericfr 0]

Like the planes

It will seem that after 2 patchs arma is always a beta  

[Varry 0]

Like the planes

It will seem that after 2 patchs arma is always a beta  

...or worse...