Bots driving me crazy. help!!

[victim913 10]

I searched but the search here sucks. I saw someone ask one of these questions but got no answer so i'll try again.

btw. i have super ai on and bots at 100

1. How do i get bots where i want in vehicles. ex; i want 4 to be gunner but he got in as passenger. They always go back in the vehicle the way the originally got in. The only way i can do it is this: Everyone has to get out.THEN I have to switch to 4 and i only have option to get in back. Once i get in i switch to driver, THEN cooper tells me to get out and i automatically get out. THEN i switch back to cooper THEN i tell him get in and i end up saying as driver. WAY too many steps when we have 2 more bots to get in. ....Especially when i am a block away from the vehicle when i was the driver and i need the vehicle to come to me. It's impossible.

2.(the same as other thread) How do i get cooper to stop giving orders when i take over someone else. I was trying to take out insurgent base and i look on map and cooper sent 2 and 3 to get in a hmmv that was over 1500 meters away. Or i sneak up on a house as sniper with everyone on stealth and hold fire, then cooper starts shooting Or WORSE i have cooper 15 meters away from someone prone then i swith to someon and cooper stands up like he's the guys best friend.

3. i have everyone on hold fire. 3 likes to still open up on anyone he sees. Also in vehicles Hold fire is on and vehicle always shoots

4. i don't think it's fixable, but many times i'm driving the apc and the gunner is only watching the rear. So i basically have to park in front of a group of enemies and wait for them to shoot us before the idiot turns the right way. I know i can tell him to face one direction or to scan horizon but i still have to wait to be fired on before he turns the right way, even spotting enemy 10 seconds ago.

5. last question (for now) Is there any way to get my team to stay in formation ? if i set them on danger or even aware or stealth they will not stay with me. they move very very slow. I have to leave them on safe mode. But sneaking up on someone is impossible without telling them all to go prone, then switching to each of them to get them in possition taking way to much time. 5.a. they never go wherei tell them. they move almost there. I told the sniper to crawl 19 meters away10 ft away from the wall. he crawled about 15 meters 5 ft away from OTHER SIDE of the wall. Where he made a nice target. getting us all killed.

Thanks for anyone who can help me. Besides telling me to search as if the search feature worked good enough. I did search all over the place.

thanks

[max power 21]

1. Select 4 (f4), press 4 for embark vehicle commands, select the vehicle from the list using the corresponding number keys or mouse wheel, select the position you want him to go in.

2. You don't. He is the leader. If you don't want your guys to move or do anything but defend themselves select your whole team with the tilde key, and tell them to hault (1, 6). If you want them to go somewhere and do something else, give them a waypoint by clicking where you want them to go either on the map or in the virtual world.

3. I don't know what the problem there is. Is Rodriguez number three? Anyways, try telling them to hold fire and maybe tell them to go stealth (7, 1) unless you're trying to move somewhere. If you are, try reducing their threat level to aware (7, 3) or safe (7, 1) and see what that gets you.

4. Call out targets to the gunner by press 2, then the number corresponding to the target you want him to kill. Or, you can tell the gunner to target thing by left clicking on them as the vehicle commander. Alternately, you can tell the gunner to watch some direction by pressing I think it's 3, then 5 or something. I think it's under menu 3 or menu 7, at any rate.

5. The team will stay in formation when they are set to aware except if they have to pathfind through the woods. Even then they do a pretty good job. If you see they are lagging behind, just let them catch up. If they are set to danger, they follow you, but they leap frog and cover each other. Only set them to danger if you think contact is immenent and you don't know where it's going to be coming from, like in an urban setting. You should be moving too fast in an urban fight like that at any rate.

[victim913 10]

thanks for the response. it was helpful. i found the vehicle thing works if i tell them to mount, i didn't know it further went to allow you to select where you want them.

WHY DO MY DUMB ASSES KEEP FIRING. ENEMY OVER 50 YDS AWAY. AND THEY KEEP FIRING. I have hold fire CLEARLY on. i have them prone, i have them on safe, or stealth, or danger or aware and they keep breaking silence firing on enemies walking toward me. i have had them not fire before. i even get them turned the other way. why?

I have reverted 10 times now cause they keep getting us killed.

PS is there any way to get my squad to use silencers. basically can i tell them to use their pistols in order to stay quiet?

thanks

Edited October 26, 2009 by victim913

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Because they think they have been made, or that they are in immediate danger. In hold fire they are allowed to defend themselves if threat becomes too high. At 50m coming towards you, I would say this was the case.

[EDcase 87]

In a case like that when you want stealth I would send them further away and behind rise if possible.

[victim913 10]

that's what i was thinking. but then how can i sneak up on people without them firing?

Does that mean if someone isn't aware of us that they won't fire then?

thanks for the help. i never saw a message board get filled up so quickly. This game is more popular than i thought.

[SASrecon 0]

that's what i was thinking. but then how can i sneak up on people without them firing?

Does that mean if someone isn't aware of us that they won't fire then?

thanks for the help. i never saw a message board get filled up so quickly. This game is more popular than i thought.

yep, the AI in ARMA2 knows if something is targeting it so in hold fire mode they'll fire if they're being aimed at by another AI unit.