Stop going in the damn water !!!

[gareththomasnz 13]

How do I stop these retards going for a swim and dropping their kit ?

Also walking off roofs.

Damn retarded troops.

[SteveJA 12]

Arr this brings back happy memorys lol

Not known to me, would be intresting to see if theres a script that could do this . . .

[Laqueesha 474]

I don't think there is a way to stop them from going in the water.

However, I do think there is a work around.

If somebody could find a way for soldiers in the game to go in the water and not lose their weapons and items, it would be great.

[Flaxpants 10]

Yes, I was playing a mission the other day and decided to flank the target by going around it along the beach. Shortly afterwards whilst nearing the target I realised that two of my AI team had decided to stay behind and squat down in 2 feet of water and refused to obey orders. So I shot them for insubordination. Perhaps if somebody came up with an 'ice cream eating' script this would have some humour value.

[icebreakr 3159]

Last week we did a mission where two teams battle for the suitcase in hands of Chinese (ACE2mod) played by AI. Our team stormed the town and we saw that it was too hot for AI as they dropped their gear into a small pond and were running around in panic unable to pick anything =)

p.s. we saved them from their misery.

[rübe 127]

yes, this really needs to be fixed.

Btw. it's not only infantery. Vehicles are a slightly greater pain in the ass. Loosing a completely healthy vehicle in a pond is just sad, plus you're usually too late to save the crew, for they are usually still around the poor vehicle which explodes any minute.. :(

I once let me escort in an mg-jeep during a warefare match, so I could command some other units while driving. What sounds like a sound plan, ended up with the AI driving the jeep right into a pond, and getting himself and the gunner killed because they couldn't escape in time from there, once I ordered them to leave the vehicle... which exploded, of course. :D

[SteveJA 12]

I just remembered one of the first missions i made on A2, it was a simple defend mission. I started it up and spawned in a base with some other troops. then i relised there was one guy walking about on a pitched roof, as per norm, who then gracefully walked off and died, i noticed a ai watching him then after about 20 sec s finaly open his mouth and said matey had died, for some reason it struck me as hilariously funnyand had to move away from the pc lol

[santafee 10]

this is one of the little things the game got a break for me.

many of those "little Bugs", not to mention that AI Troops also cant use bridges

[spooky lynx 73]

This would be another suggestion for future patches:) The AI gear should be dropped after long swimming only. Or there is another way: to make swimming speed dependant of the gear which AI or player has. So if you need to increase swimming speed - drop your gear.

And of course vehicle explosion in water must be removed at all. If the vehicle is sunk, only the crew should die after some time.

[enad 11]

This is a REALLY annoying issue. Both of them annoy the hell out of me. Having AI around water means hell. They will wander into the water and start to swim in a random direction. I get so angry I want to shoot them, then they come back with no gear!! Can they just NOT go in the water.

The walking off roofs thing is probably even more annoying, makes it virtually impossible to have any squad based roof ambush or roof insertion as the AI will just walk off the sides and die or break a leg. -_-

Speaking of annoying bugs, has anyone noticed the glitch in ArmA II where a squad mate will take out his pistol, go crouch and never move, just stay there and not follow any orders. It happens quite often and its beyond annoying.

Theres just so much to be fixed with the AI, I really hope they finish up OA sometime soon, then take a few extra months working specifically on the AI. Because, seriously, if you think about it....There is NO way in hell the game will work out in such urban environments with AI like they are now. AI is very nice at times, but everything goes downhill in urban areas. Enemys will just lay down and not move, then squad mates will just walk around a corner without think and get lit up. Even worse, they find it extremely challenging to enter buildings. That's really what NEEDS to be fixed. All these small annoying AI issues need to be sorted.

[HyperU2 11]

All that swimming with gear we did in the military was seemingly for naught.