Hi folks
This thread looks quite deserted already but I can't resist to add another rant on the top of the pile 😅
I've bought Arma 3 Ultimate Edition from Steam some times ago. I didn't have strong expectations from a 10+ years old game - I had played A2 in the past (shortly before A3 was released) and keeped a great memory of it, so I mainly downloaded A3 in confidence it will be at least as good as the previous release.
Well, it's certainly a game with huge qualities but the AI is a massive issue. Infantry is not that bad (especially with some popular mods added) but vehicles are buggy as hell. I read some of the posts here and I'm not sure if it is because of the "convoy" issue ; nevertheless, any SP mission including AI-driven vehicles has a fair chance (more than 50/50) to break immersion or, even more simply, to definitively block you from achieving objectives.
I've gone through most of the official/vanilla campaign "The East Wind" but the last few missions ("New Dawn" and "Moral Fiber" especially), which are introducing AI driving mechanics into the game, are mostly unplayable because of the erratic behavior of allied vehicles.
And before anyone calls me out, I'm not picky here. I understand A3 is a huge sandbox, with lots of randomization and space for unexpected events. More than once I had to restart a mission because of some caveats in the scripting - which didn't disturb me that much since it was happening in complex scenarios with lots to process. Still - vehicles AI are just broken. At their very best, they know to follow a road and turn at the intersection. Everything else is a challenge : any off-road will finish in silly trajectories ; vehicles following each other are prone to lost themselves ; APC (and maybe other) often block in front of an obstacle (like a wall or something) and won't achieve to deviate from it. And I'm not even talking about the "combat" driving, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever (most often : the AI will crash into a wall and wait for you to RPG it 🤗)
I found those issues really disappointing since I bought the game mainly for SP (no time for MP) and with the idea to play with full-scale military simulation (which A3 does really, really well on other aspects !).
So... yeah, don't pay 100€ for SP while this issue isn't resolved. It's quite a deal breaker IMHO and I'm so sad to see BI don't intend to fix it 😩
