AI Function Addition: Ammo Chain

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I would like to point out that there are several squads that are running at reduced effectiveness due to having to stop and grab ammo pretty consistently.

Predominately:

  • MG
  • Mortars
  • Riflemen

Bridging the gap of a couple seconds to refill or even keep topped off on ammunition can often times be the difference between a win and a loss. So this suggestion will hopefully help that situation significantly, while also adding a bit of historical accuracy back to the game.

SUGGESTION

When situated near an ammo box (within 15m or so within reason) your AI will fetch ammunition for the weapon you are using from the ammo box and it will go straight into your reserve ammunition.

This makes MG squads and Mortar squads FAR more historically accurate as well as able to keep up suppressive fire for long periods of time.

It would also help to keep those that are focused on playing support and supplying the team with ammo with a more reasonable amount of points for their efforts.

  • A change like this could be a good start to more utility purposes for AI as a whole, rather than just fairly mindless target practice for the enemy.

ADDITIONAL EDIT:
Upon chatting with some people about this, it was brought forward that this would also benefit by prioritizing riflemen for ammo runners.
(While others COULD run ammo, it would help to prevent the loss of other key troops if they were to be killed.in the process.)

Ultimately this would also help increase the value of the riflemen in these squads and allow players to put more specialized perks on them that they may not put on the others.

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it makes ammo boxes much more useful too

which is GOOD. I agree :+1:

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I Hope Upham isnt in your squad. “UPHAM, wheres that damn ammo!!”

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Fekin UPHAM.

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I agree to add more auxiliary functions to AI
The role of AI is to assist players in combat

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@EdVanSchleck , just tying you into this as it seems to be getting a little popular

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Realistic, And super useful! Ammo carriers were common among LMGs crews, I’d imagine mortar too, We see it all the time in movies and such, Ammo bearers if I remember correctly was their name.

But all of this would work rather nicely, Not quite sure about riflemen, Would be nice to have tho.

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I can pass that, yep.

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also fix the damn bipods already

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It could be kinda interesting, but overall, most of the time you would build a ammo box right next to you, so AI wouldn’t be useful in these cases.
A better suggestion would be allowing your own squad AI to build ammo rather than waiting for them to give ammo to you, especially since they can die while on their way to give ammo

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alongside with rallies, when???

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I thought our role was to give orders to an AI squad but here we are 4 years in with “Go there”

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and if at least would it work well…