Bots shooting aircraft from the ground no matter what - binging airstrikes on me

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It seems something was changed in the latest patch. I did sometimes see bots shoot airplanes, and I even from time to time got and odd kill (because the player flying it crashed it). But something has gone really wrong since this patch.

Just today i had two rounds in which ALL my bots seemed determined to shoot an enemy airplane at all costs. The first time i was right in the middle of a shootout through the bushes, when my bots decided to stand up and shoot in the air. And nothing could stop them. Giving them orders ,switching between bots, crawling. Nothing. They keept shooting for a solid 2 minutes until the plane they were shooting boomed us and killed us all.
Second time i was not in the shootout, but I walked out of a building when i heard them shooting furiously, just to see the bomber they were firing at turn around and blow us all up.

If you want make it easier for planes to spot enemies, this is not the way to do it.
My experience with bombing is nobody spots, and you mostly bomb near points blind, but that is often enough. If you are lucky you will see some tracer, or notice a tank and bomb there. I would do something about the draw distance, because building appear very late, and so do soldiers. You can see them, but when you do you can’t do much. It only happens right before you bomb, or fire rockets.

Your own bots trying to do everything to get you and themselves killed is probably the most frustrating thing about the whole game.

SPEAKING OF WHICH:

BOTS and CONSTRUCTION - What the hell is wrong with bots running like crazy after anything is built inside a building they are in? What is supposted to be the reason for this?
-BOTS and GRANADES - Bot’s seem to be determined to get blown up by any granade that is thrown into a building they are in.
I’ve seen dozens of times my bot’s running down from 1st or 2nd floor of a building all the way down, running from a granade they couldn’t even know was there to be blown up by it. They can’t do anything fast, except run towards a granade they wish will kill them.
It is good that they react, at all, but now when the granade is on the other floor.
I’m not sure I have ever seen them AVOID a granade by doing so, not once. They seem to always run towards the granade, not away from it.

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Another strange behaviour is when they are deep in a bunker, and still point their weapons toward a plane and I just shoot them while they target the ceiling.

I’m unsure whether it really happened that way but it felt so, will check it again, and it’s also since last change - since they were made aware of planes again.

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Even the Bots are doing their part in nerfing the plane. hehe

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God this made me laugh. Because I have seen my bots do this same thing. I was on Normandy invasion as the US. And I was a sniper sneaking along the coast. 2 of my 4 bots stood up and starting firing up in the air like mad men. Thus as a sniper i was shown to all. And blam dead.
I to tried everything including giving new orders. To no avail.

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you can complain but today one of them with an M1 carbine shot down an enemy CAS giving me the kill I’m proud of him

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That’s nothing. The People flying those planes are crazy.
After a succesfull bombing run the pilot suddenly decides to get a few extra kills with his sniper rifles, throws knives, and finishes of with the flammenwerfer? You survive the bombing, but the co-pilot gets me with a headshot with an anti-tank rifle.
At least that’s what the killfeed shows me.

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I guess the bomb injured your soldiers badly, but the weapon displayed was the last thing that made them die.

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I know, I noticed that.
Just it looks funny when a bomber ‘kills’ someone with a knife.
And it is sort of the way that bots can ‘shoot down’ enemy aircraft, because perhaps a single bullet grazed the wing and the pilot dives straight into the ground, because he is not very good at flying.