My recommendations for AI include the following two aspects:
AI replaces ammo by itself and the AI will use the ammo box itself
1.I don’t know if you have encountered this situation? In a fierce encounter you are killed by the enemy and switch to the next soldier only to find that they only left you with 2 or 1 rounds, you hardly have time to reload the weapon so you get killed again until the entire squad is wiped out
This doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens it’s really annoying, what’s wrong with the AI? They don’t reload their weapons themselves? It really affects my performance sometimes
2.After you have gone through an encounter, your team may have consumed a lot of ammunition, so you decide to build or use an ammo box, but here comes the problem, you can only control one person in the team to use the ammo box to resupply, your The AI doesn’t actively use the ammo boxes, so you have to manually switch everyone in the squad until they’re all using the ammo boxes for resupply.
This problem is not very serious, but it is a bit cumbersome, I hope the AI can use the ammo box by itself, or add a squad command to let them resupply themselves, instead of me needing to manually switch to resupply, it is a bit of a waste of time
I think they do reload their weapon, i think i saw it on replay. I agree they should use ammo boxes by themselves. Generaly speaking they should do a lot of things by themself. They should be more automatized, and i think they will eventually.
Also let them grab new medkits on their own
The thing is that AI don’t consume ammunition with the exception of from the magazine. The simplest example is the Bolt action rifles. The standard amount of ammunition carried is the 5 round magazine, and 20 bullets (4 magazines) in reserve. If you notice, AI can shoot pretty much infinitely, as they don’t consume additional magazines. As long as they have bullets in the current magazine, and at least one additional magazine, they will never “run out”.
This changes though if the player orders them to give them ammo, and they’ll run up and hand them a magazine. This does remove ammo from a bot. However, I basically never see this function used outside of snipers.
I think the best solution is to make the AI consume ammunition, but when running close to a friendly ammo box, they automatically top off all of their ammo.
- This would encourage more players to pop down ammo boxes, and better reward those that do
- It would greatly help to reduce AI ability to sit in one location for extended times and just snapshot people, as their ammo would actually be limited
- It would encourage players to make use of ammo pouches in their backpack slots rather than just more grenade pouches, helping to reduce grenade spam.