"Simple" Suggestion Regarding AIs & Ammunitions Boxes ( Refill ammo order )

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Current " Issue "

it’s widely known that AIs do not reload their ammo.
but on top of that, there is something that is somewhat worse,
they do not’t warn you about running low on ammunitions.
( they do through voice lines, but in the battle it’s very hard to hear it due to explosions, heavy noises, and distance between soldiers and player )

Main Suggestion:

i would like to suggest a feature or a order that players can give to the AIs which will order them to refill their ammo by going near ammo boxes and use them.

How does it work:

it could work in three differents way, the main idea, is to allow bots to get ammunitions as stated above.

1st Method:

A. you look at the ammobox, select radial menu, and click " Refill Squad Ammunitions " or " Replenish Squad Ammunitions ":

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( yes, i’m well aware that i’m a donut and i misspelled ammunitions. i just figured out today how to spell it correctly )

2nd Method:

B. and the second method, works similar to the first one, but without the radial menu ( if someone find it clustered, or hard to deal with it ). this time, the order/option will appear slightly above the normal " Refill Ammo" button instead of the said radial menu:

concept idea 2
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3rd Method ( Suggested by @Serpiko82 ) :

C. just press X on the ammo box, as a squad order like for the positioning and the AI will grab the needed ammo.

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Result:

after that the players gaved the order, ( or the option has been selected through the radial menu ), all soldiers AI will converge to the ammobox, and once they are close, it will refill their total ammunitions. (so, no Wi-fi or wireless Ammo Dispenser. they actually have to get closer)

in order to save time, as taking each and singular AI soldier to refill them it can become quite a time consuming action. ( just think to refill manually 9 soldiers… )

and that is all.

DISCLAIMER

more for devs, than users, but it’s not fondamental to include both methods. those are just simple suggestions and example.
one is enough.

the main point, is to have a way to order our AIs to grab ammo from those ammo boxes.

cheers.

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My squads don’t often survive long enough for this to become an issue, hahah. But it does annoy me that their ammo management is so poor.

I think I would prefer something simpler, like having the AI just use nearby ammo boxes if low, and reload on their own.
It would still be nice to have orders for it as well though, to reload fresh mags/use medkits and that sort of thing.

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my level 4 and 5 soldiers always run out of ammunitions due to them engaging from far positions and using more supressive fire rather than killing the enemy.

so majority of the time, for those that actually survives it’s becomes quite tidious and long to refill each and singular AI after engagements.

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after all the time i go played i believe that AI if you don’t select it has infinite ammo once they shot for 2 minutes at a plane and did not consume even a bullet that was not already loaded

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no.

this is not cbt anymore.

they do consume ammo. and they do run out of ammo.

you can notice this factor when your AIs survive.

put them behind a corner where enemies come froms. after that they unloaded a few clips, switch to them. and you will notice that they consume ammo.

which ironically, if this does not happens, would i make a suggestion about it?

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tell this to my bots then :rofl: however I don’t complain about it if it happens sometime

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bots in enlisted be like:
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I’d rather see the refill order being included among the contextual options of X. Just like pressing X while pointing at a cap automatically orders AIs to attack/defend it.

You point at ammo box (within a certain distance), X shifts to “refill ammo”, and it’s done.

Although I’d restrict the effect to refill primary weapons only, in order to avoid AIs with mortar or AT weapons instantly sucking the crate dry.

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great idea.

i’ll add it

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mortars no longer can be refilled.

AT, well, not many troopers have at weapons.

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Well dev can simply set that when we order AI to refill, they didnt refill mortar…

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No need because bots have infinite magazines. Can confirm because many times(from April to two days ago) I’ve seen a bot who kills 4 or 5 enemies with FG42 still with 20/60 ammo which is impossible if bots don’t have infinite magazines. But bots are all 5 stars and with top-tier weapons in the game. So they often kill but never lost a single magazine

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Then it seems that we are playing two different games. I have infinite evidence(only not get screenshot) to prove bots have infinite ammo

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mortars no longer can be refilled.

Wait what, did I miss something? I literally refilled two of my mortalmen’s mortars liek 10 minutes ago.

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Unless they changed it in the very last days, mortars CAN refill but one refill uses up an entire crate.

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They changed that again?
As far as I remember they just gain less from ammo crates than in the past (like one refill).

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In fact, AI’s ammunition is unlimited. They will reload after the magazine is empty.But I don’t understand why when I switch to them, there is always only one ammo in the magazine. This is really annoying.

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As far as I can tell Mortars refill, but consume the entire crate. So you get limited refills that way, it seems fair to me.

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I don’t know about you all, @21312290 , @CaptainSebekel , @Serpiko82 , @暴風突撃銃45型 , @115838880

But according to the patch note, this shouldn’t happen: Update 0.1.22.35

Although, bug happens.

And I find it strange that I’m the only one with AIs that keeps wasting ammo and always in need of recharging.

Than I guess I’ll make a bug report when I will have time.