I’ve been watching the new AI behavior and so far it’s a improvement. I was holding areas with them to see how they fight and take cover now and not only do they choose better cover, but they actually try not to get shot when bullets fly over their heads. Unlike before when they would just lay down and literally make it easier to get shots on them. What I’ve seen as the biggest improvement so far with the cover is in buildings. I’ve told them to hold in a building and they find a window and immediately dump firepower at anything in sight, even detaching one or two to cover their backs by watching the doors from a corner. They also duck into the cover as they begin to take heavy fire. Now we just need them to not run in front of machineguns and tanks to get to you when you are ten meters away right across the street in sight ‘orders cancelled you are to far away from your squad’. Like bullshit orders cancelled. I told them to stay and defend a spot in a direct order. It doesn’t matter where I go on the whole friggin map. They need to carry out that order. But yeah, so far they are a little better. At least with cover in most places. Which is pretty rough considering a game that has been around for years from a multi million dollar developer like gaijin and I remember bots in the 1990s games simulate better player combatants. The bad AI is the main issue with the game. I know many who can’t play it because of them just pissing them off. Please focus on the AI or pay real bot coders please. I guarantee the player population would soar. And for the love of God Browning, add mouse and keyboard compatible with console already. Half the console players I know will not play anything without it. A easy player population boost just just being wasted. But alas, some improvement is better than no improvement. Thank you for the bot cover, good job. I love the events, battlepasses, and quality improvements so far. I’m interested in reading comments on any of the bot improvements from the patch that you guys have noticed. Good hunting and mark targets for your flyboys.
Ill be honest the one stickler I have as well with bots is the distance between youself and them when they decide to cancel orders because of distance. I want them to stay no matter what , hopefully that is something they address in a future patch.
Keep waiting. They will
N E V E R
let players park their bots somewhere (else than cap points) and go alone.
The game would basically become lone fighter+.
(And consequently die.)
At least increase the distance a bit then.
They get absolutely massacred at times because of technicalities due to distance.
This is one of the motive maybe the motive that order range get reduced after tunisia release
Even if I often myself want this when I play every now and then , I think it would be a horrible experience for everyone. There’s a reason why it exists.
Fighting isolated and solitary soldiers. Pretty much LF, like people already said.
Fair enough. I’m just sick of having my whole squad get gunned down every time I try to move. Seems like a huge waste of tickets and often members I really needed to stay alive. I’ve gotten better at tactically moving them as I move to help them be a bit more survivable though. But with the new cover and taking shots reactions perhaps they are a bit better. I really haven’t had the time to see. They are more reactive and survivable in general so far though. Super underrated patch. They went from 1989 intelligence to 2001 intelligent lol. Sorry I didn’t mean to turn the discussion into a rant about Artificial Ignorance lobotomite bots.
There’s already enough posts and topics complaining about it. I’m just glad they seem to have improved at all.
Me too!
AI is a lot better only after one single patch.
Gets me exited and gives me hope they will keep improving them.
… my bot literally still stare at people i have scouted shooting at them.