This game desperately needs a way to give a tell your bots to stop whatever they're doing and just sit still while I, the player sort the problem out

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I’ve played the game for ages, and every single day the bots just shock me with their new ways of showing me their smooth brains, literally and imaginatively.
The bots in this game sometimes are just so infuriating. Especially when they start running outside the building you’re inside because the bots think, that they’d rather have a breath of fresh air just because there’s a red circle right above them, leading to the whole squad getting wiped either by enemies outside watching the doors, or the bots just literally running under the shelling and dying. Come on, you’re in a bunker that’s made to withstand a damn nuclear blast, you’re not going to die if you sit tight. Same with some wooden sheds that have an odd resistance to artillery. This bot mechanic, although it would be really great if executed well, it just leads to players calling in artillery strikes at enemy spawns, especially that one map in the Normandy campaign, which then causes the bots to run outside and die from the bombardment, just in time for the enemy assault.
In addition to this, there’s the mechanic of seeking cover and making themselves useful by finding and shooting at the enemy. This mechanic honestly is great. It makes the bots something more than just meatshields and portable spawns for yourself. However, sometimes I just want them to hide inside a building or a shrubbery so they won’t reveal our position or get killed.

All of these problems would be significantly easier to deal with if only we got the command to override the bot behaviour with a command that’s just “stop”. Just stop in your tracks, maybe shoot at the enemy if you see any, but just stop and let me move you guys individually to a place I want you to be at. Maybe this could be built on in the future by having the seek safety mechanic paired with this, as in the bots return to their positions when the danger is over.

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There is a BUG thread on this topic here. Bots definitely ignore “Defend Point” command now and do whatever they please, which in most cases is dying for no reason.

It’s super bad, especially in Invasion attack when they lose you tickets and in Conquest when they waste your 10 squads limit.

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This part pisses me off the most, especially since I give them a direct order to STAY STILL and they still run out and kill themselves! Like just listen!

Additionally, I want the ability to tell them to not shoot at targets 200m out just because they want to, all while I am trying to sneakily flank to put a rally point down for the team.

Kinda happy they updated lone fighters because it might be something to jump to for a bit until AI (or at least AI control) is improved.

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Indeed we need it. Aí it’s even more basic as a cod 2 game from 2005.

We just need to wait patiently for proper development on the AI part

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  • When your peeking a corner and one of your bots decides they want to peek the same corner and blocks your line of sight. Has me screaming at them.
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Or you are in one part of the map and the rest of your squad
“L’isten now we want stuck on this door”

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yea it would be nice if we got a function to command your troops to mount their weapons on the closest unused cover.

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AI also needs to learn to jump up and down. If you build a rally on a floor with no ladder to it, all of the AI will get stuck on it forever, being unable to jump down. Sure way to lose the game and troll your whole team.

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