AI flights on Waypoint Low Priority

[caryatid23]

Hey all,

 

It was, before the 1.05 release, such that AI flights with bombs ( pe2, il2, stuka, he111 etc ) would bomb any nearby enemy targets when flying to waypoints with their priorities set to "low".

 

I'm no longer seeing this behavior -- any one else notice the issue, or have a work-around?

 

Thanks!

[Jupp]

~S~ Caryatid,

 

I never experienced that "low priority" bombing behavior of AI since I've never scripted anything but directed bomb runs on specific targets ala AttackArea MCU.

 

But I believe what you are describing, most likely was changed with the recent v1.105 updating (recoding) of the program for this :

 

AI Behavior :

 

32. AI controlled fighter carrying bombs or rockets now behaves like ground attack plane and doesn't enter combat on its own. If attacked, it will drop the bombs and engage.

 

I'm pretty sure the reason you're seeing a change in those, if not indeed all AI, is related to that line item change for fighter AI bombing / combat engagement behavior.

 

Good Hunting,

 

!S -Jupp-  

[coconut]

Hey all,

 

It was, before the 1.05 release, such that AI flights with bombs ( pe2, il2, stuka, he111 etc ) would bomb any nearby enemy targets when flying to waypoints with their priorities set to "low".

 

I'm no longer seeing this behavior -- any one else notice the issue, or have a work-around?

 

Thanks!

 

I experimented with that in 1.103 and it wasn't working like that even then. Air units will only attack air units when using low priority, it seems. Or at least that's what my experiment showed, but I might have been doing something wrong...

[caryatid23]

yo!

 

So sorry i was unclear; This is air units that are ground attack on low priority WP's. In 1.04 and before air units that were not fighters, and were on low priority WP's would bomb/rocket/cannon nearby enemy ground units. That seems to no longer be the case.  Here is super simple example MP mission that shows a single stuka on Low Priority WayPoints flying over russian targets like they are not there.

Ground attack air units on low prio wp's certainly did attack ground units in 1.04.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/4gyvx4xgyr3ds6e/bomb_fail.zip

 

*edit I accidentally a word 

Edited November 27, 2015 by caryatid23