AI gunner

[Yogiflight]

In Lofte's second mission "Prelude to "Winter Storm". Pokhlebin, 4th dec. 1942" the AI takes over control of the main gun, whenever I am in commanders position and there is an enemy. He points immediately after I leave the gunners position on the enemy, as if he was a clairvoyant. This is a quite disappointing behaviour. 

For me there are three possibilities, for the gunner.

First: AI does nothing.Only the player moves the gun.

Second: The AI gunner searches the forward area, from about 10.30h to 01.30h and if he finds a target, either calls out to the commander or shoots on his own, whatever the commander                           ordered.

Third: The gunner does nothing until the commander orders him a target, for example by looking there and pressing a key, like the shooting of flares works.

Plus a combination of second and third possibility.

But not how it works in this mission, that the gunner aims at a target, he could never know, that it is there.

[Lofte]

@Yogiflight, have you tried to use orders same way like for airgunners (pressing F1)? Was there any effect?

When I tested my mission I noticed such gunner's behavior (and also was surprised), but thought that just additional funny feature and there are no big problems with that (except unintended shells wasting in some cases).

PS - It would be much better, of course, if gunner would act like you described. Think something like that will be done by devs in future..  

Edited October 9, 2019 by Lofte

[Yogiflight]

@Lofte, no I didn't try the commands yet, but I want to do that today.

As former IFV commander and therefore trained gunner, it simply is absolutely breaking the immersion, when your gunner always knows where the enemies are. When you were gunner in a tank, no matter if main battle tank or infantry fighting vehicle, you know it is quite hard for the gunner not to be completely disoriented.

Additionally it for me a big part of the fun, playing a tank simulation, to observe the battlefield in the commanders position and when sighted an enemy, destroying it as gunner. However this of course is not simulating anymore, to change between commander and gunner?

Maybe I should only play with the T-34?

[Yogiflight]

@Lofte, no the commands don't work for the tank gunner. So we will have to wait until end of october, when the next update with the tank commands gets launched.