AI Gunners behavior after update 4.007

[Stiggles]

Since the update, I have been doing a bunch of bomber runs in both the Ju-88 and the Bf-110 in multiplayer on servers with good connections (usually Combat Box, which has sub 100 ping to me). I am consistently getting attacked without the gunners even mentioning it. 

 

I originally thought it was a fluke, but it's happening over and over again: Someone gets close behind me, and my gunners (who are set to engage at long range as the only command given to them since spawning*) aren't activated and often don't even say anything or get into their gunning positions.

 

In a recent flight, the gunners of my Ju88 didn't fire until after an AI P-51 had already fired on me (at~30m). I confirmed it in Tacview: my gunners didn't fire until after the other plane's rounds had already hit me. Later in the same flight, a player controlled P-38 got extremely close (~60m) and fired, with not a peep from the tail gunners (who were both still alive). It isn't isolated to that flight though, and has been happening repeatedly since the update.

 

Are AI gunners now defaulting to return fire only?

 

*Edit: I had also cycled between seating positions for navigation purposes earlier in the flight. Though, other players with gunners who I have been flying with since the update also seem to be regularly  jumped without warning, and I don't believe they are swapping positions like I am.

Edited June 13, 2020 by Stiggles

[-DED-Rapidus]

@Stiggles, I need a track with the situation you describe.