AI vehicle pathfinding and behavior on Spearhead

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Tarmac_ninja has Arma 3

26 Jul @ 4:35am

AI vehicle pathfinding and behavior on Spearhead

Does anyone have the same issue of AI vehicles not finding their way and crashing into objects in Spearhead? Not sure if this is a current problem or if I broke something...

I've noticed this on RIS and now on Warlords too that tanks and other vechicles drive like a toddler took the wheel and they don't know how to drive or where to go. They're also swaying left and right like when someone plays the fool on the wheel.

On warlords vehicles go to the first location and then drive in circles around it instead of moving to the next location that's selected. I've tried this on a dedicated server with headless clients and still have the same issue. When I load Vcom it seems to help a bit but still not working like in modern modes.

This isn't the standard bad driving for AI but rather like it's completely directionless and the tanks also seem to react poorly when there's an enemy in their vicinity and turrets don't seem to turn towards the enemy but instead they'll react if an enemy happens to be in the direction they're facing.

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Tarmac_ninja has Arma 3

26 Jul @ 4:59am

I've tried now with no mods loaded, only Spearhead DLC. Vehicles still drive to first location then circle the buildings like roaches around a filthy fridge, on a mission but directionless - not moving to following sector at all.

stburr91

26 Jul @ 8:33am

The pathfinding/driving with tanks is especially bad in Arma, you throw in the Spearhead maps that are way overloaded with buildings/objects/hedgerows, and tank pathfinding is a nightmare.

Last edited by stburr91; 26 Jul @ 8:34am

Tarmac_ninja has Arma 3

26 Jul @ 9:57am

True, but in the past even in Spearhead they eventually found their way to the objective, this was testing it on a laptop on warlords when it came out. Now after coming back to SPE after 2.20 on a much stronger pc, it seems completely broken as in having trouble driving 100 meters down a straight road without stopping and swaying from side to side then crashing.

Karmaterrorᵁᴷ has Arma 3

26 Jul @ 10:07am

Something seems up with AI in general imo.

I recently came back too and all my sector control missions (that worked fine a few years ago) the AI refuses to enter the capture zones. Not the same as your issue, but seen as its also AI related thought id throw it in here incase anyone from BI is reading these boards :)

stburr91

26 Jul @ 10:11am

The 2.20 update was a substantial update to the game, there could be some things that don't work quite right in old missions/game modes.

Tarmac_ninja has Arma 3

26 Jul @ 11:55am

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:
Something seems up with AI in general imo.

I recently came back too and all my sector control missions (that worked fine a few years ago) the AI refuses to enter the capture zones. Not the same as your issue, but seen as its also AI related thought id throw it in here incase anyone from BI is reading these boards :)

I reported the pathfinding on Spearhead's discord, I could mention this there too when I get a response. Assuming you're having the issue on Spearhead?