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AI Gunship Pilots orbit incorrectly at "Loiter" Waypoint
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Description

With speed set to "Limited" and "Normal", both Gunships orbit with their noses pointing outside of the orbit by 5-10 degrees, putting the center of the orbit beyond the gimbal limits of the cannon. With speed at "High", gunships must either bank too hard, again putting the center of orbit beyond gimbal limit, or manouever wildly to maintain the orbit. Since gunner cannot ground stabilize, player gunnery becomes extremely difficult.

Details

Legacy ID
946411893
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
AI Control / Commanding
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Place either Blackfoot or Kajman, player as gunner.
  2. Create enemy units.
  3. Assign a loiter waypoint for player team within 50m of enemy units. Try all speeds.

Event Timeline

dogfightnerd edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
dogfightnerd set Category to AI Control / Commanding.
dogfightnerd set Reproducibility to Always.
dogfightnerd set Severity to None.
dogfightnerd set Resolution to Open.
dogfightnerd set Legacy ID to 946411893.May 7 2016, 3:06 PM
b101uk added a subscriber: b101uk.May 7 2016, 3:06 PM

I don’t believe "Loiter" is for this purpose, loiter is somewhere for a unit/s to in essence wait without just ending up hovering/standing around at a traditional wait point (incomplete move etc WP) though they will engage.

“LOITER
Introduced in Arma 3 and makes group loiter around a position.”

So IMO there is nothing wrong because if flying around in a circle whatever is in the direct vicinity of the WP is going to be at the gimbal limits, but AI will engage threats while loitering.

MadDogX added a subscriber: MadDogX.May 7 2016, 3:06 PM

Mass closing ancient tickets with no activity for > 12 months; assume fixed or too trivial.

If this issue is still relevant in current dev build, please re-post.