When no enemies are present UAV can be put on autohover before turret camera is used. When looking directly over a battlefield, switching to the turret will cause the UAV to move in a random direction even when auto-hover is enabled.
AFAIK there is no setting to tell your UAV to circle/stay still/take evasive action, as the UAV is too annoying in current form.
Have two opposing rifle squads duke it out. Fly UAV ~80m above battle, engage autohover and take turret controls.
By default the UAV will attempt to 'engage' targets it sees, as that's its default behavior when airborne. You can override this by giving the UAV a waypoint and setting the waypoint behavior to Never Fire. You should be able to take direct control at that point and the behavior should stay the same.
I agree though, there should be a better way to control UAV behavior in the UAV Terminal, perhaps like a series of buttons on the side of the screen to change behavior and settings on the fly instead of having to make a new waypoint.
There is new item "autonomous" in the UAV Terminal. It should help with this issue: Could you please check it and let me know if you are still able to reproduce somthing similar even with this new autonomous checkbox? Thanks
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