Something I don't understand about the AI.

[Jaypaul97]

Sometimes I will be in a situation where I'll be like "Oh no I'm dead..." but the AI will just look at me. For example I got jumped by an enemy AI and just panic shot and prepared to die...but nothing happened and I ended up killing him. Other times contrawise they'll shoot me from like a mile away in a split second. What realism is at play here? Or is ARMA 2 free not a full sim? I'm not putting this game down, it's arguably my favorite game of all time, but just wondering what's up with that.

Or is it some sort of suppression mechanic, that since I was panic shooting(I was missing by several meters) he got thrown off as well so he didn't shoot me?

[gunso]

You obviously haven't seen user made custom mission and AI enhancement mod.

AI will revive you(Domi AI medic), grab ammo by themselves(SLX i think), steal your vehicles (UPSmon), use vehicles to get to AO (Benny warefare) and etc.

Of course arma 2 free cant use all these mods and some custom missions

amazon have a nice offer for arma 2 CO anyway, grab it while it's still on http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UV8RRE/...splaycha-20ons

[maturin]

When the AI expects you to appear and are already looking your way, they will gun you down in a second.

If you show up out of the blue (and they are very easily fooled in close quarters), they have to wait for your flagging CPU cycles to run a vision check, then drag their slowly-turning arms to draw a bead on you. Also, they may be focusing on your mates a few meters away, yet on the other side of a wall. A priority situation that is obvious for a human mind is appallingly difficult to code for a computer. If they are indeed suppressed, they will take longer to aim and shoot at a lower rate.

Short version: the AI is just not optimized for CQB. They only really work right at medium ranges.

[domokun]

Jaypaul97: install Robalo's ASR AI mod and Dapman's First Aid mod. Then enjoy reactive AI with realistic accuracy and responsive first aid.

[Jaypaul97]

Is there any way I can add this to ARMA freE?

[Bars91]

Nope - buy A2 and enjoy all the mod awesomeness=)

[maturin]

Also make sure your AI skill is set to full.

[metalcraze]

He is talking about ArmA2 Free.

Meaning it's ArmA2 engine not OA engine.

AI is indeed worse in ArmA2 version of the engine. I bet it definitely lacks improvements from 1.59 (which included the close quarters reaction improvement) since I didn't notice the ability to put AI into specific cover positions as well as AI taking cover just as well as it does in OA past 1.59

So you need Operation Arrowhead, OP. If you don't want to buy ArmA2 original - you can always combine what you have for Combined Ops Lite.

And yeah ASR AI + UPSMON improves AI a lot. AI won't be humanlike still obviously but the difference will be quite big.

[Jaypaul97]

What is combined ops lite?

[AVIBIRD 1]

Jaypaul do you like the ARMA A2 free. If the answer is yes then go buy combined ops it's very cheap now it's both ARMA2 and The standalone expansion to the original Arma 2 called Operation Arrowhead. There is another Standalone expansion Reinforcements which is Arma 2: British Armed Forces and Arma 2: Private Military Company. Just go buy combined ops you Cheap Bastard lol only F with you. You will not go wrong with combined ops.