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Thread: Gun fires on its own. AI seems confused if it is in control or if the player is.

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    Gun fires on its own. AI seems confused if it is in control or if the player is.

    Just ran into a bug that seems highly uncommon, but might be tied into why AI controlled units sometimes do not fire when they should.

    It was during a battle with the enemy carrier and I had already destroyed all its mantas, walruses, and most of its defensive guns. I sent in all my own units to attack it at once, including the carrier. The carrier however never fired its weapons even though it was well in range. I took direct control of the carrier weapons and switched to a defensive gun facing in the direction of the enemy carrier. I noticed that sometimes the gun would fire on its own without me pulling the trigger. It always happened when I was aiming for a certain point, where the AI would normally fire on it.

    So the AI was firing the gun when I was manually aiming for the point it wanted to fire on, but it was not automatically aiming or firing when I switched to control of a different unit.

    It seems as if some AI components do not toggle state properly between AI and player control.

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    My impression was in engagement with the enemy carrier, that, if the enemy was able to destroy my offensive center earlier than I could destroy his, all guns first were available only manually and when the carrier kept going on to target my guns, they gone offline. I never saw that when I was in control, my gun would fire from alone without me doing the triggering....
    Last edited by Antares; Aug 8 2012 at 11:36. Reason: sintax

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