Solo/Co-op friendly ai vehicle spawns
Now that we have the ribbons enabled but at lower XP for solo/Co-op which I do appreciate alot, I wanted to bring up how the friendly ai on your team still only spawn on vehicles only if the tab for ...
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@Deranged_BrokenI Understand what you mean and it would be nice to get some toggle for that just like in Portal. I notice that friendly AI spawn more vehicles on a lower difficulty and they stay alive for longer. One tip I can give you is to give a vehicle or helicopter to your Squad AI mates (with the green name tags). Because you can give squad orders to attack or defend a object. So you can order them around a bit more and they will drive/fly to that objective and start shooting everything. If you cancel a order they will choose their own path and will randomly pick off targets they encounter and retreat if they need to repair or escape.
Another tip: if you airdrop a vehicle, give it quick repair and smokes. And for weapons give it the mortar, grenade launchers, auto cannons everything that goes basically "boom". For example: Wildcat with dual AA cannon or the anti infantry auto cannon is something the bots are very accurate with. Then give it the Grenade launcher and Mortar weapon pods. Friendly AI will last almost a entire match. Even when playing breakthrough. Other vehicles bots are using aggressively is the MAV, ECBL (the Fiat 500 tank) and the Condor/Super Hind with the same kind of weapons and gadgets. It can help you a lot when focusing on infantry gameplay.
- @DeBezorgHaas Yeah I appreciate the advice because it is true I've been playing since launch and mixed and matched what worked best for the ai, although I didn't know about the beginner difficulty having the ai spawn more vehicles since I usually play on intermediate or advanced. Also hope they improve jet/plane ai a bit more especially for portal 1942 planes since they don't drop bombs and the bomber uses the Ai pathing of a fighter so it ends up trying to fly as high as one but stalls hard and crashes into the play field and can't get back up in the sky till it gets blown up or somehow the Ai pilot finds a way. But anyway I just really hope they add a toggle option for friendly ai using all available vehicles seeing how big of a difference it is when they do already in portal but it missing in All out warfare solo /co-op. It's a shame as if you try portal servers solo the lag tends to get pretty annoying to deal with ( at least for me for some reason portal servers tend to have lag while the regular solo /co-op is stable) and also of course you can't earn ribbons at lower XP nor other unlockables like the official solo/co-op
- @Deranged_Broken Yep, I totally get what you are saying. The lag problem is sometimes random. I live in the Netherlands and have perfect internet over here. And yet sometimes I get lag spiked in my own server for some reason.
About the 1942 AI... I noticed that too, especially about the bombers, I hope they can improve that. I would personally like full XP or at least let us unlock tiers, ribbons, skins etc etc because right now I can't play 1942 PVP because the lobby are empty. So I NEED the AI to fill empty slots. Hopefully they will improve this as well.- @DeBezorgHaas Yeah same with my region no one really plays 1942 or even if they do usually it's pure hardcore servers and I'd like at least moderate XP at this point definitely would prefer full XP but I doubt that's happening still hoping tho. I was one of the people who had to unlock all the portal weapons by challenge although I didn't unlock a bfbc 2 one and a bf3 weapon because finding full XP servers is tough they almost are never around or extremely low player count so you're running around in silence for awhile in those low player count games just to unlock portal content. So you can just imagine how both a relief but also a pain it was to see them suddenly unlock all the weapons for everyone else for portal as it took me so long to get most of them but at least new players don't have to deal with that grind just still kinda sucks most people probably won't use them regardless as any server with PvP or PvE bots have restricted as you already know. In time we will see if they improve on any of these things it's pretty much why I made the post just to give hopefully have the info be seen since I've appreciated the improvements I've seen more and more for Pvp and PvE. I'm more used to giving feedback to games through their sites where you just directly send an anonymous review and how they can improve or any feedback but since 2042 has these forums instead I'm just mentioning that here. Again hopefully they read this and any other person's feedback to continue improving the game.
