FAForever Forums
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Login
    The current pre-release of the client ("pioneer" in the version) is only compatible to itself. So you can only play with other testers. Please be aware!

    ACU not following attack orders

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Game Issues and Gameplay questions
    10 Posts 5 Posters 516 Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • T Offline
      TurtleMaster3001
      last edited by

      Hi, I'm very new and I'm playing my first match against the easy ai. I have my ACU in it's base and I'm giving it attack orders to attack the enemy power generators, but it keeps running away and targeting the enemy commander. Can someone explain why it's doing that?

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • arma473A Offline
        arma473
        last edited by

        Provide replay ID #

        And it is helpful if you can provide an approximate time of when this happens so we can fast forward through the replay

        T 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • T Offline
          TurtleMaster3001 @arma473
          last edited by

          @arma473 It didn't save the first replay for some reason, but I did a second game to try and replicate the issue and it happened the same as the first game. The second replay is https://replay.faforever.com/21916528 and you can skip to about 3 minutes. I order the ACU to attack the power generators by right clicking the first one then shift right clicking the rest. When you press shift in the replay you can't see those orders but if you hover over the ACU it says it is attacking, even though it's just walking in a circle over and over not firing at anything. It seems to be moving toward the power generators until it's in range of the enemy commander, then it runs away.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • FichomF Offline
            Fichom
            last edited by

            Kinda lazy to watch the replay, but are you using any mods? I noticed this behavior in games that have ACU's walking speed increased.

            T 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • T Offline
              TurtleMaster3001 @Fichom
              last edited by

              @fichom No, just UI mods

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • FichomF Offline
                Fichom
                last edited by

                Hmmm, in that case, worth a watch (by someone, not me, I'm off to bed, gl with that one).

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • ZLOZ Offline
                  ZLO
                  last edited by

                  https://youtu.be/e8Oe4xVbKLQ for those who are to lazy to watch replay.

                  i personally have no idea

                  TA4Life: "At the very least we are not slaves to the UI" | http://www.youtube.com/user/dimatularus | http://www.twitch.tv/zlo_rd

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • S Offline
                    StormLantern Team Lead
                    last edited by

                    Could it be the effect of a certain fighting stance? Something other than "ground fire"?

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • arma473A Offline
                      arma473
                      last edited by

                      It looks like some kind of pathfinding issue, the way he keeps moving out of the way of something

                      If I was in the game, I would have given the ACU a move order to try to move it to where I wanted it to go, I wonder if that intervention would have fixed things

                      T 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • T Offline
                        TurtleMaster3001 @arma473
                        last edited by

                        @arma473 A little longer into the replay I did that and once it was in range of the power generators the attack order worked, but when I moved it back out of range to a different spot and gave the order it still walked in circles. But first it retreated out of range of the enemy commander, so I think it has something to do with that. Both times it walked in circles was on the edge of the range of the enemy commander.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • First post
                          Last post