There is a possibility of having weapons behave differently in the hands of bots from humans in the same way bots could fire the heavyMG and anit-tank rifles while standing before but human players had to go prone. I'm trying to figure out how this works because I want to fix the bots not reloading the M1garand, but it requires editing the .tweak file in a way that makes the weapon behave differently for human players. If it does work like I'm hoping then it might be possible to have the regular view for human and an altered view for bots. But I wouldn't get my hopes up. The current AI arty system works well for people playing alone. I can see it being a problem if you're playing with someone else who is spotting for you. The dials may be off a bit as the arty system overall when through some changes in 2.3 to accommodate the new mobile arty (wespe). So, I'll see if that at least can't be fixed.

I don't recall doing anything with the basic temps of vehicles. What basic temps levels are there are either Drawde's or Legion's doing. I may have fiddle around with the basic temp of a couple vehicles to make bots favor them over others, but I think I only did that with aircrafts.

I certainly wouldn't make the MG gunner position of higher value over the driver. But thank you Devilman for pointing that out, I'll try and fix it. Part of the problems with doing AI for FH2 is there are so many different vehicles and weapons most of which have their own AI that it's easy of little problems like this to fall through the cracks. I lose track of what vehicle or weapon files have been updated, and with new vehicles and weapons being added I lose track even further.

The only real changes to vehicle behavior I did from Drawde's AI was change the turn radius on most vehicles. I notice vehicles with a turn radius of '2' where having an easier time navigating the maps over vehicles with a turn radius of '5'. So I changed most of them to have a turn radius of '2' and notice some improvement so I kept it. You can try changing their turn radius back to '5' see if that improves anything.

Otherwise it's something in the aibehaviors.ai file that causing the bots to be "shy" in narrow areas. I've been fiddling around with my aibehaviors.ai file to try and figure out how to get infantry to aim down their sights. So my files are different than yours, and although I do see them get hung up on the occasional narrow path or corner, I doesn't seem to me as terrible as you guys are describing. Void seemed to notice some problems with the aibehaviors files so I'm hoping he can help smooth out vehicle movements for all of us. I'm not sure what I did that’s different than drawde's files other than the turn radius and increased ranges of engagement. It's possible the new ranges have bots in tanks trying to engage enemies that they previously where ignoring and that's why they seem to be driving differently.

Hey, You fine gents wouldn't happen to know how to get infantry bots to enter "Aim mode" or "Iron Sights Mode" when engaging a target with their Rifles, would you? I was trying out the latest PR update the other day and noticed that BOTs would frequently raise their gun sights and go into 'aim mode' (gun raised to eye, walking slowly, etc.) and was curious what causes that. Currently in FH2 bots only seem to fire from the hip. Which isn't bad, just looks funny. Particularly with Kevs new 3rd person animations where players models carry their guns lower. It looks like an army of Rambos all running around shooting from the hip. If it's possible to have the bots at least occasionally aim down the sights when engaging a target I think it would add to the atmosphere.

Sounds promising Give it the full thorough testing, if no problems are found I'll see what I can do about adding it. So far my experience with Strategies.ai files they cause increase in comander spam. Speaking of which the comander spam on lebisey is caused by mount olympus' strategies.ai file getting mixed in. deleting it will solve that problem.

@Remick: What happened to Goodwood-16?

Goodwood-16 fell to laziness and exhaustion. I realized when putting together the files that I had forgotten it, and almost added the files last minute, but it would require editing the info's .desc file and that would require slightly more complicated installation instructions than simply "add to the server.zip". And I just wanted to get you guys the files I had as soon as possible so I skipped it. But Winterhilf's original files for Goodwood-16 should still work. Or one of the other talented guys on these forums can set it up for everyone.

And I apologize for the Lebisey files mix-up. I was aware that some of Mount Olympus' files had gotten mixed up with Lebisey, and let the devs know, to which they said they fixed it. But something must have changed between then and release because Lebisey lost its AI files and Mount Olympus is still mix up in its Gameplay objects. I have a half dozen versions of Fh2 on my computer and I'm loosing track of who has what files and which files are in which version. I'm very appreciative of those of you who are picking up my slack because I have been slacking and I apologize for that.

I'm probably not going to include Devilman's PHL GPO file in my small fixes, for a couple reasons. For one, it’s Devilman's fix, so I'm not going to unintentionally take credit for it by including it among mine. And two, because I'm hoping it's a temporary fix until we can find out what’s wrong with the lafette. They are too important to the defensive positions of the map to remove entirely, and I don't want to have to release more files adding them back in once a fix is found.

2.3 isn't using the most up to date navmesh by Winterhilf. I didn't realize this until it was too late to make the change. I have tomarrow off from work so I'll try and compile some of the fixes I've made to a few of the problems in this thread and post it for you guys. I'll include Winterhilfs updated navmesh for Goodwood.

The AI MGs were created by Winterhilf prior to Drawde's or my involvement as his solution to getting bots to stay on MG positions. Drawde's AI files do render them useless, so they could probably be taken out of the mod files. I used them on a couple of maps before Drawde's mini mod was applied, but replaced them with standard MGs once the AI tweaks were in. Port en Bessin wasn't one of those maps though, but like I said PeB was updated by the mapper prior to release. So, the GPO and Strategicarea files are not mine.