Darman, what handhelds do you mean by "firing their handhelds at ineffective range"?
I very often observe how bots start discharging everthing at their disposal right on spawning, even when the enemy is still far out in the fog or behind terrain obstacles. Firing from the hip, mostly.
Actually, yes. What is that ? Tanks and soldiers miss all the time even at high difficulty but bomb drops are almost always perfect. Could AI pilots be made less accurate ? Anyway I understand your approach.
That is not my buisiness. I doubt it however and fear the risk of them no longer using the bombs at all is higher than the chance of them dropping bombs inaccurately.
But FH does put HE rounds in there. I'm just a bit uncomfortable about changing too much that's there in MP. After all Coop/SP is seen as training. What happens when the player goes online and has to face all those HE shells ?
AI play may be training for some, but it is definitly just fun for me. Again, these changes apply ONLY for the PaK 40 Static and ONLY on a small number of defensive maps. And by default, prior to 2.5 I was totally fine with HE being there. But since Bots started to use the HE shells extremely often to great success to engage infantry in large numbers, I had to do something. Because, one last time - the Human would react to the threat, scatter, search for cover, flank the gun, call in arty, land a precision shot etc. The AI will not. They will walk slowly into their death. Again, and Again. Case closed.
I've also noted that German riflemen fire standard rifle grenades at T34. The damage is insignificant and focuses them away from infantry threats. This might not be a good threat assessment for them.
Again, not my buisiness - the general behaviour like this should be reported in the 2.5 Singleplayer thread, this has nothing to do with my work in particular.