I would also like it if someone could post the fix files... I could probably figure it out for myself easily enough, but it would save me a lot of time, and I want to include this when I pass along the updated AI files to the devs.

Excellent work Drawde... well I haven’t played much yet, but I'm assuming it’s excellent, because I can't imagine it’s anything less.

I was going to ask how to add the ai friendly artillery to maps, so I can do so for future maps and maps I'm currently working on, but I figured it out for myself. It's as simple as going into the gameplayobjects.con and replacing the artillery with the '_AI' version. So, '81mm_mortar_m1' becomes '81mm_mortar_m1_AI' and 'lefh18' becomes 'lefh18_AI'... etc. I did notice not all the maps have the ai friendly artillery in, but that’s forgivable given I can't imagine how much work went into just getting things this far.

I'm going to wait to pass this along to the devs until all the wrinkles are ironed out. I may need to make some alterations to make things compatible, but I want to avoid stepping on your work or rendering all the time you've put into this obsolete. So if I do make any alterations I'll post the altered files here first so you can see them before I pass them along. If that's ok with you.

hmmm... that’s strange, that’s how I fixed the issue. Make sure you actually replace the Init.con file in the server.zip. The game is going to read all files from the client.zip and server.zip, except for the ones that aren't in there.

My best guess for why Co-op uses the 16 player ticket ratio is that vBF2 only had the 16player sizes for singleplayer. So when DICE added co-op mode with an adjustable bar for ticket ratio, they coded it to use the 16player sizes as the base ticket ratio. Playing in singleplayer should give you the proper ticket ratio per map size.

Excellent work Drawde! I'm really looking forward to you ai updates! Now if we could only figure out why artillery and mortars seem to ignore infantry on maps with vehicles, and why they don't seem to fire at their max range even if nothings obstructing their view.

On a somewhat related note... Do you know if the US 81mm Mortar suffers from the same aiming bug as the British 3inch once did? On one of the maps I'm currently working on I've got the US bots entering their mortars but they never fire at anything... vehicles or infantry. When I watch them I see them rotating left and right, but not up and down. This is using your current 2.26 beta files...

Well, I wouldn't say the next official release is 6 months out, but you’re right, it may be quite a while... So I'll see what I can do about getting you guys something in the mean time. I have made fixes to operation cobra and there are still things in that map I'd like to fix. But as you know the singleplayer in Fh2 is in complete disarray. I have my hands full trying to get all the maps up to snuff. So, just be patent with me. I won't forget about the community I set out to serve in the first place.

Do worry I don't plan on going anywhere just yet. I've just had a few personal setbacks as of late that have cut into my time. But I've really enjoyed working on the navmeshes so it's something I definitely want to continue doing. I just have nothing new to show, so I'm glad aserafimov is giving you guys something.

I have started looking at some of the old maps like Point Du Hoc. Being an American whose interest in WW2 was sparked by Saving Private Ryan and Call of Duty, I love this map, but I think it could be better. There doesn't seem to be a vehicle mesh and I don't know if Winterhilf was trying to save time or the map changed, but the infantry mesh doesn't accurately cover the whole combat area. So I'm going to look into redoing the old maps.

Thanks Djinn I'll add these to the list of things to do

Unfortunately, I can’t edit the pathfinding for old maps without regenerating the navmesh. Again, I'm not above doing this, but my focus is elsewhere for the time being. I do want to regenerate a few maps like Fall of Tobruk and Point Du Hoc because they could do with some fixing. But I'm focusing on getting navmeshes for maps that don't have them first. Unfortunately I've been really busy these past few weeks and will be very busy for a while, so it will be some time before I can get anything new out. But I haven't given up!

Keep pointing me in the direction of things that need improving though, I can't promise I'll get to them soon, but I will try to get to them. And I'm glad you notice the Church on Cobra. I worked really hard on hand creating that church tower, but figure no one would notice because it's an area that sees very little combat. I started out operating under the philosophy that there should be no place a human can go that a bot can't follow (safe for areas only accessed by ladders). Unfortunately found this philosophy to be too time consuming and tedious. So I have since amended that philosophy. I still try and create navmesh for buildings like churches or anything with strategic importance. But if it's some building off in the corner of the map that's not going to see a lot of action, I tend to leave it alone for the sake of time.

I haven’t had much luck with ladders yet, but I’ll keep at it. Thanks again

I defiantly want to go back and look at some of the 'old' maps eventually. Right now my attention is focused elsewhere. But getting the 32 player size on PDH wouldn’t require too much effort (as devilman points out). There may be an issue if there is no Vehicle Navmesh, the bots won't use the STuG. But I can look into it.