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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001591 | FSSCP | gameplay | public | 2008-02-04 11:54 | 2008-02-10 23:04 |
| Reporter | Backslash | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0001591: Changing $Starting wing names: causes loadout bug | ||||
| Description | These lines: $Starting wing names: ( "Able" "Baker" "Charlie" ) $Squadron wing names: ( "Able" "Baker" "Charlie" "Dog" "Easy" ) seem to cause a bug. Basically, any AI ship in the wings named won't fire secondaries at hostiles. From behavior it resembles a loadout bug we had in the past? Something like the loadout was getting set improperly? I don't remember the details. | ||||
| Additional Information | Triggering a change-ship-class sexp (to the same type) will reset the ship's loadout and it starts working again. Well! This took a while to find the cause. For a long time we thought it was the autopilot's fault. | ||||
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From what I can see from testing is that any ship in any of those wings are buggy, even if the default list is used and not changed. |
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Including Alpha? I am under the impression that Alpha wing is firing secondaries. |
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As far as I can tell, no. Not counting the player of course :-P That's probably why this problem was overlooked for so long. |
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This is in 3.6.9 not HEAD? |
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stable branch |
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Holy crap. This has absolutely, positively, *NOTHING* to do with how the wings are named. It's an AI bug, *NOT* a parsing bug. You guys need to report *WHAT* the problem is instead of trying to think of the solution yourself. Now then. This smells like the ancient and well-known bomber+ bug. For some reason, the AI will not fire any weapons that have the bomber+ flag, like the Trebuchet in retail FS2. The solution is to add the "smart secondary weapon selection" flag in ai_profiles.tbl. You might also want to add the "smart primary weapon selection" flag for consistency. If the weapon has the "huge" flag instead, the solution is a little simpler. Just trigger the good-secondary-time sexp. |
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Then why do they shoot the weapons if the wing is named differently. OK, just rechecked.. you want to know what's wrong, right? Read the first post. If Longbows are in the primary wing list, they don't shoot torpedoes, if they are not, the DO shoot torpedoes. Changing mission AI flags doesn't change a thing. Smart secondary selection changes absolutely nothing. |
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I posted in the thread in the internal. I need the mission and the VP files so I can take a look. |
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Forget about it Goober and close the issue. Saga internal problem, no bug. |
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K, closing. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2008-02-04 11:54 | Backslash | New Issue | |
| 2008-02-04 12:00 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0008844 | |
| 2008-02-04 12:05 | Backslash | Severity | minor => major |
| 2008-02-04 13:57 | Tolwyn | Note Added: 0008845 | |
| 2008-02-05 12:06 | Backslash | Note Added: 0008846 | |
| 2008-02-05 12:29 | karajorma | Note Added: 0008847 | |
| 2008-02-05 14:13 | Tolwyn | Note Added: 0008848 | |
| 2008-02-10 09:01 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0008856 | |
| 2008-02-10 09:03 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0008856 | |
| 2008-02-10 09:03 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0008856 | |
| 2008-02-10 19:54 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0008859 | |
| 2008-02-10 20:18 | KeldorKatarn | Note Edited: 0008859 | |
| 2008-02-10 20:42 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0008860 | |
| 2008-02-10 22:23 | KeldorKatarn | Note Added: 0008861 | |
| 2008-02-10 23:04 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0008862 | |
| 2008-02-10 23:04 | Goober5000 | Status | new => closed |
| 2008-02-10 23:04 | Goober5000 | Resolution | open => no change required |
