AI Gunners not shooting?

[John]

I am playing SP and piloting a Comanche with an AI team mate as gunner. I cannot make him shoot at anything. I've tried hovering like 50m off the ground with a enemy 100m directly in front and the gunner will not shoot. I can watch him track the enemy on the FLIR screen, he even calls out new enemies, but will not engage. I've tried using the "Enage" "Scan Horizon" "Engage At Will" and every other command I can find and he just sits there tracking but not firing. Am I screwing something up, is this an AI issues, a mod conflict, etc?

[Tokimune]

What helicopter are you flying?

[Pathfinderz20_10]

Originally posted by Foxy:

What helicopter are you flying?

read the first sentence

[Tokimune]

Ah, oops.

[LUBE TUBE]

have you tried targeting or getting him to target whatever it is you want to shoot ?

sry I don't fly much

[Tokimune]

He does it by himself for me, I don't have to tell him to do anything.

[noctis]

♥♥♥♥ her right in the ♥♥♥♥♥

[JG500]

Originally posted by Sgt.EighteeN:

poke her right in the bacon

Hmm, seems legit.



On topic, no idea, you on manual fire?

[[L-G]w1ndStrik3]

Let's say your gunner is unit 2 (F2):
F2-> 3 -> 5 (engage at will)
This work for me. You can control whether he shoots or not with the Fire/Cease Fire commands

[Ratsmacker69]

Originally posted by Pathfinderz20_10:

Originally posted by Foxy:

What helicopter are you flying?

read the first sentence

Redditor

[Bnn1]

Damn, all this useless advice.

You should not have to tell your Gunner to target each object one at a time, since ARMA's target priority mixes enemies with friendlies and neutral targets, so you effectively have a split second between "target that rifleman" and figuring out if they are friendly or enemy, otherwise they are toast.

Yes. Arma AI can target friendlies, and they will destroy them, no f's given at all.

Arma 3 AI is insufferable, but yeah. If you fly low enough, the AI will finally recognize the targets and shoot them. This quite defies the use of Thermals and long range chainguns/cannons on vehicles of any type, since the AI doesn't use them, and sucks quite substantially at visually detecting targets.

OP's issue of the enemy being tracked is that the gunners weapon is set to missiles and not main gun, since they WILL engage a target once they aim at it, unless they are told "hold fire", "manual fire", or out of ammo, or wrong weapon type.