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rodbarker007 Oct 16, 2013 @ 3:09pm
My men stop following me
I order my group into a vehicle , and tell it to go to a spot using the map , when we get there I order them to disembark and when they do they will just stay there and not follow me any more , if I tell them you regroup they regroup around themselves not me .

How do I get them to go back to following me ?
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Woolf Oct 16, 2013 @ 3:24pm 
I have this same reoccurring problem. They wont ever follow me in some steam scenarios. Sometimes if i run into them they move and then follow me. They even say "copy" after i give a command and dont do anything. I have a mission called operation nightmare and i always fail it because arma says i left a man behind. Its really annoying!!!
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yusupov Oct 16, 2013 @ 3:32pm 
just to be clear, you disembark-regroup-& then move?

'this sort of thing happens randomly to me; i am usually able to find a work-around in-mission. but i think i do recall one time, durign the beta, where this system just broke entirely tho.
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rodbarker007 Oct 16, 2013 @ 3:46pm 
Yes , disembark - regroup and I move off and they will stay there , from then I have to give them move orders to keep them with me , this has happened in steam scenarios as wolf has said , its frustrating .
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yusupov Oct 16, 2013 @ 5:36pm 
must be some kind of bug with the regroup command...might want to petition BI about it. i suppose its possible its the mission designers fault?
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Woolf Oct 16, 2013 @ 5:49pm 
Originally posted by yusupov:
must be some kind of bug with the regroup command...might want to petition BI about it. i suppose its possible its the mission designers fault?

Yeah i think youre right. I have only noticed it in some of the "lower quality" scenarios... Thats just my exp tho.
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fight9 Oct 16, 2013 @ 7:52pm 
I had this problem too but I figured it out. When ever you tell the units to regroup and they respond with "Report Position", I think they just dont know where you are. What I do is give them a MOVE waypoint at my position or where ever I want to meet them and when they get within line of sight, I tell them to regroup. It works just fine, but takes a little more thought than just "Regroup". If there is a way to tell them your position, I have not found it yet.
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unknown Oct 17, 2013 @ 9:36am 
They figured out your incompetent as a squad leader and thus relinquish your command to the next in line.

FACT.


;-)
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yusupov Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:38am 
Originally posted by fight9:
I had this problem too but I figured it out. When ever you tell the units to regroup and they respond with "Report Position", I think they just dont know where you are. What I do is give them a MOVE waypoint at my position or where ever I want to meet them and when they get within line of sight, I tell them to regroup. It works just fine, but takes a little more thought than just "Regroup". If there is a way to tell them your position, I have not found it yet.

he could try the move-to & see what it does, as this does technically fit that problem, except that he seems to be talking about immediately disembarking out of a vehicle, where the players should obviuosly know his position. so either i misread or its a bug, & a pretty bad one at that.
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fight9 Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:46am 
Maybe I misread. I thought he was saying that he sent his team somewhere in a vehicle and when they get there, he orders a disembark and a regroup. I've not had any problems with teammates not regrouping when they are in the immediate area. I've noticed when a teammate gets stuck and won't move at all, ordering them to prone or crouch and then stand up again fixes the problem a lot. It's a pain but all you can do is try to work around it.
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Thom Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:47am 
press 1,1. works for me
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yusupov Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:51am 
the similar instance i recalll most vividly wasnt an entire squad but (during a really fun mission, tactical bacon, if you havent tried it) when a medic decided to stop following any orders, including healing squadmates...after a lot of frustration my 'workaround' was to murder him & give the medpack to someone else. dont recall if i ran into more problems with the newly appointed medic, but not exactly ideal for sure.

edit -- come to think of it, it mayve been this 'stuck teammate' bug you describe. ill have to remember that, thanks.
Last edited by yusupov; Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:53am
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fight9 Oct 17, 2013 @ 10:52am 
Try the crouch, prone, stand method next time. I've had good luck with it when teammates aren't doing what I ask and just standing there.
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fight9 Oct 17, 2013 @ 1:49pm 
AI getting stuck and not moving when you give them orders.
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Black Oct 17, 2013 @ 2:20pm 
hmmm... poor leadership
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rodbarker007 Oct 17, 2013 @ 2:26pm 
Originally posted by fight9:
Maybe I misread. I thought he was saying that he sent his team somewhere in a vehicle and when they get there, he orders a disembark and a regroup. I've not had any problems with teammates not regrouping when they are in the immediate area. I've noticed when a teammate gets stuck and won't move at all, ordering them to prone or crouch and then stand up again fixes the problem a lot. It's a pain but all you can do is try to work around it.


No I didnt send them off I was with them in the vehicle , after I get out and give them the disembark order my AI team no longer follow me they just stay at that spot , regroup order doesnt help , if I give them a move order they go to that spot and stay there , they just dont follow me anymore .
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