Bots dying because their equipment runs out of oxygen

[Tolmeister]

Hi everyone,

I have a custom build submarine that's working pretty fine, all the problems are out of the way. Way points are always fun to plot and test.

But a weird thing I have been seeing is bots suffocating with breathing apparatus running out of oxygen. Literally the only thing they would have to do is take it of to survive. But they don't even if there in a none flooded compartment. Am I missing something here is is the A.I. just this retarded?

it's not funny having to restart a mission because the doctor decided he had enough of Europa's BS mid run and check out by not taking off the empty oxygen mask.

[CannonFodder]

Something similar happened to me after abyss fight - some bots stuck in combat mode and suffocated in suits.

Check if bots are in fighting mode (grey fistfight icon) and use dismiss command to clear it.

[climbingeastofwinter]

I've seen bots suffocating without such an icon near their name. Typically in multiplayer, if bots are on a sub, I make it my job to just manually babysit the bots and ensure they have air at all times. Otherwise they don't tend to last long.

[Rhapsody]

Do you have powered oxygen tank shelves and diving suit cabinets?

[climbingeastofwinter]

Yep.

[pks]

Bots will suffocate even with plenty of O2 tanks in their inventory - they just forget to swap tanks if they are doing something like looking into periscopes. Or just got stuck in the hatch.

This is just one of those things in Barotrauma that begs the question: "how the hell did it make it past the earliest beta?!"

I just ended up modding in 30x oxygen time.

[DuckieMcduck]

Originally posted by pks:

Bots will suffocate even with plenty of O2 tanks in their inventory - they just forget to swap tanks if they are doing something like looking into periscopes. Or just got stuck in the hatch.

This is just one of those things in Barotrauma that begs the question: "how the hell did it make it past the earliest beta?!"

Probably because it wasn't a problem before, but as bot complexity got more crusty it created this bug.

[Tolmeister]

Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Do you have powered oxygen tank shelves and diving suit cabinets?

Yes, oxygen shelves are powered and refilling tanks put in there, I have been running my boat through a campaign for a while now. Some of the way points needed to be redone. But it happens quite often that they just suffocate in the most stupid fashion imaginable.

In my view it's either them choking on a way-point and freezing, or the A.I. is just so bad. I seriously hope they improve this soon.

Persistent characters make the campaign more fun, someway of saving and loading up favorite ones would also be a cool addition.

[Vihis]

Hi!

Just hopping in here to say that the issues with bots suffocating are known by the dev team and we are working on fixing them. I can't give an exact timeline on when a patch is coming yet, but we will have more information on it coming at the end of the week.

[Tolmeister]

Nice! Thanks for the feedback.