Jenkins' destruction missions

[Test Tube]

I feel like I don't have enough health to deal with his terrible driving. He rams EDF cars (which I can sort-of avoid by blowing them up) or worse, civilian cars (that I can't shoot) and wrecks, and each time it takes a MASSIVE chunk of vehicle health away.
I'm stuck on one in the badlands right now because he keeps driving like an idiot and getting us killed right at the end (I just died on my last attempt because he rammed a wrecked EDF car at full speed and lost about 20% of our total health bar).
Can I get some advice? Can I suggest the devs give us a little more health, or at least make ramming (that I can't control, remember) not so dangerous? I'm fine with taking damage from being shot, that's avoidable with some skill, it's just the uncontrolable ramming leading to massive health loss.

[Captain Spanky T. Kirk]

agreed, i had to retry one over twenty times because he just kept flipping the vehicle and i cant get out to flip it back or the mission is canceled and then the health just drains untill it explodes and i can retry, this definately needs some kind of patch at least so it flips back on its own

[FireFox]

Yeah it's one of the reasons I never bothered with his missions.

[Esotericles]

Terrible missions, incredibly poorly designed

[Zappieroth]

Nah the AI is just broken partly... They might still be trying to fix it but I would assume thats really hard.

The other thing is you probably take to much time doing whatever else you are doing in that mission.
Your supposed to protect the vehicle from harm while destroying buildings.
EDF is trying to stop you which includes driving right infornt of the vehicle so Jenkins has no other choice but to ram them, Thats were you come in as player and take the EDF out BEFORE they get close to the vehicle.

You can destroy buildings on the side, Protecting the vehicle should be TOP priority.

[Test Tube]

Yeah except when civilians do the same thing, so I either shoot them for -morale, or don't and they ♥♥♥♥ up the truck. Plus there are SO MANY EDF vehicles that it becomes hard to the point of not being fun. I just want that scoop thing to work.

[hinti21]

poor old jenkins

[UHC]

idk what you guys dealt with but i only lost two missions before due to jenkins driving. also, no civilians are supossed to be anywhere near you soon after you start it.

[Nite69]

Yep I complained about this earlier too, the AI traffic is so unpredictable, it was especially hard around the excavation site on the Dust Sector

[hinti21]

Originally posted by sum1else:

poor old jenkins

i agree

[MysticaL-AceR]

Well then let's tell devs to buff Jenkins's health and not dying so quickly just like in vanilla.

[Zappieroth]

Originally posted by MysticaL-AceR:

Well then let's tell devs to buff Jenkins's health and not dying so quickly just like in vanilla.

The AI pathing is just broken, And the random invisable wall bumps in the road aren't exactly helpful either.
But the games code is a mess. The fact that they ADDED content and kept the game in a working state by any stretch of the imagination is beyond amazing.

They have done a wonderful job so far in patching out issues and adding new and removed content.
Maybe they will fix the AI maybe they won't.
Just look at it this way the game is already better and more fun then the classic version is.

[CheekyChan]

I feel like the AI was tinkered with or something because Courier missions can be completely bugged out now. The Ccourier kept spinning out and slamming into other vehicles, even tried to ram me after spinning out a few times and then boosts away so it makes the missions pretty tedious. And after you finally get to the location, in my case with the Re(MARS)stered edition, I die almost instantly because there's always an EDF soldier with a black hole gun that fires the second the Courier stops at his destination.

It happened twice in a row on the same Courier mission so I just stopped trying to trigger it. It was the last mission I needed because it was bugged in the original version and would never show up but I figured it would be fixed now and while that's partially true it's also pretty broken still for a completely different reason and now I can't even get it to show up, hope it's just my RNG luck and not borked again.

[Superscooter]

Jenkins actually at least tries to avoid civilians in my game. Problem I have is that more than half the civilians we drive towards immediately park sideways on the road, which forces Jenkins to ram and cause an HP loss. I don't remember the original version of this game having this issue