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Mesh Weaver AI Disrespectful
ebonywyvern
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Those darn spider people don't like taking orders from anyone..
I assign my Mesh Weavers to attack or intercept, and they go off flying on the other side of the map attacking whatever they feel like, instead of what I'm telling them to.
They like following people, and will respect recall commands, but that's about it.
Additionally, when one is destroyed, and I try relaunching it, instead of filling the role of the now missing Weaver, one of the active ships will despawn, leaving me again with 3 fighters. This gets worse with 2 down, as the two active will often despawn, leaving me again with 2.. Instead of my full rack of 4.
As a side note, they like broadsiding a bit too much, considering most their damage is in the 90? arc.
Bug Report # 1539070
I assign my Mesh Weavers to attack or intercept, and they go off flying on the other side of the map attacking whatever they feel like, instead of what I'm telling them to.
They like following people, and will respect recall commands, but that's about it.
Additionally, when one is destroyed, and I try relaunching it, instead of filling the role of the now missing Weaver, one of the active ships will despawn, leaving me again with 3 fighters. This gets worse with 2 down, as the two active will often despawn, leaving me again with 2.. Instead of my full rack of 4.
As a side note, they like broadsiding a bit too much, considering most their damage is in the 90? arc.
Bug Report # 1539070
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They can apply Attack Pattern Beta. The damage on their own might suck, but they boost yours and that of the rest of the team. At least in theory. If that's worth using them, I dunno. In one hangar slot at most probably.
Actually, I ran 1 of each in my hangar slots and the Weavers parsed nearly the same dps. So they are completely worth using, with the understanding that they will give you less single target burst and better group dps with their debuff.
As for the bad AI, this is common and putting your hangars on your cycle spamming button its not as much of an issue.
I'm having the same problems as others. I have the Elite Scorpion Fighters from the romulan reputation and in Cure Space and Khitomer Vortex space, no matter what command I give them, except for follow only mode, my pets will go off to the right side of the map. I usually go to the left side of the map and my pets go all the way to the far right. It's really annoying.
Also in Infected: The Conduit Elite, after destroying the cube and spheres at the beginning, my pets will just sit there sometimes and won't follow me no matter what command I give them.
Carrier pets should follow you and not engage enemies unless they are within YOUR firing range of 10Km.
There's actually quite a few threads about the generally poor pet AI. They have been taking steps to fix them slowly, but yeah.
This was more or less about the Mesh Weavers themselves, as we had very limited testing time on Tribble with them, and since the H-JHAS have been recieving AI updates, it seemed reasonable to ask for some tweaks in the Weavers as well.
I know that carrier pets in STF's seem to usually have issues, and as long as you recall them, or just attack something at all times, they're generally pretty responsive, but in this case, my Weavers seem to be ignoring commands in all PVE instances, which is the root of my post.
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If you set the fighters to attack your own target, then at least they do not start to slowboat to a target on the other side of the map.
I very very rarely use Intercept. My command of choice is Attack and in KA and The Cure they always head off, at least in part. All other pets do this as well. They may come back from time to time but they seem to LOVE to fly off to one side or just disobey.
Other times they'd pick a target not of my choosing, and keep going at it until they get blown up, even taking a HYT to the face!
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There's also the fact that they have ABSOLUTELY no idea how to do a strafing run... :rolleyes:
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When I use intercept with fighters as opposed to frigates, the fighters return to the carrier to take up formation in front when the last enemy in the group is destroyed, but the frigates don't. They stop dead in space and don't move unless the recall is activated.
Also, the new arenas require you to use maximum impulse to get between the enemy groups in order to beat the deadline and the pets fall further and further behind. By the time you arrive you have to respawn more as the existing pets will not arrive in time for the battle.
I've been flying carriers since I joined the game, but the combat AI of the hangar pets appears to have got progressively worse.