Bufo Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 As title says. Infantry continuously hitting itself with grenades and RPGs. Savegame here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oq4fd38unvli3g9/hit_wreckage_bug.bts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) Anybody saw this? I might add, RPG grenades have an arming distance, so they shouldn't even explode 1 meter away. Edited April 23, 2021 by Bufo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornGinger Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 (edited) I suggest that you mention which game you're playing so people know whether it's worth the time to download your save and try to open it. Edited April 24, 2021 by BornGinger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 31 minutes ago, BornGinger said: I suggest that you mention which game you're playing so people know whether it's worth the time to download your save and try to open it. If its not obvious from the screenshot: Black Sea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornGinger Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 You will now get a whole lot of replies within the next five hours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozowans Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 I don't think that's a bug, just something that they never added into the game in the first place. Vehicles, destroyed or not, will block bullets and shells, but not LOS. I think vehicles will even block shrapnel from explosions, but units can still see through them, and thus try to shoot through them as well. I'm guessing it was either not a priority for the devs to take the time to implement, or it was too much trouble for the game to constantly be updating LOS calculations for every unit with a ton of moving vehicles all over the place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 This issue is probably related to the one where a gun will repeatedly fire at a target repeatedly hitting a tree or obstacle in front of the target until it runs out of ammo. The AI does not make allowances for this sort of thing and cannot change position to get a better line of fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 And they are not only wasting ammo, they are literally hurting themselves. That is the real problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlemFire Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Interesting... the obstructiveness of destroyed vehicles isn't simulated quite right. Here's another thread where tank-rounds are going through the destroyed vehicles: As far as the soldiers themselves, this can happen sans-vehicle. The AI will sometimes do this with the attached grenade launchers so they do seem rather cavalier at times with their explosive content. Example: https://streamable.com/pthird I'm assuming they ran out of ammo and the AI prioritizes the target over reloading and ends up blasting a grenade round at pointblank. (IMO, the bigger point here is they need melee combat back in there...) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 3 hours ago, Khalerick said: As far as the soldiers themselves, this can happen sans-vehicle. The AI will sometimes do this with the attached grenade launchers so they do seem rather cavalier at times with their explosive content. Example: https://streamable.com/pthird I'm assuming they ran out of ammo and the AI prioritizes the target over reloading and ends up blasting a grenade round at pointblank. (IMO, the bigger point here is they need melee combat back in there...) The tactical decision is one thing. The real problem here is that 40mm rifle grenades have an arming distance of 10-20 m (depending on the model). This is to make sure that the user won't accidentally hurt himself. So in that example, that grenade shouldn't even explode. Also this is not simulated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artkin Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Bufo has a point about the arming distance 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) Not a bug. It's a rare and unfortunate consequence of the Combat MIssion LOS/LOF rules regarding vehicles, number 4 specifically in this case. Friendly vehicles never block LOS/LOF for other friendly vehicles. Operable enemy vehicles block LOF, but not LOS, from friendly vehicles. Non-smoking KO'd vehicles do not block LOS/LOF for friendly or enemy vehicles. Non-smoking KO'd vehicles block LOF, but not LOS, from any unit as long as the targeted unit is not a vehicle (ie: tank shooting at infantry or infantry shooting at infantry) Smoking vehicles block LOS and LOF. "Vehicles" means tanks, SP guns, and AT/Anti-personnel guns. Edited April 26, 2021 by Vanir Ausf B 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 6 hours ago, Vanir Ausf B said: Not a bug. It's a rare and unfortunate consequence of the Combat MIssion LOS/LOF rules regarding vehicles, number 4 specifically in this case. Friendly vehicles never block LOS/LOF for other friendly vehicles. Operable enemy vehicles block LOF, but not LOS, from friendly vehicles. Non-smoking KO'd vehicles do not block LOS/LOF for friendly or enemy vehicles. Non-smoking KO'd vehicles block LOF, but not LOS, from any unit as long as the targeted unit is not a vehicle (ie: tank shooting at infantry or infantry shooting at infantry) Smoking vehicles block LOS and LOF. "Vehicles" means tanks, SP guns, and AT/Anti-personnel guns. Thanks. Is this from the manual? I must have missed it. So, I guess in Bufo's example, the non-smoking wreck blocks LOF because the target is infantry? Maybe it would be better if wrecks also blocked LOS in this case, so we wouldn't get cases like this where troops are stubbornly shooting into the side of a vehicle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 35 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said: Thanks. Is this from the manual? I must have missed it. It is absolutely not in the manual. Looks like BFs little secret that we are forbidden from knowing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 40 minutes ago, Bufo said: It is absolutely not in the manual. Looks like BFs little secret that we are forbidden from knowing. Well, the secret was shared now at least 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 21 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said: Well, the secret was shared now at least Better than nothing for sure. But how many more secrets exist? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 16 minutes ago, Bufo said: Better than nothing for sure. But how many more secrets exist? Lots, probably. I think I read somewhere that they intentionally want to keep the inner workings of the game as secret as possible. Which makes sense I guess. But frustrating for those of us who want to know everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 24 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said: But frustrating for those of us who want to know everything. Its not that I want to know everything, just that they keep a lot of details that are not simulated / simulated in a wrong way a secret, then they sell us the product as a military-grade-simulation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckdyke Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Anybody can explain this: In CMBN "Sticking It Out" at least 2X105 mm shell exploded in the backyard of a house. Later the 17-pounder located there was still in action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjkerner Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 They aren’t selling these as military grade sims. They have made versions for the military, but I don’t recall BFC ever saying or advertising it as anything more than a very good tactical wargame. I assume there are tons of internal rules for programming behavior in the game. They are supposed to tell us everyone? Why? If you think something is a bug, let them know, like you did on this one. Then they can tell us if it’s a bug or not( in which case some sort of programming rule obviously covers it). @chuckdyke was it in a foxhole or trench? Also, could just be luck. My brother’s squad was resting under the only tree on a hilltop in the Central Highlands (Vietnam) and an arty battery of (they assumed) 105s were sending shells over the hill into some target or other. Then BAM, a shell hit the tree top, pretty much taking out the tree. The squad had been laying down under or sitting up against the tree. No one was hit or otherwise injured; shaken and stunned for a while of course, and those whose undies hadn’t already rotted off might have needed to change them. One guy’s helmet lying next to him had a 7in splinter pinning it to the ground. That was the extent of damage. So, you just never know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bufo Posted April 26, 2021 Author Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, mjkerner said: They aren’t selling these as military grade sims. I quote: "First of all, I don't know of many developers our size that have a military grade simulation running in 3D on two platforms with more than a dozen releases to support on hardware and software that can go back 10 years. And other stuff that I can't talk about When comparing us to others, please remember we are NOT like others. " LINK Edited April 26, 2021 by Bufo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckdyke Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 minute ago, mjkerner said: was it in a foxhole or trench? The 17-pounder was hiding behind a hedge. I know the 105mm has a killing radius of close to 30 meters. The conditions were dry and the Germans didn't have a proximity fuse. It shows once again not to take the artillery for granted. In this game it was effective they inflicted 25% of the Canadian casualties. Thanks for your interest and attention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Bufo said: It is absolutely not in the manual. Looks like BFs little secret that we are forbidden from knowing. While I agree the information should be in the manual it has been discussed publicly before, albeit a long lime ago. Edited April 26, 2021 by Vanir Ausf B 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thewood1 Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 4/26/2021 at 2:11 PM, Vanir Ausf B said: While I agree the information should be in the manual it has been discussed publicly before, albeit a long lime ago. And we always come back to this. The game is built for people who have been playing CM games for 20 years and scour the forums for every tidbit of information. It has been requested ad nauseum to have a FAQ section where little pieces of info can be collected. It would seem to be a common sense approach if its too resource intensive to keep updating a manual. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 +1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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