What Happened??

[Null]

Hello everyone.  I want to say, right off the bat, I really really love this game.  I think the game that the devs are making is already quite superb.  I cannot wait for the campaign.  I've been playing this same for over a year now and I have had no complaints.  All the bugs I discovered were already discovered by other people and so I remained quiet.  I've had a bit of confusion as to when the Steam keys will be released, but I figure they will be released when they are released, so I'm not sweating that.  One issue has come up, though, that I feel I must say something about.  If this issue is already being addressed, I apologize.  

 

I loaded up a custom battle between American and Japanese forces during the year 1922.  The US fleet consisted of Two Battleships, 4 Heavy Cruisers 3 Light Cruisers and 4 Destroyers.  They faced off at 20,000 yard, 1 Japanese battleship 4 Battle Cruisers, 4 Light Cruisers and 8 Destroyers.  

 

Right off the bat I could tell something was not quite right.  My fleet was divided all over the place.  I like the new system, don't get me wrong, I just think it has bugs that need to be ironed out.  I understand that the fleet is divided in this way for a purpose but it became very confusing.  I had thought that at least the Cruisers and Light Cruisers would be in their own groups.  I thought that the destroyers would be in one group.   I know they are split up like this so that they can find the enemy better or something like that...but what happened next was pure chaos.  I wanted to put the Heavy Cruisers into a battleline behind my Battlehips that would look like two battleships  and four cruisers all in one line.  Next I wanted all my light cruisers in one line about 3, 000 yards to port of the battleships.  finaly I wanted the destroyers another 3,000 yards to port from the CLs.  What happened next was pure chaos.  

 

Ships just went in whatever direction and speed they felt like.  They seemed to  be aiming to hit one another.  My battleships turned in opposite directions, directly into an oncoming light cruiser that was way outside of where I wanted him.    I started the sim over.  Thi s time I would put the ships in place manually.  one at a time, without AI.  This would not work either.  More chaos.  Ships changing direction, speed, and grouping at will.  NONE of them were being controlled by the computer.  

 

Has this ever happend to anyone else?  Is there a combo of ships I  should stay away from?  

[TimberwolfD]

Unfortunately, it seems that the AI control of ships has regressed lately.

[Dannavy85]

The AI system is probably work in progress so for now I "de-div" my ships and control them individually.

[shingo3130]

On 12/19/2020 at 11:48 PM, TimberwolfD said:

Unfortunately, it seems that the AI control of ships has regressed lately.

The AI seems to get worse every update. It was janky before. Now it's absolutely awful. On every patch it also seems to flip flop from being too aggressive to not aggressive enough.