Alternating battles for me. One they won't fire at all. The net they will. No change in formation or commands given. When they fire though, rock throwers usually start throwing before archers even start firing. This is bogus.
I know there have been other threads but I figure I would make another thread with a video of the issue.
Due to the game being in early access and being buggy, the AI that is commanded by the player will randomly decide to not shoot the enemy unless they are nearly face to face. Unsure if this is related to the time of day or terrain, however low light does seem to affect it. Quite frustrating when half your force is ranged but they won't do anything so you lose the battle. As is obvious in the short clip (I could only record for 30 seconds) the AI would not shoot until brought point blank, I verified they were on fire at will, and when I brought them back the AI stopped shooting.
I have cycled the free fire/hold fire about 6-7 times at the beginning of a battle. Then I tell them to charge and then hold. I then change their formation to loose and place them to the side. In an open field engagement, its pretty damn low chance of them firing. The range is not the issue because the times when they actually fire is decent enough for range. Its pretty frustrating really and the fix has to be something other than keyboard mashing at the beginning of a battle. Devs need to address this asap.
That sucks, I had no issues like that myself. Lets hope that the devs keep up the patching like they have so far.I'm not refuting that daylight or nighttime are not affecting anything. But I can go to an auto save and restart a battle maybe 10 times and get differing results with the archers attacking or not. And when I tell the archers to attack, sometimes they'll just run in like an infantry man (and yes, they are set to free fire). Its pretty cool that devs considered time/weather. Perhaps a moments thought to archers actually shooting arrows sooner than the rocks hit them in the chest? Good observations though, Twezie.
Archers firing Y/N | Type of field | Weather | Time of day |
No | Open field | Snowing | Sundown |
No | Open field | Clear | Dusk |
No | Open field | Clear | Sundown |
Yes | Woods | Clear | Sundown |
Yes | Woods | Clear | Day |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Sundown |
Yes | Woods+Cliff side | Clear | Day |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Day |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Day |
No | Woods | Clear | Night |
Yes | Woods | Clear | Dusk |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Sundown |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Day |
Yes | Open field | Snowing | Sundown |
No | Woods | Snowing | Night |
No | Open field | Snowing | Night |
Yes | Open field | Snowing | Day |
Yes | Open field | Clear | Day |
Yes | Open field | Snowing | Sundown |
Yes | Open field | Snowing | Sundown |
Yes | Woods | Snowing | Night |
Yes | Woods | Snowing | Day |
Yes | Woods+Cliff side | Clear | Day |
Archers never shoot at the start of a battle.
Change their positions with F1 and they'll be ready.
8 years.