Resolved Horse Archer Combat Behavior

[hsynhkn]

Summary: Horse Archers are not working like Warband. As "Charge" order is given, units proceed on the circle tactic, but they act like focused on one single unit all the time. So, as enemy cavalry or any units apart from the main line just distracts the Horse Archers and causing them to circle around that part of the unit. This results in them to crash onto enemy lines as their path just cross over. They also occasionally move through the enemy lines, especially main infantry line. They don't switch to melee and it can happen during any part of the battle. This causes lots of Horse Archers to tangle with enemy infantry units and get hit by friendly unit arrows.
How to Reproduce: Around 100 Horse Archers against any army will be sufficient to reproduce exact scenario.
Computer Specs:
OS: Windows 10
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 1080
GPU Driver Version: Latest
CPU: intel Core i7-8700 3.70
RAM: 32GB
Motherboard: ROG Strix GL12CM x64
Storage Device (HDD/SSD): 1TB

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

Yeah this has been a problem since around 1.5.4 (maybe earlier), not sure but at some point their AI started to perform worse in combat.

 

[Theofilos]

They ''reworked'' it and it was the only unit that was working 100% perfectly.They could lower horsebows dmg but no they want them to get killed for no reason lol TW logic.....

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Forwarded to the QA team for further investigation. We will reach out again if we need more information. Thanks for reporting and sorry for any inconvenience!

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

I've been informed that this bug is fixed and will be sent to the live or beta branch in the next updates. Thanks for reporting and sorry for any inconvenience!

 

[hsynhkn]

Hello, this issue still persists with 1.5.9 update as well.

Horse Archers still gets mixed up with infantry line despite having arrows and bows equipped.

Could you please re-escalate?

 

[Will Greaves]

I confirm; my horse archers continually slam into the enemy battle-line while trying to circle another enemy. It seems that they don't know how to maintain distance, the way they did in Warband.

Meanwhile, enemy horse archers have another problem: they generally just make repeated suicide charges up to my firing line, before retreating back to their line, getting cut down in droves for little gain each time.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Can you capture a video of this issue?

 

[hsynhkn]

Sorry for the poor editing, but I tried to explain as much as I can with multiple examples.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

Thanks for the great video, forwarded to the team!

 

[Will Greaves]

I hope the team watches the later example(s) in that video; there's where the problems really show up badly.

 

[MArdA TaleWorlds]

I've been informed that this bug is fixed and the fix will be sent to the game with future patches. Thanks for reporting and sorry for any inconvenience!