New Oddities/Bugs

[JHzlwd]

Wondering if anyone else has noted some odd things happening since the latest update to "DCS World. I have discovered the following, affecting my custom missions:

 

(1) The Shilka I have assigned to defend the airport in one of my missions will no longer fire on the approaching enemy helicopter. I had to replace it with a ZSU, which works but would prefer having the Shilka.

 

(2) Some unarmed land units have simply gone AWOL.

 

(3) Some (not all) convoy units are refusing to cross uncovered bridges. By "uncovered" I mean beam style bridges. Civilian traffic allocated by the sim seems to behave normally. This was sometimes a problem with earlier versions of DCS World but it is now worse. Maybe they think there's a troll under there.

 

(4) In the instance of truss style bridges, land units I allocate will climb up on top of the truss and park there rather than proceeding over the bridge by travelling on the deck. This looks ridiculous. I realize car dealers will sometimes promote their business by putting a couple of vehicles on top of their building or on a precariously tilted, raised raised platform but doubt very much that's what happening here. There is a comical aspect to this phenomenon, to say the least.

 

(5) Upon encountering an obstruction on a roadway (let's say another vehicle taken out of service by an attack) some vehicles in a convoy will properly negotiate their way around and resume their journey but others will take off in a desperate panic overland, often at right angles to the road. They will continue in this wacko manner until blocked by an immovable object such as a house. At other times they will simply park some considerable distance from the road and sulk there.

 

I can live with (1) and (2) because there are acceptable workarounds (if less than ideal) but (3) and (4) require some major rebuilding of missions so as to avoid routes with bridges, which can prove impossible.

 

Best wishes,

JH

[ENO]

4 and 5 are quite familiar- not sure about the other 2.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=124457&highlight=bridges

Edited July 4, 2014 by ENO

[Flagrum]

Fwiw, I just created a tiny test mission with 2 Shikla vs. 2 Apache and 2 Blackshark.

 

And yes, the Shilka won. Ok, the helos were unarmed except of their guns, but ... the Shilkas at least worked. :o)

 

edit:

@OP: what exactly do you mean with AWOL? They are in the ME, but not gone when in-game? You made sure that Late activation and all that related stuff is correctly set?

[JHzlwd]

Thanks for the replies. Good to know I am not the only one seeing these things.

 

Flagrum ... By AWOL, I mean a unit that was placed by me has disappeared. This has happened in several missions. As these were existing missions that worked perfectly in previous releases of DCS World I am confident the settings and options were correct. If these were new missions then, of course, I would look to myself for the problem.

 

I have noted over the years that these ME glitches tend to be context sensitive which makes diagnosis difficult. They happen dependent on what else is going on. The ME is excellent in concept and architecture but these persistent glitches are becoming very troublesome. Hope I am not out of line in recommending that ED put some serious effort into the situation as opposed to adding new features which for the most part I am not even interested in.

 

Best wishes,

JH