reported AI Isn't Despawning After Landing, bugged since 2015!

[Fallen_Tyrael]

Hi ED,

It seems as though an issue from way back is still here! It doesn't happen with all aircraft but the ones i have noticed it happen with is:

F-15C

F-15E

B-17G

C-130

It's easy to reproduce, mission edit those aircraft into a map and have them land, speed up the time till after 30mins from parking at a hardstand and see how they haven't despawned like they should. It happens on any map so it maybe worth testing other aircraft for the same bug.

I have linked below a couple of posts with people who have had the same problem, however it kind of seems to have been brushed over / ignored.

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I hope this gets fixed soon!

Edit: To add F-15E to the list as well

Edited January 4, 2022 by Fallen_Tyrael

[Flappie]

I've just tested each aircraft and will report. Here's the list of those which never disappear:

• An-30M
• B-17G
• Bf-109 K-4
• C-130
• Fw-190 A-8
• Fw-190 D-9
• F-15C
• F-15E
• F-16A MLU
• F-16CM bl. 50
• F-16C bl. 52
• I-16
• KC-130
• P-47D-30
• P-47D-40
• P-51D-30-NA
• Spitfire LF Mk. IX
• Spitfire LF Mk. IX CW

• E-2D (sometimes disappears if many AI aircraft have landed, and sometimes not )
• F-5E-3
• Ju-88 A-4
• Mosquito FB Mk. VI
• P-47D-30 (Early)
• TF-51D

If any unit is missing from that list, please tell so and I will update the report.

Edited January 10, 2022 by Flappie

[Fallen_Tyrael]

Hi Flappie,

Thank you for testing them all, I've also done the same and along with your list you may want to add:

E-2D

F-5E-3

Ju 88 A-4

Mosquito FB Mk. VI

P-47D-30 (Early)

TF-51D

Yak-52

I hope that's all of them!

[Flappie]

That's weird, I had tested all of them.

I've just re-tested these 7 aircraft and... two of them disappeared (Ju-88 and TF-51D). Could they disappear at random, whatever the type? I'll do a few more tests.

 

EDIT1: I get different results when using different airfields...

EDIT2: wait a minute, the Ju-88 hits the Yak while they are both landing. One more bug to report.

EDIT3: OK, it's even more complicated to test: if you change the order of the landings, you get different results.

two airfields_two different results.trk should I stay or should I go.trk

Edited January 10, 2022 by Flappie

[Flappie]

After a few tests (without air-collisions this time), I added these  to the list:

• E-2D (sometimes disappears if many AI aircraft have landed, and sometimes not )
• F-5E-3
• Ju-88 A-4
• Mosquito FB Mk. VI
• P-47D-30 (Early)
• TF-51D

Yak-52 does disappear afer 30 minutes.

[Fallen_Tyrael]

Hi Flappie!

Thank you again for helping me bug report this issue. I thought i had better also test them all after you replied just in case, and it does seem to give some interesting results! Like for me the Fw-190 D-9 and F-16A MLU did despawn (though i didn't have chance to test again).

And I also had the same thing happen to me with the Yak where it what crashed into while still on the runway after landing!

I was hoping that it was just down to a bug in the individual aircraft because aircraft like the F-15 seemed pretty consistent across maps and airfields, however it seems from yours and my tests to go a little deeper than that which could be why its never been fully looked into or fixed.

Anyway thank you again for the help and reporting the issue, i really hope ED find a way of permanently fixing the problem.