Units placed on ships start floating as soon as a player takes control of them

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

It seems that units (at least amphibious ones) can now be spawned on the decks of ships, including ships that are moving, and will stay put through turns and speed changes (previously when I had tested this, they would spawn at the sea surface, requiring them to be jumped onto ships, though the mission editor restriction still restricts you from placing non-amphibious units onto ships).

However, if you use CA to take control of a unit placed on a ship, it will immediately start floating upwards. It's almost as if the unit is being abducted by aliens or something. On the Tarawa at least, they appear to come to a stop and level out at 288 ft MSL and continue to follow the ship (albeit not exactly in the same place and orientation).

But it gets weirder still - if you switch to another unit, other members of the group may start doing some other weird things. In the tracks below, when player control is relinquished to another unit, the remaining units in the group fly off of the deck and start travelling in unexpected directions, behaving quite oddly (drifting, jumping around, appearing to snap between pitch angles).

GroundUnitsTarawa.trk GroundUnitsTiconderoga1.trk GroundUnitsTiconderoga2.trk