Seconding this, it sometimes takes up to a full second for soldiers to aquire targets now - infantry is now basically useless, and vehicles seem unaffected by this.
#Soldiers shooting extremly poorly (Dev aware we are looking into this)
maiden cloud
jolly mantle
Vehicles are affected for me, they take time to shoot
The attack helicopter is the worst, on a patrol ever since these new updates it just flies around. Occasionally shooting then stopping.
The infantry is awful, I have stopped playing until its fixed its unplayable. A squad of 9 heavies get wiped by 2 zombies and the remaining 2 heavies finally shoot and kill them.
Its not instant, when the game first starts the A.I is perfectly fine, once the game progresses and the factions get some bases up, patient zero gets some units up, my troops just turn into 40IQ meatshields
This is on public branch too not just EB
grim echo
not sure if this is the cause but i have also encountered this. I saw somewhere the devs said (I think) if your FPS drops below 30 then your units wont function properly (shooting, reloading and target acquisition)
grim echo
Ahh. Idk then. My rig is pretty good rtx3080 48 Gb of ram and my fps always seems to drop idk why
I have a AMD Ryzen 5 3600
grim echo
nope. my fps is great at game start. about 25-30 mins in is when I get big performance drops. and turning down graphics doesn't help.
grim echo
originally yes but turned it off a while ago
oh wells. im sure it will get fixed eventually
jolly mantle
My FPS is always high, I rarely drop below 50 and have the same issue.
I never had this issue on previous patches even when my FPS did drop to 20 on old hardware
untold warren
We made changes to improve it last patch
crawlers have terrible targetting they ussually run under a unit and the soldier has a hard time aiming at it
jolly mantle
Yeah the bloody crawlers run past 3 turrets to a guardtower and gets 3 hits before they even respond
zinc stag
crawlers have terrible targetting they ussually run under a unit and the soldier...
What is a crawler?
untold warren
What is a crawler?
the fellas on all 4
zinc stag
the fellas on all 4
We will need to fix that in a few days
We are stacked with work atm for Rioting
I need exact details if target acquisition is improved on experimental?
Can you confirm?
#🛰️》cerc-hq-feed message
This one
zinc stag
So no noticeable improvement between the two?
zinc stag
This is what we needed to know
zinc stag
@here
We have tracked down the issue and its related to the Perception System
It kinda goes like this
The more units you have that can "See" & "Hear" the more traces that are required on a millisecond basis to update their senses
Because of how Ambient civilians work plus how close you are to 80 there aren't enough traces to go around anymore. Because of prespecified limits
Which causes random CERC units to stop being as perceptive of their environment
I,E Hearing/Seeing
This is also why when you go way over cap of 80 even if you have higher FPS and a good rig the engine will still "cap" out eventually
In terms of unit responsinveness
We are still testing and seeking a fix at the moment
jolly mantle
There has been times where I have had only 3 Special Ops alive. the rest were on the ship, the remainder of the base was 1 engineer 3 guard towers and 2 MG turrets, the perception was still awful.
Is it not with all the sudden faction camps popping up too?
zinc stag
It doesn't matter if they dont see anyone they all still run at all times
jolly mantle
Does that include the new factions and their camps
zinc stag
Only when you have LOS
Otherwise we switch them to a virtualized system to save resources
How many units did you have on the carrier?
Soldiers shooting extremly poorly (Dev aware we are looking into this)
Still very much under investigation give us a day or so to figure something out
zinc stag
@frank spear We have to thank you for this save file man #1122448379390205962 message
This save file is simply amazing for profiling how we can do better
We have increased performance in your save file by 30-40% and we are pushing for more at the moment
With vastly improved response times for units across the board reguardless
gloomy river
When fix will be available? game is unplayble right now.
zinc stag
When fix will be available? game is unplayble right now.
Within 24 hours
Wait are you talking about expermential or?
gloomy river
@zinc stag About usual game.
zinc stag
<@152270528852393984> About usual game.
Opt into experimental it's going to be a week at least
gloomy river
@zinc stag Thanks! I will wait.
gloomy river
@zinc stag I need go to work 🙂 I will play in evening and send a message to you. Thanks!
gloomy river
@zinc stag Hello. I played a little. It's better than it was, but is't still very bad. Soldiers and vehicles are still not shooting at some zombies, they just can come and kill them. Also there is perfomance problems right now, game is lagging when multiple zombies coming. I got Ryzen 9 3900, 32GB RAM and rx6800, so it's not a my pc and game are not using all available resources. It's just laggin.
Here is save file. Look at left barricades. Some zombies are just standing there for a couple of seconds, or just freely moving at the soldiers.
gloomy river
@fallow bronze Hello. You can use save above. Same as "unit and turret not opening on zombie targets"
zinc stag
<@152270528852393984> Hello. I played a little. It's better than it was, but is'...
@prisma drift
zinc stag
We are investigating these save file give us a few days to resolve this.
zinc stag
We have located the problem and will be pushing out a small patch to address aspects of it. We are still profiling and hunting down these perception/fps issues
zinc stag
We believe the issue is related to the Spine Throwers that infected can build we found that in save files they were far exceeding the "safe" amount to spawn and they were taking away resources from the CERC in terms of hearing/seeing. We will be implementing a fix and pushing it out hopefully tonight
@here