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[DGTLDaemon]

Unfortunately, I don't have a video of that circus, but here's a screenshot for you:



That's our team (or what remained of it) trying to get that stupid VIP over the hill - because apparently, navigating around hills is too complicated for an AI. We spent several minutes bumping that idiot in all directions and literally kicking his butt, until we finally got him moving. Turns out, killing the enemy team wasn't the hardest part of the match...

[Natred]

Same thing happend on crimson straight, i was aware of the bug and luckily before the timer went out bumped the vip to move.

[Rhaegor]

Escort sucks.

[Archer Magnus]

I must be one of the few, but I like Escort missions.

But I guess the AI is why MWO never got a PVE. I would like to missions like this solo or with a drop deck solo.

[Zigmund Freud]

So it's the same people who code AI for MW5, right?

[tauSentry]

Here is the relevant Issue on the community's MWO Issue Tracker...

Wiki: How To Upvote An Issue

Issue Tracker #088: VIP Stuck on Bridge in Crimson Strait

Can you upload your picture there for reference, along with a link to this thread.

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The Community's MWO Issue Tracker tracks many Issues that you can vote on for PGI to address.
This is the community's way of tracking the progress of bugs and feature requests in MWO.

Recently Fixed: Issue #016: Allow group-leader to assign another leader

Popular: Issue #002: Display kill-count in all game modes

See Also...
- Wiki: How To Submit A New Issue
- MWO Issue Tracker is a Pinned Post on /r/OutreachHPG (see PanzerMagier's comment too)
- MWO Issue Tracker listed under Resources at /r/mwo

[AzureRathalos]

Such an easy fix.

The VIP already has more armor than you can ever put on an Atlas. The devs could just give it an absurd hill climb stat so it can walk up terrain that even JJ mechs have trouble climbing.

Imagine a round where such a VIP decides to walk over a mountain and the defending team has to struggle to catch up because they have to take the long way around.

Edited by AzureRathalos, 29 June 2017 - 12:56 PM.

[DANKnuggz]

Escort as a game mode doesn't make any sense to begin with... Why drop an Atlas off so it can waddle 3km or so and then get picked up again?? Is it collecting data from the waypoint flags and if so why bring the slowest mech possible to do that in??

People are talking about making a "Solaris games" section but this ENTIRE game is nothing but arena style Solaris battles with objectives that would make little to no difference in a real military campaign. Hell some game modes like Conquest would cost more in mechs than you could possibly get from whatever resource you're collecting. Without some form of campaign style game play with logistics and the whole 9 yards this game will continue to be NOTHING BUT Solaris games...

I've already made the decision to not buy MW5 simply because PGI is making it and I'm not very impressed with what they've done here with the actual game play. Which bums me out because I've been a BT fan since my buddies and I started playing TT back in the early 90's.

[Internal Obedience XIII-omega]

Archer Magnus, on 29 June 2017 - 11:40 AM, said:

I must be one of the few, but I like Escort missions.

But I guess the AI is why MWO never got a PVE. I would like to missions like this solo or with a drop deck solo.

I try to get Escort every chance i can get lol. I dont mind doing it either.

[Deathlike]

The problem is that the VIP is really a potato simulator.

Imagine if the VIP was a random player (kinda like classic CounterStrike, except not gimped/crippled) instead of an AI that isn't quite all there.

You'll still be trolled (some people will be total arses), but if say there was a decent reward for the VIP to live and/or reach the dropzone, it would be something. It would kinda allow Lights to be used more, but then again, the Streakboats are always popular too.

[4rcs1ne]

To think PGI will also be coding the AI to MW5 ... *shudders*

[DGTLDaemon]

tauSentry, on 29 June 2017 - 12:11 PM, said:

Can you upload your picture there for reference, along with a link to this thread.

Done

[JediPanther]

People have known vip is daf since the first escort drop in live server. Just wait if they ever make their shovel ware version of mw5 with that vip kind of ai.

[Vellron2005]

Yes, VIP's A.I. is 2-grade rudimentary.. I've seen mice-brain controlled robots with higher intelligence..

It needs alot more work..