[WMCoolmon]

Sometime in the last few days the fighter AI has been broken...it appears that when they're assigned more than one target to attack, fighters will merely spin in circles constantly.

[BlackDove]

...so basically, everything's the same?

[General Freak]

We gotta teach the AI to aim with primaries at one ship and fire guided missiles at a different target.

[WMCoolmon]

Well, I'm also getting a really bizarre bug where everything disappears and the screen goes black.

[Bobboau]

I starting to feel glad I haven't commited anything in a long time

[phreak]

me too

[WMCoolmon]

Bah, that turret code thing I commited still needs to come out.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Sometime in the last few days the fighter AI has been broken...it appears that when they're assigned more than one target to attack, fighters will merely spin in circles constantly.

Which build does it first show up in?

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Well, I'm also getting a really bizarre bug where everything disappears and the screen goes black.

That actually sounds eerie (good)

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Which build does it first show up in?

Probably the newest one. But I've been using builds compiled exclusively from CVS. Cedega doesn't seem to like fs2_open, either.

[Goober5000]

Can someone post a test mission where this happens, or instructions to reproduce it?

[Fury]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Can someone post a test mission where this happens, or instructions to reproduce it?

Well I would but I need to get this solved somehow first.
But well basically, create a mission, put in eight fighters and assign them to two friendly and two hostile wings. Order each wing to attack the two opposing wings, priority 80 and 50 for example. The fighters just keep spinning around. And the build's fs2_open_G-20050728.exe.

In any case, I will dig more details out of this problem when I've solved the nagging shockwave problem (link above).

[Slasher]

I'm having the same exact problem.  I was beginning to fear my wingmates had finally gotten fed up with my suicidal orders after all these years and were refusing to execute them.  What a travesty we'd be in then.

[Goober5000]

Hmm.  Does it appear in the 0722 build or any earlier builds?

[Slasher]

I switched to the July 22nd build and noticed that wingmen that are assigned orders in FRED2 don't seem to carry them out, but when I give them a command in game they don't do too bad.  When given an order with the ai-attack SEXP they move for the target but when they get in range they just fly around idly in the vicinity.  

That was just one test run and I'm in the process of more.

[taylor]

Slahser, try to reproduce those results with the 20050807 build so we'll know if it ended up being fixed shortly after 20050728 was release.  Also, try setting MISSION_FLAG_AI_NEW for the mission (not sure what it is in FRED2) and try again with the 0722 and/or 0728 builds.  You can add that flag outside of FRED2 if you want, just add 4096 to whatever +Flags: is set to.