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Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#1

I just tested taking him down and everything was normal for the first 3-5 minutes. Then all of a sudden, the heli started firing rockets one after the other about a second apart and didn't stop for another 5 minutes until my base was nearly fully destroyed. There was no way I could have taken him down without my God mode.

I do have max heli rockets at 300 and time between rockets to .75, but I always expected this to mean he might fire 4-5 rockets in bursts and have a total of 300 rockets - this way he doesn't run out.

Is this behavior expected? Is there a way in the config to taper these long rocket bursts of 20-30 rockets?

Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#2
After some testing it appears that the heli is mostly fine for the first few minutes, but then it goes nuts and shoots rocket after rocket regardless of any settings I can find.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#3
restore the plugin to default and see if its a beast then
If its not then u messed up somewhere
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#4
I did some more testing and I'm wondering if the behavior I'm seeing was expected. Please let me know.

In 1.3.5 after a few minutes, the heli drops napalm and it drops a fair amount. In 1.4.0 around the same time, the heli fires rockets and it fires quite a bit.

In the changelog for 1.4.0 it says "Improved rocket behavior to determine when the helicopter should use napalm rockets or regular rockets"

This wouldn't be so bad if there was control over the amount. It seems a little much when it comes to the rockets and I had a bunch of complaints from players which is why I tested it out.

Please let me know if I'm missing a setting or some understanding. Thanks! Great plugin!
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#5
You've definitely misunderstood the meaning of "max heli rockets" or simply didn't read the documentation. This is how many rockets it is going to fire on every strafe. That's definitely intended behavior, I think it caps out at some value (so it's not actually shooting 300), but it will shoot a whole bunch. You need to lower the number to something reasonable. As the config says, 12 is the default amount the heli fires on every rocket strafe. 
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#6
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You've definitely misunderstood the meaning of "max heli rockets" or simply didn't read the documentation. This is how many rockets it is going to fire on every strafe. That's definitely intended behavior, I think it caps out at some value (so it's not actually shooting 300), but it will shoot a whole bunch. You need to lower the number to something reasonable. As the config says, 12 is the default amount the heli fires on every rocket strafe. 
Yeah definitely misunderstood. Especially after testing. On most strafes, it typically fires 3-5, but then after a few strafes, it fires a lot. 

I'll try setting it lower to see if it's consistent. Thanks.

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I reset config and set up my settings again making max rockets 12 and it's certainly more consistent. 
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