Hey there,
Thank you for the great work! I am having what I think may be a bug, and wanted to run it by you.
My PMC's current level is 23, and for the last 8 or so levels most PMC bots have had more or less one of two loadouts. If it's a USEC it is almost always an M4 or ADAR with the same Magpul MOE handguard, standard muzzle device, varying tactical devices and sights, consistently with the SOPMOD stock. USEC seem to always wear either the THOR or Trooper armor. Bear PMCs have a similar issue where they very frequently have an AK-102, iron sights, one of three stocks. Furthermore everyone wears tacsports. It seems that any PMC wearing ear pieces is wearing tacsports 80% of the time. Scavs are also constantly wearing them. I could easily leave every raid with a 6SH118 Raid bag full of them.
I don't think I have any conflicting mods, but after over a week of playing this mod in the last day or so PMC's have been absolutely drilling me from 100m+. It's disheartening to get into a firefight like that, get the kill, only to find its an AK with iron sights or the SAME M4/Adar with some reflex sight.
It's really hard to interpret feedback on RNG because people's perceptions of it can be very different, so I can't really comment on it unless I get hard info like: on this type of map, this tier of bot has this exact % of this gear/weapon/etc.
Immersive raids cold be influencing it, who knows.
As for getting shot at distance, I've said before that I do not alter AI behaviour. Look at the config options and disable whatever you think might influence, or install an AI mod to tone them down, or use the in-game difficulty setting.
Display MoreAfter doing tons of testing with this mod over the past couple days, I have found a bit more insight into my problems with this mod, or maybe the problems with the way SPTarkov spawns the bots.
It seems like it picks a tier based on the odds in the config for USEC and another tier for Bear pmcs, but only those 2 tiers. So what you see in raid would be like only level 1-10 bears, and level 31+ USecs, or level 11-20 USEC and 21-30 Bears, etc.
It doesn't seem like it's possible to get more than 1 tier in each raid for both factions.
Is this expected behavior? and if so, is there anything we can do that can make it more unpredictable? I would love to encounter multiple different tiers of pmc bots in the same raid as this would be far more unpredictable and more like the live version of the game.
That's how it works, I'm pretty sure either the tooltip or the mod's overview page states this. No, there's no easy way to make each individual bot be a different tier without overriding even more of SPTs bot generation, which is a nightmare to maintain because they keep making small changes to it unfortunately. Maybe in the future