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Good news, Heli reloading problem is now reproducible.


I think this only affect allies.

This happens when you have lots of helicopters to reload and if your helipads are built away and in different direction. Say you have group of 10 Helicopters together in middle of map and the Helipads are in 3 different directions: east, west, south. When you ask your Helicopters to reload, they will scatter and go to their assigned reloading sites. Now here is the problem; if 3 wants to go east, they will be blocked by the helicopters who wants to go west, in returns blocking the helicopters wanting to go west. South helicopters will have no problem as there are no helicopters blocking their path unless they happen to be at the top of the group, then they will be blocked by the east-west helicopters who stopped in middle of group.

So in short:
If Helicopters path is blocked by other helicopters (who wants to reload in opposite direction), then they won't reload.

I have a replay and will try to upload it soon.

Congrats all,

you are about to see the problem that I claimed in last 3 weeks.

after doing some testing, now I can point out what the problem is exactly.

I had several theories. but all failed. Even in doing that test, I almost gave up. But suddenly, something weird emerged at min 3.45.

I have demonstrated that when heli are "automatically" reloading, there is 0 problem. It is when they are ordered manually to reload, they get stuck and blocked.

Yaks don't have this problem at all. They can reload when ordered manually without being blocked or stuck.

I have uploaded 3 replays:

1. Heli reload problem
from: http://64h.mine.nu/mIRROR/ora_replays/T ... ery.orarep

2. Yaks has no problem
From: http://64h.mine.nu/mIRROR/ora_replays/T ... %20.orarep

3. lots of Transport Helis land on 1 cell (see min 6 to 8)
bottom right player attacks with transport heli, when they land into enemy base, they stack on top of each other.
From: http://64h.mine.nu/mIRROR/ora_replays/T ... 208.orarep

Finally, I would like to thank jaZz_KCS for allowing me to use his platform for the replays uploading.

Neither of those problems are really related to the aircraft reloading logic. The first one is #10449 and the second is #4605.