Long range firing

[John_Silver]

Is it possible that an enemy unit like a tank can fire to my tank from a long distance? Seems that enemy tanks only fire to me at a maximum distance of 600 mts.
I have tried several commands like KnowsAbout, doTarget, do Fire, etc. and none of them has worked.
I am relatively new in this game and dont know too much yet.
In which box do I have to type KnowsAbout? I have tried in several boxes and there appears an error telling me
"invalid expression number" or anothers errors depending on how I write the command.
Can anybody help me? I like long range battles.

[Gameer_77]

Hi,

As far as i'm aware, there is a maximum firing range in OFP, meaning that if a unit/weapon has a limit of 500 metres, it can not fire furthur than that distance.

Sorry

Knowsabout only returns how much a unit knowsabout the other one, it does not set it. The only way you can make someone know is using the reveal command:

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unit-to-be-revealing reveal unit-to-be-revealed
But this only makes the knowsabout 1 I think.

Gameer

[macguba]

There is a problem with very long range shooting, in that it doesn't work.   ;D   (There have been various threads, use the forum search function.)   However, you are talking about tank battles, which in general means you have a line of sight to the target.     I was zapped by a tank at over 600m just the other day, so I know the AI can do it.

Try increasing the skill to maximum and using reveal as Gameer suggested.

[John_Silver]

Ok guys thanks for your help, I tried reveal command and this doesnt change anything.
Anyway thanks for all.

[Gameer_77]

If it's just for you and you have a decent PC, then by turning up the viewdistance that also effects the AI.

Although I don't think people will appreciate it if you turn their viewdistance up to 5000.

This might only work for Resistance.

Gameer

[Foo]

If youve ever tried configging a totally new weapon you would realise that in the config you have to set a maximum distance the AI can fire at....likely this is 600m for a tank then, and youre not gonna change it without changing the config...not a good idea....