Turrets Shoot Dead wolfes

A couple patches ago i started a new survival and noticed that turret doesn't help. It occured, that my turret was wasting ammo on corpse of a single wolf, while the other wolfes kept biting my booty.

Video:

Logs and save, where it happents:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Nj50QSiRF4f8ERm1AxH7plfr3QWNT6Ns

 

+1

 

The turret has just manifested the same frustration most players feel when dealing with wolves.

 

One wolf, and your turrets empty themselves.
Spiders as well.
Confirmed on multi-vanilla worlds.

 

I got all excited by the last patch and came back to SE. Started on alien, set up a base, put up a turret. It shot a dead spider until it ran out of ammo. C'mon KEEN!

 

I get the same bug, so just turned off wolves for now.

 

Confirmed i get it with spiders - keeps shooting until despawns

 

Exact same issue with spiders as well. Happens with both gatling and interior turrets in survival

 

Same here, this bug exist for a long time now, please fix it

 

Same thing for me, only way to stop shooting is turn them off, but after putting them on again, still shooting into corpses. Targetting/detection range working but it still detect corpses as a live target (also red marker is shown).

 

Experimental? We sure saw those spiders pushed a LOT in the promotional videos....they were the sort of thing that got some people to buy the game.

10 Fix Red (which breaks Blue)
20 UpdateWeek = UpdateWeek +1
30 Fix Blue (which breaks Red)
40 UpdateWeek = UpdateWeek +1
50 Goto 10

-Morloc

 

Are you f'ing kidding?

Also, surely this is a problem with the damn turret rather than the wolf/spider? Because the guns will often keep shooting at armour chunks blown off a pirate.

How can a gun shooting at something that is dead be the fault of the dead thing? Unless it isn't reporting the fact that it's dead to the world which sounds like a pretty basic fix.

 

I've gone ahead and made a mod of Space Engineers with all the experimental code removed. It contains only the features that have been well-tested and proven to work reliably across a wide range of hosts, stripping out completely anything that's shown buggy behaviour:

Code:

namespace SpaceEngineers
{
  static class MyProgram
  {

	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
	  throw new NotImplementedException();
	}

  }
}

 

Ditto- turrets have been working more or less fine for YEARS ( hitting own grid not withstanding, of course ), now all of a sudden it's as though someone decided to start poking where they really didn't need to and completely broke them ( in 2 ways- they can also aim inside of their own base, with no limits on how far down they can point ), then just shrugged their shoulders because they didn't know how to undo the changes they made.

But wait, SE is still in Beta, so that makes it okay I guess....

 

Ahahaha this bug exists in almost half a year

 

Current turret code in MyLargeTurretBase function SetTarget appears to attempt to create an Action (event?) m_target_OnClose on character targets to make them delist as a target on death. A sort of "Please let me know when you are dead so I can stop shooting" request? I have not seen this in the targeting code before, so I am suspicious of it working.

 

Why haven't they given you a job yet?

 

Too bad this is so low priority to fix. I just started a new 1x1x1 game and got me two auto-turrets up. They defend against the wolves, who provide a nice boost of resources - except that they burn through about two boxes of ammunition per wolf.

 

May I add to this thread by saying that I'm a new SE player and I love the game so far. Today, Jan 25th 2018, I came across this bug on my game. My Interior Turrets kept shooting at dead wolves, wasting ammunition. To see this thread here, its date of creation, and the answer of the staff member is quite surprising to me.

Spiders and wolves might very well be in experimental phase, but the very concept of auto-turret defense is a central piece of weaponry in general, on which many players find their pleasure. People want to build bases and ships with auto defense systems, cuz it's so cool! IT HAS TO work smoothly. If the game can't offer this game mechanics properly, many players will be disappointed. I'd kindly recommend to put this bug (and any weapon related bugs) higher on your list of priorities.

EDIT 4 hours later :
Actually, most of the time, it does work fine for me. Wolves die and the turret stop shooting. It's just about 10% of the time that, for some reason, the red target on the wolf don't disappear after it's death, and the turret keep shooting at it.

 

Hey, wow... that's still going on? Glad I check here before I debate starting the game up again.