RNG bug fix from Verrazzano: the 13.2mm machine guns don't fire at planes when they get close to my ship; they remain stationary

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I don’t know if you messed with the anti-aircraft engagement distance values ​​based on the caliber of the anti-aircraft guns, but the Vickers-Terni 40/39 autocannon works and is always the first to fire, but the 13.2mm machine guns don’t. It’s extremely annoying because I have to take the anti-aircraft controls every time I need to fire and defend myself from the planes.

EDIT: I noticed that the 13.2mm machine guns are not even firing at vessels even though I gave them orders to fire at both vessels and aircraft.

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Try to report it, I remember there was a similar issue with 40/39 on some other ship not firing automatically and they fixed it after a bug report.

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Probably cause small guns engage range was decreased in previous major patch, but was bugged for NAB(so 12.7 - 20 mm shot at 8km targets) and now finally fixed it. The fire radius for this machinegun now 1.5 km and it shot at that radius.

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They stopped the AI controlled light AA shooting at ships a few years ago - they will only shoot at boats where they have “a reasonable chance of doing some damage” or something like that - so essentially MG’s will only shoot at small boats, if at all,

change was about 2020

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But for a ship like Verrazzano this means a HUGE nerf as it can literally not defend itself from small vessels and aircraft.

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They will shoot at aircraft and the 40mm are your anti-torpedo boat armament

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wish Gaijin would rework how the AA guns work. include different AA strategies in the AI like Box Firing or having the Guns slaved to directors.