Area patrols now worse than before

It seems that it's the larger area patrols that's the issue.

Ive observed this as well, its rather annoying.

We fixed this bug this morning, it will be coming to you when we do the next patch. Which is to say soon™.

In an area patrol, the units should explore the entire area without preference to any direction. The units should eventually achieve a completely random distribution over the entire area circumscribed by the circle.

If Uber wants line patrols (and I do too), there should be line patrols IN ADDITION TO random area patrols.

If you want line patrols, you can queue multiple patrol commands and those units will patrol between those two (or more) points. The new version of area patrols has an updated algorithm that should achieve an actual even distribution throughout the area.

I've read somewhere that you can set unit to area assist, so fabbers will roam around that area assisting anything that is building/producing/needs repairs. However, when I tried it, it appeared that there is no area assist at all.

Long story short, is there a way to get fabber to assist a factory, and automatically assist another factory during unit leaving factory stage at original factory? Or something like that.

Edit: only read first half of posts, now I see you guys are discussing this behavior Sorry.

Thanks. Sorry, I didn't see your comment about the new algorithm until after I posted.

I love you for this <3

Playing so much boom bot wars helping custard, proper area patrols is so important.

OP is right.

Area patrols working perfectly for me now.