[1.4.1] (1759) Strike Craft move in the wrong direction at the start of the fight

[KopiG]

So I engaged an Awakened Empire's huge fleet. When the fight began, the strike craft were deployed but they started moving in the opposite direction of my fleet. After a while they turned, and started moving against my fleet.
Pictures:

The save is taken just before the fight.

 

[KopiG]

Hopefully this will be fixed as it makes strike craft even less desirable because of this bug.

 

[Wyrm]

I had this happen to me once while attacking a Dimensional Horror. I thought it was perhaps just some gravitational thing from the guardian, but now when I see this bug-report i'm not as sure.

 

[KopiG]

I had this happen to me once while attacking a Dimensional Horror. I thought it was perhaps just some gravitational thing from the guardian, but now when I see this bug-report i'm not as sure.

This has happened to me numerous times, frankly I was just lazy to write up a bug report.

 

[ratemal]

So, it's almost a year, and nobody from paradox cares?! Are you just going to pretend this problem doesn't exist?

 

[KopiG]

So, it's almost a year, and nobody from paradox cares?! Are you just going to pretend this problem doesn't exist?

Sadly they dont give a shit. I made several bug reports on this matter with others as well.

 

[Summin Cool]

I've got a hunch it's because the initial range of the battle starts outside the Strikecraft's engagement range.
EDIT:
I've set up a quick test with BOS on, but that isn't important.

Two battleships are engaging another, one with Cruise missiles at range 120.
Strikecraft engagement range is 130


Seems to work fine for the initial engagement.



Now for test no 2 I have reduced the Strikecraft engagement range to 20.
Again everything is ok.

I then reduced the return and the engagement range down to 20.
I thus get this result:


It's looking like the return range being lower than the current range causes this issue.

EDIT2:

Shifting the return range up to 260 should be fine to accommodate for the highest ranges in the game.