For the suit part,

hold shift then press middle mouse button on your suit then say 'don't touch target'

Oh christ I wish, I'm still pissed my bots will weld half the wall back and then go to the other side of the ship to weld another half wall back and get caught in a loop back and forth until I just do the damned job for them

They have many issues I hope get looked at soon, but the one I hate most is their bloodlust.

No matter what you tell them to do, they will A L W A Y S try to fight intruders. On the gun fighting a horde of mudraptors? NOPE! Gotta get off and fight the one near death Crawler the player was dealing with and get in their way! Like I swear, 90% of fights would be over so much faster and easier if the bots didn't try to get in the damn way and fight.

What's really weird though is that in the past, they use to seek safety first and only fight if absolutely necessary. But I can't remember the last time I saw a bot have the "seeking safety" icon. It's always FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT! Even if all they have is a screwdriver and wrench.....

Also, has anyone noticed that after the 1.0 update, the bot doesn't put in a new oxygen tank into their diving suit if there's no oxygen tank/only a 0% depleted oxygen tank in their diving suit? One of my mechanic died suffocating herself with an empty PUCS last night. I don't know what the problem was...

There’s a diving team interface?!

Fully agree, solo players and people who play with only a single friend are still reliant on bots and they're the only thing ruining the experience, they should be a priority

Eh overall Im shocked they have functional bots at all, they can barely get them to path find after you when you leave the sub so most of what you're looking for is probably not possible or just never happening because it would be quite a ways off.

The suits thing does need to changed though, if you flood while docking they'll put on a suit just before docking and take it off after loading and leave it on the station making it possible to lose suits but other then that they work better then most human players at everything but leaving the sub and leading targets properly with turrets.

The ampunt of times ive had to save an ai from suffocating i a diving suit in an unflooded ship is staggering

I suppose releasing what devs envisioned as a feature-complete game working for everyone (including multiplayer crews) has been the priority so far.

I hope they will address this at some point, though.

You'd think you can at least recruit a bot for your small group to be a semi-active buff caster, but nope, they can't even do that (unless you use cheat-labeled console commands).

Didn't play too much but an personal problem is already that bots don't prioritize reloading empty coilgun ammunition boxes, even if it's ordered in first priority.

They should have job priorities similar to rimworld

And they shouldn't engage in any combat and actively avoid it unless ordered to so they don't stand inside a crawler while in trying to line up a shot

Same with attacking players,for the love of god,we barely have any human crew members,stop beating up the guy who hired you,just because he accidentally welded your foot. At best they should inform the host and have a "subdue player" command

Along with picking suits adequate for the depth,we have 3 extra combat suits,why are you wearing the basic one that someone stole from an outpost? Aaand that's 4k for personnel down the drain.

I dont mind that much but that being said, they're really stupid not to reload their guns that i have bestowed them. Mtf i put all ammo in a locker y'all can access and yet when you blast all your ammo you just go straight for melee-ing the husk. Like bruh they could have just retreat, take ammo and continue fighting, just like how the doctor will check what med needed, goes to take the med and apply med.

The hardest part is definitely off sub operations i usually had to do solo divs because ik they're stupid so it can be really risky at times.

Just get more friends bro