07.01.2008, 16:42
Currently, the "change formation" command is extremely likely to have 2 of your flight immediately crash straight into each other. The AI has been getting progressively worse during the series as "sledgehammer to crack a walnut" type fixes have been implemented in the various patches. It's still good but there are a lot of annoying "features" that have crept in and a lot of cool stuff that has crept out.
As the poster states, AI planes now have a minimum flight altitude that they didn't have many versions ago. Fleeing home in a damaged Yak9 being relentlessly pursued by 4 Fw-190s, I discovered that by flying in a straight line at 300km/h at 50m the AI 190s were unable to get a firing angle on me because of the minimum altitude "feature". All their ammo passed straight over my head and when they inevitably overflew me it was just a simple matter of lifting my nose to pop a cap in them and then wait for the next one to have a go.
Hardly realistic. Yes, I would be very much in favour of returning to the original FB AI behaviour. I guess this would completely screw up all carrier based missions and a heap of other stuff though.
As the poster states, AI planes now have a minimum flight altitude that they didn't have many versions ago. Fleeing home in a damaged Yak9 being relentlessly pursued by 4 Fw-190s, I discovered that by flying in a straight line at 300km/h at 50m the AI 190s were unable to get a firing angle on me because of the minimum altitude "feature". All their ammo passed straight over my head and when they inevitably overflew me it was just a simple matter of lifting my nose to pop a cap in them and then wait for the next one to have a go.
Hardly realistic. Yes, I would be very much in favour of returning to the original FB AI behaviour. I guess this would completely screw up all carrier based missions and a heap of other stuff though.