26.01.2009, 03:35
Superb work certificate. Respect!
I wonder if you could fix one of the the most immersion killers (IMHO) in IL-2:
When you dogfight a group of fighters (2 enemies for example), the wingman tends to follow his leader, completely ignoring any threat. You can chase them both for hours, and they both just follow each other like ducks in a row. This symptom appears also when fighting larger wings, a situation which potentially facilitate a wider range of tactics and responses for the threat.
A reasonable behavior for two attacked plans is to split, so the wingman can sneak behind the aggressor and try to shoot him down, or at least force him off from his leader's tail. The IL-2 interpretation for "cover my back" is something like "fly behind me and mimic my maneuvers until we are both dead".
Another interesting 2 vs 1 tactic is to bracket before the merge, forcing the aggressor to chose between the two, and allowing the "free" plan to attack the aggressor.
Would be interesting to know if there is a way to do it :-)
Keep up the good work
David
I wonder if you could fix one of the the most immersion killers (IMHO) in IL-2:
When you dogfight a group of fighters (2 enemies for example), the wingman tends to follow his leader, completely ignoring any threat. You can chase them both for hours, and they both just follow each other like ducks in a row. This symptom appears also when fighting larger wings, a situation which potentially facilitate a wider range of tactics and responses for the threat.
A reasonable behavior for two attacked plans is to split, so the wingman can sneak behind the aggressor and try to shoot him down, or at least force him off from his leader's tail. The IL-2 interpretation for "cover my back" is something like "fly behind me and mimic my maneuvers until we are both dead".
Another interesting 2 vs 1 tactic is to bracket before the merge, forcing the aggressor to chose between the two, and allowing the "free" plan to attack the aggressor.
Would be interesting to know if there is a way to do it :-)
Keep up the good work
David