16.04.2009, 07:00
You learn something new every day.
Here comes another story of me getting whooped by the new AI... I started QMB and gave myself a Ta-152H and a wingman (on ace) and a lone Spit XIVc with a PRU skin up at about 25,000ft. I managed to forget to set him to 'empty'... he whooshed straight past, and we chased. He began the dreaded spiral climb, and I was just getting ready for a long and drawn-out chase when suddenly he nosed over into a steep, tightly spiralling dive. I must've come too close for comfort, and he reacted in about the best way possible... there was no way I could follow him through the spiral because I simply couldn't hold the turn. My wingman and I were forced to break off our attack. My wingman started to try and climb back to cruising altitude (I wasn't ordering him about at the time), and the Spit gave chase and shot him down. I went after it and blew my ammo without doing any serious damage, then began to turn for home, expecting him to follow - which he did. I did my best to evade but literally nothing I could do would shake him. In the end I had to bail out as my plane had a very bad case of 'being on fire'.
:oops:
Here comes another story of me getting whooped by the new AI... I started QMB and gave myself a Ta-152H and a wingman (on ace) and a lone Spit XIVc with a PRU skin up at about 25,000ft. I managed to forget to set him to 'empty'... he whooshed straight past, and we chased. He began the dreaded spiral climb, and I was just getting ready for a long and drawn-out chase when suddenly he nosed over into a steep, tightly spiralling dive. I must've come too close for comfort, and he reacted in about the best way possible... there was no way I could follow him through the spiral because I simply couldn't hold the turn. My wingman and I were forced to break off our attack. My wingman started to try and climb back to cruising altitude (I wasn't ordering him about at the time), and the Spit gave chase and shot him down. I went after it and blew my ammo without doing any serious damage, then began to turn for home, expecting him to follow - which he did. I did my best to evade but literally nothing I could do would shake him. In the end I had to bail out as my plane had a very bad case of 'being on fire'.
:oops: