Is it possible that pilots have a limited line of sight ? If its possible that only after some distance they can see and identify a plane . Like at night they cant see anything in reality , but in game they know theres something out there . I had this idea watching some real movies of WW2 where actually pilots had difficulties finding planes . Imagine this :
Youre in a fighter flying at a reasonable altitude and you see an enemy fighter flying below you , he didnt see you so you try to engage him and he cant see you behind (unless its a fighter with mirror) , he only knows there is something behind after some shots but it might be too late for him .
Even in day this can happen .
Just an idea but i think its hard to do
Ever play "Full Real" with icons off?
I always play with icons off but not full real ,i like externals
But i dont understand what you mean with what i said :?
I think you are talking AI's behaviour right?
It would be very interesting if the AI actually had a blind spot. They literally seem to start evading when you have the sight in the right spot to hit them, lol.
For a game that was built not for online, but for offline, the AI is pretty poor, frankly. Bouncing planes is virtually impossible.
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spud Wrote:It would be very interesting if the AI actually had a blind spot. They literally seem to start evading when you have the sight in the right spot to hit them, lol.
For a game that was built not for online, but for offline, the AI is pretty poor, frankly. Bouncing planes is virtually impossible.
Boy, if this was ever taken care of so that one could actually bounce the AI or evade using cloud cover that would be wonderful.
I've set up a couple of missions on different maps, which have a lot of ground action happening.
What I've noticed is that the ground battles play out very differently if I change the time of day to night, as opposed to day.....
An example of this is an attack by German armor on allied artillery emplacements. During the day, the artillery manages to pound ten kinds of hell out of the armor, but at night, the tanks mostly get right up to the artillery, and pound them to bits...the only thing I changed in the mission was the time of day...
Just wondering what the reason for this might be, it does seem as if the ai (for ground vehicles, etc) is affected by the different visibilities.
Where would one start looking to see what causes these differences? Maybe we could find out and possibly implement the same for aircraft? I don't know.....just a thought...