Hi Certificate
Thanks for your efforts, this is really needed. For me it is one of the best mods.
I've been reading a lot of books about the air war lately. It seems that all the pilots talk about a dogfight that lasted only for a few minutes, even less. Then they where alone in the sky. Everybody else just vanished. In IL2 the fight goes on and on. I think it would be very (like real) nice to have the opponents go for home after a while. And maybe have some (rookie that get scared and run for home, not right off but when they get hit?) different characters?
Well this is only my opinion. This might not be for everybody. Usually I want to nail the bandit too, and forget about my six. And when I get tired, usually only about 10 minutes, I look around. Well this was usually not the way it was, in real life.
About bomber do-not-drop-bombs-if-its-not-even-bad-situation, I think it is a regression.
When a bomber is badly damaged, he must drop his bomb load.
Perhaps it should be possible to choose at random if a bomber drops or NOT his bomb load ?
ROSOBORONEXPORTCORP
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Hello,
First, thank you for all of the work. It is very neat and a potential revolution.
I totally agree with steeldelete. It would be really good to have some mechanism whereby there would be a certain probability of the AI retreating/escaping before running out of ammo or being shot down.
This could be tied to any of the following:
1) using up a certain amount of ammunition
2) becoming separated from allies (using the same tests as are used for calling for assistance)
3) being outnumbered and not having an altitude advantage.
This would be more realistic (if you read historical accounts most battles ended with most pilots breaking off, becoming separated or fleeing after losing their height/speed advantage after the first pass). This would also help create more realistic attrition rates (for some fronts at least).
Some ideas regarding gunners:
- The Rookie AI often fires almost continuously without adjusting the aim (so that shots are often 30-40 degrees off). It would be nice if their aim was slightly better. In general, it would be good if all of the gunner skill levels were a bit closer together. It might also be nice to slightly increase the frequency or length of bursts for average/veteran AI.
- Many aircraft such as the SB-2 and He-111H6 had heavier armament for the forward gunner. This was primarily for offensive purposes such as suppressing AAA during low altitude attacks (for train busting some He-111H6 were equipped with two mobile MG-FF firing forward - one in the gondola). On the whole it would be nice if the gunners were more likely to fire on ground targets (a feature of the original Il-2 that was later turned off).
- The Il-2, Il-10 and some variants of the Pe-2 have very small ammunition supplies for their top gunners. I would recommend splitting the gunner AI into two types - one for sturmoviks and another for other aircraft. This would allow changes to be made without causing sturmoviks to run out of ammo. This is also realistic - gunners on Li-2s and other aircraft with ShKAS often fired walls of bullets at enemy aircraft before they got within range in order to intimidate them, while Il-2 gunners specially trained to conserved ammo and aimed careful bursts.
I hope these ideas help, S!
I played a few QMB missions today with 1.5 and am happy to report i saw no "roll roll roll" evasive, even against A6Ms.
The gunner behaviour is really immersive until there, congrats !
Wonderful news and nice mod, I like it!
But, is it feasible or even possible to address one concern I've had for years.
Can you make the AI not exceed their vne? A Oscar should not be able to hang with a 38/47/F4U in a balls out dive that runs around 500+mph IAS.
Is this doable or is it a vain hope?
Hi guys,
Well i agree with all of you but i think simulating such complex human behaviours should be difficult.
I think one of the problem in the game is that there is a lack of notions like morale. Once i looked at the AI routines and i realized that AI behaviour is mostly based upon skillness but this lead to some limitations.
As an example, i read in a combat report of 5th Air Force about an action above Rabaul the following sentence : "agressive pilots were unexperienced and experienced pilots were unagressive". It is clear that agressivity has nothing to do with skillness (even if we can suppose that high skill pilots should be more confident and hence more agressive) and complex realistic behaviours should resut in mixing both skillness and morale.
But i do not know if certificate could add morale notion in the game. If yes, such a modification will need considerable work.
Anyway, certificate, your work is really tremendous!
Bravo!
I'm using 0.15 right now and play a mission where i am the wingman. I've switched on the autopilot and it is displaying the 'diving at the ground, pulling up in the last second, climbing and repeat' routine someone mentioned earlier. The AI is also drifting ever more off course while doing this.
My plane is a Bf-109F2/B, but i don't think that matters much, as earlier in this thread spits were mentioned doing this.
Just wanted to emphasize that this is a problem.
Fantastic MOD, certificate...Truly a quantum leap forward for IL2, finally correcting a missing aspect since the opening days of the Series.
One has to wonder whether Oleg is watching/listening...The demand for truly intelligent AI in SOW:BoB will be immense! It will be a shame if SOW:BofB is released without such AI, only to require brilliant MODders to swim upstream to make the Sim work as it should for Offliners.
There should be a major lesson learned here for Oleg:1C.
Thanks, again, for such a wonderful MOD.
I had an interesting experience last night over the 'Channel' Usually when a FW190 gets
