Anyone else remember the improved AI that were introduced with one of the patches for the original Il-2 series, and that were then taken away again in the next patch soon after that? Oleg himself stated when the patch came out that the new AI were a glimpse of the ones being developed for the new upcoming game (that would eventually become Cliffs Of Dover).
As I remember it, those temproary AI were a vast improvement over the ones we had at the time, but were quickly replaced with something not quite as good in order to keep them as a feature of the new upcoming game. From memory, they were better in some ways than what we finally did end up with, not prone to the unbelievable routines we had back then or that we have now. Might just be rose-coloured glasses I'm remembering them through, but they were realistic to the point where it was hard to tell sometimes if they were AI or human pilots.
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