I was glad to hear about the blind spots for BOB...
As the AI have been the worst part of IL2...
The ridiculous (and heavily used) negative G maneuvers...
and the head hunting AI on ACE level..
seeing through clouds and weather...
as well as the AI bomber gunners...
These are glaring problems of the game as a whole... and I know some of them will be addressed in BOB..
Id also like to see that their friend/foe identification is limited to a very close range. As it is now.. they seem to know you are enemy from the start...
rather than having to close and visually ID like we would without labels.
Making it so they have to get within say 2km or so before determining if you are friend or enemy would be nice. Or whatever is a an acceptable distance..
I dont know how the draw distance is yet in BOB
Id also like to see a much broader range of skills. Right now how you set the AI... you get to much of one thing and not enough of the other.. and setting it on ace.. well they are all aces...
I'd like to see even the ace level settings.. only allowing a "few" aces..
For squadrons with varying skill levels of pilots.. that makes flying as a group more engaging...
you never know what your going to come up against... but you dont have to worry about them all being aces. You dont want your less experienced guys getting discouraged cause all they ever do is take off and get shot in the head by all the ace AI.
But for the many of us that enjoy COOP type flying vs the air quake rooms... it will be nice to see the AI on a more even playing field and using the same flight models
nearmiss said something that it wouldn't be that important in online play... but I seriously beg to differ...
online coop has great appeal to many. And that requires some very good AI.
Disregarding AI.. I rate IL2 as an 11 out of 10. The best WWII sim ever.
But when you factor in the AI... that drops it to a 7
Its the only thing I hear people complain constantly about.
did you see that?!?!? God I hate those #$#* negative G manuvers!! Hey look at this.. this Ki-43 is out running my mustang!?! and etc.
So im really hoping they do a vast improvement on the AI.