Community help needed with AI and Radio Comms

[BlackSix]

Hi everyone,

We are hard at work on the next Cliffs of Dover patch. We’d like to get more input on some elements of the game, and we also need some help tracking down a mysterious issue. Here’s what we have:


1. AI (Artificial Intelligence)

While the forum consensus is that AI needs work, we could use more specific suggestions. Ideally they would come in the shape of “when plane X is in situation Y, instead of Z it should do ABC”. I’m afraid that more general issues such as “we need more historical tactics” or “fighters should work better in groups” are not there because we don’t know about them, but rather because these tasks are insanely complex and take an incredible amount of work to improve.
So we’d like to hear some specific suggestions if possible, or any bugs or other problems. Screenshots or videos or giant scientific works are all very welcome.


2. Radio Comms

We’ve been gradually improving on this part of the game for some time. We’d like to make sure we’re on the right track, and we’re doing exactly what we need to be doing. So we need your help as well!
We’ll listen to any suggestions ranging from bug reports to ideas on completely overhauling the system or redoing it from scratch in a completely different way.


3. Mysterious joystick lag

Every once in a while people will email us a bug report mentioning “joystick lag” that needs to be fixed, or we’ll see it mentioned in passing on the forums. Unfortunately, we still do not have enough detail from anyone to track down this bug, or as a matter of fact replicate it.
If you think you experience a delay in response to your joystick input, we need details! Which plane, what map, on-offline, if online what server, system specs, joystick model, exact maneuver you are trying to do when experiencing it. Please provide as many details as possible!


Experience a bug? Please fill out this form:

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Thank you!